Akbar Gets Death Penalty
Sunday May 1, 2005
According to an article on the Army News Service, Sgt. Hasan Akbar was sentenced to death by a military panel at 8:40 p.m. April 28.
Akbar was convicted of throwing grenades into the tents of fellow 101st Airborne Division Soldiers the night before they left Kuwait to advance into Iraq, March 23, 2003. The grenade attack on three tents in Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait, took the lives of Capt. Christopher Seifert and Maj. Gregory Stone and wounded 14 others from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.
Akbar was convicted of throwing grenades into the tents of fellow 101st Airborne Division Soldiers the night before they left Kuwait to advance into Iraq, March 23, 2003. The grenade attack on three tents in Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait, took the lives of Capt. Christopher Seifert and Maj. Gregory Stone and wounded 14 others from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.
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