http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-08-02T112802Z_01_GEO231532_RTRUKOC_0_US-IRAQ-USA-HEARING.xml&archived=FalseTIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. soldiers charged with murdering three detainees in Iraq smiled before carrying out the shootings and threatened to kill another soldier if he informed on them, a military court heard on Wednesday.
Prosecution witness Private First Class Bradley Mason said one of those charged, Staff Sergeant Raymond Girouard, told him if he were arrested he would try to get out of it on medical grounds because he had Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
"They just smiled," said Mason.
"I told him (Girouard) that I am not down with it. It's murder."