Technically, he has 30 days to decide what to do, but he is expected to act quickly and is unlikely to order a court-martial of Commander Waddle against the recommendations of the panel, the Pentagon officials said.
Sobel brought Winters up on charges of disobedience, but when Winters demanded a court martial, their battalion commander set them aside.
Tyler ordered a formal court-martial for the Commander, but his brother-officers voted for and he went free.
Brigadier Euan Duncan, director of the army's Intelligence Corps, told the court martial that US commanders had criticised British forces in 2003 for failing to extract sufficient intelligence from detainees.
Davis, who had gone to West Point and had once imagined becoming a Confederate general himself, clearly saw something of his martial ideal in his commander.
Cluverius served at the Naval Academy on court martial duty and as commander of the torpedo boat.
In Oslo, he surprised a largely left-leaning audience by talking about the martial imperatives of a Commander-in-Chief overseeing two wars.
If you miss this tour, the site will offer an extended one for teenagers and adults on Sept. 6 that will culminate in a re-enactment of the court-martial of the British commander.
"This is not martial law," General Linda Singh, the commander of the Maryland national guard, said at a press conference as troops arrived in armoured vehicles.
Shortly afterwards the regional military commander, who under martial law is the new provincial administrator, started imposing restrictions on the media.
Four US marines identified by the military as the soldiers filmed urinating on corpses in Afghanistan are likely to face a court martial after an American military commander said such actions are a "grave breach" of the laws of war.
