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The trial of seven British soldiers with the charge of an Iraqi hitting to death

A year :The Arab World : Tuesday 2 Shaban 1426 H - 6 September 2005 AD updated of 3 : 30 ص in the local time of Mecca

The Islam intellectual : yesterday the trial of seven British soldiers in front of a court-martial with the charge of hitting unarmed Iraqi young man started by the rifles ends to death .


And lawyer Martin Hsloub the prosecutor in front of the court said : the soldiers attacked a group of villagers near Basra in year 2003 where they injured Nazem Abdullah reaching the age 18 a year a fatal injury at the end of his head despite that he was not armed .


And Hlsoub confirmed in front of the special court-martial that held its session in a military barracks in Bshkoulchster town in east of England that the victims were not armed and did not represent a threat, adding at the beginning of the trial days to one of : that was not only a violence no justification for it directing to a number of the innocent Iraqi civilians, according to Reuters .


And the seven accused face and they are four soldiers in the service and three previous soldiers accusations with the killing and the violent behaviour not disciplined .


And the British Ministry of Defense says that it believes that this may be the first time since the Second World War in it British soldiers soldier with the charge of the killing are sued .


And said Hsloub is summarizing the issue : the soldiers were in a patrol near a village by south of Iraq in 11 may in year 2003 when they summoned for the chase of a car that escaped from a checkpoint, and he added that the soldiers entered the village in two military vehicles and enclosed a white small truck that Abdullah was taking it to the market with six other persons .


And he continued that they ordered the car passengers the descent from it and used the ends of rifles and helmets and the grips and the feet in hitting the unarmed civilians . And witnesses in the village said : the soldiers left the place after that and they laugh and applaud . And Abdullah transferred to the hospital early next day morning but he was dead affected by his wounds in the way .


And the prosecution said : monuments from the dead blood were found on after one of soldiers rifle .
And he acted the seven in front of the court for the clarification of their names and their ranks and the response on the charges directed against them .

 

 


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