Iraqis dissatisfied with ex-US soldier's sentence

Iraqis have expressed dissatisfaction that an ex-US soldier has not received the death sentence for the rape and killing of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of her parents and sister.

Steven D. Green, a former Army soldier  accused of the rape and murder of an Iraqi  teenager and killings three of her family  members, appears in this undated booking  photo provided by the Mecklenburg County  Sheriff's Office in North Carolina.  (AFP/Getty Images/HO/File)

Steven Dale Green faces life in prison because jurors couldn't agree on the death penalty.

The head of the tribe of the area where Green was involved in the incident expressed his anger.

Mahmoud Salih Jadou, Head of Local Tribe, said, "This sentence is too little for him. He should be brought here and put to death in the same place as he committed his crime."

Green was tried in a civilian court in the United States because the Army had granted him an early discharge before he was arrested for the 2006 killings.

Several other soldiers were also involved, but were tried in military court.