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To summarize the case, on April 21, 2008, terrorists attacked Behenna’s platoon, wounding two of his men and killing two others, along with two Iraqi civilians. On May 5th, officials arrested Ali-Mansur for his involvement in this particular attack. After questioning Mansur, Army Intelligence released him without explanation, then turned him over to Behenna to escort Mansur back to his home. Behenna attempted to interrogate Mansur. Would you briefly summarize the case in the death of Ali-Mansur? A: My understanding is that the prosecution believed Behenna shot Ali Mansur when he was sitting down. The first shot was to the...

The family of an Edmond soldier convicted of murdering an Iraqi while fighting overseas received good news Friday morning. The highest military appeals court decided to hear Lieutenant Michael Behenna's case. He is serving his 15-year sentence in the Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, prison. This appeal could overturn that conviction and the sentence for killing Ali Mansur in 2008. Behenna previously testified he shot in self-defense when Ali Mansur reached out for his gun. Prosecutors argued that Behenna killed Mansur by shooting him in the head, execution style. "Those shots are horizontal and parallel to each other, inconsistent with the fact...

May 13, 2011) — Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, who was court-martialed in December 2010 and spent five months in prison for disobeying orders due to Obama’s questionable eligibility, was released from Ft. Leavenworth today and appeared on Sandy Springs Radio from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. EDT. The U.S. Army had ruled that the military was “no place for Barack Obama’s presidential eligibility to be evaluated” and had refused Lakin discovery as to whether or not Obama was eligible to serve as president and commander-in-chief. Lakin’s request for clemency was denied last month, but he was released one month short...

Col. Terry Lakin was released from Levenworth prison today.

In an exclusive interview, Lt. Col. Terry Lakin spoke to the Gazette this afternoon, following his release from prison at Ft. Leavenworth, after serving a six month sentence. Lakin, a former Greeley resident said at his courtmartial he felt he had no choice but to disobey orders after attempting for more than a year to get answers from his chain of command regarding the president's eligibility to be commander in chief. Lakin was in good spirits following his release today. After exiting a white van, he met his brother Greg. Using a laptop, he called his wife and children on...

U.S. officials say the Army private suspected of giving classified data to WikiLeaks is being moved to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas in the wake of international criticism about his treatment during his detention at the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Va.

. . . . . LTC Terry Lakin, M.D.  sits in a cell at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary for daring to ask. Tonight we talk with his brother Dr. Gregg Lakin and Marco Ciavolino, trustee for the Terry Lakin Action Fund. The ANDREA SHEA KING SHOW9 pm EThttp://www.blogtalkradio.com/askshow/2011/01/21/the-andrea-shea-king-show Please if you can, make a donation to the Terry Lakin Action Fund to help support his wife and children while he is in prison. He stood up for us and our Constitution. Now its our turn to stand up and help him. http://www.terrylakinactionfund.comCDR Charles Kerchner (Ret) http://www.protectourliberty.orgVideo: Brother of Lt. Col. Terry...

Army asks for mercy from clemency callers- Lakin supporters flood phone lines; need to redirect messages ### Army public affairs officer Lt. Col. Rob Manning today asked WND readers appealing for clemency for imprisoned "birther" Dr. Terrence Lakin to send their pleas to Lakin's defense counsel, not to the officer with authority to free Lakin, Maj. Gen. Karl Horst. "We're getting a lot of calls," said Manning, the director of public affairs for the Joint Force Headquarters, National Capital Region. Manning emphasized clemency requests should be sent to Maj. Matthew Kemkes, Lakin's defense counsel. Kemkes' e-mail address is matthewkemkes@us.army.mil. *snip*...

VIRGINIA BEACH A former Navy lieutenant commander who was scheduled to be released [1]next month after serving sixteen years for a murder-for-hire plot against his wife in Virginia Beach has died. Michael Fricke, 54, died Thursday of injuries he sustained when he was attacked with a baseball bat by another military prisoner at Fort Leavenworth, a prison spokeswoman confirmed today. A brief fight broke out between Fricke and the other inmate on July 24 around 2 p.m. while several inmates were playing sports, according to the spokeswoman. Fricke was taken by helicopter to a local medical facility and died Thursday...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Aug. 10, 2009) — House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-Mo.) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates expressing serious concerns regarding the consideration of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as a potential site for detainees transferred from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Skelton, a long-time advocate for Professional Military Education, raised concerns that a number of Muslim countries would stop sending students to the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth if Guantanamo detainees were transferred there. Skelton also noted that the United States Code precludes the proximate detention of American and foreign individuals, so any plan to...

As a former Marine, I know that the men and women of our armed forces, including those at Fort Leavenworth, are more than capable of securing these terrorists. In fact, they already secure them very well at Guantanamo. The real threat lies beyond the terrorists themselves. For places like Leavenworth, there is a virtual top 10 list of external threats ... 2. Security experts estimate that Fort Leavenworth would need to acquire 2,000 privately owned acres of land by eminent domain to establish a stand-off zone around the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks, which is situated near the perimeter. Imagine the lawsuits,...

Not in my backyard! Not in my state! Not in my country! That was the response from politicians and business leaders in Kansas on Monday to moves by President Barack Obama to transfer terrorism suspects from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to facilities in the United States, perhaps including Kansas. "This is a patently bad idea," Republican Senator Sam Brownback told reporters in the northeast Kansas riverside community of Leavenworth ... The Washington Post reported on Sunday that a government task force was considering as possible sites Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and a 604-bed maximum security prison in Standish, Michigan, that is scheduled...

Fox News is reporting that sources within the administration are saying that the latest Obama administration idea for moving GITMO detainees has them going to Leavanworth and a maximum security prison in Michigan. The Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the U.S. to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison.

LEAVENWORTH — The Washington State Patrol says actor James Caviezel suffered minor injuries when a man hurled a bicycle into the path of his motorcycle about 14 miles southeast of Leavenworth.

The U.S. military has prepared a list of U.S. military bases that could be used to house as many as 250 detainees currently being held at the U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, military officials tell ABCNews.com. The list -- which includes Camp Pendleton in California, Fort Leavenworth in Kansas; the Marine Air Station in Miramar, California; and the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig in South Carolina -- has been circulated in a classified brief to members of Congress and was prepared by the Pentagon's Joint Staff. President-elect Barack Obama is expected to order that the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility be...

FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — A former Army cook convicted of multiple rapes and murders is set to die next month in what would be the U.S. military's first execution in nearly 50 years. The military said Thursday that former North Carolina soldier Ronald A. Gray is to be executed Dec. 10 at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind. Gray was arrested in connection with four slayings and eight rapes in the Fayetteville, N.C., area between April 1986 and January 1987, while he was stationed at Fort Bragg. He was convicted of murdering two women.

Rayshaun Parson, the woman who authorities said abducted a baby from a Lubbock hospital and then fled to New Mexico, is expected to appear in federal court this morning. The 21-year-old is scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate in Lubbock at 9 a.m., where she faces a kidnapping charge. A court document states she has confessed to the crime. She also faces a state kidnapping charge. On Monday, the parents of 5-day-old Mychael Darthard-Dawodu spoke with reporters for the first time since police say Parson stole the infant from Covenant Lakeside Hospital. Parson "We're just happy to have her...

Weapons alone aren't enough to win a war -- you also need to dig wells and build schools. Lessons from the war in Iraq have caused nothing short of a cultural revolution in the United States Army. In Fort Leavenworth, leading officers are training troops for the wars of the future. Fort Leavenworth, where America's armies of the future are being shaped, is a perfect optical illusion. The camp looks like an idyllic, small American city, where walnut trees provide shade for the verandas of old houses, the Stars and Stripes flutter in the wind from every gable and the...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)-A U.S. Army soldier who fled to Canad arather than return to Iraq has disappeared again, this time just a day after surrendering to the military.Pvt. Kyle Snyder, 23, of Colorado Springs, Colo., told The Associated Press he was supposed to return by bus to Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., from Louisville on Tuesday byt didn't go. He said he went AWOL after Fort Knox officials told him he would be sent back to his unit, the 94th Engineer Batallion.

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