We only today became aware of Evan Bright’s excellent work on this case. A high school student doing the MSM’s work for them and doing it better too. There’s some good writing in his reportage I’d urge you to take a look and perhap leave an encouraging word or three :-)

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Thank you for bringing us this news Dubhaltach – astonishing to see an actual conviction! and thanks for the heads up on the great work by Evan Bright!

It really is remarkably good work that he has done.

I’ve been following this at GG–many thanks. And joining Siun re: thanks for heads up. Evan Bright’s website is great. (Best to the fam….happy mom’s day to Erdla!)

thanks.

This is some incredible reporting on Evan’s site.

I read several posts, but does anyone know why this is being tried in civilian court, not military court?

Why did the other perps get very light sentences even as they were as involved in the atrocities?

Guess I’ll have to read more. Thanks for bringing it to the Lake.

i read (on wiki?) that it was because he had already been discharged from the military.
the others plea bargained, but i didn’t see what that involved.

Here is a follow-up to this heinous act committed against this family. It is an article in the Sydney [AU] Morning Herald dated 07/11/2006 entitled, ‘Al Quaeda Posts Rape Revenge Video’. Picture of child in ID photo identifies her as Abeer Qasim Hamza al-Janabi with a birth date of 08/19/1991.

Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda has put a video on the internet showing the mutilated bodies of two US soldiers kidnapped in June and executed to “avenge” a young Iraqi woman raped near Mahmudiyah south of Baghdad. “Here is a film on the remains of the bodies of the two American soldiers kidnapped near Yussufiyah (south of Baghdad). We are showing it to avenge our sister who was raped by a soldier belonging to the same division as these two soldiers,” said a preamble by the Mujahideen Al-Shura Council, an al-Qaeda dominated alliance of armed Sunni groups in Iraq.

When guerillas learned of the rape, “they repressed their sighs to avoid news of the affair spreading but they swore to avenge their sister,” the council said on its usual website today. “Praise God, they captured two soldiers from the same division as this vile crusader. Here are the remains … to rejoice the hearts of the faithful,” the statement said.

The nearly five minute film shows the horribly mutilated bodies of the two soldiers, who had had their throats cut. The head of one was held high by an armed man, like a trophy. The head of the other was being stamped on by another armed man.

The film is accompanied by extracts of old speeches by the head of the al-Qaeda terror group, Osama bin Laden, and the ex-head of its Iraqi wing Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, who was killed on June 7 in a US strike. The Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda announced on June 20 it had executed the two American soldiers, whose bodies were found south of Baghdad.

The convicted soldier moved to Midland, Texas when he was 14 which places him in Bush’s hometown the year Bush announced his candidacy for president to “unite” the country.

Maybe there’s something in the water in Midland that produces sociopaths?

yeah, James, it’s oil.