U.S. indicts CIA contractor in Afghanistan prison death
The four-count indictment says the contractor, David Passaro, 38, beat an Afghan prisoner identified as Abdul Wali, who had surrendered voluntarily at the front gate of a U.S. detention facility near Asadabad in the northeastern Kunar Province on June 18, 2003....
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A military policeman has been sentenced to three months in prison after pleading guilty to assault and two counts of making a false statement in the 2002 beating death of a prisoner in Afghanistan.
In a plea bargain, Army prosecutors agreed not to pursue a charge of maltreatment against Spc. Brian E. Cammack. Cammack also agreed to testify in other cases related to the deaths of two inmates at the Bagram Control Point....
signonsandiego.com
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Two days before dying during an Army interrogation, Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Mowhoush was slapped, punched and beaten with a hose by CIA and special-forces soldiers, court transcripts show.
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US continues Fallujah bombing runs
US planes have bombed several targets in the Sunni Muslim city of Fallujah for the second day, killing four Iraqis, including two children...
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Texas dragging death trial nears end
September 19, 1999
BRYAN, Texas (CNN) -- Closing arguments begin Monday in the capital murder trial of Lawrence Russell Brewer, who prosecutors say was one of three white men who chained a black man to the back of a pickup truck last year before dragging him to his death....
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The 1995 Oklahoma bombing killed 168 people, including 19 children, and injured more than 500 others, making it the most deadly peacetime attack on US soil.
Timothy McVeigh, a 33-year-old Gulf War veteran, was convicted of carrying out the bombing and sentenced to death by lethal injection....
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The former soldier and survivalist accused of killing two people and injuring at least 100 more in bomb blasts had a checkered past: according to one former member of his extended family, Rudolph espoused anti-Semitic and racist views as a teenager...
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