WASHINGTON, June 21 (Xinhua) --
The U.S. Marine Corps charged seven Marines and one sailor on Wednesday with
murder in the death of an Iraqi civilian on April 26 this year.
The eight soldiers were also charged with kidnapping,
conspiracy and providing false statements, according to a statement issued by
the Marine Corps from Camp Pendleton, California.
The Marines and Navy corpsman, from the Camp
Pendleton-based 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, were accused of taking an
unarmed man out of his house and shooting him to death without provocation, in
the town of Hamdania west of Baghdad.
In another incident, 24 Iraqi civilians were
allegedly killed by U.S. troops on Nov. 19 last year, in the western Iraqi town
of Haditha. The incident was being investigated over allegations of wrongful
death and possible cover-ups by the U.S. military. Enditem
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