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...sentence marks the final legal chapter in one of the most notorious crimes committed by U.S. service members during the Iraq war. The case is a flash point in Iraq, where many locals quoted in news reports have said death would be the only acceptable sentence. To represent her country's point, the Iraqi Minister of Human Rights attended the first day of the trial. Darren Wolff, a Louisville, Ky., lawyer in private practice who helped defend Green, said international opinions should not be relevant to the pursuit of justice. In a written statement after the sentence became known, Wolff...
...Donning long black underwear disguises they called "ninja suits," they slipped away unnoticed from their post and ventured to a house several hundred meters away, where they jumped the family living there. Three of the four soldiers, including Green, raped Abeer, and Green shot all four family members at point-blank range. The soldiers returned to their checkpoint undetected, and for months afterward, the U.S. Army and most of the locals attributed the massacre to the frequent Iraqi-on-Iraqi violence that engulfed the region at the time...
...grew up in Chicago on the South Side, and literally a 10-minute drive away was the University of Chicago in all of its grandeur. And I never knew anything about that institution that was a few minutes away from me, and that was so telling, even to the point that my mother worked there. She worked there for four years as a secretary to the legal office. But I never set foot on campus. We came through, we picked her up, we left. It was sort of like another world that didn't belong to me. I didn...
...girls want to know if he's destroyed anything yet [Laughter.] eaten a shoe or ... Oh, no, no. He's been ... although he's getting to the point where he can be naughty, like he can ... like you walk in the room and it's like, "Where'd you get that sock?" But he sort of knows that he's not supposed to have it, so he doesn't completely destroy it. He just kind of puts it down and walks away ... [Laughter.] "You caught...
...have lots of doors, so we're really good about closing the doors so that there's like a limited area that he can get to. We're pretty much ... if he gets something, it's your fault. So we just ... I just make it a point to close my closets...