[Mb-civic] Soldiers of Fortune -- at What Price?

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Soldiers of Fortune -- at What Price? 
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By Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley is a law professor at George Washington University.

September 16 2004

David A. Passaro was a mercenary working for the United States. A former Special Forces soldier, he was on the job for the American government in Afghanistan on June 19, 2003, when he was told to get information from a detainee named Abdul Wali. When Wali insisted that he knew nothing, Passaro allegedly beat him to death with a heavy metal flashlight. 

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