101st Airborne Officer Serving 20-Year Sentence After Testimony of Expert Witness Ignored

Bob McCarty Writes ^ | 12-6-09 | Bob McCarty

[BobMcCartyWrites]

It's not uncommon for people convicted of crimes to proclaim their innocence. Most deserve to be ignored, but not Army Ranger 1st Lt. Michael Behenna.

On July 31, 2008, Lieutenant Behenna was charged with the premeditated murder of Ali Mansur, a known Al-Qaeda operative operating in the area of Albu Toma, north of Baghdad. Seven months later, the 26 -year-old leader of the 18-member Delta Company, 5th platoon of the Army 101st Airborne Infantry Division, was sentenced to 25 years confinement at Fort Leavenworth after being convicted by a military court-martial panel of unpremeditated murder in violation of Article 118 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

[Republic of Texas]

We are going to have to cleanse this country soon.

[mmanager]

Bump...Sir

[vetvetdoug]

Now that Obama has told the Taliban when we are leaving, what is to keep the troops and the Taliban from making a honorable truce between them and just wave at each other when encountered? After the time has passed, then there is no sweat off our balls to let Afghanistan go its own way and bring all of our troops home alive.

[Seruzawa]

The dancers and prancers who cooked the trial so that Zero could have a scapegoat should be given the 25 years sentence themselves.

[packrat35]

Agreed, but it should NEVER have started in the first place,

We know we can’t trust obama, but why did this even get started in the first place while Bush was President?

[MarkL]

...get the lawyers out of the infantry so the troops can do their job!

I've got a better idea... Recall everyone in the infantry, and give the guns to the lawyers, putting them on the front lines. Within a short time, the problem of too many lawyers will be solved.

Mark

[ataDude]

...by which time Obama was acting as President.

Bingo.

[DPMD]

I don’t disagree; but, unfortunately, this attitude was present in the Bush administration, with the Pendleton eight, of which LTC Chessani is one, the Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean, and other similar cases. It was one of my greatest disappointments with W, that he refused to protect his troops.