Marine’s Tale of Killing Iraqi Sparks Inquiry
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The U.S. military is investigating a Marine who told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he shot an Iraqi soldier in the back of the head after an attack on his comrades.
Gunnery Sgt. Gus Covarrubias, 38, said that on April 8, he pursued a member of the Republican Guard who had fired a rocket-propelled grenade at his unit in Baghdad. Covarrubias said he found the soldier in a house, ordered him to stop and forced him to turn around. “I went behind him and shot him in the back of the head. Twice,” he said.
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