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Iraqi Court Convicts Man for Killing U.S. Soldiers

Oct. 28, 2008
BAGHDAD, Oct. 28 -- In the first case of its kind, an Iraqi judge on Monday convicted an Iraqi man of abducting, torturing and killing two American soldiers in the summer of 2006.
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