U.S. Marine convicted in Iraqi grandfather's death

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

U.S. Marine convicted in Iraqi grandfather's death
Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:07PM EDT

SAN DIEGO, July 18 (Reuters) - A military jury found a U.S.
Marine guilty on Wednesday for conspiring to kidnap and
kill an Iraqi grandfather nabbed from his home and shot dead
in the middle of the night last year.

Cpl. Trent Thomas, a Purple Heart recipient who was serving
his third tour of duty in Iraq, was convicted of kidnapping
and conspiracy to murder, commit larceny, break into a house
and make false official statements. A nine-member jury of
officers and enlisted Marines acquitted Thomas of other
charges that he committed murder, larceny and other acts.

Thomas is one of eight members of an infantry battalion
charged in the April 26, 2006, death of Hashim Ibrahim Awad,
a disabled Iraqi policeman and grandfather in Hamdania.

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1. Winning hearts and minds

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2. And people keep assuring me there are no "conspiracies."