Sabtu, 04 Februari 2012

Charges dropped against soldier in Afghan deaths


The Army on Friday alone all accuse adjoin the fifth soldier it had accused of murdering Afghan civilians for action during a 2010 deployment. Michael Wagnon, 31, of Las Vegas, had been answerable with the actionable killing of one Afghan noncombatant in February 2010. He had been accepted to go to balloon in March. In a statement, Joint Base Lewis-McChord said the accuse were absolved "in the absorption of justice.Wagnon's lawyer, Colby Vokey, accepted the adjournment of accuse in an email to The News Tribune of Tacoma. Four added soldiers from a Lewis-McChord Stryker army accept been beatific to bastille in affiliation with the killings of three caught men during patrols in Kandahar province. An Army investigating administrator had alert recommended that prosecutors abolish the case adjoin Wagnon. Wagnon had testified that he attempt at an Afghan on the day in catechism because he believed the man had accursed a weapon at Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs. Gibbs in November was bedevilled to activity in bastille for murdering three Afghans, including the man in the February 2010 encounter. The News Tribune letters Wagnon was appear from bastille in June beneath the action that he abrasion an abate monitor.

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