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SBS
January 28, 2015
Paul E. Cortez, Pfc. Jesse V Spielman, Prc. Bryan L. Howard of rape and murder. A fifth soldier, Sgt. Anthony W. Yribbe, is accused of ... Four of the accused -- Barker, Sergeant Paul Cortez, Private Bryan Howard, Private Jesse Spielman -- agreed with Green's plan. They allegedly changed into black silkÃâà...
CBS News
February 19, 2014
Green, of Midland, Texas, was a private in the 101st Airborne Division based at Fort Campbell on the Kentucky-Tennessee state line when he deployed to ... Three other soldiers - Jesse Spielman, Paul Cortez and James Barker - are serving lengthy sentences in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.,Ãâà...
TIME
February 8, 2010
On March 12, 2006, Specialist Paul Cortez, Specialist James Barker, Private First Class Jesse Spielman and Private First Class Steven Green raped 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Hamzah Rashid al-Janabi and murdered her, her parents and her 6-year-old sister. As heinous as the crime was, it did not happenÃâà...
CNN
May 10, 2009
Agents asked the former Army private whether they could tell her the reason for his arrest. ... Pvt. 1st Class James Barker, Sgt. Paul Cortez, Pvt. 1st Class Jesse Spielman and Pvt. 1st Class Bryan Howard received sentences ranging from 27 months to 110 years, with the possibility of parole in 10 years inÃâà...
BBC News
May 7, 2009
A jury in the US state of Kentucky has found a former private soldier guilty of the rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the killing of her and her family. ... In August 2007, Private Jesse Spielman was convicted of conspiracy to rape and murder and sentenced to 110 years in prison for his role in the incident.
New York Times
February 21, 2007
Once at the house, Private Green, the suspected ringleader, took the girl's mother, father and 7-year-old sister into a bedroom, Sergeant Cortez said, while he and Specialist Barker took the teenager to the living room, where they took turns raping her. “She kept squirming and trying to keep her legs closedÃâà...
CNN
August 9, 2006
Bierce's testimony came during the second day of a preliminary hearing in Baghdad for Barker, Cortez, 23, and two other soldiers, Pfc. Jesse V. Spielman, 21, and Pfc. Bryan L. Howard, 19, who are charged in connection with the killings in Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad. (Watch testimony on accusedÃâà...
New York Times
November 6, 2004
A 23-year-old Army private was sentenced last night to 110 years in prison, a day after a military jury convicted him of rape and four counts of murder for his role in the attack last year on an Iraqi family in Mahmudiya, a hostile Sunni Arab town south of Baghdad. The private, Jesse Spielman, was also foundÃâà...
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