The Iraq war resister James Burmeister has been freed after serving over four months in prison. Burmeister had been sentenced to six months after pleading guilty to going AWOL. The twenty-three-year-old soldier served as an Army scout in Iraq but fled to Canada in May 2007 while on leave. After leaving Iraq, Burmeister revealed that US troops in Iraq were planting equipment, such as AK-47s, to lure Iraqis to spots where American snipers could shoot them. The practice was known as “bait and kill.”