Four U.S. soldiers were charged with murder Tuesday in the asphyxiation death of an Iraqi general during questioning last autumn.
The four could get life in prison if convicted in the November 26 death of Major General Abed Hamed Mowhoush at Qaim, Iraq.
In May, the Army said the Iraqi general was asphyxiated by chest compression and smothering.
Mowhoush, a member of the Republican Guard's air defense branch, was captured in a raid in Qaim.
In the meantime, Iraqi police discovered two decapitated bodies in Mosul Tuesday, two days after finding another beheaded corpse near a bus station, Reuters cited local police and hospital officials as saying.
According to them, two of the men had been identified as Iraqi nationals. The third was also believed to be an Iraqi. The bodies found on Tuesday had been dumped separately in the city center. (Albawaba.com)
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