US soldier guilty in killing of 4 Iraqis in 2007

[kpete]

Source: Washington Post

US soldier guilty in killing of 4 Iraqis in 2007

By GEORGE FREY
The Associated Press
Monday, March 30, 2009; 9:31 AM

VILSECK, Germany -- A military court convicted a second U.S. soldier of murder in the execution-style slayings of four bound and blindfolded Iraqi detainees in 2007 after the soldier pleaded guilty at his court-martial Monday.

Wearing his dress uniform and speaking crispy and confidently, Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Mayo of Fort Bragg, N.C., pleaded guilty to charges of premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit premeditated murder at the proceeding at the U.S. Army's Rose Barracks in southern Germany.

He pleaded not guilty to a charge of obstruction of justice in the incident, which occurred while he was deployed to Iraq. Military prosecutors dropped that charge.
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The 27-year-old will be sentenced later Monday and faces the possibility of life in prison, along with a reduction in rank to private, forfeiture of all pay and a dishonorable discharge.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/30/AR2009033000536.html?hpid=topnews

[LynnTheDem]

1. And when will those who put our soldiers into a situation which is guaranteed to

generate massive hatred & outrage and allow such atrocities to occur? And yes, they always occur.

When you're told over & over again that People X are "vermin" and out to get you and yours, many people will believe it.


So when will George W. bUsh and his regime go on trial as accessories before during and after the fact?

[Thothmes]

11. Like LBJ did for accessory before during and after My Lai

[tabasco]

2. A disgrace to the Army.

He should spend the rest of his life at Leavenworth, but I see he has been sentenced to 35 years.

There is no parole, so he will be 62 when he gets out.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

10. it says he can be paroled in 10 years

[MetaTrope]

3. Steven Dale Green's jury selection begins next week?

http://www.kywd.uscourts.gov/pdf/predbook.pdf

Should be interesting to see how much media coverage that one gets.

[Tikki]

4. I thought about that case, right away.....

Tikki

[dipsydoodle]

5. Sentenced to 35 years

A US soldier has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for murdering four Iraqi detainees in 2007.

Sgt Joseph Mayo, 27, was earlier convicted by a court martial of premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit premeditated murder.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7972103.stm

[ElsewheresDaughter]

6. U.S. Soldier gets 35 years for murdering 4 Iraqis execution-style

Source: Associated Press

VILSECK, GERMANY — A second U.S. soldier was convicted Monday of murder in the execution-style slayings of four bound and blindfolded Iraqi detainees in 2007 and sentenced to 35 years in prison after he pleaded guilty at his court-martial.
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Wearing his dress uniform and speaking crispy and confidently, Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Mayo of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to charges of premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit premeditated murder at the proceeding at the U.S. Army's Rose Barracks in southern Germany.

He pleaded not guilty to a charge of obstruction of justice in the incident, which occurred while he was deployed to Iraq. Military prosecutors dropped that charge.

The 27-year-old was sentenced to 35 years in prison and will be incarcerated at the military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He will also be dishonorably discharged. His lawyer, Michael Waddington, said Mayo would be eligible
for parole in about 10 years.

Col. Jeffrey Nance, the judge overseeing the proceedings, told Mayo that he "entered into an agreement to commit premeditated murder" that saw the four Iraqi men shot in the head by the side of a canal in Baghdad between March and
April 2007.

In February a military court convicted Sgt. Michael Leahy, 28, of Lockport, Ill., to life in prison with the possibility of parole after he admitted to the execution-style killing of one of the detainees and shooting another. He was acquitted of murder over a separate incident in Baghdad in January 2007.

Read more: http://www.app.com/article/20090330/NEWS/90330047/1001/rss

[ACTION BASTARD]

7. Wow. A Sgt. as well? What a POS. He got off easy.

[Dogtown]

8. A Sergeant 1st Class, no less.

E-7; this is no kid. That's a significantly high NCO rank, w/ considerable authority.



EDIT: K&R.

[catnhatnh]

9. I want all the brass in Sgt. Leahy's chain of command...

answering questions also. You have to get that these WERE murders. Long before the start of 2007 major operations had ended. And here is Sgt. Leahy implicated in a murder in January and then convicted in this one??? What we have here is a real-to-God, rock n' roll DEATH SQUAD. I don't mean they weren't engaged in combat patrols-but rather that they actually went rogue and that if the chain of command failed to note this it was because they CHOOSE not to know. Officers and Gentleman are supposed to be like Kosher hot dogs and "answer to a higher authority".