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04-21-2005, 10:28 PM
<span style='font-family:trebuchet ms'><span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'>Military Jury Convicts Sergeant of Murder (http://ap.washingtontimes.c om/dynamic/stories/1/101ST_ATTACKED?SITE= DCTMS&SECTION=HOME)
By ESTES THOMPSON
Associated Press Writer
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) -- An Army sergeant was convicted Thursday by a military jury of premeditated murder and attempted murder in a grenade and rifle attack that killed two of his comrades and wounded 14 others in Kuwait during the opening days of the Iraq war.
Hasan Akbar, 34, now faces a possible death penalty, which the same 15-member jury will consider at a hearing that begins Monday.</span></span>
By ESTES THOMPSON
Associated Press Writer
FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) -- An Army sergeant was convicted Thursday by a military jury of premeditated murder and attempted murder in a grenade and rifle attack that killed two of his comrades and wounded 14 others in Kuwait during the opening days of the Iraq war.
Hasan Akbar, 34, now faces a possible death penalty, which the same 15-member jury will consider at a hearing that begins Monday.</span></span>