U.S. Soldier Guilty of Killing Iraqi Teen
I have a feeling that many of you thought exactly what I did when first reading the headline for this article.
"Previous military court hearings have heard that several troops had fired on a group of Iraqi men placing homemade bombs along a road in Sadr City. Soldiers from the same battalion arrived on the scene to find a burning truck and casualties around it.
According to accounts given by witnesses at previous hearings, the soldiers, including Horne, tried to rescue an Iraqi casualty from inside the vehicle. The victim had severe abdominal wounds and burns and was thought by several of the witnesses to be beyond medical help.
The criminal investigator had said that the U.S. soldiers had decided that ``the best course of action was to put (the victim) out of his misery.''"
The Title really says it all doesn't it.