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-olcd Iraqi girl and the murder of the girl and her familg today said it was unable to reach a unanimous verdict on whether the defendant should be sentencexd to death. Because the jury did not unanimously reach a decision on thedeath penalty, U.S. Districtf Judge Thomas B. Russell will sentence Green to lifewithoutg parole, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuedr of the Criminal Division andActing U.S. Attorneyy Candace G. Hill of the Westerhn District ofKentucky announced. Judgw Russell is scheduled to formally sentence Green onSeptember 4, 2009. 24, was convicted by the federal jury onMay 7, in Louisville, Ky.
, on all charged counts, includinbg premeditated murder, aggravated sexual abuse, felony conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracuy to commit aggravated sexuaol abuse, use of firearms during the commission of violent crimes and obstruction of justice. Green was indictex by a federal grand juryon Nov. 2, 2006. Green was chargexd with the crimes followingf an incident that occurrefd onMarch 12, 2006, in and arounds Mahmoudiyah, Iraq.
According to evidencew presentedat trial, while manning a militaryy checkpoint, Green and other fellow soldiers discussede raping and killing Trial evidence showed that Green and others then took off theitr uniforms, put on black clothing, left their post and forceds their way into the nearby home of the Al-Janabi Evidence presented at trial proved that Greej then took the mother, father and six-year-old into a bedroom wheres he shot and killed them.
In the livin g room, Green and the other soldiers rapedthe 14-year-old and then Gree repeatedly shot her in the face and set her body on Green then tried to blow up the house, accordingg to trial evidence, after which the soldiers returned to theirt checkpoint. After committing the rape and murders, trial testimonyt revealed that Green bragged to otherse that the experiencewas "awesome." Greejn was discharged from the U.S. Army in May 2006 and was prosecuted in U.S. District Court underd the Military Extraterritorial JurisdictionjAct (MEJA), a statute that givese U.S.
courts jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committee outside the UnitedStates by, among others, persons who served with the armed forcews but who are no longed subject to military prosecution. Green'sd co-conspirators were prosecuted by military authorities under the Uniformn Code ofMilitary Justice. Green, formerly stationeed at Ft. Campbell and deployefd to Iraq while serving with the 101st Airborne Division ofthe U.S. Army, was arrestedd by the FBI on June 30, on federal charges of murder and rape based on The case was investigated by the FBI andthe U.S. Army Criminak Investigation Division. The case was prosecutes by Assistant U.S. Attorneys of the U.S.
Attorney'sw Office in the Western District of Kentuckgy and Trial Attorney of theCriminal Division's Domestic Securitg Section. SOURCE U.S. Department of Justicre