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   From: theprof@jonez.net   
      
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   >> U.S. soldier guilty of murder in Iraqi killing   
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   >> Posted 2/27/2009 10:46 PM   
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   >> FORT CAMPBELL, Kentucky (AP) - An Army officer who shot and killed an Iraqi   
   >> detainee during an interrogation was convicted of murder Friday night by a   
   >> military jury.   
   >>   
   >> First Lt. Michael Behenna avoided conviction on the more serious charge of   
   >> premeditated murder in the death of the detainee he took aside for   
   >> questioning last May. A military panel of seven officers at Fort Campbell in   
   >> Kentucky also found him guilty of assault but acquitted him of making a   
   false   
   >> statement.   
   >>   
   >> Behenna has testified that he was trying to defend himself when he shot Ali   
   >> Mansour Mohammed and that the detainee reached for his gun in a secluded   
   >> railroad culvert near Beiji, Iraq. Behenna said he hadn't intended to kill   
   >> him.   
   >>   
   >> But Capt. Jason Elbert, a military prosecutor, said the detainee was   
   >> defenseless against Behenna, and the officer's threats and other actions   
   >> showed he had planned to kill the man.   
   >> "He controlled the whole situation as an officer of the U.S. Army, armed and   
   >> protected and under no threat," Elbert said.   
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