IRAQI COURT SENTENCES THREE TO DEATH FOR TERRORIST ACTS

three Iraqi snipers were convicted and sentenced to death last week after confessing to the deaths of at least two coalition soldiers and the shootings of nine others according to Army Col. Mark S. Martins, staff judge advocate with Multinational Force Iraq. Convicted in Iraq's central criminal court July 22 were Jasim Husayn Nabeer and Muhammed Sabeh Latif. Mustafa Hussayn was convicted July 25. The three were self-proclaimed members of Jaysh al-Islami. Nabeer confessed to eight sniper shootings recorded on a recovered terrorist propaganda video. Nabeer and Latif were convicted of the shootings, and Hussayn was convicted of driving the sniper car. The three were arrested by 6th Iraqi Army Division troops in October.