Fort Bragg trial to start in 'fragging' case

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Fort Bragg trial to start in 'fragging' case

By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer
1 hr 52 mins ago

FORT BRAGG, N.C. – The court martial of the first
soldier accused of killing a direct superior in Iraq
— known as "fragging" during the Vietnam War —
opens Wednesday, three years after a suspicious
blast tore through the living quarters of two
National Guard officers.

Numerous delays in the case against Staff Sgt. Alberto
B. Martinez have frustrated the widows of Capt. Phillip
Esposito and 1st Lt. Louis Allen, both killed when a
Claymore mine detonated outside their room in 2005.
The trial judge has pledged to hear testimony on
holidays and weekends, but the case is still expected
to run through the end of the year.

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Martinez, 41, of Troy, N.Y., is accused of planting
the anti-personnel mine that detonated on June 7,
2005, in a window just outside the officers' room at
Saddam Hussein's Water Palace in Tikrit. The officers
died the next day. At an earlier hearing in Kuwait,
a witness testified Martinez had said twice that he
disliked Esposito and was going to "frag" him.

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"From a military perspective this is a unique case,
a soldier attempting to 'frag' his own officers,"
said Greg Rinckey, an Albany, N.Y., attorney who
served as an Army lawyer for six years. "It's a
troubling case from a military perspective because it
goes to the concept of good order and discipline.
This is why the military is seeking the death penalty."

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081022/ap_on_re_us/iraq_officers_killed

[Xipe Totec]

1. From a military perspective this is a unique case...

Meaning a one of a kind event, never happend before or since...

That's why we use a term that's been around at least since Vietnam to describe it...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragging

[sofa king]

2. Yeah, someone tell that to Pat Tillman.