Akbar allegedly confessed several times to tossing grenades into the tents of sleeping soldiers and then raking them with rifle fire.
Akbar's lawyers don't dispute his responsibility but are trying to spare him a possible death sentence by portraying him as mentally incapable of premeditating the attack.
The statement from Akbar's father is similar to entries from Hasan Akbar's diary that were introduced by the prosecution to show how he had planned the attack.
"I suppose they want to punk me or just humiliate me," Akbar wrote more than a month before."I am not going to do anything about it as long as I stay here. But as soon as I am in Iraq, I am going to try and kill as many of them as possible," he wrote.
According to testimony in the court-martial, Akbar was asked at least twice by officers if he had problems with going into Iraq because he is Muslim and Akbar said he didn't.
The father also said Akbar graduated first in his class from a Los Angeles high school with a dropout rate of 85 percent."My concern is how did an upstanding citizen like my son, my pride and joy, get to into this situation?" John Akbar said. "He has absolutely no previous encounters with the law and does not use alcohol or drugs. He has always been a role model for his younger brothers and sisters."Army Capt.
Christopher Seifert, 27, of Easton, Pa., and Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone, 40, were killed in the attack. Fourteen soldiers were wounded.
Does not use alcohol or drugs? That makes him a model citizen? Even some of the terrorist suicide bombers do not imbibe in alcohol or drugs since its against their religious beliefs. However, they do murder innocent people. Akbar planned it. Pure and simple. Premeditative murder of the 1st degree. Hang 'em high.
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