Retired Marines are providing a security watch at the family's home as Pantano awaits a March hearing...
Posted on 02/18/2005 5:39:55 AM PST by Leatherneck_MT
The FBI is investigating threats against 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano, the Marine charged with premeditated murder in the killing of two Iraqi insurgents last April.
A website, using an address nearly identical to one launched by the officer's family, posted photographs depicting Pantano beheaded by a hooded jihadist, according to the officer's lawyer, Charles Gittins.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Someone needs to hack that site and shut it down permanently
Any truth to the rumor that moveon.org is behind this?
I don't think we have to excerpt WND
FBI probing threat against accused Marine
Web photos depict beheading, home under security watch
Posted: February 18, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Art Moore
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
The FBI is investigating threats against 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano, the Marine charged with premeditated murder in the killing of two Iraqi insurgents last April.
A website, using an address nearly identical to one launched by the officer's family, posted photographs depicting Pantano beheaded by a hooded jihadist, according to the officer's lawyer, Charles Gittins.
Other photographs on the hostile site, defendthedefenders.org, have been edited to depict Pantano in an electric chair.
Pantano took the threats seriously and reported them to local law enforcement and the FBI in Wilmington, N.C., where he lives with his wife and two children, the Washington Times reported.
Retired Marines are providing a security watch at the family's home as Pantano awaits a March hearing.
Capt. Larry Hines of the New Hanover County Sheriff's Office in Wilmington confirmed to WorldNetDaily an investigation regarding the website is underway, but he has not come to any conclusions yet. Hines also confirmed the FBI is probing the threat.
Gittins told the Times he believes the hostile site was created in Pakistan and said cyberattacks earlier this week from the Middle East country shut down the website created for Pantano's defense by his mother, Merry K. Pantano.
Mrs. Pantano told WND her son is upset that his case "has gone this far."
"Not only is it putting troops in danger in the field -- which he was more concerned about than his own welfare -- now he has to worry about the threat to his own family and children, for the rest of his life," she said.
As WorldNetDaily reported, Pantano's quick-reaction platoon, operating in the Sunni Triangle, detained the Iraqis April 15, 2004, after securing a terrorist hideaway where the Marines found a weapons cache. Pantano contends the Iraqis disobeyed his order in Arabic to stop, prompting him to open fire on them.
A spokesman for the Marine Corps Second Division command at Camp Lejeune, N.C., where Pantano is based, says he understands the outrage over the case but urges Americans to have confidence in the military justice system.
Gittins, however, says his client, who was cleared of wrongdoing by his superiors on the field and served another three months in combat, "feels like he's been betrayed."
The lawyer said a witness largely corroborates the officer's version of events.
An embedded Time magazine reporter provided a gripping, up-close account of a dangerous operation on the outskirts of Fallujah led by Pantano just nine days after the April 15 incident. The story, published May 10, showed Pantano's opposition to the high-level decision to pull back from a planned onslaught of the terrorist-stronghold.
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I'm confused they are both the same now.
whois lists the same owner for both sites
Shame on the Marine Corps for putting this Soldier and his family in harms way.
He put his life on the line for this country and this country through the Marine corps put his life on the line for a second time.
That's double jeapordy by any standard.
Shame on the imbecles in the legal section of the Marines.
As many times as I get "blasted" on here for stressing the need for never mentioning troops names, especially leaders, snipers, and other special ops heroes during times of war....
I wonder how many of the families of these Hero Marine Snipers have been threatened, injured, or killed because our enemy knows who they are! This is a known tactic to destroy the effectiveness of our military.
This website is only a modern version of the "fish wrapped in newspaper" ....
Retired Marines are providing a security watch at the family's home as Pantano awaits a March hearing...
>>>I wonder how many of the families of these Hero Marine Snipers have been threatened, injured, or killed because our enemy knows who they are!
There is testimony in these transcripts about the 'enemy' collecting personal data on MIL from N. Korea and other wars. They have received contact from the enemy too.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/940575/posts
STATEMENT OF SGT. BARRY F. RHODEN - The McCarthy Transcript
Ok wasn't sure and I'd rather be safe than sorry.
As many times as I get "blasted" on here for stressing the need for never mentioning troops names, especially leaders, snipers, and other special ops heroes during times of war....
You will never hear me blast you.
Only those idiots who couldn't buy a clue if they had the money to do so would blast you for a common sense approach.
I'll try my best to remember to blank that information out frm now on myself.
Loose Lips Sink Ships
Shame on the Marine Corps for putting this Soldier and his family in harms way.
Yes indeed, shame on them and the Media.
But shame on you for calling him a Soldier ;)
He's not a soldier, he's a Marine
There IS a difference
this is disgusting.
some of our u.s. senators and u.s. congress politicos ought to be looking into this.
You are safe :)
But shame on you for calling him a Soldier ;)
He's not a soldier, he's a Marine
There IS a difference
Well, shame on me too. I'm sure I've made that error. I didn't know about that symantic.
No harm done M'lady :)
>>Retired Marines are providing a security watch at the family's home as Pantano awaits a March hearing.
Once a Marine...
If I were one of the blowfly sucking maggots who threatened this Marine I'd be .... well, I'd be a blowfly sucking maggot, wouldn't I?
Someone needs to locate the perps and shut them down permanantly.
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