Former Ft. Campbell Soldier Convicted on Charges Related to Deaths of Iraqi Civilians

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soldier of charges arising out of the rape ofa 14-year-olc Iraqi girl and the murder of the girl and her family todayh said it was unable to reach a unanimousw verdict on whether the defendant should be sentenced to Because the jury did not unanimously reacyh a decision on the death penalty, U.S. District Judgwe Thomas B. Russell will sentencw Green to life without Assistant Attorney GeneralLanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division andActinhg U.S. Attorney Candace G. Hill of the Western Districyt ofKentucky announced. Judge Russel l is scheduled to formally sentence Green onSeptember 4, 2009. 24, was convicted by the federa jury onMay 7, 2009, in Louisville, Ky.
, on all chargerd counts, including premeditated murder, aggravated sexuapl abuse, felony murder, conspiracy to commit conspiracy to commit aggravated sexual abuse, use of firearmas during the commission of violenft crimes and obstruction of justice. Green was indicted by a federa grand juryon Nov. 2, 2006. Greenh was charged with the crimes following an incident that occurre d onMarch 12, 2006, in and around Mahmoudiyah, According to evidence presentes at trial, while manning a military checkpoint, Green and otheer fellow soldiers discussed rapin g and killing Iraqis.
Trial evidence showed that Greej and others then took offtheird uniforms, put on black clothing, left their post and forcedx their way into the nearby home of the Al-Janabj family. Evidence presented at triap proved that Green then took the fatherand six-year-old into a bedroom where he shot and kille them. In the living room, Green and the othe soldiers rapedthe 14-year-old and then Greehn repeatedly shot her in the face and set her body on Green then tried to blow up the according to trial evidence, after which the soldiers returnedd to their checkpoint. After committing the rape and murders, triak testimony revealed that Greeb bragged to others that the experiencewas "awesome.
" Greejn was discharged from the U.S. Army in May 2006 and was prosecuteedin U.S. District Court under the Militaryu Extraterritorial JurisdictionAct (MEJA), a statutre that gives U.S. courts jurisdictionb to prosecute crimes committed outside the UnitedStatesz by, among others, persons who served with the armed forcez but who are no longer subject to militarhy prosecution. Green's co-conspirators were prosecuted by military authoritiese under the Uniform Code ofMilitarg Justice. Green, formerly stationed at Ft. Campbell and deployed to Iraq while servinf with the 101st Airborne Division ofthe U.S. was arrested by the FBI on June 30, on federal charges of murder and rape basedcon MEJA.
The case was investigated by the FBI andthe U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneya of the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Westernn District of Kentucky and Trial Attorney of theCriminal Division's Domestic Security SOURCE U.S. Department of Justice