The civil trial has opened of a former US marine accused of killing unarmed Iraqi detainees in the city of Falluja, in the first case of its kind. AFP: US civilian court begins Iraqi murder trial of former Marine: According to prosecutors' documents, Nazario and Marines belonging to K Company, 3rd Battalion, had radioed commanding officers to inform that they had captured four insurgents during a house search. After being informed of the capture, Nazario was apparently asked by an unidentified senior officer: "Are they dead yet?" The prisoners were subsequently shot, execution style, and the Marines left the house, according to prosecutors. + Ex-Marine decries prosecution in civilian court. The Canadian: TWILIGHT OF THE PSYCHOPATHS: Military institutions are tailor-made for psychopathic killers. The 5% or so of human males who feel no remorse about killing their fellow human beings make the best soldiers. And the 95% who are extremely reluctant to kill make terrible soldiers — unless they are brainwashed with highly sophisticated modern techniques that turn them (temporarily it is hoped) into functional psychopaths.