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Friendly Fire
Dec. 19, 2004. Details are emerging
about an incident in Tikrit, Iraq,
May 11, 2004, in which American
Private Federico Merida, 21, and
a 17-year-old Iraqi, stationed
in a guard tower, had consensual
sex. At about 10:30 p.m.,
Merida shot the teen eleven times.
In a September court martial held
at Forward Operating Base Danger,
Merida pleaded guilty to murder
without premeditation and was
sentenced to 25 years in prison
and reduced in rank and will be
dishonorably discharged.
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12/20/04
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Copyright 2004 by Greg Baysans
https://members.tripod.com/~poetx/poems/merida.html
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