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No jail for US soldier found guilty of Iraq murder
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 20 - 07 - 2007


A US Marine found guilty in the murder of a
handicapped Iraqi was discharged by a military jury
on Friday, but the court said he need serve no more jail time than
the 520 days he had already spent behind bars, a military spokesman
confirmed, according to dpa.
Prosecutors in the court martial of Lance Corporal Trent Thomas,
25, had asked that Thomas be sentenced to a dishonourable discharge
and 15 years in prison as a warning to other young Marines to follow
the laws of war.
In the sentencing at Camp Pendleton in California, Thomas was also
degraded from lance corporal to private, the lowest rank among
Marines, military spokesman Sean Gibson said. Gibson said the jury
gave no reason for its more lenient sentence.
Thomas was convicted on Wednesday of kidnapping and conspiracy to
murder a 54-year-old handicapped Iraqi in Hamdaniya in April 2006
after their convoy had come under attack.
Thomas and other soldiers were charged with forcing Hashem
Ibrahim, a father of 11, out of his house and shooting him. They then
placed the body alongside a road with a shovel in an attempt to make
it look like Ibrahim was a victim of his own bomb.
According to the military court, Thomas was the leader in
kidnapping the Iraqi. At first, he admitted guilt, but then changed
his plea to not-guilty. Thomas was acquitted Wednesday of
premeditated murder, a charge that could have meant life without the
possibility of parole.
Two other US soldiers involved are still facing trial - one began
Friday and another is to start next week - while five of their
colleagues have confessed to lesser charges and received sentences of
12 months to eight years.
The military jurors in the Thomas case were all Marines, many of
whom had also served in Iraq. Thomas' attorney argued that he was
suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder on his third tour of
duty in Iraq and said a long sentence would mean that Marines have
abandoned one of their own.
In a separate case, three enlisted Marines are accused of killing
civilians in Haditha. Two are awaiting preliminary hearings; a
hearing officer has recommended that the charges be dismissed against
a third.


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