Posted on Jan 4, 2019
Navy SEAL To Plead Not Guilty To War Crimes, Including Killing ISIS Teen
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Edward Gallagher was a decorated 19-year Navy veteran on his eighth tour of duty. And military prosecutors say that while serving in Mosul, Iraq, in 2017, he snapped.
Gallagher plans to plead not guilty to multiple charges of war crimes at his arraignment hearing Friday at Naval Base San Diego, attorney Phillip Stackhouse told NPR.
Prosecutors say the Navy SEAL fired indiscriminately into Iraqi crowds. They say he shot an elderly man carting a water jug in Mosul, as well as a girl walking along a riverbank there, the AP reported. They also say Gallagher fatally stabbed an injured teenage Islamic State prisoner while another U.S. medic was working to save his life.
Gallagher plans to plead not guilty to multiple charges of war crimes at his arraignment hearing Friday at Naval Base San Diego, attorney Phillip Stackhouse told NPR.
Prosecutors say the Navy SEAL fired indiscriminately into Iraqi crowds. They say he shot an elderly man carting a water jug in Mosul, as well as a girl walking along a riverbank there, the AP reported. They also say Gallagher fatally stabbed an injured teenage Islamic State prisoner while another U.S. medic was working to save his life.
Navy SEAL To Plead Not Guilty To War Crimes, Including Killing ISIS Teen
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Let’s hope this is false. It it is proven then we have a problem to deal with.
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My greatest fear for him is that he will enter a "kangaroo court" and he will be guilty until proven innocent.
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Innocent until proven guilty. This is war. Unless CPO Gallagher is clearly, beyond a doubt guilty, then this is a witch hunt. Aside from the detrimental effect on Chief Gallagher and his family, trying warriors for killing in a war will make every potential recruit think twice before they enlist. Unless way beyond doubt we should not try our warriors for killing the enemy.
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TSgt Michael Brandt
Whether it’s the Geneva convention or the uniform code of military justice and maybe I’m wrong maybe things have changed but if you have an enemy in custody is the only way you can be charged with murder if it’s in a fire fight it is not considered murder so the question is if he had this person in his custody
Point #2 seeing he took a picture with the dead Isis fighter why would you do that as a trophy if you did not make the kill
#3 The female Army personnel that had her picture taken with the Guantánamo prisoner was dealt with so why is that not a free ride but this one is
Point #2 seeing he took a picture with the dead Isis fighter why would you do that as a trophy if you did not make the kill
#3 The female Army personnel that had her picture taken with the Guantánamo prisoner was dealt with so why is that not a free ride but this one is
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