AP Uses Fake SEAL to Back Kerry, Slam Bush

AP, Multiple ^ | September 12, 2004 | Travis McGee

[Travis McGee]

AP Uses Fake SEAL to Back Kerry, Slam Bush

Authentic or not, Bush memos no big deal to retired guardsmen

U.S. Servicemen React to Bush Guard Memos (spreading the lie)

Allegations of suspect conduct during the Vietnam war also have been leveled at John Kerry, who won three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star in Vietnam.

A group sponsoring television ads challenging his wartime record contends Kerry's own gunfire caused the wound that brought his first Purple Heart. Navy records and other veterans do not support the charge.

Ahmad Majied of Albany (GA) says the latest allegations about Bush's military record are more troubling to him than allegations about service honors leveled at Democratic challenger Kerry.

Majied, a Democrat from Albany who served 30 years in the Navy, including five years as a SEAL in Vietnam, said the memos support his belief that Bush was a "playboy" during his service years.

"He had enough money to get what he wanted," Majied said. "I think his main concern was not to go to Southeast Asia. I bet he never dreamed it would come back to haunt him."

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So Criminal Number 18F checked him out. Here's the reply from "authentiseal."

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Official Reply

NOT A SEAL

Thanks for checking with us - we greatly appreciate your interest in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams, and your search for the TRUTH. If the name you provided was "spelled accurately", we do NOT have a listing for anyone named "Majied" in our entire database of slightly more than 10,000 names. Unless he has undertaken the unlikely action of a full legal name change since his claimed service with the SEAL Teams, I can state conclusively that the man NEVER completed SEAL training, and thus he is not now, nor was he ever a Navy SEAL. While there are other training steps that must be completed on the path to becoming a SEAL, BUD/S training is the first and most vital, and that training course is totally unclassified. Without having first completed BUD/S training, a man cannot go on to become a SEAL. There are definitely secret SEAL missions, but despite anything the man might have said, there are NO secret SEALs. If you choose to confront the man regarding his fraudulent SEAL claims, please show him this email message and invite him to contact me - a real SEAL - directly by email with information that will support his claims. I'd enjoy hearing his stories first hand, but I've extended this offer to literally thousands of individuals over the last three years, and in all that time I've received only a scant handful of replies, so I don't really expect to hear from him either.

Again, please visit our web page www.authentiseal.org/realitycheck.htm for some very specific information related to the realities of SEAL training, SEAL duties, and the claims most often made by SEAL imposters.

Thank you again for your assistance in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams.

Respectfully, Gregory Platt

UDT/SEAL 1970-1974

SEAL Authentication Team - Investigator

"The only service where all investigators are US Navy SEALs"

[Positive]

"Maybe he was using another name then."

For this reason, I advise caution on this one. Is this guy black? If so, he may have become muslim and changed his name. Note Mohammed Ali was never drafted; Cassius Clay was.

I am not suggesting that this guy is legitimate, I'm just saying that there is some wiggle room here and we don't want to let our side get faked into attacking someone who is.

[Pajama Blogger Reader]

Interesting, the context in which that name shows up on a Google search. Wonder if its the same person...

http://216.109.117.135/search/cache?p=Ahmad+Majied+Albany&ei=UTF-8&u=production.albany.ga.us/cc_latest_agenda.htm&w=ahmad+majied+albany&d=56067BBCAD&icp=1&.intl=us

[GoBucks2002]

Have any of you seen the ad about the woman stockborker who claims she is a Republican and will vote for Kerry?

It runs in the Cincinnati market ad nauseam. Her acting is not good enough to have anyone believe she is a Republican OR a stockbroker. It's a rather amatuerish job that looks like it was put together by some college students for a class. Since when are stockbrokers so concerned about dissent that they are willing to lose customers? And... if she really is a stockbroker willing to lose customers over her support for Kerry, why not supply us with a first name and hometown?

[68 grunt]

Awesome! Get some!

[Eaker]

Matt,

If I had known that you were one of just 10,000 I wouldn't treat you so badly!!!

Great catch and keep writing!

[mikegi]

AP has they guy being from Albany, NY.

One of the reporters is from Albany, NY. Another is from Savannah, GA. Savannah is pretty far from Albany, GA so he must have phoned that one in.

No real SEAL would take the chance of being put on the Wall of Shame -- especially because of a name change.

Can you give me a link to this Wall of Shame? ...ahem... I'd like to see if a "friends" name inadvertently appears on it ...ahem...

[Blue Eyes]

Yeah for Freepers! This site, and those who comprise it, ROCK!

Is there a site similar to the SEAL site to verify Army Rangers? A man in my office claims to have been a Ranger, but based on his work ethic, or lack thereof, I am sceptical. Thanks in advance for any help that Freepers can provide.

[FredZarguna]

Fake Seal, fake religious authority of a fake religion, talking to a fake news organization on behalf of a fake war hero.

[bajer]

Here may be a good source to scour.

http://www.vpnavy.org/usscurrituck_shipmates.html

[bt_dooftlook]

nice work - better make sure we don't have this go to a Rush or Drudge w/o having our facts squared away...

[Mo1]

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[Casloy]

Mmm, will have to think on that one.

[ladyjane]

There are also people out there who claim that every once in a while the CIA calls them up and sends them on a secret mission,

Years ago my mother had a friend who told her that her husband was traveling (secretly) to California to deliver some secret documents. The 'drop' was to take place somewhere near Disneyland and it was all so secret that he couldn't even make phone calls while he was gone. By chance there was a lady who got her hair done the same place my mother did who was telling everybody about her upcoming trip to California with her boyfriend. Lo and behold - the itinerary was identical. The friend of my mother's and her daughter spent about an hour on the phone calling every hotel in the area. Found the hotel and called his room around 3 in the morning!! LOL

[B4Ranch]

The main competitor to the manure movers of America is the newly incorporated CNN Sh!t Spreaders, an authorized and fully licensed NGO of the United Nations.</p>

[John Jorsett]

Now it's Dr Dentons, 3 fingers of Jack, a laptop and Bozo is the DNC candidate for president ..

Very evocative.

[Carling]

In all honesty, I don't believe a singe printed quote I see anymore from the AP.

[kylobo]

this must be the secret seal on kerry's secret mission to cambodia and was there for 5 years.

[Fiddlstix]

ROFLMAO!

[texas booster]

Several people on FR will have the same thought, and have
it answered, before one of us can even post a question.

I prefer to add into the discussion by finding answers
to my questions, but by the time I find an answer the
cycle is complete and the thread is orphaned.

Newspapers are static compared to TV. TV is static compared
the Internet. Their time has passed.

[badgerlandjim]

...AP just like the rest of the MSM doesn't do any investigating on their sources...

It is becoming quite apparent that they don't care whether their smear attempts are based in fact or not... just so they feel safe that the smears can't be proved false. They are finally now being exposed for the total BS'ers they really are.