Elite US Navy SEAL facing war crimes charges for killings in Iraq

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Laurent BANGUET | AFP

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Sun, 2019-04-28 01:32

LOS ANGELES: Stabbing a teenage prisoner to death, picking off a young girl and an old man with a sniper rifle and firing a heavy machine gun into a residential area: these are some of the charges facing an elite US Navy SEAL on trial for war crimes while deployed in Iraq.
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