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US soldier charged with rape of Iraqi
(AP)
Updated: 2006-07-04 09:25

In this photo provided by the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office, Steven
D. Green is shown in A booking mug shot at the Mecklenburg County jail in
Charlotte, N.C., Monday, July 3, 2006. [AP]
A former soldier discharged because of a "personality disorder" was
accused in federal court Monday of executing an Iraqi family so he and
other troops could rape and murder a young woman they had been eyeing at
a traffic checkpoint.

Steven D. Green, a skinny, 21-year-old former private, was led into court
wearing baggy shorts, flip-flops and a Johnny Cash T-shirt. He spoke only
to confirm his identity and stared as a federal magistrate ordered him
held without bond on murder and rape charges that carry a possible death
penalty.

Green became the first person identified in the latest case of alleged
killings of Iraqi civilians by US troops, horrific deaths discovered in a
burned house near Mahmoudiya in March that military officials initially
blamed on insurgents.

According to a 10-page federal affidavit, Green and three other soldiers
from the Fort Campbell, Ky.-based 101st Airborne Division had talked
about raping the young woman, whom they first saw while working at the
checkpoint. On the day of the attack, the document said, Green and other
soldiers drank alcohol and changed out of their uniforms to avoid
detection before going to the woman's house. Green covered his face with
a brown T-shirt.

Once there, the affidavit said, Green took three members of the family,
an adult male and female, and a girl estimated to be 5 years old, into a
bedroom, after which shots were heard from inside.

"Green came to the bedroom door and told everyone, 'I just killed them.
All are dead,'" the affidavit said.

The affidavit is based on interviews conducted by the FBI and military
investigators with three unidentified soldiers assigned to Green's
platoon. One of the soldiers said he witnessed another soldier and Green
rape the woman.

"After the rape, (the soldier) witnessed Green shoot the woman in the
head two to three times," the affidavit said.

Investigators also interviewed a fifth soldier, who was left behind to
mind the radio at the traffic checkpoint. That soldier said Green and
three others returned from the woman's house "with blood on their
clothes, which they burned. Immediately after this, they each told (the
soldier) that this is never to be discussed again."

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