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To: LindyBill who wrote (116285)	5/26/2005 10:00:25 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) of 793789

Clip: May 26, 2005 Charges against Marine officer dismissed Associated Press CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. — A Marine Corps general dismissed all charges Thursday against a lieutenant accused of murdering two suspected insurgents in Iraq, the military announced. The decision by Maj. Gen. Richard Huck, commander of the 2nd Marine Division, ends the prosecution 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano, who was accused of premeditated murder for what prosecutors maintained was the unjustified killing of the two Iraqis in 2004, near Mahmudiyah. “The best interests of 2nd Lt. Pantano and the government have been served by this process,” the Marine Corps said in a statement. Prosecutors alleged Pantano intended to make an example of the two detainees by shooting them 60 times and hanging a sign over their bodies — “No better friend, no worse enemy,” a Marine slogan. Pantano contended he acted in self-defense. An investigating officer concluded in a report to Huck that murder charges should be dropped against Pantano, a former Wall Street trader who rejoined the Marines after the Sept. 11 attacks.

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