Fort Carson Captain Convicted In Iraqi Assaults

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FORT CARSON, Colo. -- An Army captain accused of terrorizing an Iraqi town's residents with threats, a pistol and a baseball bat was convicted Wednesday of three counts of assault on Iraqis, but acquitted of charges stemming from an alleged assault of one of his own soldiers. snip

Witnesses testified that Martin kicked and screamed at Iraqi civilians, threatened to shoot detainees, pointed a gun at the head of one of his sergeants and told another soldier not to discuss what he had seen.

In his closing statement, Dolan likened Martin to a small-town sheriff who ruled the Iraqi town of Ar Rutbah with a baseball bat and his 9-mm pistol.

"He's a captain in the U.S. Army. He's not Buford Pusser from some small town, walking tall," said Dolan, referring to the 1973 movie "Walking Tall."

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