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Spanish Judge Issues Warrant for Three GIs
(Maria Jesus Prades, Associated Press, October 19, 2005)
A judge has issued an international arrest warrant for three U.S. soldiers whose tank fired on a Baghdad hotel during the
Iraq war, killing a Spanish journalist and a Ukrainian cameraman, a court official said Wednesday. . . . Judge Santiago Pedraz issued the warrant for Sgt. Shawn Gibson, Capt. Philip Wolford and Lt. Col. Philip de Camp, all from the U.S. 3rd Infantry, which is based in Fort Stewart, Ga. . . . Jose Couso, who worked for the Spanish television network Telecinco, died April 8, 2003, after a U.S. army tank crew fired a shell on Hotel Palestine in Baghdad where many journalists were staying to cover the war. . . . Reuters cameraman Taras Portsyuk, a Ukrainian, also was killed. . . .
He said he issued the arrest order because of a lack of judicial cooperation from the United States regarding the case. . . . The warrant "is the only effective measure to ensure the presence of the suspects in the case being handled by Spanish justice, given the lack of judicial cooperation by U.S. authorities," the judge said in the warrant. . . . Small protests over the killing have been staged outside the U.S. Embassy in Madrid nearly every month since Couso's death. . . . Under Spanish law, a crime committed against a Spaniard abroad can be prosecuted here if it is not investigated in the country where it is committed.

posted by LoZo 11:51 AM