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WITNESSES TESTIFY IN U.S. MILITARY COURT IN HEARING OF IRAQI GIRL'S RAPE-SLAYING CASE
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 06 - 08 - 2006

Unidentified Iraqi witnesses testified behind closed door Sunday at a U.S. military court to determine if five American soldiers should be court-martialed in the alleged rape-slaying of a
14-year-old Iraqi girl.
Three of the girl's relatives also were killed in the town
of Mahmoudiya on March 12, which is among the worst
incidents in a series of cases alleging U.S. troops killed
or abused Iraqi civilians, the Associated Press reported.
The hearing began Sunday with testimony by unidentified Iraqi witnesses.
The soldiers _ Sgt. Paul E. Cortez, Spc. James P. Barker,
Pfc. Jesse V. Spielman and Pfc. Bryan L. Howard _ are
charged with conspiring to rape the girl along with former
Pfc. Steven D. Green, who was arrested in North Carolina in
June. Green has pleaded not guilty in federal court and is
being held without bond.
A fifth soldier from the same unit, Sgt. Anthony W. Yribe,
is charged with failing to report the attack but is not
alleged to have been a direct participant.
It was not clear how many Iraqis will testify and when
non-Iraqi witnesses will be called during the Article 32
hearing, the military equivalent of a grand jury
proceeding. The hearing will decide whether there is enough evidence to convene a court-martial for the five soldiers.
It is the fifth such investigation against U.S. soldiers
in Iraq, including a group of Marines accused of killing 24
people at Haditha last November.
Iraqi authorities identified the rape victim as Abeer
Qassim Hamza. The other victims were her father, Qassim
Hamza; her mother, Fikhriya Taha; and her sister, Hadeel
Qassim Hamza.


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