Cardenas J. Alban

Cardenas J. Alban was a Staff Sergeant in the United States Army. He was convicted of killing a 16-year-old Iraqi during fighting in Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood. He was sentenced to one year’s confinement and demoted to private and given bad-conduct discharge.

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* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/11/05/MNGC99MHHJ1.DTL 'Mercy killing' of Iraqi revives GI conduct debate Teen rubbish patrol shot up by troops -- wounded youth slain]
* [http://www.billingsgazette.com/newdex.php?display=rednews/2005/06/06/build/nation/35-wartime-murder.inc Wartime murder prosecutions sometimes end with dismissals]
* [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/03/16/national/w113007S95.DTL Prisoner Deaths in U.S. Custody]
* [http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2005/050605-wartime-prosecutions.htm Short sentences, dismissals show wartime murder prosecutions hard]
* [http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0325-11.htm Army Investigators Says 27 Iraqis and Afghans Killed in U.S. Custody ]