{"id":847,"date":"2004-04-30T18:04:06","date_gmt":"2004-05-01T01:04:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-04-30T18:04:06","modified_gmt":"2004-05-01T01:04:06","slug":"isolated-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/30\/isolated-incidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Isolated Incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, two more reasons why <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P822_0_1_0_C>I&#8217;ve lost interest in the LCpl. Boudreaux case<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>* <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/justin\/?articleid=2443>Justin interprets the lighthearted hijinks at Abu Ghraib<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* That infamous hate-America rag <i>Stars &#038; Stripes<\/i> reports on business as usual in Okinawa. <\/p>\n<ul><a href=http:\/\/www.estripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&#038;article=21881>Marines sentenced for mugging of Okinawa man<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NAHA, Okinawa \u2014 Two Marines found guilty of mugging a 20-year-old Okinawan man in Ginowan last October were sentenced Tuesday in Naha District Court. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place Oct. 23 at about 5:55 a.m. following a long night of drinking, according to testimony at previous hearings. [Lance Cpl. Joshua M.] Major testified he was out looking for a fight that morning and picked on the man they saw in a supermarket in the Oyama district of Ginowan, near the base.<\/p>\n<p>He admitted punching the man in the face after Mundell grabbed him from behind. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Chief Judge Nobuyuki Yokota said there was no doubt both Marines were responsible for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile [Cpl. Paul E.] Mundell grabbed the Japanese man from behind, Major punched him in the face for several times,\u201d Yokota said. \u201cEven after knocking the victim down to the ground, Major continued assaulting the man.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yokota said the evidence showed Mundell, Major and another Marine, who was with them but not charged, started drinking beer at their barracks room on Oct. 22 to celebrate completing training at a range. At about 11:40 p.m., they went to a pool hall near the air station, where they stayed until 5 a.m. The trio then stopped by a nearby 24-hour supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the store, they saw the victim, who left after buying a boxed meal,\u201d the judge said in his explanation for finding the two men guilty. \u201cAfter they left the store, they looked for the victim and followed him for 15 minutes after spotting him again on a street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then, they attacked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing the money they stole, they hailed a taxi to go to Okinawa City, only to find that the bar they were planning to go [to] was closed,\u201d Yokota said. \u201cThey then spent some more of the money on boxed meals, which they ate in a taxi on their way back to the air station.\u201d<\/ul>\n<p>Imagine the fear of being beaten and robbed by foreign thugs every time you go to the supermarket, and you&#8217;ll have some idea why <a href=http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/cole\/?articleid=2440>most Iraqis want the U.S. out now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, two more reasons why I&#8217;ve lost interest in the LCpl. Boudreaux case. * Justin interprets the lighthearted hijinks at Abu Ghraib. * That infamous hate-America rag Stars &#038; Stripes reports on business as usual in Okinawa. Marines sentenced for mugging of Okinawa man NAHA, Okinawa \u2014 Two Marines found guilty of mugging a 20-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}