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A U.S. soldier was sentenced to 18 years in jail on Thursday for crimes committed in Iraq last year, U.S. media reported.
The soldier, Corey R. Clagett, of the 101st Airborne Division, was sentenced at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, for murdering a detainee and taking part in the killings of two others on May 9, 2006, on the Muthana chemical complex in Samarra, north of Baghdad.
He would also be demoted to private and dishonorably discharged.
Clagett, who was one of four soldiers accused in the detainees' deaths, pleaded guilty to charges of murder, attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to obstruct justice, under a deal with prosecutors.
The soldiers first told investigators they shot the detainees because they were attempting to flee and that commanders had given them orders to kill all military-age males on the mission, the Associated Press reported.
Two of those soldiers have changed their stories and pleaded guilty, and the squad leader, Raymond Girouard, was awaiting his court-martial.
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