Posted on 12/17/2011 11:59:41 AM PST by ColdOne
BAGHDAD – A Lebanese Hezbollah commander allegedly responsible for killing four U.S. soldiers in Iraq will be prosecuted for a lesser charge of illegal entry with a forged passport, Iraqi officials said Saturday.
Ali Musa Daqduq was the last American prisoner in Iraq and was handed over to Iraqi authorities on Friday.
On Saturday, two Iraqi officials said Daqduq will be prosecuted for illegal entry with a forged passport -- the only Iraqi charge against him. The charge generally carries a sentence of just over five years in prison. But the officials say an investigative judge will consider U.S. allegations against him. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Daqduq has been linked to a brazen raid in which four American soldiers were abducted and killed in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala in 2007.
U.S. officials have long feared that the Iraqis would release Daqduq once he had been transferred from American control and U.S. troops left the country. But his case was complicated by issues of international diplomacy and the American political debate over how best to prosecute suspected terrorists.
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Another Obama foreign policy success.
This POS Daqduk should have had an “unfortunate accident” while he was being moved ...
All that money we spent and all those american lives to save these people from slavery to a dictator bringing democracy, and all we get is making this monster an illegal alien to Iraq..
Then people hate us.. Just goes to show you no good deed goes unpunished..
Maybe Ron Paul is RIGHT.. CORRECT.. ACCURATE...
Spending our treasure and very lives on these people may be a serious mistake..
Saddam just may have KILLED all the decent people in Iraq..
Maybe the problem was not with Saddam Hussein but with OUR OWN POLITICS.....
We HAD and still HAVE all the oil and natural gas we need..
Our oil sands and shale can last us for a hundred years..
Sand monkeys are indeed animals.. broken and flawed cultures..
Even with invented phrases like “Palistinians” their culture is not redeemable..
Ron Paul; just cuts thru the “Crap”... our world policing sucks..
Barky’s gift to the terrorists.
A Lebanese Hezbollah commander allegedly responsible for killing four U.S. soldiers in Iraq will be prosecuted for a lesser charge of illegal entry with a forged passport...
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No shoe-throwing episode? How disappointing!
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