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Ky. Steven Dale Green, a 23 year old ex-soldier, is charged with raping and killing a 14 yearold girl and slaying her family set the girl’s body ablaze after shooting her several times. Green, of Midland, Texas, faces more than a dozen charges, including sexual assault and four countsof murder, stemming from the March 2006 attack in Iraq’s so-called Triangle of Death. Green, who has pleaded not guilty, is being tied in a civilian court because he was discharged fromthe Army before being charged.

One evening in September, 10 year old Ali al-Lami was walking to a neighbor’s house to fetch bread when three armed men grabbed him and pushed him into their sedan and sped away.  Two day later, a stranger called Ali’s parents and said he was holding their son for ransom and put Ali on the phone.  Ali’s father recalls, He was terrified and crying.  All they let him say was ‘Hello, Papa. That was the last time we heard his voice.  The al-Lamis paid the equivalent of $10,000 in ransom,