Homicide Charges Rare in Iraq War
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The majority of U.S. service members charged in the unlawful deaths of Iraqi civilians have been acquitted, found guilty of relatively minor offenses or given administrative punishments without trials, according to a Washington Post review of concluded military cases. Charges against some of the...
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Four soldiers were charged with murder Monday in the asphyxiation death of an Iraqi general during questioning in Iraq last fall.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 27 -- Two US soldiers have been charged with murdering an Iraqi civilian, raising to four the number of American soldiers from the same unit charged in the past week with killing Iraqis.
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Death squads and terrorists have ramped up attacks on civilians in Iraq, killing more than 1,600 people in cold-blooded "execution-style" slayings in July alone, a Pentagon report said today. But the report concluded the "current violence is not a civil war, and movement toward civil war can be prevented."
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Two U.S. soldiers have been charged with murdering an Iraqi last month near Kirkuk, the U.S. military said on Thursday, the latest in a string of accusations of abuse laid against American forces in Iraq.
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Two U.S. soldiers have been charged in   connection with the shooting death of an unarmed Iraqi   civilian, the U.S. military said on Sunday, the latest case to   come to light of alleged abuses by American troops.
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Residents of the neighborhood where 24 Iraqi civilians were allegedly massacred by Marines say the military investigation has been surprisingly thorough. But that doesn't mean they can ever forgive, or forget, what happened
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Three American soldiers were charged   with premeditated murder after being accused of shooting three   detainees north of Baghdad on May 9 and then threatening to   kill a fellow soldier if he told the truth about the incident,   the U.S. military said on Monday.
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Iraqi officials expressed outrage today at what they say are civilian deaths in the wake of a massive military operation in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood. The U.S. military said its ground forces are "unaware" of civilian deaths in the early morning raid that it said left 49 "criminals" dead. Iraqi officials have put the death toll between 10 and 13, with dozens of others wounded.
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif., July 17 -- One of the Marines charged with murdering civilians in Haditha, Iraq, in 2005 knew that only women and children were huddled in a back bedroom in a house there, but he opened the door and shot them anyway, his squad-mate testified Tuesday.
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A British army inquiry into the killing last year of six military police by a mob in southern Iraq found &quot;no conclusive evidence&quot; that their deaths could have been prevented.
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Four soldiers accused of smothering an Iraqi general during an interrogation last fall have been charged with murder, bringing the total number of US troops charged with murder in Iraq to at least 10.
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Legal gaps and immunity may prevent Blackwater guards involved in a shooting in Iraq from being tried.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Updated figures from Iraq's Health Ministry show there was no significant decline in violent deaths in Baghdad last month, but the U.S. military insisted Thursday the murder rate in the capital had fallen by 52 percent.
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A fire that destroyed the house of a soldier serving in Iraq was set to cover up the stabbing deaths of his wife, two sons and sister-in-law, police said. A neighbor was jailed on suspicion of homicide.
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Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, the alleged leader of the Haditha, Iraq, killings of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2005, will face voluntary manslaughter and other charges but not more serious murder charges, the U.S. Marines said on Monday.
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The U.S. military charged 12   servicemen this week with murdering Iraqis, signaling to some a   stepped-up Pentagon effort to investigate claims after an   alleged cover-up of a civilian massacre at Haditha.