One wonders how many of these are never reported -- either by the murderers, er, contractors or the MSM itself. Whenever I see "gunmen" in the paper, that's whom I think of.
"Former US contractor in Afghanistan given probation, fine for killing prisoner" by Associated Press | May 9, 2009
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former military contractor was sentenced yesterday to probation for shooting and killing a handcuffed prisoner in Afghanistan.
Don Ayala of New Orleans pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges that normally would carry up to eight years in prison. But US District Senior Judge Claude Hilton decided probation was warranted under the circumstances. The man whom Ayala shot had set fire to one of Ayala's colleagues minutes before the shooting.
After the Nov. 4 attack on anthropologist Paula Loyd, Ayala helped subdue the man, Abdul Salam. When Ayala learned the extent of Loyd's burns, he shot Salam at close range....
Related: Eye on Afghanistan: Why We Must Stay
Ayala, 46, initially was charged with murder - the first military contractor charged with the crime while working in Iraq and Afghanistan....
Minutes before the shooting, Salam had been chatting with Loyd about the price of fuel. Both Ayala and Loyd were members of what the Army calls a human terrain team, in which social scientists such as Loyd are embedded with the military to help them understand and navigate Afghan culture.
Is that their CIA NOC or....?
Of course, the whole truth, nothing but the truth paper would tell us, wouldn't they?
Salam tossed a pitcher of gasoline on Loyd and lit her on fire. Soldiers dragged Loyd, 36, to a sewage-filled drainage ditch to put out the flames.
Oh! They dumped her in a sewage ditch to put out the fire?
When others told Ayala how badly Loyd was injured, Ayala pointed a 9mm pistol to Salam's temple and pulled the trigger. Salam died instantly. Loyd did not. With second- and third-degree burns covering 60 percent of her body, she lingered for two months before dying Jan. 7 at military hospital. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
Yeah, of course.
MSM doesn't have to verify that like all the civilians wasted the other day?
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