U.S. Army deserter ran to avoid committing atrocities in Iraq
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TORONTO (CP) - An American war dodger said Tuesday he fled the U.S. military because he believed the invasion of Iraq was illegal and any act of violence he committed there would be an atrocity.
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A US army officer who ran the interrogation unit of Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail avoids being imprisoned.
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JACKSON, Mississippi What does it take for a man like Staff Sergeant Michael Butler - a 24-year veteran of the US Army and the reserves who was a soldier in the Gulf war and a reserve called up to fight in the current war in Iraq - to risk everything by
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan A military court-martial is under way for Charles Jenkins, the Army sergeant who&#39;s accused of deserting his unit in 1965 and defecting to North Korea.
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Rather than begin a second tour of duty in Iraq, an Army medic chooses to face a possible court-martial for fleeing from duty
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan -- Army deserter Charles Jenkins has started serving a 30-day sentence in Japan for abandoning his unit in 1965. Jenkins, 64, began serving his time at a US Naval detention center near Tokyo after tearfully pleading guilty to desertion.
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A U.S. soldier pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of killing Iraqis and trying to cover it up by planting weapons on their bodies.
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WASHINGTON -- Soldiers from an Army Reserve unit in Iraq who refused to take part in a convoy last month, citing security concerns and maintenance problems with their vehicles, are facing disciplinary action and some could be charged criminally, Pentagon and military officials said yesterday.
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A former U.S. Marine in Iraq, testifying Wednesday at a hearing for an American military deserter seeking asylum in Canada, said several men in his unit were "psychopaths" who enjoyed killing unarmed Iraqi civilians who posed no threat.
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An Army private seeking refugee status in Canada after refusing to serve in Iraq told immigration officials on Monday that the war is illegal and would have forced him to commit war crimes.
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Despite Canada's opposition to the Iraq war, the government also is opposing the U.S. deserters' refugee applications, saying the soldiers are not persecuted. It is resisting the argument that the Iraq war is illegal.
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TOKYO -- Alleged US Army deserter Charles Robert Jenkins said yesterday that he would surrender to US military authorities to face charges that he deserted his post along the demilitarized zone dividing North and South Korea in the 1960s.
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Tokyo - US army deserter Charles Jenkins, who spent nearly four decades in North Korea, finally saw freedom on Tuesday as he left a US base with his Japanese wife for a new home on a small island north of Tokyo.
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A Marine who was declared a deserter days before military court proceedings stemming from an earlier disappearance from Iraq has been placed on a list of "most wanted" fugitives.
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The plan was simple: Iraqi troops would block escape routes while U.S. soldiers searched for weapons house-by-house. But the Iraqi troops didn't show up on time.
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William G. Halicks, who is stationed in Hillah, Iraq, was runner No. 1 the 2007 Peachtree Road Race, a race normally run a world away.
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One of the soldiers has proudly served in the military for 10 years. Another passed up a chance to remain safely at home, instead re-enlisting in the Army Reserve and heading to Iraq so "the young kids in that unit" would have someone experienced alongside them.