US officer guilty of Iraqi death

[Eugene]

(BBC News)

Last Updated: Sunday, 22 January 2006, 06:48 GMT

US officer guilty of Iraqi death

A US officer has been found guilty of the negligent homicide of an Iraqi general who was being held
in custody.

But a jury of six army officers found Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr not guilty of
the murder of Maj-Gen Abed Hamed Mowhoush in 2003.

The officer now faces up to three years in jail for homicide. He was also convicted of dereliction
of duty.

Prosecutors say Gen Mowhoush was bound, placed headfirst in a sleeping bag and died with an officer
sitting on him.

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