An American soldier was sentenced on Friday to a year in jail for
the murder of a severely wounded Iraqi teenager in a Baghdad slum
district during a Shi'ite uprising last year, the U.S. military said.
"Staff Sergeant Cardenas Alban was convicted on one count of murder and
one count of conspiracy to murder at a court martial at the 1st Cavalry
Division courthouse at Camp Liberty today," a military spokesman said.
Besides his jail term, Alban was sentenced to a reduction in rank to
private and a bad-conduct discharge. Alban is the second American
soldier to be sentenced over the incident. Staff Sergeant Johnny Horne
was sentenced last month to three years in jail, reduction in rank and
dishonorable discharge from the military after pleading guilty to
charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Another U.S.
military officer, 2nd Lt. Erick Anderson, has also been charged with
premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit premeditated murder. The
cases stem from an incident on Aug. 18 when Alban, Horne and Anderson
were part of a U.S. Army patrol in the Shi'ite Muslim Sadr City
district during a period of intense clashes with fighters loyal to
Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. [more]
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