Sgt Steven Green was convicted Thursday in a civilian court in Kentucky and will be sentenced Monday.
After more than 10 hours of deliberations, a jury found the former soldier guilty of murder, rape and obstruction of justice, CNN affiliate WPSD-TV in Paducah, Kentucky, reported. Sgt Green stated he enjoyed the military and wanted the people in the USA to be proud of him.
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Because being in the military does not mean you are above the law.
What?
You think just because he was in the military, he should be allowed to rape, kill, and obstruct justice?
Serving in the military doesn’t give you a free reign to harm other people. You still have to obey the laws….in fact, being in the military, he should be held to an even higher standard than the rest of us. His penalty should be even greater.
really your question should be worded like this..
“How could an American Soldier do this to the USA!?”
It wasn’t the “people in the USA” who committed murder, rape, and obstruction. It was Steven Green who did it, according to the 12 members of the jury. And the Army will be giving him the BCD, administratively or through a court martial, so that he’s not drawing pay while in prison.
DUDE IN FT BRAGG I HEARD FOUR SOLIERS ACCUSED OF WAR CRIMES JUST WALK AWAY SCOTT FREE, WHY, WHAT THE FUDGE, HOW TH EHELL DID THEY WALK AWAY SCOTT FREE!!! AND THE SOLDIER WHO KILLED HIS OWN PLATOON, THE MP’S WHO WERE WATCHING HIM, WELL HE GOT A HOLD OF A PENCIL AND STATED STABBING THE MP’S WITH IT. WTF!!!
I knew a dog handler in Korea, he had some vital info for a civilian that tried to rape me and he would not give up the info tot he investigator, claiming he was my friend and the other guys friend. WHATEVER> He was no MP!!!
America has laws. If he is guilty he should be punished. Now what are we going to do about people being raped of their rights and freedoms in America. What about the new and improved Obama war, where people are being murdered and killed at random. Should they all be imprisoned while the terrorist are let free to roam the streets in America from Gitmo.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090508/ap_o…
The people are not treating the Military like that. Using a jury of his peers Sgt Steven Green was found guilty of the charges against him. Just as any American citizen would expect to be.
obviously he commited crimes outside of his military duty…perhaps he wouldnt be getting this easy punishment had he not done the crime
you’re question is too oblique, do you mean why has this former soldier been put on trial. because i think that that is obvious!
Having served in the military doesn’t entitle you to commit rape and murder..
Are you also a rapist and murderer? Are you proud of him?
Your question lacks enough facts to determine anything.
This is a criminal we are talking about not some war hero.
This is an extract of an article about him, he should get the death penalty in my opinion;
On June 30, 2006, the FBI arrested Green, who was held without bond and transferred to Louisville, Kentucky. On July 3, 2006, United States Federal Court prosecutors formally charged him with raping and killing Abeer Qassim Hamza, a 14-year-old girl, and with killing her five-year-old sister Hadeel, her father, Qassim Hamza Rasheed, and her mother, Fakhriya Taha Muhasen in Mahmoudiyah, on March 12, 2006. On July 10, the U.S. Army charged four other active duty soldiers with the same crime. A sixth soldier, Sgt. Anthony Yribe, was charged with failing to report the attack, but not with having participated in the rape and the murders.
Green and four other soldiers, Sgt. Paul E. Cortéz, Spc. James P. Barker, Pfc. Jesse V. Spielman, and Pfc. Brian L. Howard, had planned raping Abeer Qassim Hamza. Pfc. Howard was ordered to monitor radio traffic while the others entered the Hamza family’s house. Green ordered the father, mother, and younger daughter to a bedroom and shot them, saying: “I just killed them; all are dead.” Green, and at least one other soldier, raped Abeer Qassim Hamza, after which Green shot her in the head two or three times. Five soldiers, including Green, were formally charged with raping the girl and murdering her parents and little sister. Cortéz, Barker, Spielman, and Howard accepted plea bargains.[3]
Reportedly, Fakhariya Taja Muhassain worried that her daughter, Abeer, had attracted the unwanted attention of U.S. soldiers at the checkpoint near their home. She asked her neighbor, Omar Janabi, if she could sleep in his daughter’s room at his house. Janabi agreed, but the Hamza family were murdered the next day.[4] Janabi, who said he discovered the Hamza family bodies, found the husband, the wife, and the younger, five-year-old daughter in one room, all shot dead. In another room of the Hamza house, Janabi found Abeer Qassim Hamza’s burned body.
I would send hm back to Iraq and let the local authorities handle the sentencing…
K9…You are the worst question asker I have seen.
See http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090508/ap_o…
In part:
Charges were brought in civilian court under a 2000 law allowing the government to charge former soldiers with alleged crimes committed overseas. Green was charged in June 2006, a month after being discharged from the Army with a personality disorder before the military investigated the murders and rape.
The trial started April 27. Jurors deliberated for more than 10 hours beginning Wednesday before finding Green guilty on all 16 counts.
His defense team had asked jurors to consider the “context” of war, saying soldiers in Green’s unit of the 101st Airborne Division lacked leadership. Defense attorneys also said the Army missed signs that Green was struggling after the loss of friends in combat and offered little help to him and other members of his unit.
The prosecution rested six days into the trial after presenting witnesses who said Green confessed to the crimes and who put him at the home of the teen, Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, heard him shoot her family and saw him rape and shoot the girl.
During opening statements, federal prosecutor Brian Skaret said Green talked frequently of wanting to kill Iraqis, but when pressed, would tell people he wasn’t serious.
Prosecutors told jurors that the plot against the family was hatched among Green and fellow soldiers who were playing cards and drinking whiskey at a checkpoint. Talk turned to having sex with Iraqi women, when one soldier mentioned the al-Janabi family, who lived nearby, Skaret said.
In closing arguments, Ford said the crime was planned and premeditated. “This was a crime that was committed in cold blood,” she said.
Three other soldiers are serving time in military prison for their roles in the attack, and testified against Green at his trial.