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Interrogator Convicted, Gets No Jail, Just a Reprimand

By TChris, Section War In Iraq
Posted on Mon Jan 23, 2006 at 11:54:25 PM EST
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Bump and Update: (TL) Unbelievable. Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer, Jr. convicted of manslaughter for killing an Iraq military officer during an interrogation is sentenced to no jail and a reprimand. Soldiers in the courtroom cheered at the sentence. How disgusting, there simply is no other word for it.

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Original Post (Jan 22):

by TChris

In a series of posts (collected here), TalkLeft has followed the military's response to the death of Iraqi military officer Abed Hamed Mowhoush during an abusive interrogation. The trial is over and the verdict is in:

An Army interrogator committed negligent homicide when he put a sleeping bag over an Iraqi general's head and sat on his chest as the man suffocated, a military jury found. ...

After six hours of deliberations, the panel of six Army officers spared [Chief Warrant Officer Lewis] Welshofer [Jr.] on the more serious charge of murder - which carries a potential life sentence - instead convicting him late Saturday of negligent homicide and negligent dereliction of duty. He was acquitted of assault.

Welshofer is scheduled to be sentenced Monday. He faces a maximum of three years and three months in prison.

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