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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-04 04:15 AM
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U.S. Troop Handed to S. Korea Under Deal
Posted on Mon, Jan. 05, 2004

U.S. Troop Handed to S. Korea Under Deal
SOO-JEONG LEE
Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea - An American soldier accused of fleeing a fatal traffic accident was in the custody of local authorities in the first case under a new deal that gives South Korea greater authority over U.S. troops accused of committing crimes here, officials said Monday.

Sgt. Jerry S. Onken, 33 of Onamia, Minn., is accused of leaving the scene of a collision near the capital Seoul that killed a 22-year-old Korean woman in November. He had been held in U.S. custody but was sent to a South Korean detention center in Seoul last week, U.S. Eighth Army spokesman Lt. Col. Steven Boylan said.

Onken, who was off-duty at the time of the accident, is the first U.S. soldier to be handed over to South Korean authorities for custody before trial. Surrendering troops to South Korean courts for pretrial jailing was part of a 2001 revision of the Status of Forces Agreement, Boylan said.

Under the new agreement, which covers the 37,000 U.S. soldiers stationed in South Korea, Seoul kept primary jurisdiction over U.S. soldiers accused of certain crimes committed when off duty. But South Korea was also granted permission to take U.S. troops into pretrial custody before indictment for 12 serious offenses, including murder, arson, rape, and fleeing a deadly traffic accident.
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http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/7635779.htm

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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-04 04:18 AM
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1. Ok lets see this was done under a Republican
administratin

The same ones who scraem when this is done by any democrats

just checking...

For those of you feeling mischivieus, go and post this at freeper ville and other places like this and stand back...
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JailForBush Donating Member (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-05-04 04:20 AM
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2. Rape?
You mean American troops rape people?
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