Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 19:14:30 -0500
Subject: Fwd: Soldier Faces Jail For Killing Puppy






Go figure.

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>Subject: Soldier Faces Jail For Killing Puppy
>London Times
>May 7, 2004
>Soldier Faces Jail For Killing Puppy
>By Allan Hall, in G=FCtersloh
>A BRITISH military policeman who admitted kicking a puppy to death in Iraq
>was found guilty of =93disgraceful conduct of a cruel kind=94 at a court
>martial yesterday.
>
>Adam Matthew Lee, 23, could be jailed for up to two years and dismissed
>from the ranks when he is sentenced next month. Judge Advocate Robert
>Seymour said that the court was considering a jail term. Lee admitted
>killing the white stray at a military police compound in June last year =AD
>one day after six of his colleagues were murdered by an Iraqi mob. Friends
>expressed their outrage at the conviction.
>
>=93We are all taught to kill. We were in a war zone, surrounded by stray
>dogs the brass said were verminous and he killed just one of them,=94 one
>colleague said. =93This has been a sledgehammer to crack a nut.=94
>
>Lee said that although he was upset at the loss of his friends the killing
>of the stray puppy =AD which was fed rations and befriended by other troops
>in the garrison =AD was not provoked by grief.
>
>The three-day military hearing was told how the dog had become an
>unofficial mascot to troops based at the Abu al- Khasib military police
>compound. Lee had claimed that he kicked the dog after being bitten by it.
>
>The prosecution said that Lee had decided to kill the dog only after
>kicking it so badly when he lost his temper that he knew he then had to
>kill it to put it out of its misery.
>
>=93For states that support terror, it is not enough that
>
>the consequences be costly-they must
>
>be devastating.=94
>
>-- President George W. Bush

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Subject: Soldier Faces Jail For Killing Puppy
London Times
May 7, 2004
Soldier Faces Jail For Killing Puppy
By Allan Hall, in G=FCtersloh
A BRITISH military policeman who admitted kicking a puppy to death in Iraq was found guilty of =93disgraceful conduct of a cruel kind=94 at a court martial yesterday.

Adam Matthew Lee, 23, could be jailed for up to two years and dismissed from the ranks when he is sentenced next month. Judge Advocate Robert Seymour said that the court was considering a jail term. Lee admitted killing the white stray at a military police compound in June last year =AD one day after six of his colleagues were murdered by an Iraqi mob. Friends expressed their outrage at the conviction.

=93We are all taught to kill. We were in a war zone, surrounded by stray dogs the brass said were verminous and he killed just one of them,=94 one colleague said. =93This has been a sledgehammer to crack a nut.=94

Lee said that although he was upset at the loss of his friends the killing of the stray puppy =AD which was fed rations and befriended by other troops in the garrison =AD was not provoked by grief.

The three-day military hearing was told how the dog had become an unofficial mascot to troops based at the Abu al- Khasib military police compound. Lee had claimed that he kicked the dog after being bitten by it.

The prosecution said that Lee had decided to kill the dog only after kicking it so badly when he lost his temper that he knew he then had to kill it to put it out of its misery.

=93For states that support terror, it is not enough that

the consequences be costly-they must

be devastating.=94

-- President George W. Bush