Tuesday, September 20, 2011

This is so kind: US occupation troops engage in mercy killing

"A U.S. Army sergeant accused of the mercy killing of an Iraqi teenager faces court martial at Fort Bliss.  On Monday, inside a Fort Bliss courtroom, the government presented its case against Staff Sgt. Andrew Sims, a nurse now assigned to Beaumont Army Medical Center. Like federal cases, no cameras were allowed in the military courtroom.   Sims is accused of giving a fatal dose of a lethal drug to an Iraqi teenager with third-degree burns to 70 percent of his body at the 10th Combat Support Hospital in 2006 in Iraq.  One witness, Sgt Candi Piper, a fellow nurse and Sims' former roommate, said she feared for her life because of, "All the euthanasia being performed in Iraq."" (thanks Manuel)