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Soldier acquitted of Iraqi's death

January 08, 2005

JURORS at a court martial at a Texas military base have acquitted an army sergeant of manslaughter charges in the drowning death of an Iraqi civilian but convicted him of assaulting the man.

Sergeant First Class Tracy Perkins was accused of forcing Zidoun Fadel Hassoun to jump in the Tigris river in Baghdad as punishment for violating a curfew in Samarra in January 2004.

But the defence argued it wasn't clear that the Iraqi civilian had died in the incident.

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The six-man military jury cleared Perkins of manslaughter charges but convicted him of assault, which carries a maximum prison sentence of six months.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11888132%255E1702,00.html

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