VILSECK, Germany, March 30, SPA -- A U.S. soldier was facing acourt-martial Monday on charges that he participated in theexecution-style slayings of four bound and blindfoldedIraqi detainees in the spring of 2007, Associated Press reported. Sgt. 1st Class Joseph Mayo, 27, is charged withpremeditated murder, conspiracy to commit premeditatedmurder and obstruction of justice in the incident thatoccurred while he was deployed to Iraq. He is the sixth of seven soldiers to face a court at theU.S. Army's Rose Barracks since August, and the trial couldlast several days. No hometown for Mayo was provided by theArmy. In February a military court convicted Sgt. Michael Leahy,28, of Lockport, Illinois, to life in prison with thepossibility of parole after he admitted to theexecution-style killing of one of the detainees andshooting another. He was acquitted of murder over aseparate incident in Baghdad in January 2007.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/649276