Islam And The West

Updated: Islaam TV has an exclusive CNN investigation into this crime and can be accessed by clicking : When U.S. Soldiers Murdered In Iraq . This story was originally published here on Mar.30, 2009.

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Sgt. First Class Joseph P. Mayo has pleaded guilty to the murder of four detained Iraqi prisoners in 2007. Sgt. Mayo told the Court Marshall that he believed the killings in the best interest of his soldiers but then pleaded guilty to premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

Back in February 2009 Sgt Michael Leahy was found guilty for his part in the same murders:

“A U.S. Army sergeant pleaded guilty to murder Monday in the deaths of four Iraqi prisoners in 2007, telling a military court that the slayings were “in the best interest of my soldiers.”

Sgt. First Class Joseph P. Mayo, 27, was sentenced to 35 years in prison and became the fourth soldier convicted in the killing of four Iraqi men in Baghdad in the spring of 2007. The prisoners were each shot in back of the head while handcuffed and blindfolded, then dumped into a canal, according to testimony at the U.S. Army’s Rose Barracks Courthouse in Vilseck, Germany.

The Iraqis had been arrested on suspicion of attacking U.S. military patrols in Baghdad after they were found in possession of rifles and ammunition. Frustrated by a lack of evidence to keep them in detention, however, members of Mayo’s infantry unit took the prisoners to a remote area and executed them, according to testimony and evidence presented in the case.

“I really believed I was protecting my soldiers,” Mayo told the court Monday. “I take full responsibility for my actions. Now I have to pay for my mistake.” He pleaded guilty to premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit murder. “

(Source: Washington Post)

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The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia based at the Hague has found two Bosnian-Serb cousins guilty of murder, extermination, cruel treatment, and inhumane acts, as crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Milan Lukic and his cousin Sredoje Lukic were found guilty in relation to the deaths of Muslims during the Bosnian war of the 1990’s:

“Milan Lukic, 41, who prosecutors said led a Serb paramilitary group during the 1992-1995 war known as the “White Eagles” or “Avengers”, was sentenced to life in prison for the burning and killing of at least 119 Bosnians in two separate incidents in June 1992.

Sredoje Lukic, 48, who prosecutors said was also a member of the unit, was given 30 years imprisonment….

Both men had pleaded not guilty to all charges and said they were not present in the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad at the time of the crimes….

…The brutality of crimes in Visegrad, a small town on the banks of the River Drina, stand out even amid the atrocities that punctuated the 1992-95 Bosnian war….

..’What the two accused destroyed in June of 1992 is far beyond their capacity to repay,’ prosecutor Dermot Groome told judges as the trial ended in May…..

….The brutality of crimes in Visegrad, a small town on the banks of the River Drina, stand out even amid the atrocities that punctuated the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

Groome told judges at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal that in one massacre in June 1992, the cousins barricaded nearly 70 Muslims – elderly men, women and children ranging in age from 75 years to just two days – into a house and set fire to it.

As flames tore through the crowded rooms and the victims inside screamed in agony, the Lukic cousins stood outside shooting anybody who tried to escape, he said.

In another attack described during the trial, Milan Lukic and other paramilitaries allegedy lined up seven Muslim men beside the Drina and shot them in the back with semi-automatic gunfire.

Two of the men survived by falling into the river and playing dead.” {Source: Daily Mail}

For a summary of the court’s judgement in PDF format click : Milan Lukić and Sredoje Lukić Convicted of War Crimes in Višegrad.

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I’ve just posted onto islaamtv.com a British documentary from Channel 4 entitled Afghanistan’s Dirty War.

The hour long programme centres around an American assault on the western Afghan village of Azizabad. According to the documentary no terrorists were killed during the raid but 90 odd civilians died on the night of 22 August 2008.

As the title suggests if you want to understand how America conducts itself in Afghanistan then this video is a must see for you.

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“The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff, which was born and developed after the war.” ~ General Matityahu Peled

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Convicted war criminal Steven Green has decided to say sorry for the crimes he committed in Iraq. It should be noted that Green a former Private First Class in the United States Army took part in the gang rape of 14 year old Iraqi Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi near the Iraqi city of Mahmudiyah.

Steven Green Raped Abeer Qassim Hamza Al-Janabi And Killed Her Family

At the time Green and shot dead Abeer’s  father,mother and  Hadeel her six year old sister. After which he then proceeded to rape Abeer and finally shoot her dead too.

Since escaping the death penalty for his crimes Green has suddenly regained his ability to speak. At a victim impact hearing held after the guilty verdict, Green said he was truly sorry for his actions:

“…Steven Green, who escaped the death penalty this month, told relatives of the victims that he is “truly sorry for what I did in Iraq.”

“I helped to destroy a family and end the lives of four of my fellow human beings, and I wish that I could take it back, but I cannot,” Green said, reading a statement at a victim impact hearing. “And, as inadequate as this apology is, it is all I can give you.”

The family refused to accept the apology.

Green was found guilty in U.S. District Court in Kentucky of raping a 14-year-old girl and murdering her, her parents and her 6-year-old sister in the town of Yusufiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, in 2006.

A jury could not reach a unanimous decision on the death penalty, which means the judge is required under law to impose a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Green will be sentenced September 4, but the victim impact hearing was held Thursday so surviving members of the al-Janabi family could testify before they return to Iraq.

They decried Green’s sentence and testified about how the heinous crime had shattered their lives and how it will haunt them always.

Green said that he knows “you wish I was dead, and I do not hold that against you. If I was in your place, I am convinced beyond any doubt that I would feel the same way.”

He added, “I know that I have done evil, and I fear that the wrath of the Lord will come upon me on that day. But, I hope that you and your family at least can find some comfort in God’s justice.” {Source: CNN News}

Reading about such crimes makes me feel physically want to vomit. I don’t think saying sorry will make it all better do you ?

I wonder if the shoe was on the other foot would the sentence have been the same ? Suppose a  Muslim had been found guilty of raping and murdering a non-Muslim Kentucky family. Would the Muslim have also escaped the death penalty ?

For more on the rape and murder of Abeer Qassim Hamza Al-Janabi and her family see Youtube Video: Steven Green Rapes And Murders Abeer Qassim Hamza .

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