Mother fears U.S. pilot will get away with 'murder'

Mother fears U.S. pilot will get away with 'murder'

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{EXCERPT} 'He murdered those boys and there should be some kind of
punishment', by The Canadian Press

No matter what penalty is imposed on the American pilot who killed
four Canadian soldiers and wounded another when he dropped a bomb in
Afghanistan, Doreen Coolen is convinced the punishment will be
insufficient for what she feels is murder.

Coolen's son, Pte. Richard Green, was one of the men killed on April
18, 2002. She said Harry Schmidt's decision to drop the bomb that
fateful night was not a so-called "friendly fire" incident - it was
murder, plain and simple.

"To go out and murder these people and walk away - I say murder...

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