A jury sentenced a US Marine corporal today to time served and reduced his rank to private for conspiring to murder an Iraqi civilian during a frustrated search for an insurgent.

A US Marine charged with kidnapping and murdering an Iraqi man last spring assaulted another man in a separate incident because he made ”disparaging remarks” about Marines while in Abu Ghraib prison, a court has heard.

A US Navy medic has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for his part in the killing of an Iraqi civilian.

Iraqi witnesses today recounted how seven US Marines and a Navy corpsman kidnapped an Iraqi man from his home and shot him dead.