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WASHINGTON -- Air Force Lieut. Colonel Randy May is charged with 26 counts of negligent homicide for his role in the downing of two U.S. helicopters over northern Iraq last April. The charges are not his first "official" recognition from the military. More than three years ago, during the Gulf War, May downed an Iraqi Hind helicopter in the same area and received a Distinguished Flying Cross for his "professional competence, aerial skill and devotion to duty...
Four AWACS crew members who are being held partially responsible for the downing of two U.S. helicopters in Iraq indicated that they'll fight the charges. In statements released to The Daily Oklahoman, all denied criminal conduct in the tragedy that claimed the lives of 26 people. The Air Force has accused the AWACS crew members of failing to tell F-15 pilots who shot down the helicopters the aircraft was American. One of the jet pilots has been charged with negligent homicide...
...Saudi Arabia, who was meeting with the Council of Ulama, his nation's highest body of religious authorities. But Mubarak's effort was futile. On the following day, the council condemned the Cairo conference as a "ferocious assault on Islamic society" and forbade Muslims from attending. Sudan, Lebanon and Iraq then joined Saudi Arabia in announcing that they would send no delegates to Cairo...
...board of Air Force officers recommended that members of the AWACS radar plane involved in last April's shooting down of two U.S. Army helicopters over Iraq be court-martialed for dereliction of duty. A Defense Department study found that the AWACS crew failed to warn U.S. fighter pilots that the helicopters were American Black Hawks, not Iraqi aircraft. Twenty-six U.S. and foreign personnel were killed in the incident. An Air Force general must now decide whether the crew will stand trial...
...Force charged an F-15 pilot involved in shooting down two U.S. helicopters over Iraq last April with negligent homicide. Also charged, but with lesser crimes: five people who were aboard the AWACS radar plane that oversaw the action. The incident, one of the military's deadliest friendly fire tragedies, took the lives of 26 people. Lieut. Colonel Randy W. May could serve 26 years in prison if found guilty. No word yet about the fate of a second pilot, whom the Air Force hasn't identified...