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   From: theprof@jonez.net   
      
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   >>> U.S. soldier convicted of murder following 'execution-style' killing of   
   four   
   >>> Iraqi detainees   
   >>>   
   >>> By Daily Mail Reporter   
   >>> Last updated at 2:51 PM on 30th March 2009   
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   >>>   
   >>> A military court has convicted a soldier of murder in the execution-style   
   >>> slayings of four bound and blindfolded Iraqi detainees in 2007.   
   >>> Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Mayo, of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, pleaded guilty   
   to   
   >>> charges of premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit premeditated murder   
   >>> at the proceeding at the U.S. Army's Rose Barracks in southern Germany   
   >>> today.   
   >>>   
   >>> The 27-year-old will be sentenced later today and faces the possibility of   
   >>> life in prison, along with a reduction in rank to private, forfeiture of   
   all   
   >>> pay and a dishonorable discharge.   
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   >> U.S. Soldier Convicted for Part in Iraqi Murders   
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   >> Atlanta, Ga. 2/20/2009 07:05 PM GMT (TransWorldNews)   
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   >> A U.S. soldier who admitted to killing an Iraqi citizen following an   
   >> interrogation in 2007 has been convicted of murder by a panel at a court   
   >> martial in Vilseck, Germany.   
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   >> Defense lawyers argued that Sgt. Michael Leahy Jr. had been under so much   
   >> stress while stationed in a combat zone that he was unable to act reasonably   
   >> but the panel dismissed that argument, citing the brutal nature of the   
   crime.   
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   >> Leahy, 28, confessed that he was one of a group of soldiers that escorted   
   >> four Iraqis who had been detained, questioned and then released following an   
   >> attack at a military base. The Iraqis were released after it was determined   
   >> there was not enough evidence to charge them but Leahy admitted they led the   
   >> four out and then shot and killed them, leaving their bodies in a canal.   
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