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The
War Profiteers - War Crimes, Kidnappings & Torture |
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The Massacre of Mahmudiya - The Rape and
Murder of Abeer Qasim Hamsa |
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United States of America vs. Steven Dale
Green - Trial Testimonies |
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Criminal Proceedings against Steven D. Green U.S. vs. Steven D. Green U.S. District Court for the Western District of
Kentucky Case No.: 5:06-CR-00019-R (prior to November 3rd,
2006: 3:06 MJ 230) May 20th, 2009 - Transcript of Government’s Closing
Argument May 13th, 2009 - Transcript of Testimony of Gary Solis May 1st, 2009 - Transcript of Testimony of Paul Cortez April 30th, 2009 - Transcript of Testimony of Jesse Spielman April 27th, 2009 - Transcript of Testimony of Mohammed
Al-Janabi April 27th, 2009 - Transcript of Testimony of Ahmed Al-Azawy April
27th, 2009 - Transcript of
Testimony of Mahdi al-Janabi May 20th, 2009 - Transcript of Government’s Closing Argument “[…] And that brings us to Abeer, Abeer Al-Janabi.
Here, of course, she is as a little girl. I mean, what a beautiful picture. Probably
taken on a 50-cent camera. What a beautiful likeness of a little girl. And,
of course, here a little older, her arm around Hadeel, next to her little
brothers. “And we know she had a beautiful name, too, the
fragrance of flowers. We know that Abeer was a sick girl as she suffered from
asthma. We know that she was slim, but that she was beautiful and that she
liked to wear beautiful clothes and that she was proud to be young. You heard
Aminahi say that. What a beautiful thing to say about someone, that they were
proud to be young. “And she helped her mom. She helped with the kids.
She helped cook. She helped clean. But we also know that she had dreams,
dreams like all of us. She had dreams of escaping her circumstances, of
getting out of that small town, moving to the big city, meeting a man, and
living in the city lights. And because of Mr. Green, she never got to chase
that dream. “Indeed, after she had been twice raped, he took his
turn between her slender legs. And when he was done raping her, we know what
happened. He shot her in the face with an AK-47. […]” May 13th,
2009 - Transcript of Testimony of Gary Solis “[…] Q. All right. So you're familiar with other
cases - and I don't want to know the specifics of those cases, but you’re
familiar with other cases where soldiers have not been in that combat
situation but have engaged in illegal activity? “A. Yes, sir. “Q. Okay. And Ms. Ford also asked you about illegal
orders, and you said that, of course, soldiers are obligated not to follow
illegal orders. You remember saying that? “A. Yes, sir. “Q. You were pretty adamant about that. Remember
that? “A. (Witness moves head up and down.) “Q. The direct examination, though, we went over the
stressors that are placed on our young men and women and how that can impair
their judgment. Can you talk to the jury about how those two coincide,
interact, and end up coming in conflict with each other? “A. That’s the problem in combat. That's how combat
stresses training. In a combat situation and the more prolonged the combat,
the more pronounced the issue. It degrades one’s judgment. It makes soldiers
less perceptive, less careful, less discerning. It allows them to do things which back in the states in the
barracks they wouldn’t do. “That’s why training and leadership are so
important, because it’s in combat where those otherwise prohibited acts
become less clear to junior individuals. It’s the duty, it’s the
responsibility of officers and non-coms, non-commissioned officers, to see
that bad things don’t happen when the stressors of combat are applied. And
that’s why training and leadership is so important in combat. […]” May 1st,
2009 - Transcript of Testimony of Paul Cortez “[…] Q. And did Barker do or look from your - what
you saw, was he doing the same thing that you did? “A. Trying. “Q. All right. He get between her legs? “A. Yes, sir. “Q. All right. Did you see him thrusting? “A. No, sir. “Q. All right. But he was trying to sexually assault
her? “A. Yes, sir. “Q. You don’t know what he did? “A. I don’t. “Q. I understand. You’re just holding her? “A. Yes, sir. “Q. How are you holding her? “A. Kind of sitting over the top of her. “Q. All right. You holding her hands down? “A. Yes, sir. “Q. You got her - and you got her hands pinned like this
(indicating)? “A. Yes, sir. “Q. Her legs are apart? “A. Yes, sir. “Q. Barker’s in the middle - “A. Yes, sir. “Q. - between her legs? “A. (Moves head up and down.) “Q. All right. Is she still crying? “A. Yes. “Q. And the gunshots go off. Did you know Green was going
to kill this family? “A. I didn’t know what was going to happen. I don’t
think - that wasn’t the intention. “Q. All right. Well, what did you think was going to
happen to them? “A. I didn't think they were going to get killed. “Q. At some point in time while you were there, did you
know this family was going to get killed? “A. No, sir. “Q. All right. Did you think that you-all would just
walk away after you finished doing what you were doing to Abeer? “A. No. “Q. You couldn’t, could you? “A. Well, thinking about it now, no. But when it happened,
I don't think any of us thought - stuff just went crazy. I mean, nobody could
control what happened no more. It was just time - I told everybody, ‘Let’s go.’
It went - it went crazy, too crazy. “Q. Now, how long is Barker assaulting this girl? “A. A couple seconds. “Q. Seconds. Are you there when he gets up, Mr.
Barker gets up, from this assault? Are you still holding her at the time? “A. I don’t remember. “Q. All right. Do you remember what - Green, did he come
out of the bedroom? “A. Yes, sir. “Q. What did he say when he came out of the bedroom? “A. He said that he killed them all and all of them were
dead. […]” April 30th, 2009 - Transcript of Testimony of Jesse Spielman "[...] A. And then Green comes out of the
bedroom in through this door right here and - "Q. And he enters the living room? "A. Enters the living room, yes. The four of us
are in the living room, and he kind of announces just to everybody in the
living room, ‘I killed them, and they’re all dead.’ And then the other two,
Barker and Cortez, get up and they’re finished, and they leave the female
laying on the ground. "Q. Okay. And she's lying on her back on the
ground? [...] "[...] Q. All right. And you said Green began assaulting
her. He crossed the room. Did he take off any of his clothing? "A. Yeah. Looks like he unbuttoned his pants
and then got down in between her legs and appeared that he was raping her. "Q. All right. And he was making motions like
it appeared that he was having intercourse? "A. Yes, ma’am. [...] "[...] A. After he was done, he pulled his
pants back up, went over to where he placed the AK-47 against the wall,
walked back over to the young lady there, and I remember him putting a pillow
over her face and then - "Q. I'm sorry. Who put the pillow over her
face? "A. Green. "Q. All right. He picked up a pillow in the
living room? "A. Yes, ma’am. "Q. All right. And put it over her face? "A. Yes, ma'am. "Q. And then what did he do? "A. He put the AK-47 up to the pillow and then
fired probably five or six times. "Q. Okay. And he would have hit her in the
head? "A. Yes, ma'am. [...]" April 27th, 2009 - Transcript of Testimony of Mohammed Al-Janabi “[…] Q. Did you and your brother finally make it
home that day? “A. Yes. “Q. Mohammed, please tell us what you saw when you
arrived at your house on that day. “A. Yes. “Q. Can you tell us what you saw? “A. When I went back from school, I saw smoke at the
house. I went to Abu Firas. Me and Abu Firas came back, and we saw the smoke
around the house, and it was burning. Abu Firas entered the house, and he saw
the house burning. […]” April 27th, 2009 - Transcript of Testimony of Ahmed Al-Azawy “[…] Q. Sergeant Kadhim, when you were in the
bedroom, did you see any evidence that a weapon had been fired in that room? “A. The murder was by gunshots. “Q. And how do you know? How do you know? “A. First of all, the injuries were caused by
gunshots, not by wood or by metal strokes. […]” April 27th, 2009 - Transcript of Testimony of Mahdi al-Janabi “[…] Q. Based on what you saw at the crime scene the
two times that you were there, did you have any reason to suspect that
American soldiers were involved? “A. Never, because I thought completely that no
American would do a horrible thing. What I saw was a massacre but not a
crime. Even terrorists would not do that. So I never suspected the American
military. I always respected them and appreciated them. “And this family is a poor family. They have no
guilt. It was hardly - they hardly could provide the daily food. They were
living with rent. They never hurt American military. […]” |
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