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Soldier admits shooting Iraqi, but calls it justified

WHEELER ARMY AIRFIELD, Hawaii (AP) — A Hawaii-based soldier accused of killing an unarmed Iraqi last year admitted shooting the man, but said he believed it was justified after the Iraqi tried to flee the backyard of a house the soldier's platoon had just raided in search of insurgents.

Sgt. 1st Class Trey Corrales, who is being court-martialed for premeditated murder, said Thursday that he told the man in Arabic to freeze and to put his hands in the air, but the man started to run.

Corrales, of San Antonio, said he then raised his weapon and fired four shots at him.

"I knew it was a hostile area," Corrales told the nine-member panel serving on the military justice system's equivalent of a jury. "I knew he couldn't be up to anything good."

He said he acted on instinct.

Corrales has also been charged with wrongfully soliciting another soldier to shoot the Iraqi man and with wrongfully obstructing an investigation by planting an AK-47 on the victim. He has pleaded not guilty to all three charges.



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