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Steven Green Trial: A Bargain to Let War Criminals Go?

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 05.25.2011

Gail McGowan Mellor

As the jury deliberates on the hate-crime slaughter by U.S. soldiers of the al-Janabi family in Iraq in federal court in Paducah, Kentucky, the spotlight is on defendant ex-U.S. Army Private Steven Green.

The Death of Abeer in Iraq: What We Know Now

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 05.25.2011

Gail McGowan Mellor

In 2006, Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Jabani, only 14, faced three U.S. soldiers alone, soldiers who were intent on raping her, with a fourth nearby.