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‘War criminal’: Outrage as Trump pardons former US soldier who killed Iraqi prisoner
US President Donald Trump is facing heavy criticism for pardoning a former US soldier, once sentenced to 25 years in prison for murdering an Iraqi prisoner in 2009.
The White House announced on Monday that Trump signed an executive grant of clemency, a full pardon, for Michael Behenna. The 35-year-old was convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison by a military court for the killing of an Iraqi prisoner suspected of being part of Al-Qaeda.
Behenna was ordered to release an innocent Iraqi man they had no evidence to hold
Behenna instead:
•dragged him under a bridge
•stripped him naked
•tortured him
•shot him dead
•set a grenade under his corpse to burn the body45 just pardoned him
