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Saturday, April 02, 2005
SATURDAY'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS
From the NY Times: Army Officer Convicted in Iraqi's Death is Freed (another version of the CPT Maynulet breaking news I told you in the below post); Sudan: U.N. Court Rejected ("Sudan denounced a United Nations vote to send war crime suspects from the western Darfur region to the International Criminal Court in The Hague and signaled that it would not cooperate in handing its citizens over to face justice abroad. "I believe it is unfair, ill advised and narrow-minded," the foreign affairs minister, Najeeb al-Kheir Abdul Wahab, said."); U.S. Soldiers In Columbia Cocaine Inquiry ("Five United States Army soldiers stationed in Colombia were detained after an investigation found they had tried to smuggle 35 pounds of cocaine to the United States aboard a military plane, American authorities said. Lt. Col. Eduardo Villavicencio, a spokesman for the American military command for Latin America, said from his office in Miami that the men were being held in the United States after an investigation of cocaine trafficking in both countries. The military would neither release the names of the soldiers nor provide other details.").
Army 1LT Julian P. Goodrum
From the Washington Post: Iraq War Vet's Case Decided ("An Iraq war veteran who faced court-martial when he sought civilian treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder was found not guilty yesterday of conduct unbecoming an officer, military officials said. But First Lt. Jullian P. Goodrum, an Army reservist, was found guilty of fraternization and will forfeit half of his pay for two months as punishment, officials said. He and a female sergeant allegedly had prohibited relations in 2003 during their prewar mobilization and deployment into the Iraq war. Goodrum's case was heard yesterday at Fort McNair before Maj. Gen. Galen B. Jackman, commander of the U.S. Army Military District of Washington."); U.S. Soldier Avoids Jail in Killing (another CPT Maynulet story); In Exploring a Solution for Darfur, Sudan Opts for Local Justice ("Sudan has objected to the court and said it would not allow its citizens to be taken outside the country. In recent interviews, high-level officials said an international court would intensify the fighting and give all parties less of a reason to make peace. "We have traditional ways of solving problems on the ground," said Ibrahim Ibrahim, an adviser to the vice president in the Foreign Ministry. "In Africa, we believe in reconciliation not punishment. We can kiss and make up. This court is punitive and will only hurt and harass us.").
Army 1LT Julian P. Goodrum
From the Washington Post: Iraq War Vet's Case Decided ("An Iraq war veteran who faced court-martial when he sought civilian treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder was found not guilty yesterday of conduct unbecoming an officer, military officials said. But First Lt. Jullian P. Goodrum, an Army reservist, was found guilty of fraternization and will forfeit half of his pay for two months as punishment, officials said. He and a female sergeant allegedly had prohibited relations in 2003 during their prewar mobilization and deployment into the Iraq war. Goodrum's case was heard yesterday at Fort McNair before Maj. Gen. Galen B. Jackman, commander of the U.S. Army Military District of Washington."); U.S. Soldier Avoids Jail in Killing (another CPT Maynulet story); In Exploring a Solution for Darfur, Sudan Opts for Local Justice ("Sudan has objected to the court and said it would not allow its citizens to be taken outside the country. In recent interviews, high-level officials said an international court would intensify the fighting and give all parties less of a reason to make peace. "We have traditional ways of solving problems on the ground," said Ibrahim Ibrahim, an adviser to the vice president in the Foreign Ministry. "In Africa, we believe in reconciliation not punishment. We can kiss and make up. This court is punitive and will only hurt and harass us.").
