In Marchs 2003, American soldier Sgt. Hasan Akbar rolled two grenades into a tent of fellow soldiers and shot at them as they tried to escape, killing 2 and wounding 14. A military jury of “nine officers and six noncommissioned officers” found him guilty this week and he was sentenced to death.
And the punch line? Lt. Col. Michael E. Mulligan described Akbar as “a hate-filled murderer who waged war on troops he did not know in the middle of the night.“*
pH irony indicator level: 7.3
* I can’t find another reporting of this exact quote so it’s probably incorrect. It seems this is just a summary of what was said, which included “He is a hate-filled, ideologically driven murderer”, which is still amusing.
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