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Marine Cleared in Shooting Death of Iraq Ambassador's Relative
AP Via FoxNews ^
| July 19, 2006
Posted on 07/19/2006 6:03:59 PM PDT by Chickenhawk Warmonger
BAGHDAD, Iraq A U.S. Marine has been cleared of criminal wrongdoing in last year's fatal shooting of a relative of Iraq's ambassador to the United States, a U.S. official said Wednesday.
The 21-year-old engineering student, Mohammed Sumaidaie, was killed during a search of his family's home near Haditha on June 25, 2005. U.S. authorities ordered an investigation after Samir Sumaidaie complained that his unarmed cousin had been shot in cold blood.
However, Maj. Douglas Powell, a U.S. military spokesman, said the Naval Criminal Investigative Service determined that the Marine "acted properly in self defense in response to unexpectedly encountering a man pointing an AK-47 at him."
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ambassador; exonerated; iraq; kneejerk; marine; notcoldblooded
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To: VOA
Actually haven't heard it on FoxNews but read it online at FoxNews.com. Still... it's an AP story but no one picks it up????????
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posted on
07/19/2006 7:25:56 PM PDT
by
Chickenhawk Warmonger
(All aboard the Chickenhawk Express... www.chickenhawkexpress.blogspot.com)
To: Chickenhawk Warmonger; 2111USMC; 68 grunt; A.A. Cunningham; ASOC; AirForceBrat23; Ajnin; ...
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posted on
07/19/2006 8:01:18 PM PDT
by
freema
(Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
To: Sam Ketcham
There will be no more volunteers or re-ups.Just back from a combat training graduation ceremony for new Marines. Shame you didn't see it.
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posted on
07/19/2006 8:06:02 PM PDT
by
freema
(Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
To: freema
U.S. Marine has been cleared of criminal wrongdoing
Bump! Good news!
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posted on
07/19/2006 8:14:24 PM PDT
by
Gucho
To: Chickenhawk Warmonger
I'm almost finished with Ilario Pantana's 'Warlords' book. Pantana, you recall, was charged with and acquitted of murdering a couple Iraqi insurgents. These trials are getting a lot of our guys killed.
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posted on
07/19/2006 8:33:10 PM PDT
by
Ben Chad
To: Ben Chad
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posted on
07/19/2006 8:33:58 PM PDT
by
Ben Chad
To: ExTexasRedhead
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posted on
07/19/2006 11:18:34 PM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(I saw TheInvisibleMan around here somewhere .... didn't I?)
To: ExTexasRedhead
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posted on
07/19/2006 11:23:19 PM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(I saw TheInvisibleMan around here somewhere .... didn't I?)
To: pissant
Thanks for the ping.
Case CLOSED!
:-)
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posted on
07/19/2006 11:24:25 PM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(I saw TheInvisibleMan around here somewhere .... didn't I?)
To: Sam Ketcham
These prosecutions are a drop in a bucket and everyone with sense knows it. The Marines are showing themselves Ivory soap pure. Perhaps it's best that those without sense decline to re-up, though.
To: freema
Justice was properly served.
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posted on
07/20/2006 6:34:13 AM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned)
To: axes_of_weezles
Had Murtha said anything about this particular Marine and case?
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posted on
07/20/2006 6:54:48 AM PDT
by
GunnyBob
To: pissant
Thanks for the ping--I'm hoping one day everyone currently charged will be cleared. Sure, I know the story about bad apples, but my prayer is that they were culled before landing in Iraq.
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posted on
07/20/2006 7:12:43 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
To: Enchante
So even the Iraqi Ambassador is given to smearing our Marines...... don't think we can ever trust anyone from these hellholes......
Further down in the article, it states that since the shooting, the former Iraqi ambassador is now the Iraqi envoy ... in Washington. Lovely
Good news for our Marine, though!
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posted on
07/20/2006 7:21:25 AM PDT
by
Titan Magroyne
(Suicide Bomb Instructor: "Now pay attention, I'm only gonna do this once...")
To: Chickenhawk Warmonger; freema; Coop
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posted on
07/20/2006 7:37:40 AM PDT
by
concretebob
(The US Constitution only applies to those who believe what it says..)
To: Titan Magroyne
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posted on
07/20/2006 8:00:39 AM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
To: MizSterious
Thank you for the link. Based on your article:
It seems that he is calling for it to be debated at the Arab League foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo, keeping his gripes "in the family," as it were. It appears to be rhetoric aimed at scoring political points at home, without conviction of world agreement with his stance. Not that pandering to ingrates is a good thing, either ...
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posted on
07/20/2006 9:53:58 AM PDT
by
Titan Magroyne
(Suicide Bomb Instructor: "Now pay attention, I'm only gonna do this once...")
To: concretebob
If there's guns in the room one better be yours....
This is one of Hubby's favorites - be glad you didn't see him laughing and dancing to it.
(Slams palm on forehead)
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posted on
07/20/2006 5:30:37 PM PDT
by
freema
(Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
To: Sam Ketcham
Just call it a strategic withdrawal, leave plenty of ammo and weapons, then go back in two years and wipe out the winners. No matter when we leave, they will fight each other in the name of Allah, the moon god
Sorry Mr. Murtha, violates at least two Patton maxims:
1) "Victory is a soldier standing with his weapon and no one is shooting at him."
2) When given a similar suggestion: "I don't believe in paying for the same ground twice."
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posted on
07/20/2006 5:54:25 PM PDT
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
To: freema
I wore the cassette out and had to buy the CD.
First time I heard it I was laughing so hard I missed half the song.
Mr Freema sounds like my kind of people.
Anyone who likes Tim Wilson is OK in my book.
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posted on
07/21/2006 6:47:50 AM PDT
by
concretebob
(The US Constitution only applies to those who believe what it says..)
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