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Iraqi killed U.S. soldier bailed out by court

Other News Materials 25 May 2009 17:15 (UTC +04:00)

An Iraqi court on Monday released on bail an Iraqi old man accused of killing an American soldier and wounding five others, a provincial police source said, Xinhua reported.
  
An inquiry judge in Tikrit, the capital city of Salahudin province, released the 70-year-old Ahmad Dawood al-Allwo, who was accused of manslaughtering an American soldier and wounding five others about three months ago near the town of Duluiyah, some 90 km north of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
  
The judge released the Allwo on a bail of 30 million Iraqi Dinars (25,000 U.S. dollars) after finding the incident was not a terrorist act, the source said.
  
The source said that the incident took place on March 8 when Allwo opened fire on U.S. and Iraqi security forces during a raid on a house adjacent to Allwo's house to arrest a wanted individual according to an arrest warrant issued by an Iraqi court.
  
The judge did not consider the incident as premeditated murder against U.S. soldiers after he heard the testimonies of the wounded U.S. soldiers and the old man who said that he opened fire late at night when he heard voices outside his house in a rural area near Duluiyah.
  
On Oct. 28, 2008, an Iraqi criminal court sentenced an Iraqi suspected Qaida militant to death by hanging for the 2006 kidnapping, torturing and killing of three U.S. soldiers in south of Baghdad.
  
According to the al-Qaida organization, the killing of the three U.S. soldiers was revenge for the rape of a 14-year-old girl and the subsequent killing of the girl and her parents and sister, which had occurred a few days earlier.
  
The three soldiers were in the same unit as six soldiers who were charged with the rape and murders. Later on, one ex-soldier has been sentenced to life in prison after American jurors could not agree on a capital punishment for the brutal crime.

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