Posted on 04/26/2005 2:59:13 PM PDT by Lorianne
Pvt. Federico Merida of the U.S. P National Guard was assigned to protect his fellow soldiers at an Army base in Iraq. Instead he killed one of them after the two men had consensual sex in a guard tower near Tikrit.
According to court-martial records obtained by The News & Observer of Raleigh, N.C., in mid December, plus other news reports, Merida admitted to shooting 17-year-old Iraqi soldier Falah Zaggam 11 times last May because he was upset about having had sex with him. Merida, 21, was sentenced in September to 25 years in prison, and he will be dishonorably discharged.
Few other facts about the case were released, but records did show that the North Carolina resident, who has a wife and son, apologized to the victim's family. "I took someone they loved and cared for," he said.
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There is not much on this story. I think the media has been wiped clean of this article, except for this one in a Find Article referring to the Advocate (a gay magazine).
I'm wondering why we haven't heard much of this in the MSM?
Maybe they don't want to disclose that a Don't-ask-don't-teller when apeshiz and killed his lover?
Bad for the butt bandit image, don'tcha know?
I read about this when it happened...it's true.
According to the queer that pulled the trigger, it was.
"Merida admitted to shooting 17-year-old Iraqi soldier Falah Zaggam 11 times last May because he was upset about having had sex with him."
Queers in the military = bad idea.
Because it would give weight to the argument that gays do not belong in the military. The story would have been front page had it been a white Christian officer killing a woman.
Well then. I'm not sure what to say about this. Except that I feel sorry for the wife and kid, as well as the family of the victim.
Yes but they made such a big deal about Abu Graib ... and then you hear nothing about a 17 year old boy being murdered in cold blood by a member of our military.
It would seem this would be all over the news.
This is a horrible story. I imagine this fellow isn't gay. This reminds me of that "Secret Crush" thing on the Jenny ??? show where the guy came out and then he and the guy he had a crush on went out drinking and the faggot ended up seducing the straight guy, and then later the straight guy killed the homo and went to prison for a long time. So any of these butt pirates that think it's funny better think twice to seduce straight guys better think twice.
And I don't believe that if a queer seduces a straight guy it makes the straight guy suddenly "homosexual". It just means he got seduced by a fast talking smooth operator. Happens to women every day. Not that it's happened to me.
It may have happened to the 17 year old.
#1) You can't rape the willing.
#2) Murder is murder.
We apparently need to tweak the new rule: "Don't ask, don't tell, and DON'T KILL YOUR DATE!!!"
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