Posted on 11/24/2009 11:45:09 AM PST by Terrence DoGood
Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And for their trouble, three of the SEALs, members of the Navy's elite commando unit, are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.
The three have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral's mast — and requested a trial by court-martial.
Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber," told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.
Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers.
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Where is the “/sarc” tag?
he’s not upset about it, he just knows that if he says this then he might get away with what he did.
This is why obama and his admin are dangerous to this country and the radicals in the white house need tO be removed and NOW
They should have shot him in the head.
Times EFFing 2 !!!
Me too. At least they will have a jury of peers and officers and can retain legal counsel and present evidence. It is now up to the JAG to present their case or to determine there isn’t a case and recommend against a Court Martial.
In a Court Martial they are innocent until proven guilty. The Haditha Marines come to mind. Those poor guys were skewered everywhere except in the end when they were acquitted.
I really don’t care how the POS got a busted lip. He’s using our own ROE’s against us and it will cost American lives. He’s lucky they brought him in alive IMO.
SZ
“Take no prisoners”
...and (just a word to the wise), make sure that any casualties you leave behind are dead from rounds from the Other Sides’ weapons.
....got to be a whole sh**pot full of Kalashnikovs around. Get some.
correct
their is no major outrage because the state run media are not telling the public what really is going on.
This is why I think we should and need to confront the media where ever they are now.
They have got away with their bias crap for far too long.
they wanted a non white president and they have shown they do not care about the country nor her future
Won’t do you any good. One of those 0bama thugs bit some fellow’s thumb off out west. They have it on film and they still haven’t caught the guy yet. Not to mention the man the SEIU thugs roughed up in Missouri. They know who those people are, but the dems running the place have been protecting them from prosecution.
Wait a minute...
So our guys capture the terrorist responsible for barbaric murderous acts committed against FOUR U.S. citizens, and this terrorist ends up with a bloody lip during the capture and OUR GUYS ARE GOING TO BE COURT-MARTIALED FOR THIS???!
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BHO
FU
“Obama orders Miranda rights in Afghanistan”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2388364/posts
“Reading Miranda Rights to Terrorists Is ‘Crazy’ and ‘Stupid,’ Say GOP Congressmen”
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=49738
“Miranda rights for terrorists: Next, toothbrushes and teddy bears!”
“U.S. TROOPS BATTLE BOTH TALIBAN AND THEIR OWN RULES”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387602/posts
“New Obama Military Rules of Engagement:, Don’t shoot back”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2384383/posts
“RULES OF ENGAGEMENT REVISITED’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346439/posts
“OBAMA’S RULES OF ENGAGEMENT IN AFGHANISTAN COSTING OUR TROOPS LIVES”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335891/posts
“THE RULES MURDERING OUR TROOPS”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347085/posts
Then there is this:
“No Rush to Escalate (”war kills off great reform movements”)”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2355050/posts
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http://www.nato.int/isaf/docu/official_texts/Tactical_Directive_090706.pdf
“...I recognize that the carefully controlled and disciplined employment of force entails risks to our troops...”
“...The Taliban cannot militarily defeat us - but we can defeat ourselves...”
This is all that comes to my mind when I read that:
“We are pinned down. We are running low on ammo. We have no air. We’ve lost today,” Marine Maj. Kevin Williams, 37, said through his translator to his Afghan counterpart, responding to the latter’s repeated demands for helicopters.
“’We’re pinned down:’ 4 U.S. Marines die in Afghan ambush”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335142/posts
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9/10/09
“U.N. LAWYERS TARGET U.S. TROOPS”
“Justice: As if fighting a war in Afghanistan isn’t hard enough, ambitious global prosecutors have rolled into Kabul looking to charge U.S. troops. Intentional or not, such legalism will sap U.S. morale as it did in Vietnam.
At about the time NATO’s new secretary-general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, warned NATO’s European members against an early pullout, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, whose body is charged with looking for international war criminals, announced he was looking for new “clients” from anyone with a grievance in Afghanistan.
At a briefing Wednesday in The Hague, Moreno-Ocampo said he had launched a new war crimes inquiry, seeking information about “torture” especially — a European obsession — and had already mined the human rights groups for stories. He added he was also “very open” to more information from foreign governments.
Oh, he’d been evenhanded in his Monday-morning battlefield quarterbacking of course, promising he’d prosecute both Taliban and NATO troops as moral equals.
But it doesn’t take a genius to know what the spotlight-loving attorney (who once launched his own reality TV show back in Argentina) is really after: Americans in the dock as war criminals.
The atmosphere that makes a prosecutor like Moreno-Ocampo ambitious enough to go after Americans instead of a real monster like, say, Fidel Castro, can only occur when the West’s will has weakened, as Rasmussen warned.
After all, if a war to defend our civilization can be reduced to a series of police-brutality cases, then Afghanistan isn’t about victory...”
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=505775
“U.S. Softens Hostility to International Criminal Court”
We'd all be speaking German or Japanese.
Of course we may all be speaking Arabic before 2012 gets here.
Bush wasn’t that much better. The rules of engagement have sucked for years. We will eventually “lose” Afghanistan just like we lost Vietnam, the left will win their point that its not worth it. And it’s not, not if our guys aren’t allowed to kill the bad guys. America doesn’t have the stomach to see dead civilians on the TV every night, and civilians get killed when you are trying to win a war. It will take a 9/11 times 100 for us to do these things correctly. For starters we may have to clean out the riffraff at home (MSM,LIBS,ACLU,SPLC).
being in the military is a family tradition.
The last person to serve was me but my two boys want to join and carry that tradition on.
My oldest is now 12 and I told him that there is no way I want him to join until this Marxist muslim terrorist loving buffoon gets out of the white house.
I ma not having my kids die or risk their lives for this idiot in the white house.
I admire your convictions, but we cannot shoot EVERY single guy we capture. We need intel and we can’t get intel if they are dead. So it looks like instead of getting intel, they will have to go a lot farther than simply shoot them on the spot. They will have to be tortured into talking, THEN shot.
Then of course they will have to cover it up and LIE on their reports. I dont know about you but I dont want to put our finest in the position of having to lie to their superiors to save their careers..so, lose-lose on all fronts unless Obambi goes right NOW.
SEALs should be able to extract intel however they see fit, imho. Unfortunately the brass won’t think so.
This will send the message to kill any terrorist and not bring them in alive, and that works for me.
For once today I am speechless
This happened after he was already captured and incapacitated.
Also not part of any interrogation it appears.
Thus, I can see some punishment, but a talking to would suffice.
This is absurd taking them to trial over it.
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