Soldier testifies killings were planned

[Sal316]

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - A staff sergeant gave soldiers the option of taking part in the shooting of three Iraqi detainees before the killings took place, a soldier testified Wednesday.

Staff Sgt. Ray Girouard, 24, called members of his squad into a meeting near Samarra,Iraq, in May and said the three men were going to be shot after they were freed, Pfc. Juston Graber testified. Girouard said Spc. William Husaker and Pfc. Corey Clagett were going to shoot the men, but other soldiers had the option to take part or leave, Graber said.

Girouard, 24, who is charged with murder, is the last and most senior soldier from the 101st Airborne Division to face trial for the killings during a May 9 raid on a suspected insurgent camp. He is accused of ordering soldiers in his squad to kill the men and cover up their crime as self-defense.

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[laylah]

1. There are no words...

[redqueen]

2. Sick sick sick.

The abuses going on the military have to be investigated further. This isn't a case of a few bad apples...

[Parche]

9. 101st Airborne

Yes bad apples,

The 101st Airborne has an excellent history, from Major Winters (Band of Brothers)
until today..............


This is not what we are supposed to be doing in Iraq

[KansDem]

3. Makes one wonder how much of this goes unreported.

There doesn't seem to be an explanation for this in the article, not that there should be one other than Sgt. Girouard is an homicidal psychopath.

Clagett testified Tuesday night that he dropped a knife near a detainee's body to make it look like the detainees had attacked the soldiers. Other soldiers in the squad who have not been charged said they also heard Girouard's plot to kill the men while on their mission but did not agree or go along with it.

So do some of our troops now carry "throw down" weapons to cover these kinds of incidents?

[saigon68]

8. They learn this from the cops in amerika's big cities

When they off some black guy in the back who is "escaping"

[sam sarrha]

4. army is accepting 40yr old+ nonhighschool Felon's .. wonder why there isnt more? it is called Moral

forgiveness pass for enlistment.. it was on randi rhodes show

[Disturbed]

5. 1st Degree Murder.

In most states that would garner at least a life sentence, perhaps without parole. I wonder what these murders will receive.

[razors edge]

6. 10 to 15 in Leavenworth

making little rocks out of big rocks.

I a way, that is life.

[saigon68]

7. HEY ---LOOK at the F---------Draft Dodger walking between the Crosses

[razors edge]

10. Whistling past other's graveyard,

as usual for *
Edit: I think it's shopped.

[yardwork]

11. It must be. Chimp never visits cemetaries.

[razors edge]

12. No, he just fills them. n/t