JAG CENTRAL

SGT Hasan Akbar (News 14 Carolina)

From the AP (via News 14 Carolina), word that the military judge has ordered that SGT Hasan Akbar's diary be admitted:

A sergeant on trial for a grenade attack at an Army camp in the Kuwait desert days before the Iraq invasion wrote in his diary before he was deployed about killing fellow soldiers.

An FBI agent read four passages from Sergeant Hasan Akbar's computer diary Thursday.

Akbar wrote about making the choice to kill Iraqis, whom he called his Muslim brothers, or "my battle buddies."

He said in one passage that if the Army left him at Fort Campbell and didn't try to humiliate him, he wouldn't do anything.

But the passage ended by saying that if he was sent to Iraq, he would "try to kill as many of them as possible."

Akbar is charged with two counts of first degree murder and is eligible for a death sentence.

Prosecutors said the diary entries show he planned to kill soldiers and that his actions warrant a death sentence.

NOTE: Notice the picture above and the lack of a tie with SGT Akbar's Class A Uniform. Most likely, he had to forego wearing it because of a suicide watch or to prevent him from hurting others. Last week, he tried to overpower guards in the courtroom.