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...CHARGED. Chief Warrant Officers JEFFERSON WILLIAMS and LEWIS WELSHOFER JR., Sergeant First Class WILLIAM SOMMER and Specialist JERRY LOPER; with "murder and dereliction of duty," according to a U.S. Army spokesperson, in the death of Iraqi Major General Abed Hamed Mowhoush; in Fort Carson, Colorado. Military prosecutors claim the four soldiers suffocated Mowhoush during an interrogation in Qaim, Iraq, in November 2003, when they allegedly trapped him inside a zipped sleeping bag, rolled him around and sat on his chest. The soldiers face a possible life sentence...
...perhaps numbed after so many months of conflict--looked out at the commotion. "Get inside! Get inside!," soldiers screamed desperately. Children endlessly scampered across streets, forcing the troops to shoot above their heads. One old man carrying a mop sauntered between the lines. "These people are crazy," said a sergeant...
...ambush, the Marines are making their move. Peeling off the main road, the vehicles roar through dirt and trash toward Market Street, kicking up a thick liquid that sprays troops in the trucks. "Please tell me that wasn't sewage," says one, though the smell leaves no doubt. Gunnery Sergeant Michael Miller's Humvee turns south and stops near the casualties - one hit in the arm, the other in the leg - who are loaded into an ambulance as squad mates aim rifles down the alley from which they took fire...
...SURRENDERED. CHARLES JENKINS, 64, U.S. Army sergeant who allegedly deserted to North Korea, to American military authorities; at Camp Zama, outside Tokyo. Jenkins, who disappeared while on patrol near the Demilitarized Zone in Korea in 1965, was at the center of a sensational diplomatic tussle to reunite him with his Japanese wife, a former captive of the North, earlier this year. If convicted he faces life in prison but is expected to strike a deal for a lighter sentence...
...call through to the man, Detective William Sample, who was scheduled to be promoted. Bush thanked him for his courage, congratulated him on his new rank and was delighted when the fellow said matter-of-factly, "I'll be down at my desk tomorrow a proud sergeant...