Widows Frustrated Over Iraq Hearing (on fragging)

[Barrett808]

Widows Frustrated Over Iraq Hearing
By PAT MILTON, Associated Press Writer
Fri Sep 16, 1:47 PM ET

NEW YORK - The widows of two National Guard officers allegedly killed in Iraq by a disgruntled American soldier are angry that the Army has turned down their request to watch the soldier's hearing in Iraq via satellite television.

So they have made another request to the military: Fly them to Iraq so they can attend the hearing themselves. The pair is awaiting a response.

"I want to look at the man's face," Siobhan Esposito, who lives in Suffern, said Friday. "I need to be there every step of the way for my husband."

Capt. Phillip Esposito, 30, a Wall Street broker, was killed along with 1st Lt. Louis Allen, 34, a high school science teacher from Campbell Hall, in a June explosion at their base in Tikrit. Both were officers of the 42nd Infantry Division of the New York National Guard.

Alberto Martinez, 37, of Troy, a supply specialist in the New York guard, is charged with two counts of premeditated murder in the slayings of his superiors. He allegedly rigged the blast to look like an enemy mortar attack.

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050916/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/widows_iraq

[neuvocat]

1. Why not send video tapes?

I agree with DoD as far as the satellite goes, however that is also the thing that makes me wonder what they're concealing.