Posted on 11/15/2010 4:18:28 PM PST by NECAWA
* Lt. Behenna, who lost two members of his platoon just weeks earlier, was ordered to transport [terrorist suspect] back to his home
* Lt. Behenna attempts a final interrogation of {the suspect] prior to his release
* During the interrogation, Behenna is attacked by [the suspect] and is forced to defend himself. During the altercation, the terrorist is killed.
* Prosecution expert Dr. Herbert MacDonnell is not called to testify in the case and instead is sent home. Just before leaving the courthouse he picks up his coat from the prosecution room and says to the three prosecutors (Megan Poirier, Jason Elbert, and Erwin Roberts), ‘The explanation that Lt Behenna just testified to was the exact same scenario I told you yesterday. Lt Behenna is telling the truth.’
*Prosecutors withholding of this evidence allowed them to argue that Lt. Behenna executed Ali Mansur while seated when the forensic experts, including Dr. MacDonnell, agree that Ali was standing with his arms outstretched when shot
(Excerpt) Read more at defendmichael.com ...
I read once that the background to the famous picture run one hundred million times by the media in our USA of a South Vietnamese officer putting a round into the head of a Viet Cong victim, was that the VICTIM had assauted the officers home , his wife and children recently. Does anyone know if I have been misled?
The photographer apologized to the police chief for the photo.
The General lived in our community. He opened a small restaurant. My kids were raised on the blue crab cha gio his daughters made fresh every day.
I miss the old guy.
If you read the Internet references to these events you'll find a number of Leftwingtard writeups that are fairly accurate but invariably say the General was reviled in this community. That is far from the case.
The war isn't over.
That is a wonderful reply.
Thank YOU and I hope many will read it.
It never will be will it.
Glory to God.
“ The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths ... What the photograph didn't say was, 'What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers? ”
Adams later apologized in person to General Loan and his family for the damage it did to his reputation. When General Loan died of cancer in his new home of Virginia, Adams praised him: "The guy was a hero. America should be crying. I just hate to see him go this way, without people knowing anything about him."
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