US soldiers face death penalty

FOUR soldiers from the US Army’s 101st Airborne Division will face a court-martial for the alleged rape of an Iraqi girl and the murder of her family, and two will face the death penalty, the military ordered yesterday.

The charges against the Fort Campbell soldiers stem from the rape and murder of 14-year-old Abeer Qassim al-Janabi in her family’s home in Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad.

Prosecutors maintain the men also killed her parents and younger sister.