The Hasan Akbar case refers to an event during the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, when Hasan Karim Akbar (born Mark Fidel Kools on April 21, 1971) was convicted and sentenced to death for the double-murder of two United States Army officers assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division at Camp Pennsylvania, Kuwait.
The victims were Army Captain Christopher Seifert and Air Force Major Gregory Stone. Akbar also wounded fourteen soldiers in the incident, which took place on 23 March 2003. The sentence of death, which was approved by the commander of the 18th Airborne Corps, was argued before the Army Court of Criminal Appeals in January 2012. Akbar is confined in the United States Disciplinary Barracks.
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