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Barrett808 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 12:16 PM
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U.S. Soldiers to Be Charged in Iraqi General's Death
DENVER (Reuters) - The U.S. Army plans to file charges against two military intelligence officers in the suffocation death of an Iraqi general during questioning in Iraq in November, The Denver Post reported on Thursday.

The newspaper said negligent homicide and manslaughter charges were being brought against two warrant officers over the death of Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush, commander of Saddam Hussein's air forces.

Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer, based at Fort Carson, Colorado and a member of the 66th Military Intelligence Group, is accused of suffocating the general in a sleeping bag while sitting on his chest and covering his mouth, according to Pentagon documents obtained by the newspaper.

The other soldier, Chief Warrant Officer Jeff Williams, was involved in the interrogation at a U.S. military facility at Qaim, Iraq, the newspaper said.

The general's death was among more than 30 prisoner deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan that the Pentagon said last month it was investigating.

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neuvocat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-24-04 12:31 PM
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1. I just wonder what kind of bitching we'll hear
when the same thing starts being done to our troops.
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