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Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.
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April 24, 2005

Almost Time For His Dirt Nap

You may remember this post, A Dirt Nap Is Just What The Doctor Ordered. If you don't take a second to follow the link and read it then come back here.

OK, remember that scum bag? His attempt to escape was thwarted and now it appears his dirt nap may be just around the corner:

Soldier guilty of premeditated murder in deadly Kuwait grenade attack

Thursday, April 21, 2005 Posted: 11:53 PM EDT (0353 GMT)

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Akbar, upper left, is led out of the Staff Judge Advocate Building at Fort Bragg after his conviction Thursday.

FORT BRAGG, North Carolina (AP) -- An Army sergeant was convicted Thursday by a military jury of premeditated murder and attempted murder in a grenade and rifle attack that killed two of his comrades and wounded 14 others in Kuwait during the opening days of the Iraq war.

Hasan Akbar, 34, now faces a possible death penalty, which the 15-member jury will consider at a hearing that begins Monday.

Prosecutors say Akbar told investigators he launched the attack because he was concerned U.S. troops would kill fellow Muslims in Iraq. They said he coolly carried out the attack to achieve "maximum carnage" on his comrades in the 101st Airborne Division.

The verdict came after 2 1/2 hours of deliberations following seven days of testimony in a court-martial -- the first time since the Vietnam era that an American has been prosecuted on charges of murdering a fellow soldier during wartime.

Akbar stood at attention as the verdict was read by the colonel who headed the jury panel. The defendant chewed his lip but gave no other outward sign of emotion. Defense attorneys acknowledged that Akbar carried out the attack but argued he was too mentally ill to have premeditated it and was fueled by emotion.

Killed in the middle-of-the-night attack were Army Capt. Christopher Seifert, 27, who was shot in the back, and Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone, 40, who suffered 83 shrapnel wounds. The 101st was preparing to move into Iraq in support of the U.S. invasion when the attack occurred in March 2003.

"Sgt. Akbar executed that attack with a cool mind," prosecutor Capt. Robert McGovern said during closing arguments, cocking Akbar's unloaded M-4 rifle and pulling the trigger twice for emphasis. "He sought maximum carnage."

The prosecutor said Akbar planned carefully and stole grenades that would achieve maximum destruction in the brigade command section of Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait.

Defense attorney Maj. Dan Brookhart countered that Akbar was concerned the invasion of Iraq would result in the deaths of Muslims and that U.S. soldiers would rape Iraqi women.

He said the prosecution's depiction of Akbar as a cold-blooded killer ignored that the defendant was sufficiently mentally ill -- though not insane -- to be confused and fearful about the impending invasion of Iraq.

The defense lawyer scoffed at an Army psychiatrist's testimony that Akbar suffered merely from "the blues" -- not any serious mental problems.

"It doesn't make any sense. This guy doesn't have the blues," he said. "He is mentally ill."

Brookhart said Akbar's actions after the initial attack showed he wasn't intent on achieving maximum destruction. He said Akbar stopped his attack with a nearly full clip still in his M-4 rifle and three more grenades. He also noted the defendant didn't try to flee during the chaos following the attack.

Akbar, who turned 34 Thursday, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted first-degree murder. Jurors -- nine officers and six non-commissioned officers -- had the ability to consider lesser charges, but chose not to.

During Thursday's arguments, relatives of the victims cried when prosecutors showed pictures of the bodies on a large TV screen. When a prosecutor pointed at Akbar, nearly yelling that he was responsible, Akbar sipped from a coffee mug.

If sentenced to death, Akbar would become the sixth soldier on military death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He also could be sentenced to a life sentence.

The case was moved from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, home of the 101st, to Fort Bragg because the division still was in Iraq and Bragg is home of the 101st's higher command.

I sincerely hope he does become the 6th member of death row. He wasn't insane, he was a highly trained killing machine that lost track of his loyalties and attempted to set false values ahead of reason. Any sane member of the military knows that the "rape" of Iraqi women simply isn't on our global to do list.

It's just too bad that the families of the victims can't be part of a firing squad.

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Posted by SlagleRock at April 24, 2005 08:47 AM
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I can only hope that he gets the death sentence with the stipulation that it be death by hanging, no firing squad, no needle. The take his body out and bury it with a dead pig on top of him in an unmarked grave.

Posted by: Jack at April 22, 2005 03:06 PM

The problem is, sentencing him to death just means that when he dies, he gets his 72 goats. THAT'S why the fuckstick is so arrogantly calm. He's got his spiritual tongue so far up the rectum of Allah (piss be upon him) that he's convinced he's going to go to Paradise when he is killed by the "infidel".

I can only hope that he finds his musguided beliefs are horribly wrong, and Hell's Gates are waiting for him... That would be far worse torture than giving him a lethal injection.

--TwoDragons

Posted by: Denita TwoDragons at April 26, 2005 01:30 PM
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