U.S. Marine in Mysterious Case Declared Deserter
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U.S. Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun,  charged with desertion in a mysterious case in which he left  his unit in Iraq and turned up in Lebanon, has again gone  absent and appears to have returned to Lebanon, officials said  on Wednesday.
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A U.S. Marine company commander who led the unit that killed as many as 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, Iraq, has had all criminal charges against him dismissed nearly two years after the shootings occurred.
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A US marine who claimed he was abducted by anti-coalition forces after he went missing from his unit in Iraq has been charged with desertion.
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A soldier charged with desertion while fighting for custody of her 7-year-old daughter has been granted an honorable discharge from the Army, her lawyer said Saturday.
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A U.S. Marine was convicted of negligent homicide on Thursday in the 2006 stabbing death of an Iraqi soldier, but cleared of the more serious charge of unpremeditated murder.
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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. -- A Marine major implicated in the death of an Iraqi prisoner testified at his court-martial yesterday that he thought the prisoner was uncooperative.
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A judge may throw out criminal  charges against a U.S. Marine accused of killing an Iraqi  prisoner in an American-run jail near Nasiriayah because of  problems with the evidence, a Marine Corps spokesman at Camp  Pendleton in California said on Friday.
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The U.S. Marines have dismissed charges against one of the officers accused of dereliction of duty for failing to report accurately the U.S. killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in 2005.
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WUERZBURG, Germany, March 6 -- A U.S. Army medic who jumped out a window of his base housing and fled to California to avoid a redeployment to Iraq was convicted of desertion Tuesday at a court-martial. He was sentenced to eight months in prison.
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Authorities who spent five days searching for a Marine after a friend reported him lost in a hiking accident have arrested the friend and said Thursday they believe the disappearance was staged, so the serviceman could avoid returning to duty.
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A US Marine caught on film apparently shooting dead a severely wounded and unarmed Iraqi insurgent at point-blank range has been removed from active duty and was last night being questioned by military criminal investigators, the Pentagon said yesterday.
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A Marine charged with desertion who claimed he was abducted by anti-coalition forces in Iraq failed to return from a scheduled leave and was again declared a deserter Wednesday.
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A Marine who withdrew his guilty plea to kidnapping and murdering an Iraqi man will have a difficult time proving he was only following orders, military experts said.
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A military judge granted a Marine corporal's request Thursday to withdraw his guilty plea to charges of murdering an unarmed Iraqi civilian, but warned the serviceman that he could be sentenced to death if convicted.
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A U.S. Army medic who refused to return to Iraq because of his opposition to the war was convicted of desertion at his court martial Tuesday
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The marine, assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, was killed on Wednesday, the military said. No details were disclosed.
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Desertion is a crime like few others. Along with mutiny, it hits at the heart of military service, violating a fundamental code of honor.