US Marine Frank Wuterich faces three months in prison for role in Haditha massacre
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US Marine Frank Wuterich faces three months in prison for role in Haditha massacreAMERICAN JUSTICE!
A US Marine charged over one of the Iraq war's most notorious massacres of civilians has agreed to a plea bargain that could see him serve only three months in prison.
Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich faced nine counts of voluntary manslaughter for his role in the 2005 Haditha massacre, when his squad of Marines gunned down 24 Iraqis, including many women and children.
Yesterday, his attorneys reached a deal with military prosecutors at his court martial in California, allowing him to plead guilty to one count of dereliction of duty in return for the other charges being dropped.
A spokesman for the Marine Corps told the Daily Telegraph that the maximum sentence he faces is three months confinement, a two-third cut in pay and a demotion of up to five ranks. The sentencing hearing is expected to take place tomorrow.
His guilty plea is the first conviction secured in the years since the killing but is unlikely to satisfy campaigners in Iraq, who have long demanded accountability for the killings. Six other members of his squad saw charges against them dismissed while one was acquitted at court martial.
Prosecutors had earlier told the hearing that Staff Sergeant Wuterich "lost control of himself" after a roadside killed one of his squad members and wounded two others. The court had originally heard allegations that the unit went house-by-house killing civilians with machine gun fire and grenades.
Prosecutors alleged that Staff Sergeant Wuterich had stood at the foot of a bed in a back bedroom and shot dead a woman and her children. That charge has now been dropped.
The soldiers involved said they believed they were operating under the rules of engagement which allowed areas to be designated "hostile" and giving troops permission to open fire on anyone they found there.
In an un-aired 2007 interview that was shown at the hearing, Staff Sergeant Wuterich said he was not "a monster" and expressed regret over the civilian casualties.
The massacre caused international outrage and was one of the key reasons that the Iraqi government last year refused to extend immunity to American forces in the country.
The conviction comes at the end of a difficult month for the Marines Corps, which is currently investigating four of its troops over video footage that appears to show them urinating on the corpses of dead Taliban fighters. Last week, six Marines were killed in a helicopter in Helmand.
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Re: US Marine Frank Wuterich faces three months in prison for role in Haditha massacrFamily members of those killed will be walking..no running to Al Qaeda now and they will be happily accepted by a laughing bunch of fanatics!
It true what they say, Injustice breeds terrorism! -
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Re: US Marine Frank Wuterich faces three months in prison for role in Haditha massacrWill they now. Then they are scum and have zero sympathy from me then. "American soldiers killed my relative, so I'm going to go and kill a load of civilians who have no connection to this".(Original post by Vegitto)
Family members of those killed will be walking..no running to Al Qaeda now and they will be happily accepted by a laughing bunch of fanatics!
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Re: US Marine Frank Wuterich faces three months in prison for role in Haditha massacrNo no, they usually only go after those who support the Americans.(Original post by callum9999)
Will they now. Then they are scum and have zero sympathy from me then. "American soldiers killed my relative, so I'm going to go and kill a load of civilians who have no connection to this". -
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Re: US Marine Frank Wuterich faces three months in prison for role in Haditha massacrHe killed 9 people and gets 3 months. Is this really the same country that proposed locking people away for 5 years for uploading copy written songs? f
What a disgrace.
He should be locked away for life, just like other murders get under the Joke of a legal system America has.
3 ****ing months. -
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Re: US Marine Frank Wuterich faces three months in prison for role in Haditha massacrAmericans, did you really expect them to sentence the marine to a life sentence or even death?
According to their justice, killing 3 people will get you a sentence of 1 month, therefore if you kill 360 innocents you only get 10 years. -
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Re: US Marine Frank Wuterich faces three months in prison for role in Haditha massacrNo, no. They go after CIVILIANS. If Al Qaeda targeted the US army I'd be less bothered by them.(Original post by Vegitto)
No no, they usually only go after those who support the Americans.
Being a civilian from the West IN NO WAY means you support things like this. -
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Re: US Marine Frank Wuterich faces three months in prison for role in Haditha massacrNo, they indiscriminantely target civilians.(Original post by Vegitto)
No no, they usually only go after those who support the Americans. -
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Re: US Marine Frank Wuterich faces three months in prison for role in Haditha massacrThe people he killed were poor, brown people so obviously no-one in America cares. He's going to get applause everywhere he goes because he's A BRAVE MARINE SERVING OUR COUNTRY.
