U.S. soldier planted wire to fake victim was insurgent

[GOTFIVEONIT]

U.S. soldier planted wire to fake victim was insurgent

Sunday, 30 September 2007

Baghdad,Iraq,September 30: An Army sniper was sentenced Saturday for tampering with evidence in the death of an Iraqi civilian, but was acquitted of his murder.
A military panel gave Spc. Jorge G. Sandoval, 22, five months in prison, a reduction in rank and a loss of pay for placing detonation wire on the body of a man killed April 27 to make the victim look like an insurgent, according to The Associated Press.

Sandoval had been charged with murder in that death and another on May 11, but the panel acquitted him Friday of those charges. Sandoval also was acquitted of planting an AK-47 rifle on the body of the second man and of failing to ensure humane treatment of a detainee.

During the court-martial, fellow soldiers testified that they and Sandoval, of Laredo, Texas, were following orders when they shot the unidentified Iraqi men near Iskandariyah, 30 miles south of Baghdad, according to AP.

Meanwhile, violence on Saturday took the lives of at least nine people in Iraq, six of them civilians, according to reports.

A suicide truck bombing killed three Iraqi soldiers and three civilians near Mosul, northwest of Baghdad, AP reported. Soldiers were pursuing the vehicle when it exploded, according to AP.

Also in Mosul on Saturday, a Sunni sheik was killed in a drive-by shooting and an Iraqi journalist died in a mortar attack on his home, according to Mosul police.

In central Baghdad, police said, a civilian was killed when gunmen opened fire at an Iraqi checkpoint, according to AP.

Also Saturday, a senior U.S. military official said the number of foreign fighters entering Iraq has been cut in half through improved border security.

Brig. Gen. Joseph Anderson, chief of staff for the Multi-National Corps in Iraq, said that from 60 to 80 foreign fighters had been entering Iraq each month, but the numbers have been reduced on all of Iraq's porous borders.

"The effectiveness -- between the Iraqi Department of Border Enforcement and our border transition teams -- they've had great success at the standard border-crossing points, enforcing standards and monitoring what's going on there," Anderson said.

He said foreign militants are responsible for about 80 percent of suicide bombings in Iraq.

The topic came up as Anderson announced the death earlier this week of a senior al Qaeda in Iraq leader, a Tunisian who was considered the "emir of foreign terrorists in Iraq," and close associate of the head of al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Ayyub al-Masri.

Coalition forces killed the militant Tuesday in Mussayib, south of Baghdad, said Anderson, who emphasized the death is "a significant blow" to al Qaeda in Iraq -- a Sunni-dominated militant group that takes its inspiration from Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda.Agencies





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[albano]

As usual the judge cleared 4 out of 5 crimes commited. I just read this in the newspaper. I don't get surprised if they let him go free. Nowadays the excuse is 'I got orders and I had to obey them'. If the order is war crime the soldiers are not supposed to obey them/
The justice system is pathetic here.

[Wolfn]

albano said

As usual the judge cleared 4 out of 5 crimes commited. I just read this in the newspaper. I don't get surprised if they let him go free. Nowadays the excuse is 'I got orders and I had to obey them'. If the order is war crime the soldiers are not supposed to obey them/
The justice system is pathetic here.

Agreed. And since the justice system is so relaxed, they will keep committing crimes like this again and again because they know they can get away with it.

[Kona_Silat]

i don't trust the source. Eastern journalism lacks credibility.

[Wolfn]

Kona_Silat said

i don't trust the source. Eastern journalism lacks credibility.

It was front page news on yahoo yesterday. And I think it was on MSN.

[Variable]

Wolfn said

It was front page news on yahoo yesterday. And I think it was on MSN.

I think that was a different story involving baiting insurgents rather than planting evidence no?

[Wolfn]

Variable said

I think that was a different story involving baiting insurgents rather than planting evidence no?

No, they specifically talked about this particular soldier who planted "evidence" on the man. I'm having trouble finding the article, but once I find it I'll post it, inshallah.

[Arabesque]

Kona_Silat said

i don't trust the source. Eastern journalism lacks credibility.

Hello idiot:

Do you trust the Time Magazine? Western journalism is much credible, isn't it?

"Sandoval, 22, of Laredo, Texas, had faced five charges in the April and May deaths of two unidentified men. He was found not guilty of the two murder charges, but the panel decided he had placed a spool of detonation wire on one of the bodies to make it look as if the man was an insurgent."

Army Sniper Acquitted of Murder - TIME

Metkhalef.

[albano]

Arabesque said

Hello idiot:

Do you trust the Time Magazine? Western journalism is much credible, isn't it?

"Sandoval, 22, of Laredo, Texas, had faced five charges in the April and May deaths of two unidentified men. He was found not guilty of the two murder charges, but the panel decided he had placed a spool of detonation wire on one of the bodies to make it look as if the man was an insurgent."

Army Sniper Acquitted of Murder - TIME

Metkhalef.

Yeah that's the name and everything. I read it on daily newspaper in Texas. I don't know what kind of east he is talking about

[SaidAbdullahofDarfur]

Kona_Silat said

i don't trust the source. Eastern journalism lacks credibility.

You have to be kidding me...

aw man, classic Kona...

Do you trust Fox news more?

I would love to know what sources you rely on...wikipedia perhaps?

[AmroodWaala]

http://www.islamicaweb.com/forums/ne...s-snipers.html

"...The pair were charged with murder and with planting evidence"

[GOTFIVEONIT]

this newspaper got the story off of the newswire, whats there not to 'trust'?