“When American troops came to Iraq, we thought they came to protect Iraqi people, then we saw acts like this,” said Juwad Qadim Hussein, 40, a resident of Mahmudiya. soldiers to be subject to Iraqi law for crimes committed while off-duty, under a bilateral security pact that took effect in January. soldiers have been accused of killing Iraqi civilians has been seen as one reason why Iraqi officials bargained hard for U.S. The guilty verdict could go some way towards repairing the strained U.S.-Iraq relations that the crimes caused Public anger over cases in which U.S.

Green, from Midland, Texas, was described by prosecutors as predisposed to killing Iraqis. Green, 19 at the time of the crime, was described as the trigger-man in the group of five men, who donned black “ninja” outfits and raped Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi, 14, and shot dead her and her father, mother and 6-year-old sister. Only if he’s executed, will it mean American courts are just,” said relative Yusuf Mohammed Janabi. “So they decided this criminal was guilty, but we don’t expect he’ll be executed. The trial featured prosecution testimony by Green’s former comrades in which they detailed the assault, one of several incidents involving American soldiers that enraged Iraqis.

We are just waiting for the court to sentence him so he gets justice and the court can change the image of Americans,” said Karim Janabi, the girl’s uncle. Army later in 2006 for a “personality disorder.” “By all measures, this was a very criminal act. Thegovernment and education and health services sectors addedjobs. The report showed job losses across almost all sectors,although at a less steep pace than in the previous months. The unemployment rate had beenforecast to rise to 8.9 percent from 8.5 percent in March.