PFC James Burmeister Sentenced for Being AWOL


	PFC James Burmeister Sentenced for Being AWOL

dmegivern

7-18-2008 9:51 AM

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groups nationwide has been sentenced to six months in jail,
a loss of pay, a reduction of rank and a bad-conduct
discharge for being absent without leave. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/121634612055710.xml&coll=7"><P>Burmeister said he left the Army without permission because
he had become disturbed by a tactic known as "small
kill teams," in which soldiers would plant U.S.
government equipment in parts of Iraq in the hopes that
insurgents would come to claim it. Army snipers would then
have an opportunity to shoot the Iraqis before they could
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snipers couldn't know for sure whether the people they
shot were actually insurgents or presented any threat to
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