Posted on 12/12/2009 4:53:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A Navy court-martial will convene next month to determine whether Petty Officer Matthew McCabe, a Navy SEAL on tour in Iraq, gave terror mastermind Ahmed Hashim Abed a noogie.
Or maybe it was a fat lip.
Joining McCabe in the dock will be fellow SEAL Julio Huertas -- accused, essentially, of refusing to rat out a buddy.
And we thought show trials in Iraq went out of fashion when Saddam fell.
McCabe and Huertas were arraigned this week for assault and impeding an investigation, among other charges, after Abed complained about his "mistreatment" in US custody.
Whatever they gave him was better than he deserved: Abed orchestrated the brutal 2004 murder of four US civilian contractors in Fallujah.
His capture in September should have earned the SEALs a medal.
Instead, McCabe, Huertas and Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe (who's expected to be arraigned soon) were charged.
Much better had Navy brass let the SEALs return to killing terrorists.
Instead, they called the lawyers.
It only stands to reason: When hardened terrorists captured on the battlefield can expect three-ring-circus trials in US courts, hero GIs will be railroaded for the slightest indiscretion.(continued)
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Is this the terrorist who was whining about a fat lip during his arrest?
After being turned over to Iraq, if IIRC.
What level of wrong, in your opinion does this qualify?
As high a level of wrong can go! Who gave the order to punish these Navy Seals? Punished for doing their job? God help us, what has happened to our country?
I wish our Seals would have killed the terrorist on the spot.
It’s my understanding that these SEALS had been ordered to bring the terrorist unharmed so he could be turned over to the Iraquis to be used as leverage against other terrorists. Bringing him in beaten up undermined the Itaqis use of the prisoner.
The SEALS are being charged for ignoring an order, not for giving a bad guy a boo-boo. (Info taken from a caller to local Conservative Talk radio in the Atlanta area. I have no citation, so if I’m misinformed I’m willing to be corrected.).
Who?
Being a zealous Jihadi murdering terrorist, do you suppose there’s a chance he resisted capture?
It would be nearly impossible to resist wanting to kick this guys butt, but when you want the impossible performed you get the SEALS.
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