European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page jury deliberating in airmans murder trial Hill facing death penalty if convicted of killing fellow airman in Iceland by Lisa Burgess stars and stripes rolling air Force the Fate of an airman accused of killing airman 1st class Ashley Turner at a base in Iceland is now in the hands of the the panel of eight officers and six enlisted airmen went into closed deliberations after listening to the defend ers of airman Calvin Eugene Hill and his government accusers offer their final arguments in his court martial she had been dragged to a room that was and left to said air Force Robert who offered the Clos ing argument for the her last sight was a Barbell used on her the accused is guilty of premeditated murder and obstruction of Lut Trell told the find him Mem Turner was killed at naval air station on if of is found guilty of pre meditated he could face the death of died just eight Days before she was scheduled to testify against Hill for allegedly stealing her atm card and personal identification num Ber and withdrawing from her Bank a member of the 56th Rescue was found unconscious and lying in a Pool of blood by a fellow airman in a darkened television lounge just off her dormitory third floor where she had been running on the her Skull had been fractured by a Blunt and her spinal Cord severed by a single thrust of a prosecutors file photo Lisa and stripes airman Calvin is removed from the courtroom at boiling air Force base in during a pause in his court martial Hill is facing capital murder charges in the death of 20yearold airman 1st class Ashley at left with her Turner died while she and Hill were stationed with 56th Rescue Squadron at naval air station Kef Lavik in who had been friends with Turner but had not dated was arrested that night and placed in pretrial he remains the Only suspect charged in the but the governments Case is a rickety boat getting slapped by thousands of pounds of sea air Force Jason a member of Hills de sense told the there were a lot of facts in this Case that were not provided to Kellhofer the government wants to choose and instead of trying to solve the the government has focused All its energies on proving Hills Kellhofer the prosecution has failed to consider anyone other than airman Hill from Day Kellhofer the jury which opened april is being held at boiling because Kef Lavik closed making continued a Cess to the crime scene More difficult for investigators on both sides of the and scattering the More than 90 witnesses inter viewed by investigators and the some of the most important witnesses had to be located in Iceland and the United states and forced to among those was Hills Van Nee a thai woman who re sides in she testified that he had left her in his dorm room that evening at about watching the movie top Hill told her that he was going Down to the first floor to meet with his he returned sweaty and stinking so badly that she told him to take a according to her the Hill trial featured More than 100 pieces of evidence that had to be processed in Federal including a pair of White Nike sneakers Hill wore the night of the the sneakers Are Central to the Case be cause investigators found tiny drops of blood on the laces and on the Tongue of the which Dan tests showed were turn but the defense team also accused the government of Sloppy evidence they argued that the blood could have got ten on the shoes after Hill was arrested and military police walked him Down the same stairwell that Turner had been car ried Down on a they also said that Hills shoe might have been contaminated with blood from sheets collected As evidence from the Hospi Tal where Turner was taken after being at an air Force paralegal who is not officially allowed to comment on a Case in Progress told stripes on tuesday that juries usually take at least several and sometimes a week or to reach a ver dict on Complex cases such As email Lisa Burgess at says former Gizmo prisoners rejoined fight by Michael Melia the associated press san puerto Rico former Guantanamo detainees have organized a Jailbreak in kidnapped chinese engineers and taken leadership positions with the Tali the military said the former detainees were released from the prison at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba Between 2002 and 2004 after they claimed to be innocent or Low level the military said in a responding to questions about a prisoners who have Alleg edly resumed the Pentagon gave Brief descriptions of six including two it said were killed in fighting in the statement suggested that the six were released from Guantanamo by these former detainees successfully lied to sometimes for Over three said Navy Jeffrey a Pentagon last a Pentagon Joseph Ben testified to Congress that about 30 former detainees have rejoined the fight against the United other officials have made similar claims about prisoners at where the military now holds about 380 men mostly on suspicion of links to Al Aida or the Guantanamo critics have been sceptical of the saying it is part of a Campaign to justify the detention of hundreds of men without charges at the Remote Candace a chicag based attorney for two Guantanamo noted that three of the names on the Pentagon list do not appear on official rosters of she said she believes they were never actually held at the prison in Southeast to say detainees Are Back on the Battle Field has become one of their justifications for indefinite Gorman they have to justify the cruelty of what there the military said two of the men were killed in Afghanistan Mohammed Yusif a commander of Taliban operations in Southern Afghanistan who died in May 2004 while fighting and Maslavi Abdul a Taliban Leader killed in a septem Ber 2004 raid by afghan Security a third Mohammed was Cap tured during an attack on forces near the military also said Abdullah re leased in March was discovered after his release to have links to the Taliban and he allegedly directed the Kidnap Ping of two chinese engineers in Pakistan in october the other two on the list were Abdul Rah Man who was released from Guantanamo in july 2003 and has since participated in fighting against forces near and Mohammed Tayim who renewed his association with Taliban and Al Aida members after his july 2003 re angry afghans protest Pakistan Border clashes Afghanistan about afghans shouting death to Pakistan demonstrated in front of Pakistan embassy in Kabul blaming the neigh Boring country for some of the bloodiest Border clashes in Many of the demonstrators were from the Eastern province of where the fighting be tween afghan and pakistani troops killed at least 13 afghan Border guards and civilians so far this the demonstrators carried ban ners and shouted death to the Isi death to a refer ence to Pakistan intelligence Agency and president per Vez afghan police wearing riot gear guarded the embassy in downtown there 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