http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne … ldier.htmlA U.S. soldier confessed to military investigators that he shot a bound and blindfolded Iraqi prisoner point-blank in the back of the head, according to a video played at his murder trial today.
Sgt Michael Leahy, 28, told the Germany-based investigators that after shooting the first prisoner, he turned his 9mm pistol on another captive.
‘The detainee I shot fell back on me,’ he said in the videotape of the January 2008 interrogation played at his trial in the Army's Rose Barracks' courtroom.
‘I turned to the right and saw the other detainee flinch, and turn his head after he heard the shot. My weapon was pointed toward him, my weapon was anywhere from a foot to a couple of inches away. I hit him in the side of the head, the face, anywhere from the ear forward.’
But the shot didn't kill the second man, so Master Sgt John Hatley, 40, finished him off with a shot to the chest, Leahy said.
‘I'm ashamed of what I've done,’ he said in the video, occasionally wiping tears from his eyes and holding his face in his hands. ‘I don't consider myself a murderer. I made a huge mistake. I'll accept the consequences.’
Leahy has pleaded not guilty to charges of premeditated murder, conspiracy to commit premeditated murder and obstruction of justice in the deaths of a total of four Iraqi prisoners, who were dumped in a Baghdad canal in 2007 after they were killed.
Leahy is also being tried for the alleged murder of another Iraqi who was shot while in his care as a medic in January of 2007.
What a coward pig, and now apologising trying to look like a victim and not pleading guilty??? sorry my arse, a proper twat who should die in the same way.
im sure there are more of these scum in Iraq committing crimes, The U.S does send out criminals into Iraq to serve but are to dumb to understand that its a criminals paradise.
thoughts, views!!!!!
Last edited by rammunition (2009-02-21 13:19:10)
