Iraqi court tosses American's conviction

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Source: Associated Press

Iraqi court tosses American's conviction
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - An American held in Iraq by the U.S. military has had his conviction and death sentence overturned by an Iraqi court, the man's American lawyer said Friday.

Iraqi-born Mohammad Munaf, a naturalized U.S. citizen since 2000, has been held by the U.S. military since May 2005. He was convicted in 2006 on charges he helped in the 2005 kidnapping of three Romanian journalists in Baghdad.

Munaf's lawyer, Joseph Margulies, said the Iraqi Court of Cassation reversed the conviction and sentence because it could not determine the role Munaf and other defendants played in the kidnapping from the court record. The Iraqi prosecutor supported the court's decision, Margulies said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

Munaf is part of a pending Supreme Court case in which he and another naturalized American, Shawqi Omar, are trying to prevent the military from handing them over to the Iraqis.

The Bush administration argues that they should not be able to contest their pending transfers in U.S. courts since they are being held not by the United States, but by coalition forces in Iraq.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080301/ap_on_go_ot/scotus_iraq_reporters

[Gman]

1. What coalition forces?

Is there anybody else in Iraq besides the US now?

[Submariner]

2. Didn't Dumbya once let it slip; "Gotta keep launchin' the propaganda"

and keep sayin' it." It's just all part of the same big LIE. Nothing more, nothing less.