Former Marine testifies in detainee killings

[unhappycamper]

Former Marine testifies in detainee killings
The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Aug 26, 2008 20:44:38 EDT

RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A former Marine sergeant told jurors Tuesday he saw dread on the faces of two detainees after the apparent shooting death of another detainee during some of the fiercest fighting of the Iraq war.

“It’s something I wouldn’t forget, that face, the dread,” Cory Carlisle told jurors during testimony in the federal trial of former squad leader Jose Luis Nazario, the first prosecution in which a civilian jury will decide whether the actions of a former service member in combat were criminal.

Nazario, 28, has pleaded not guilty to voluntary manslaughter on suspicion of killing or causing others to kill four unarmed detainees, assault with a deadly weapon and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. If convicted of all the charges, he could face more than 10 years in prison.

Nazario is being tried under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act, which was written in 2000 and amended in 2004 primarily to prosecute civilian contractors who commit crimes while working for the U.S. overseas. But it also allows for the prosecution of military dependents and those no longer in the military who commit crimes outside the United States.

The case came to light in 2006 when Sgt. Ryan Weemer volunteered details to a U.S. Secret Service job interviewer during a lie-detector screening that included a question about the most serious crime he ever committed.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/08/ap_marines_fallujah_082608b/%2e

[grannie4peace]

1. i saw a video on du that had detainees begging

for someone who feared GOD to take over control of the prison camps where they were. that is exactly what an american soldier would ask for. it showed me bushes real stripes. i was appalled. if the american people really knew what was happening.yesterday i was yelling at my friend who is voting for mccain that all the information IS out there the only reason they don't have the truth is they refuse to look for it!!!!!!!! the Bible does say that the hidden evils will be revealed-- i'm counting on that promise to help us!!!!!!!