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The War Profiteers - War Crimes,
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September 8th,
2009 - Ex-Army Soldier Files Notice of Appeal |
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Ex-Army Soldier Files Notice
of Appeal From the Associated Press September 8, 2009 Louisville, Ky. - A former
soldier sentenced to five consecutive life sentences has filed notice he is
appealing his conviction for the rape and murder of an Iraqi teenager and the
shooting deaths of three of her family members. The former soldier is
charged with murdering an Iraqi family and raping a 14-year-old girl Attorneys for former Pfc.
Steven Dale Green of Midland, Texas, filed the notice in U.S. District Court
in Louisville on Tuesday, four days after a judge issued the sentence. A civilian jury in Kentucky
convicted the 24-year-old Green in May of rape and multiple counts of murder
for the deaths of the al-Janabi family on March 12, 2006, at their rural home
outside Mahmoudiya, Iraq, about 20 miles south of Baghdad. External link: http://www.whas11.com/topstories/stories/whas11-top-090908-steven-green.15efcc5c5.html |