Pendleton Marines Face Courts-Martial

KPBS | By KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published September 25, 2006 at 1:47 PM PDT

This story was published more than 17 years ago.

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The Marine Corps says three troops from Camp Pendleton will face courts-martial on murder charges in the death of an Iraqi man in the town of Hamdania.

The Marine Corps says three troops from Camp Pendleton will face courts-martial on murder charges in the death of an Iraqi man in the town of Hamdania. The commanding general in the case says he will not seek the death penalty. The three were among seven Marines and one Navy corpsman charged with kidnapping and murdering 52-year-old Hashim Ibrahim Awad earlier this year.