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British soldier found not guilty in Iraqi teen drowning Joshua Pantesco at 10:08 AM ET [JURIST] As the British Ministry of Defence [official website] continues investigating the deaths of several Iraqi detainees in British military custody [Scotsman report], a military tribunal judge on Thursday found a British soldier not guilty of manslaughter for allegedly forcing a 15-year-old Iraqi to swim across a Basra canal where he drowned. Recently-appointed Vice Judge Advocate General Michael Hunter [profile] did not explain his not guilty ruling to defendant Lance Cpl. James Cooke, 22, of the Irish Guards [official website], an infantry unit of the British Army. Link | 
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