Posted on 05/20/2007 12:55:43 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Phony Soldier Charged With Making Up Claims of Atrocities in Iraq
Sunday , May 20, 2007
AP
SEATTLE — A man who tried to position himself as a leader of the anti-war movement by claiming to have participated in war crimes while serving in Iraq is facing federal charges of falsifying his record.
Jesse Adam Macbeth, 23, formerly of Phoenix, garnered attention on blogs and in some alternative media after he began claiming in 2005 to have been awarded a Purple Heart for his service, which he said included slaughtering innocents in a Fallujah mosque. His story was contradicted by his discharge form, showing that he was kicked out of the Army after six weeks at Fort Benning, Ga., in 2003 because of his “entry level performance and conduct.”
A complaint unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Seattle charged him with one count of using or possessing a forged or altered military discharge certificate, and one count of making false statements in seeking benefits from the Veterans Administration.
Macbeth’s public defender, Jay Stansell, declined to comment.
Organizations that opposed the war, including Iraq Veterans Against the War, posted videos or statements containing Macbeth’s claims on their Web sites. In one videotaped interview, a skinny, stuttering Macbeth, dressed in a camouflage jacket, described slaughtering hundreds of people in a mosque: “We would burn their bodies ... hang their bodies from the rafters in the mosque,” he said.
Iraq Veterans Against the War and other organizations removed the claims after learning they were false.
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a remake?—when I read the headline quickly, I thought it was about Kerry.
vaudine
Is he realted to Hanoi John Kerry?
Semper Fi’
Jarhead
He needs to be charged with aiding and abetting the enemy.
Dang, He did a lot more in his 1 1/2 months of active duty
that I did in 22 yrs, 3 conflicts, and two trips round the world.
Oh wait — he never left Boot Camp.
But he'll never have my sincere gratitude for his "service." You do! :)
later read
bump
The answer to your question is “Massachusetts” where their state saying is:
“My country, always wrong”.
Their other slogan is:
“I’ll drive off that bridge when I come to it.”
or, “Where did I put that car?”
Re VVAW’s David Curry’s review of Jug Burkett’s book “Stolen Valor”. JB uses records at the National Archives as well as thru FOIA requests to check on a person’s claim to have served in Vietnam.
Al Hubbard, VVAW leader, was a fraud. Never served in Vietnam, never injured in a combat environment, etc. He was a veteran leftist with strong ties to international Soviet fronts, acting on behalf of VVAW at these meetings.
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), claimed to have been a Vietnam veteran but this was a lie. He never served in Vietnam and no record can be found of him even landing in Vietnam as a plane ferry pilot. He did work with Don Luce, an avowed VC supporter, to cook up the hoax of the “tiger cages” at Con Son Island. Rep. Phil Crane, in a July, 1970 article in Human Events, exposed Harkin and Luce’s fraud, with photos.
Curry is one of the hardcore VVAW leaders. If anyone knows if he is or was a member of the Revolutionary Students Brigade or its parent body, the Revolutionary Communist Party, let me know here at this article. VVAW Maoists of the RCP and splinter factions took over VVAW in late 1972-73, which is one reason why Kerry bailed on them in late 1972. He also had political deadlines to reach for nominations/races.
Re Mark Lane - debated this psycho on WKYS in Phila. in the fall 1970 when his book had just come out. He even turned off a sympathetic audience and moderator with his outrageous and unsupported claims about Vietnam. Others on this show included Prof. Ashley Montagu (a leftist from Princeton) and VVAW founder Jan Crumb (who didn’t say much).
I had a great time wiping up Lane and Montague with documents, photos, and facts. The cameraman, after the show, pulled me aside and side, “I’m a WW2 veteran. I’m on your side”. I hope he had “my good side” on camera a lot.
Even the moderator thanked me for doing a good job of debating with facts and documents. He was really steamed at Lane’s irrational and ludicrous behavior.
Oh, for the old days.
ROFLMAO... this is good news. That POS deserves more than just the ridicule that this has put on his name forever.
Should read:
Iraq Veterans Against the War and other organizations removed the claims after learning they were no longer the only folks who knew the allegations were false.
A cross search on his name and "Communist" doesn't produce anything of note.
> Jesse Adam Macbeth (b. Jesse Adam Al-Zaid in 1984)
Now there’s an ugly-looking traitor scroat as I’ve ever seen. Crikey!
And how come he gets to call himself Macbeth? He doesn’t look Scottish to me.
His ugly mug would look good framed in hemp, just like Saddam Hussein. Do they still hang traitors in the US?
Wow, you’re right, he is a Muslim. I think that this calls for some emails to the Vietnam Veterans against the War group, even though they took down the article. The founder of the group was also a phoney, so this really discredits the group.
Yeah, he gives backstabbing regicides a bad name.
> He needs to be charged with aiding and abetting the enemy.
And Treason.
What a wonderfully-descriptive word, is “Treason”. It sounds just like what it means. It is a word that can be elegantly spat out. You could imagine Richard Burton pronouncing it in his typical dead-pan way:
“Treason.”
‘Tis an old-fashioned word, it summons up images of the Admiralty and simpler times, when thoughts of Treason usually accompanied a Hanging Party for All Hands on Deck. Of Cat-o’-Nine-Tails and a jolly good flogging ‘round the fleet, in the finest of Admiralty traditions. Of black gunpowder and cutlasses and flintlocks and rum and Traitors dancing a merry jig from the yard-arm...
Of piping up Spirits, a double-ration for the hanging party when their work is done.
Ah yes, “Treason.”
Yes, he should be charged with “Treason”. And punished as a “Traitor”. Gitmo orange would suit him admirably, and he should be grateful that this is now the twenty-first century not the eighteenth, when they knew how to correctly punish Traitors with merry dispatch.
good he was outed.
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