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December 05, 2009
Navy Seals Could Face One Year In Prison ~ See This Ad And Link So We Can Show Our Support For Our Navy Seals
Support The SEALs: Drop the Unfair and Outrageous Charges NOW!
The hearing is scheduled for December 7.
SupportTheSeals.com is currently running 30- and 60-second ads on cable TV outlets in order to pressure the House, Senate, Administration and Military to drop the charges against these three brave heroes.
2004 ...Fallujah, Iraq. Four civilian U.S. contractors were transporting supplies for a catering company. They were ambushed, killed, their bodies burned and dragged through the streets, then hung from a bridge on the Euphrates River.
A NAVY SEAL TEAM captured one of the military’s “most wanted” terrorists, the one responsible for the heinous crime. Now 4 of our bravest and finest are facing prosecution because the scumbag terrorist claimed he got a bloody lip while in their custody.
SO-2 Petty Officer Second Class Matthew McCabe is accused of punching the terrorist, and is also charged with dereliction of duty for “failing” to safeguard the murderer. SO-2 Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe and SO-1 Julio Huertas are being charged with dereliction of duty and making false statements. The prisoner alleges that he was punched in the face by McCabe, but it isn’t clear if the injury occurred while he was in custody or when he was captured. Please note: He was not water-boarded. He was not interrogated agressively. He was not electro-shocked or tasered. His fingernails were not pulled out. Nor was he boiled in oil, or whatever other torture he may deserve. He most certainly was not shot, burned, mutilated, nor hung from a bridge. He got a bloody lip.
The Navy Seals could face one year in prison
The Navy Seals facing court martial for the alleged abuse of a terror suspect arrested for killing four Americans face up to a year in military confinement, discharge for bad conduct, and forfeiture of two-thirds of their pay for a year, if convicted, according to defense attorneys.
The three Navy Seals--Matthew McCabe, Jonathon Keefe, and Julio Huertas--will be arraigned on Monday in Norfolk, Va. They are facing a special court martial--which is equivalent to a misdemeanor charge--and have each denied the allegations of abuse and cover-up.
Further, their attorneys said that the possibilty that they would not be able to cross-examine their clients' accuser would be grounds for dismissing the case.
The accuser, Ahmed Hashim Abed, is the alleged architect of the murder of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. The bodies of the four Americans were burned and hanged from a bridge for display.
The three Navy Seals--Matthew McCabe, Jonathon Keefe, and Julio Huertas--will be arraigned on Monday in Norfolk, Va. They are facing a special court martial--which is equivalent to a misdemeanor charge--and have each denied the allegations of abuse and cover-up.
The trial date for McCabe, the Seal charged with the alleged assault, is tentatively set for Jan. 19, 2010, McCabe’s attorney Neal Puckett said.
Defense attorneys told CNSNews.com that they are waiting to see the evidence from military prosecutors because it is still under review to determine if it is classified. Even the charges, the only court filings in the case thus far, are still under review.
“The government has not handed over anything,” Huertas’ attorney Monica Lombardi told CNSNews.com. “They are now claiming that things are classified, but they are not saying what’s classified and what’s not classified. I filed my discovery request, and they denied it, pending a classification review. … We have no photographs of the alleged injuries.We have no medical reports of these alleged injuries."
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'Miscarriage of Justice'
Rep. Dan Burton on the Navy SEALS Court-Martial: “I would have done much worse. The al-Qaeda Manual says complain of torture if you’re caught.”
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Wild Thing's comment.........
There will be a rally to support these SEALs on December 7th in Norfolk, Virginia.
This is a complete outrage and mockery of our US Military. As Americans, we CANNOT stand for this and MUST show our support for our troops who are constantly being put in harms way to protect the country that is now bringing them under fire. We must send a message that “political correctness” has reached a boiling point and that these service men will not be hung out to dry.
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Posted by Wild Thing at December 5, 2009 06:55 AM
Comments
What part of we are at war with global Islamic terrorism don't these people get. This is not a board game with rules to level the playing field, although a few bombs should be used to level the enemies "playing" field.
Posted by: Bob A at December 5, 2009 08:16 AM
Thank you, Wild Thing; for covering this. When our troops get deployed, they expect to look at the pointy end of the spear. They do not deserve to have to look over their backs to see what is coming from behind. If this were something on the scale of Mi Lai or such; I would call for a full investigation to see where the rule of order was broken. In this case, the Raghead may, or may not, have been hit in the lip. Hell, I hit myself in the lip with a board the other day, but didn't want to bring myself up on charges.
"Never Forget Ft. Hood Texas 11/5/09!"
Posted by: Frankly Opinionated at December 5, 2009 09:30 AM
This whole communist regime we have in D.C. needs to go. Using the Justice Department to fight arm-in-arm with Al Queda is beyond all reasoning.
Posted by: Jim at December 5, 2009 09:59 AM
I am so angry at this that I don't know what to say. It would be nice to know the individuals that brought these charges and the others who are supporting the charges. I'll bet that obama favors these charges. He hates the military.
In this war there have been a significant number of fighting military charged with war crimes. Haditha Marines, a Ranger Captain now in prison, several Special Forces members, a Marine filmed by NBC shooting an insurgent. What these men were all doing is a part of war. The anti military establishment is going to do all it can to discourage and demoralize our military. We have more enemy at home than we do overseas.
Posted by: TomR at December 5, 2009 11:22 AM
Let see here... Soldier Of Allah U.S. Army Major Hassan murdered 13 fellow U.S. Army soldiers in cold blood after yelling "Alluah Alluah Ackbar" and seriously wounded 30 fellow U.S. Army soldiers in the same JIHAD rampage, and the U.S. Pentagon is prosecuting U.S. Navy SEALS for a supposed bloody lip in our war on radical islamofascism?
Need I go on Bear Nation?
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at December 5, 2009 04:56 PM
You said a bundle, Tom. And in all of those cases nobody cared to listen to the Troops side of the story. they took the word of the enemy. Hell, murtha had the Marines convicted and ready to swing before there was even an investigation.
What they don't need is an embedded reporter with them on patrol 24-7 What goes on in the field doesn't always get understood by the media or in most cased is misunderstood by the media and then exaggerated beyond what it actually was.
This fat lip is just crap an excuse to do a disservice to the Seals and all our Armed Forces in general.
These pompous bastards when you spend the night watching the wire and hoping and praying that a claymore doesn't go off you tend to get another perspective on what is really going on and how you are going to deal with it. When it does all bets are off.
The VC were famous for raiding Villiages and pulling out someone or a bunch of people, in the middle of the night, who they suspected for helping the Americans and shooting them right on the spot in front of their people and their families. Then disappear as fast as then came in.
My lai I am still not convinced, that, it was as simple as the press made it out to be. They had Calley convicted and in jail before the show trial even began. They had to hang somebody and they did. Then Hanoi John Kerry made the most of it.
But when our own congress sides with the enemy before even considering the circumstances or even knowing what happened, we are in deep trouble.
Posted by: Mark at December 5, 2009 06:26 PM
We have to remember that this crap also happened while Bush was in the White House. What really pisses me off about this one is that they Navy is taking the word of this terrorist over three of its finest Sailors. I guess that's how the REMF's get promoted.
Posted by: BobF at December 5, 2009 07:57 PM
Its sad that the SEAL's must go thru this , but they will walk in the end. If not the uproar will be loud and surely those in power will feel the wrath of many Americans.
Posted by: Ron Russell at December 5, 2009 08:09 PM
Tom, I agree and it concerns me more and
more each day.
"We have more enemy at home than we do overseas."
Thank you everyone. Thank you too for watching
the video and your support of our Navy Seals.
Posted by: Wild Thing at December 5, 2009 11:51 PM
