The Baghdad government vowed Wednesday to take legal action after an American marine was spared jail by a US m…

Turkish Press Saturday 4th February, 2012

BAGHDAD (AFP) The Baghdad government vowed Wednesday to take legal action after an American marine was spared jail by a US military court over the massacre of 24 unarmed civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha in 2005. The verdict, widely panned in Iraq as being too light, closed a case that fuelled anger and highlighted why authorities demanded Am...

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