US soldier guilty in killing of 4 Iraqis in 2007

[240 is Back]

By GEORGE FREY
The Associated Press
Monday, March 30, 2009; 9:31 AM

VILSECK, Germany -- A military court convicted a second U.S. soldier of murder in the execution-style slayings of four bound and blindfolded Iraqi detainees in 2007 after the soldier pleaded guilty at his court-martial Monday.

Wearing his dress uniform and speaking crispy and confidently, Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Mayo of Fort Bragg, N.C., 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.

He pleaded not guilty to a charge of obstruction of justice in the incident, which occurred while he was deployed to Iraq. Military prosecutors dropped that charge.
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The 27-year-old will be sentenced later Monday and faces the possibility of life in prison, along with a reduction in rank to private, forfeiture of all pay and a dishonorable discharge.

[headhuntersix]

Yeah....good. See SAMSON we don't need assholes like u telling us how horrible we are, we police our own.

[ToxicAvenger]

Yeah....good. See SAMSON we don't need assholes like u telling us how horrible we are, we police our own.

<ahem> he shouldn't have been in Iraq in the first place....THAT would be policing our own...



 

[Dos Equis]

Yeah....good. See SAMSON we don't need assholes like u telling us how horrible we are, we police our own.

Correct.  Big difference between us and them. 

[headhuntersix]

<ahem> he shouldn't have been in Iraq in the first place....THAT would be policing our own...



 

Does that really matter now....that argument is really a waste of time at this point.