Re: OT: So much for the lying Commie Gasbag

No presedential run for this guy:


Updated: 11:31 PM EDT
Military Jury Sentences GI to Death
Sgt. Hasan Akhbar Killed Comrades While in Iraq
By ESTES THOMPSON, AP

AP
Sgt. Hasan Akbar addressed the court in such a quiet voice that prosecutors
could barely hear him.

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (April 28) - A military jury sentenced a soldier to death
Thursday for a grenade and rifle attack on his own comrades during the
opening days of the Iraq invasion, a barrage that killed two officers and
that prosecutors said was driven by religious extremism.

Sgt. Hasan Akbar, who gave a brief, barely audible apology hours earlier,
stood at attention between his lawyers as the verdict was delivered. He
showed no emotion.

He could have been sentenced to life in prison with or without parole for
the early morning March 2003 attack, which also wounded 14 fellow members of
the Army's 101st Airborne Division at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait.

The 15-person military jury, which last week took just two and a half hours
to convict Akbar of premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder,
deliberated for about seven hours in the sentencing phase. After jurors
reached a verdict, they voted on whether to reconsider the decision after
one juror asked that they do so.

The sentence will be reviewed by a commanding officer and automatically
appealed. If Akbar is executed, it would be by lethal injection.

"I want to apologize for the attack that occurred. I felt that my life was
in jeopardy, and I had no other options. I also want to ask you for
forgiveness," Akbar told the jury before it deliberated in the sentencing
phase.

Akbar, 34, spoke for less than a minute, delivering an unsworn statement
that could not be cross-examined. He spoke in such a low voice that even
prosecutors sitting nearby had trouble hearing, with one lawyer even cupping
his ear.

While the defense contends Akbar was too mentally ill to plan the attack,
they have never disputed that he threw grenades into troop tents in the
early morning darkness and then fired on soldiers in the ensuing chaos. Army
Capt. Chris Seifert, 27, and Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone, 40, were killed.

Prosecutors say Akbar launched the attack at his camp - days before the
soldiers were to move into Iraq - because he was concerned about U.S. troops
killing fellow Muslims in the Iraq war.

"He is a hate-filled, ideologically driven murderer," chief prosecutor Lt.
Col. Michael Mulligan said. He added that Akbar wrote in his diary in 1997,
"My life will not be complete unless America is destroyed."

Akbar is the first American since the Vietnam era to be prosecuted on
charges of murdering a fellow soldier during wartime.

"Hasan Akbar has robbed me of so many things," Tammie Eslinger, Maj. Gregory
Stone's fiancee, said after the sentencing. "He stole my love, my family, my
dreams and my future. But he could never steal my spirit."

Seifert's widow, Theresa, said she was satisfied with the military justice
system. She called Akbar "a nonentity to me."

Defense attorney Maj. David Coombs told jurors that a sentence of life
without parole would allow Akbar to be treated for mental illness and
possibly rehabilitated.

"Death is an absolute punishment, a punishment of last resort," Coombs said.

A defense psychiatrist testified that although Akbar was legally sane and
understood the consequences of his attack, he suffered from forms of
paranoia and schizophrenia.

Akbar's father, John Akbar, has said his son complained in vain to his
superiors about religious and racial harassment before the attack. The
defense never introduced any witnesses to testify about any such harassment.

John Akbar was not in the courtroom for the verdict. He emerged from a
meeting with his son in tears and declined to comment.

If given a death sentence, Hasan Akbar would join five others on the
military's death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. The last U.S. military
execution was in 1961.


04/28/05 23:06 EDT

Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick wrote:
> No presedential run for this guy:
>
>
> Updated: 11:31 PM EDT
> Military Jury Sentences GI to Death
> Sgt. Hasan Akhbar Killed Comrades While in Iraq
> By ESTES THOMPSON, AP
>
> AP
> Sgt. Hasan Akbar addressed the court in such a quiet voice that prosecutors
> could barely hear him.
>
> FORT BRAGG, N.C. (April 28) - A military jury sentenced a soldier to death
> Thursday for a grenade and rifle attack on his own comrades during the
> opening days of the Iraq invasion, a barrage that killed two officers and
> that prosecutors said was driven by religious extremism.
>
> Sgt. Hasan Akbar, who gave a brief, barely audible apology hours earlier,
> stood at attention between his lawyers as the verdict was delivered. He
> showed no emotion.
>
> He could have been sentenced to life in prison with or without parole for
> the early morning March 2003 attack, which also wounded 14 fellow members of
> the Army's 101st Airborne Division at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait.
>
> The 15-person military jury, which last week took just two and a half hours
> to convict Akbar of premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder,
> deliberated for about seven hours in the sentencing phase. After jurors
> reached a verdict, they voted on whether to reconsider the decision after
> one juror asked that they do so.
>
> The sentence will be reviewed by a commanding officer and automatically
> appealed. If Akbar is executed, it would be by lethal injection.
>
> "I want to apologize for the attack that occurred. I felt that my life was
> in jeopardy, and I had no other options. I also want to ask you for
> forgiveness," Akbar told the jury before it deliberated in the sentencing
> phase.
>
> Akbar, 34, spoke for less than a minute, delivering an unsworn statement
> that could not be cross-examined. He spoke in such a low voice that even
> prosecutors sitting nearby had trouble hearing, with one lawyer even cupping
> his ear.
>
> While the defense contends Akbar was too mentally ill to plan the attack,
> they have never disputed that he threw grenades into troop tents in the
> early morning darkness and then fired on soldiers in the ensuing chaos. Army
> Capt. Chris Seifert, 27, and Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone, 40, were killed.
>
> Prosecutors say Akbar launched the attack at his camp - days before the
> soldiers were to move into Iraq - because he was concerned about U.S. troops
> killing fellow Muslims in the Iraq war.
>
> "He is a hate-filled, ideologically driven murderer," chief prosecutor Lt.
> Col. Michael Mulligan said. He added that Akbar wrote in his diary in 1997,
> "My life will not be complete unless America is destroyed."
>
> Akbar is the first American since the Vietnam era to be prosecuted on
> charges of murdering a fellow soldier during wartime.
>
> "Hasan Akbar has robbed me of so many things," Tammie Eslinger, Maj. Gregory
> Stone's fiancee, said after the sentencing. "He stole my love, my family, my
> dreams and my future. But he could never steal my spirit."
>
> Seifert's widow, Theresa, said she was satisfied with the military justice
> system. She called Akbar "a nonentity to me."
>
> Defense attorney Maj. David Coombs told jurors that a sentence of life
> without parole would allow Akbar to be treated for mental illness and
> possibly rehabilitated.
>
> "Death is an absolute punishment, a punishment of last resort," Coombs said.
>
> A defense psychiatrist testified that although Akbar was legally sane and
> understood the consequences of his attack, he suffered from forms of
> paranoia and schizophrenia.
>
> Akbar's father, John Akbar, has said his son complained in vain to his
> superiors about religious and racial harassment before the attack. The
> defense never introduced any witnesses to testify about any such harassment.
>
> John Akbar was not in the courtroom for the verdict. He emerged from a
> meeting with his son in tears and declined to comment.
>
> If given a death sentence, Hasan Akbar would join five others on the
> military's death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. The last U.S. military
> execution was in 1961.
>
>
> 04/28/05 23:06 EDT
>
>
>
they should bury him with a pig.....except why insult and waste a
perfectly good pig?



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"Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick" <Buzcutt454@aol.com> wrote in message
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> No presedential run for this guy:

No purple owies, eh?

He should face a firing squad.

Scott wrote:
>
> "Douglas W. "Popeye" Frederick" <Buzcutt454@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:1173jvh4gkb402e@news.supernews.com...
>
> > No presedential run for this guy:
>
> No purple owies, eh?
>
> He should face a firing squad.

tie him to a stake,
and roll a grenade to his feet.

sort of like curling.