Iraq War Resistor Returns From Canada

[livvy]

Iraq War Resistor Returns From Canada

The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Feb 6, 2009 17:31:24 EST

BLAINE, Wash. — Iraq War resistor Cliff Cornell, who fled to Canada, is returning to Fort Stewart, Ga., to face a charge of being absent without leave.

His lawyer, James Branum in Lawton, Okla., said Friday that Cornell would turn himself in Tuesday at the Army base near Savannah.

Branum says Cornell voluntarily returned to the U.S. Wednesday from British Columbia. He was arrested by Customs and Border Protection officers at Blaine and spent a night in the Whatcom County Jail in Bellingham, Wash. Branum says the Army agreed to let Cornell travel by bus to Georgia.

The 29-year-old from Mountain Home, Ark., was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 39th Field Artillery Regiment at Fort Stewart. He fled to Canada four years ago after his unit was ordered to Iraq.

This is the entire piece.


http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/02/ap_warresistor_020609/%2e

[Jackpine Radical]

1. AWOL? Not desertion?

The Army is giving him an awfully big break to get him back. That's like dropping a murder charge & substituting a misdemeanor.