A new report reveals that 3 US soldiers have gunned down 4 handcuffed and blindfolded Iraqi prisoners with pistol shots in Baghdad. After the killings, the first sergeant - the senior noncommissioned officer of his Army company - told the other two to remove the men's bloody blindfolds and plastic handcuffs, the statement said. After removing the blindfolds and handcuffs, the three soldiers shoved the four bodies into the canal, the statements said. NYT: U.S. Soldiers Executed Iraqis, Statements Say: Sergeant Mayo, in his statement, attributed his decision to kill the men to “anger,” apparently at the recent deaths of his two comrades. Sergeant Leahy, in his statement, said, “I’m ashamed of what I’ve done,” later adding: “When I did it, I thought I was doing it for my family. Now I realize that I’m hurting my family more now than if I wouldn’t have done it.”