COURT-MARTIAL OPENS IN KILLING OF INSURGENT
Jury selection began Monday at Fort Hood, Texas, in the court-martial of an Army sergeant accused of killing a severely wounded, crying and unarmed Iraqi insurgent last summer.
Sgt. Leonardo Trevino of San Antonio is accused of shooting the Iraqi twice: in the abdomen, a nonfatal wound, and then in the head, fatally, after ordering an Army medic to suffocate him. Trevino also is accused of lying to his superior, telling a soldier to drop a gun near the Iraqi's body and instructing troops to say the man was armed. The name of the Iraqi was never known, prosecutors said.
At a December hearing, a prosecutor said Trevino went to great lengths to kill the Iraqi and told fellow soldiers, "I tried to kill this guy; he just wouldn't die."
PICK JUST ONE WIFE, DENMARK TELLS IRAQI
An Iraqi man granted asylum in Denmark after working as an interpreter for Danish troops in Iraq has been told he can remain married to only one of the two wives he brought to the Scandinavian country.
The Justice Ministry said that the man, who was not identified, has four weeks to choose. Since both women have been granted asylum as well, neither would have to leave Denmark.
"It is not legal in Denmark to have two spouses," said Malene Vestergaard of the Department of Family Affairs. "We are giving him some time to think about this issue and decide which one to keep."
TARIQ AZIZ FACES TRIAL IN MERCHANTS' DEATHS A TRIAL IS SCHEDULED TO OPEN TODAY in Baghdad for former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz, 72, the only Christian among Saddam Hussein's mostly Sunni Muslim inner circle, on charges that could carry the death penalty. Aziz and five others, including Saddam's cousin known as "Chemical Ali," are accused in the summary executions in 1992 of 42 merchants blamed for a sharp rise in food prices when Iraq was under U.N. sanctions.
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