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Marine Pleads Guilt in Connection to Kidnapping/Murder of Iraqi

HeadlineNov 07, 2006

In other news from Iraq, a third Marine has plead guilty to charges in connection with the killing of an Iraqi civilian in the village of Hamdania in April. On Monday Lance Cpl. Tyler Jackson pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice. He testified that his squad kidnapped and executed a 52-year-old Iraqi man named Hashim Ibrahim Awad. Jackson said his squad leader ordered his troops to get on line and fire rounds at Awad. After he was shot, U.S. soldiers placed a shovel and an AK-47 near his body to make it look like he was an insurgent planting a roadside bomb.

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