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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Associated PressCHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A former soldier who had been discharged because of an unspecified personality disorder was accused in federal court Monday of executing an Iraqi family so he and other troops could rape and kill a young woman they had been eyeing.The murder charges against Steven Green, a 21-year-old former private, grew out of a military investigation involving up to five soldiers in the March rape and killing of the woman in Mahmoudiya and three relatives, one of them a young girl believed to be about 5. Military officials initially blamed the incident on insurgents.Prosecutors said Green and others entered the home of a family of Iraqi civilians, where Green shot the three relatives, and he and another soldier raped the woman and killed her. According to an accompanying affidavit, photos taken by Army investigators in March showed a burned body of "what appears to be a woman with blankets thrown over her upper torso." It apparently was an attempt to cover up evidence, according to the Iraqi investigation.FBI agents arrested Green on Friday in Marion, N.C. The case is being handled by federal prosecutors in Charlotte because Green, who served 11 months with the 101st Airborne Division, based at Ft. Campbell, Ky., is no longer in the military.The affidavit said he was given an honorable discharge "before this incident came to light. Green was discharged due to a personality disorder." The disorder was not explained. He faces a possible death sentence if convicted of murder.In Baghdad, a U.S. military spokesman, Army Maj. Joseph Breasseale, said no other charges have been filed in the case. But officials said that four members of the 101st's 502nd Infantry Regiment were confined to a U.S. base near Mahmoudiya and that the Army took away their weapons.The affidavit filed in Green's case by FBI special agent Gregor Ahlers said Green and three other soldiers from the 502nd were working a traffic checkpoint in Mahmoudiya on March 12 when they conspired to rape a woman who lived nearby.U.S. officials have described the rape victim as a young woman and FBI documents estimated her age at 25, but a neighbor said she was 14 and her sister was 10.</div>