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Great news for Lt. Col. Allen B. West in assault case
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An Army hearing officer has recommended administrative punishment — but not a criminal court-martial — for Lt. Col. Allen B. West, who is charged with assault for firing a gun to scare a confession from an Iraqi detainee. "It’s extremely good news," said Neal Puckett, Col. West’s attorney, who defended him at a pretrial hearing last month in one of Saddam Hussein’s Tikrit palaces. "This is what we think the Army should have done from the very beginning."
Article 15... That's what I think the Army should have done, too, assuming it did anything at all. I suppose it had to do something to mollify the asshats, but I've seen more than one occasion where Article 15 proceedings by a smart commander saved a good guy from having to put on his best uniform...

Posted by: Dragon Fly 2003-12-10
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=22485