Wednesday, October 19, 2005

SPAIN: MADRID COURT ORDERS ARREST OF US MILITARY FOR IRAQ HOTEL DEATHS

"Madrid, 19 Oct. (AKI) - The Madrid chief prosecuto'rs office has issued arrest warrants for three American soldiers, accused of the murder of Jose Couso, a Spanish television cameraman, in Iraq. Couso was killed, along with Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk, as they were filming from the balcony of their 15th-storey room in the Hotel Palestine. Their room in the hotel, where many journalists were staying, was hit by a shell from a US armoured vehicle in April 2003. A Pentagon probe later concluded that the US-led forces bore "no fault or negligence" when they fired at the building.

After an inquiry lasting more than a year, Santiago Pedraz, a Spanish High Court judge, has concluded that the three US soldiers; Lieutenant Colonel Philip de Camp, Sergeant Thomas Gibson and Lieutenant Philip Wolford, were responsible for the deaths of the two cameramen. Washington in June rejected a request to question the three men."
AKI
I wonder if they have indicted at terrorist while they were at it. Somehow there are all these rule out there that only tend to apply to us. Or how about castro and every member of his regime? When can we expect to see an indictment and arrest.

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