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Article: Hasan Akbar, an Army sergeant, was sentenced to death for a grenade and rifle attack he launched on sleeping comrades at the start of the Iraq war in March 2003.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)
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- Article date:
- May 23, 2005
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Hasan Akbar, an Army sergeant, was sentenced to death for a grenade and rifle attack he launched on sleeping comrades at the start of the Iraq war in March 2003. Akbar killed two, Army Capt. Christopher Siefert and Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone, and wounded 14. Akbar's defense lawyer alleged mental problems, but he had alienation problems all his life. His mother, Quran Bilal, changed his name when he was a boy from Mark Fidel Kools (think Fidel Castro, ...
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Article: Military: The Attacker's Defense.(Sgt. Hasan Akbar ...
Newsweek;
May 12, 2003 ;
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... ... in the war with Iraq has told his mother he felt provoked by anti-Muslim harassment from fellow U.S. soldiers. Sgt. Hasan Akbar, a member of the 101st Airborne Division's 326th Engineering Battalion, is accused of tossing at least three grenades ...
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