Insurgent to hang for killing U.S. soldiers
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:07 am
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Insurgent to hang for killing U.S. soldiers
By Sameer N. Yacoub - The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Oct 28, 2008 17:38:18 EDT
BAGHDAD — An Iraqi militant accused of killing three American soldiers in a grisly checkpoint ambush was convicted Tuesday and sentenced to death by hanging. Two other men accused in the 2006 deaths were acquitted.
The killing of the three 101st Airborne Division soldiers was one of the most brazen attacks against U.S. forces since the Iraq war began in 2003.
The case marked the first time an Iraqi investigative judge sent a case involving an Iraqi killing specific Americans to trial.
The soldiers were ambushed June 16, 2006, while at an isolated checkpoint near the Euphrates River, at a time of particularly intense fighting in predominantly Sunni areas just south of Baghdad. At the time, the area was known as the Triangle of Death.
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