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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Ping for FYI
Like we’d never have suspected anyone doing something like this
(wink) yeah, right.
BTTT
This one should hang. Tried for treason and hanged.
What a total A-hole.
Needs to rot in a dark pit somewhere.
But I feel they should charge the person with TREASON.
What this person has been found guilty of is aiding and abeiting the enemy in time of war.
Maybe most of his intention was to aid the anti-war movement, but the damage done to service people in Iraq is severe...
Line him up in front of a firing squad, and make an example of him...
With the recent damage to the Vietnam War Memorial, I think the criminal anti-war movement should be treated as such (at least the criminal element).
I would rather the anti war movement be treated as terrorists.
Operation Greenquest showed connections our domestic left with foreign enemies. But the courts dropped the football.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Nixon’s biggest failure was not prosecuting Kerry...
Many of the traitorous behaviors from congress was predicated on Kerry getting away with it.
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