US soldier guilty of murdering Iraqi

A US soldier pleaded guilty today to murdering a severely-wounded 16-year-old Iraqi, the military said.

Staff Sgt. Johnny Horne, 30, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was charged with the August 18 murder in Baghdad’s Sadr City, the scene of fierce clashes earlier this year between coalition forces and Shiite rebels allied to firebrand anti-US cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.