Saddam jailer gets 2-year sentence in court martial

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Source: Yahoo News/Reuters

"He was acquitted on the more serious charge of aiding the enemy, which carried a term of life imprisonment, for allowing detainees to use his mobile telephone for unmonitored calls.

Steele was the highest-ranking U.S. officer to face a charge of aiding the enemy since Captain James Yee, a Muslim chaplain at Guantanamo Bay, was charged in September 2003. The army eventually dropped the case.

Prosecutor Captain Michael Rizzotti told the court on Friday that nearly 12,000 secret documents had been found in a search of Steele's living quarters.

"(They were) documents that if (they had) fallen into the wrong hands could be used to the injury of the United States or the advantage of a foreign nation. He did not get authority to take these documents," Rizzotti said.

Much of the trial was held in closed session because of the sensitive nature of the documents, but reporters were given a glimpse of one which contained aerial photographs of Kandahar airbase and Bagram airfield in Afghanistan."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071019/ts_nm/iraq_usa_officer_dc

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Blackwater kills innocents by the dozens and doesn't even get a wrist slap. meanwhile, other folks get slammed for letting a detainee use their cell phone...oh, and illegally having thousands of secret incriminating military documents!

WTF!!!


Is there any end to the ways the Iraq Clusterfuck can, well, clusterfuck us?