Posted on 04/23/2010 4:23:11 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
BAGHDAD (AP) — A U.S. military judge on Friday cleared a Navy SEAL of any wrongdoing in the alleged beating of an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding the grisly 2004 killings of four American contractors.
The Blackwater contractors' burned bodies were dragged through the streets and two were hanged from a bridge over the Euphrates river in the former insurgent hotbed of Fallujah in an attack that shocked Americans and galvanized U.S. support for the war.
After a daylong trial and fewer than two hours considering the evidence, Navy Judge Cmdr. Tierny Carlos found Petty Officer 2nd Class Jonathan Keefe of Yorktown, Virginia, not guilty of dereliction of duty, a spokesman said.
It was the second verdict in as many days to throw out charges against a SEAL accused in the abuse case. Three SEALS, the Navy's elite special forces unit, face charges in a case that has drawn fire from at least 20 members of Congress and other Americans who it see it as coddling terrorists to overcompensate for the notorious Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
The trial against the third and final SEAL to be charged is slated for May 3 in Norfolk, Virginia.
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Obama and Holder. That’s what wrong with this picture.
The terrorists rights have been violated. After they dragged these American contractors in the streets and hung up the chared remains...have mercy on the perpetrators....it’s the Hussein way! And to think these Seals did not even get a trial in NYC!
Well, his dishdasha was stained! The humanity
My sentiments exactly!
Good for our guys - the GOOD guys - but this shall not be forgotten!!!!!
Tell your reps running in Nov, any brass you meet, etc that we DO NOT bring charges up against our troops for “roughing up” a combatant!!! Case closed!!!! Or they themselves can soldier up and fight the f***ing war....s**t heads all!!!!!
I know some of said individuals...they can’t tell the difference between their a** and a hole in the ground...
God forbid! They stained the dishdasha!
Thanks for that completely irrelevant tidbit of Arab culture.
There should be no pretense about the idiot in chief.He is an enemy of Israel, and a treasonous filthy dog to all of Americas allies, failing to face down a theocratic caliphatic movement bent on world domination.
Teasonous dogs in the White House, bent on the destruction of our native land!!
no kidding...I’ve had cops whoop me much worse than than that while cuffed up and just took my medicine
we are supposed to feel sorry for this murdering turd?
DeMartino sure sounds like he has a soft spot for the piece of camel turd.
The PC infestation is all-permeating.
Thank you!
US clears 2nd Navy SEAL in Iraqi abuse case
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Now give the poor man back his life...
WOO HOO!!!
Think the (3) S's.
*APPLAUSE*
What a dog & pony show! And for WHAT?
For the purpose of destroying the morale and effectiveness of our military.
It's working.
“Good news for Americans...but registered Democrats not too happy.”
Telling comment...registered RATS are “internationalists” (read socialists/communists) first, Americans somewhere down the list, if at all - America is to blame for those wackpies...it aint your daddy’s RAT party folks...time to WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE.
> ... of seeing Abed punched in the stomach, causing blood to gush from his mouth and stain his white dishdasha ...
You mean these brave men were being charged for laundry stains on a terrorist?
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