Iraqi militant to hang for killing US soldiers

An Iraqi court on Tuesday sentenced to death by hanging a suspected al-Qaida in Iraq militant for the grisly 2006 killing of three US soldiers south of Baghdad. Ibrahim al-Qaraghuli was one of three suspected militants who have gone to trial for the killings. The other two - Walid al-Kartani and Kazim al-Zubaie - were found not guilty for lack of sufficient evidence, but it was not immediately clear whether they would be released from custody. All three men are Iraqis and have been in custody for at least a year.