Officer Convicted in Iraqi's Death Sorry (that he was caught)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) - Fighting back tears, an Army interrogator convicted of killing an Iraqi general by stuffing him headfirst into a sleeping bag and sitting on his chest apologized Monday and asked the military jury not to separate him from his wife and children by sending him to prison.

``I deeply apologize if my actions tarnished the soldiers serving in Iraq,'' Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr. said at his sentencing hearing.

Welshofer, 43, was convicted Saturday of negligent homicide and negligent dereliction of duty. Prosecutors said he put a sleeping bag over the head of Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush, sat on his chest and used his hand to cover the general's mouth while questioning him at a detention camp in Iraq in 2003.

Prosecutors said the general suffocated.

More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5565879,00.html

[frylock]

1. he should have thought of his lovely wife and children..

prior to seperating that prisoner from his life.

[Barrett808]

2. "Up to three years and three months in prison" -- for murder

Or maybe it was negligent homicide. Is that being "soft on crime"?

[LynnTheDem]

3. ONE word...

MURDERER.

[Catchawave]

4. No jail time?

I heard a blurb on the news this morning. Amazing.

How many did Lyndie Englund kill?