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Guardsman charged
The US military charged a New York Army National Guard member on Thursday with murdering his commanding officers last week at a base near Tikrit in Iraq. The officers were first believed to have died after indirect fire hit the window of a building they were in on June 7. A criminal investigation opened, however, soon after the attack found that the blast pattern was inconsistent with a mortar attack, the military said, announcing the charges against Staff Sergeant Alberto Martinez, 37.
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