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In what must be one of the most outrageous criminal prosecutions in American history, the U.S. military is dragging three Navy SEALs into court to face criminal charges. Their crime: punching a terrorist in the mouth and giving him a bloody lip. The alleged "victim" of this so-called assault is not just any old anti-American, murderous barbarian Muslim terrorist. No, the man who got the schoolyard fat lip was Ahmed Hashim Abed, the same man the U.S. government suspects planned the ambush, murder, and mutilation of four U.S. civilian contractors in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004. After the ambush, terrorists hung...

RICHMOND, Va.—Two Navy SEALs are scheduled to be arraigned Monday in military court on charges that they mistreated an Iraqi suspect in the gory slayings of four U.S. contractors in Fallujah. One of the SEALs is accused of punching the detainee after his September arrest, while the other is accused of lying to investigators. A third SEAL also accused of lying to investigators about the episode will be arraigned later. All three men have men have received an outpouring of support from people who view them as heroes. A Facebook page created to support the SEALs had more than 45,000...

The Navy Seals facing court martial for the alleged abuse of a terror suspect arrested for killing four Americans face up to a year in military confinement, discharge for bad conduct, and forfeiture of two-thirds of their pay for a year, if convicted, according to defense attorneys.

The Navy Seals facing court martial for the alleged abuse of a terror suspect arrested for killing four Americans face up to a year in military confinement, discharge for bad conduct, and forfeiture of two-thirds of their pay for a year, if convicted, according to defense attorneys. Further, their attorneys said that the possibilty that they would not be able to cross-examine their clients' accuser would be grounds for dismissing the case. The accuser, Ahmed Hashim Abed, is the alleged architect of the murder of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004. The bodies of the four...

Dec 7 Navy SEALs Courts-Martial PROTEST - Norfolk Virginia SUPPORT OUR TROOPS! Type: Causes - Protest Network: Global Date: Monday, December 7, 2009 Time: 8:00am - 6:00pm Location: Naval Station Norfolk City/Town: Norfolk, VA Description As most of you already know, some of our military’s most elite, the Navy SEALs are under fire from the US Government for none other than bloodying the lip of 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. Matthew McCabe, Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe & Petty Officer...

"Thanking the Guard Dogs" 25 November 2009 LTC(R) Allen West Greetings to all and I wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. I pray that as you come together as families you are in good health and spirit. Regardless of all that is occuring in our Country, we still have many blessings for which we all should give thanks. As I sit here today and prepare for tomorrow my thoughts hearken back to the times when I was not able to be with my family. I think of those days when my family were my Brother and...

SEATTLE, Oct. 26 — Guglielmo Olivotto, an Italian prisoner of war, died with a noose around his neck, lynched at a military post on Puget Sound 63 years ago. Samuel Snow, 83, hopes that people will stop blaming him and the 27 other black soldiers convicted of starting the riot that led to Mr. Olivotto’s death. It was one of the largest Army courts-martial of World War II.This week, a review board issued a ruling that could lead to overturning the convictions of all 28 soldiers, granting honorable discharges and providing them with back pay. The board found that the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three U.S. Marines will be tried on murder charges without the possibility of the death penalty in the April shooting of an Iraqi man in the town of Hamdania in central Iraq, the military said on Monday. Lt. Gen. James Mattis, the top Marine general in the Middle East, decided that Pfc. John Jodka, Cpl. Marshall Magincalda and Lance Cpl. Jerry Shumate will face courts-martial in the shooting death on April 26 of Hashim Ibrahim Awad, the Marines said in a statement from Camp Pendleton, California. The three were among seven Marines and a Navy medic accused...

BAGHDAD, Iraq A U-S Army investigator in Iraq is recommending that four American soldiers face a court-martial. The soldiers are accused in the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl and the killing of her family. Military prosecutors allege the four soldiers also set the girl's body on fire to hide their crime. Colonel Dwight Warren, the investigator, says in a report that "reasonable grounds exist" for the case to go forward. The report was obtained by The Associated Press from the lawyer of one of the defendants. The soldiers, from the 101st Airborne Division, could potentially face the death...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. Army investigator has recommended that four American soldiers accused of raping a a 14-year-old girl and of killing her and her family face a court-martial, a lawyer in the case confirmed on Monday. Col. Dwight Warren, the investigator in the case, said in a report issued Sunday that "reasonable grounds exist to believe that each of the accused committed the offense for which he is charged." The report was given to lawyers in the case and obtained by The Associated Press from David Sheldon, the lawyer of one of the defendants. The four soldiers of...

Article 32 Investigations Purpose of Article 32 InvestigationsProcedures for Article 32 InvestigationsRights of the Accused  Purpose            The Fifth Amendment constitutional right to grand jury indictment is expressly inapplicable to the Armed Forces.  In its absence, Article 32 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (Section 832 of Title 10, United States Code), requires a thorough and impartial investigation of charges and specifications before they may be referred to a general court-martial (the most serious level of courts-martial).  However, the accused may waive the Article 32 investigation requirement. The purpose of this pretrial investigation is to inquire into the truth...

FORT LEWIS, Wash. (Army News Service, July 10, 2006) – Charges were preferred July 6 against 1st Lt. Ehren Watada of 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, for his refusal June 22 to accompany his unit to Iraq and for actions related to that refusal. The charges arose from an initial investigation conducted in the two weeks since the incident. According to Fort Lewis officials, Watada faces charges for three separate violations: missing movement, contempt toward officials and conduct unbecoming an officer. If found guilty on all charges, Watada faces a maximum sentence of seven years in prison, forfeiture of all...

The Warrior Fund http://www.warrior-fund.org With the recent news regarding the incident in Haditha, and Hamdania Iraq, a group of former and retired Marines decided to take action to ensure that our military men are treated like American citizens and considered innocent until proven guilty. We have formed the "Warrior Fund" as a designated mission of United American Patriots (an IRS 501 ( c ) 3 organization) which is run by Major Bill Donahue USMC (RET). Our goal is to raise funds to defray legal fees incurred by members of our armed forces as a direct result of their service in...

Bremerton -- Seven sailors from the submarine USS Columbus face special courts-martial in connection with alleged assaults and hazing of two fellow crew members. One victim allegedly was attacked over a seven-month period ending in March, when he reported the incidents to Naval Base Kitsap security and to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. His five alleged assailants are charged with various offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. The charges include assault, hazing and dereliction of duty, according to Lt. Herlinda Rojas, a Navy spokeswoman. The five sailors range in rank from third to first class petty officer. A...

The pending Court Martial of Lt Bryan Black, an instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy, highlights the essential hypocrisy of service academy leadership's modus operandi. The personal honesty and integrity of these leaders is not the issue, rather it is the systemic attitude that allows leaders to focus only on those things that may embarrass the institution, while passing on things that are equally offensive but less embarrassing. In this instance Lt Black was serving as a Safety Officer on one of the academy's Yard Patrol Craft (YP) during a training excursion into the Chesapeake Bay. This young officer appears...

LOS ANGELES - Six members of a California Army National Guard unit will face courts-martial for allegedly mistreating detainees in Iraq, military officials said Tuesday. The trials were ordered after investigators reviewed allegations of prisoner abuse by 12 soldiers with the 1st Battalion of the 184th Infantry Regiment. Two cases involve a so-called general court-martial, reserved for the most serious infractions, while four involve a midlevel court called a special court-martial, according to Lt. Col. Robert Whetstone, a Task Force Baghdad spokesman. Two additional cases have been completed in what is known as a summary court-martial, which hears lesser offenses,...

Soldiers face military trials Officer recommends courts-martial for five members of Fullerton-based National Guard unit. By JOHN McDONALD The Orange County Register 20 August 05 USA - Army officials in Baghdad have recommended that at least five soldiers from Fullerton-based Alpha Company be court-martialed for offenses in connection with an alleged assault on suspected terrorists.Col. Edward C. Cardon, commander of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, this week recommended to Maj. Gen. William G. Webster, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, that the courts-martial be conducted, Army officials said. The soldiers' names were not released. The case stems from a June...

WASHINGTON, July 19, 2005 – A senior officer involved with military commissions this morning gave an overview of the military commissions hearings likely to resume soon in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Hearings in two of the pending war crimes cases could resume within 30 to 45 days, Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hemingway, legal adviser to the appointing authority for the Office of Military Commissions, said in a Pentagon briefing. "We intend to move forward quickly," he said. Military commissions proceedings in four cases were halted in December, after a November ruling in the U.S. District Court for the District of...

Gen. Richard B. Myers yesterday condemned as "absolutely irresponsible" an Amnesty International report that compared prisoner treatment at Guantanamo Bay to the Soviet gulag, adding that 100 out of 68,000 detainees held in the war against terrorism were abused. Amnesty International also suggested that foreign governments investigate senior U.S. officials involved in "torture scandals" and arrest and question Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, former CIA Director William Tenet, and Vice President Dick Cheney. "I think it's irresponsible. I think it's absolutely irresponsible," Gen. Myers told "Fox News Sunday." We've had 100 cases of substantiated abuse and there are 100 individuals...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. (Army News Service, May 9, 2005) – A mobilized National Guard lieutenant was acquitted of rape and adultery charges in a court-martial at Fort Rucker, Ala., but the judge found him guilty April 27 of conduct unbecoming an officer. 1st Lt. Michael Hall, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, from Nashville, Tenn., was acquitted of the first two charges due to what the defense called “an abundance of reasonable doubt and the judge’s ability to sift through the garbage and find the truth.” At the conclusion of the three-day trial, Judge (Col.) Richard Gordon said the defense counsel successfully...

TSA’s Islamic, America-Hating Screener By Debbie Schlussel Do overbearing, shoe-removing searches at the airport make you feel safe? How about the crisp black and white uniforms of screeners since Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) took over? Sadeq Naji Ahmed is Exhibit A that you are not safer, that the TSA isn’t screening the screeners. He’s also proof positive that radical Muslims in the military can get away with say anything, while other soldiers cannot. For almost two years, Ahmed was a baggage screener at Detroit’s Metro Airport, despite his frightening background. Ahmed, a Yemeni Muslim since indicted in federal...

Those of us that support LT Pantano need to show our support via our autos, trucks, businesses, homes, dorms, or any other appropriate and attention catching place. Most of us have good color printers were we could print such a sticker and then have it embossed ($2-3) at Kinkos. Unfortunately, I don't have the Corel or other skills needed to make one, so I'm appealing to those of you who are gifted to post yours here. Please hurry, my WRX has a blank spot waiting.

SAN DIEGO, March 20 — In November 2003, Navy SEALs went after Iraqi Manadel al-Jamadi, a suspect in the bombing of Red Cross offices in Iraq that killed 12. The CIA apparently believed he knew the location of a pile of explosives. On the night of Nov. 4, the SEALs burst into al-Jamadi's apartment outside Baghdad, subdued him after a struggle and whisked him back to their base. En route, the SEALs allegedly kicked and punched al-Jamadi and struck him with their rifles. They also posed for photos with the hooded and handcuffed prisoner. The SEALs turned al-Jamadi over to...

BRIGADIER-GENERAL JANIS KARPINSKI says she will never forget the day she first set foot in Abu Ghraib, the infamous Iraqi prison which housed torture chambers under Saddam Hussein. “You could smell death. When I was taken to the hanging chamber, I said ‘I can’t stay here, I can hear the voices, I can hear the screams’. I could feel myself going pale. It was filthy: some of the ropes they used to hang these guys were still there.” I am driving with Karpinski through Rahway, New Jersey, where she grew up. It is a serene middle-class town of wide streets...

(AP) — They are neighbors, relatives, co-workers. One fixed cars; another might've bagged your groceries, if you'd stopped in her small West Virginia town. Seven soldiers, volunteers drawn by money or duty or the chance to get out of town. They got called up to Iraq and entered another world. And now they're being condemned by everyone from the president to the Vatican. The photos of Iraqi detainees being humiliated can't be argued with. But what about these soldiers behind them? Families and friends say there's an explanation, others to blame, orders given. The soldiers' lives offer scant clues. If...

Additional Guards Face Courts-Martial for Abu Ghraib Abuse By Sgt. 1st Class Doug Sample, USAAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, May 12, 2004 -- Two more U.S. soldiers will face military courts- martial in the abuse of Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison, coalition officials in Baghdad said today. Military spokesman Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt said that Sgt. Jarval S. Davis and Staff Sgt. Ivan L. Frederick II face five charges each. The five charges against Davis are: conspiracy to maltreat subordinates, dereliction of duty for negligently failing to protect detainees from abuse, maltreatment of detainees, rendering false official...

Military report details abuse at Army prison in Iraq, magazine says May 1, 2004, 7:45 AM EDT NEW YORK -- Iraqi detainees were subject to "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses" at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to a U.S. Army report obtained by The New Yorker magazine. The internal report detailed such abuses as pouring phosphoric liquid from chemical lights on detainees, pouring cold water on naked detainees and threats of rape, the magazine says in an article for its May 10 issue. Other mistreatment of prisoners included "beating detainees with a broom handle and a chair"...

PART I (Manual for Courts-Martial) PREAMBLE 1. Sources of military jurisdiction The sources of military jurisdiction include the Constitution and international law. International law includes the law of war. 2. Exercise of military jurisdiction (a) Kinds. Military jurisdiction is exercised by: (1) A government in the exercise of that branch of the municipal law which regulates its military establishment. (Military law). (2) A government temporarily governing the civil population within its territory or a portion of its territory through its military forces as necessity may require. (Martial law). (3) A belligerent occupying enemy territory. (Military government). (4) A government with...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- While some of the most serious charges against the Arabic translator accused of spying at the Guantanamo Bay have been dropped, he still faces court-martial for charges including espionage counts. Proceedings against Senior Airman Ahmad I. al-Halabi were scheduled to begin Tuesday morning at Travis Air Force Base, military officials said. U.S. Air Force officials last month dropped some of the most serious charges, but al-Halabi still faces 17 of the 30 charges filed following his arrest in July after nine months at the Cuba prison. They include espionage counts, disobeying an order, making false official...

OPERATION: IRAQI FREEDOM 'Heroic' officer clings to faith Facing charges after foiling ambush plot, 'devastating' to be regarded as a criminal Posted: November 5, 2003 5:00 p.m. Eastern By Art Moore © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com A U.S. Army officer facing assault charges for frightening an Iraqi into disclosing details of an impending ambush plot says his faith in God has kept him from falling apart amid the severe pain it has caused him and his family. "Without God and my Savior Jesus Christ, I would have cracked a long time ago," Lt. Col. Allen B. West, a battalion commander with the...

US soldiers caught stashing Iraqi lootTHE GUARDIANFriday, Apr 25, 2003,Page 1 Four American soldiers have been arrested for trying to steal nearly US$1 million found hidden in former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's Baghdad palaces, it was reported Wednesday. Three are accused of taking US$600,000 in US$100 bills and hiding them in a tree, while the fourth allegedly took US$300,000 and stashed it in several places, including the glove compartment of his truck. Jonathan Foreman, a New York Post reporter with the 4th Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment, in Baghdad, quoted Major Kent Rideout saying that the men would be court martialled....

<p>Jim nuked this poster, but I decided to put this thread back up for illustrative purposes as to just how patient (and deranged) some of our political opponents are.</p> <p>It's also sickening how obvious some people's biases are. It seems that anytime someone reports something that even remotely casts Israelis in a less-than-favourable light, they immediately branded as anti-Semitic. It must be nice to always use the same retort to try to shut everyone up.</p>

<p>GIs Arrested In 1M$ Swag Snag!</p> <p>OUR sticky-fingered GIs have been arrested for trying to steal nearly $1 million of the $700 million in cold cash found hidden on the grounds of several estates in Baghdad, Army officials said yesterday.</p>

<p>FOUR GIs arrested and charged with stealing nearly $1 million in cash from money found hidden in Baghdad had intended to filch another $12 million, The Post has learned.</p> <p>Army investigators yesterday discovered three aluminum boxes - each holding $4 million in $100 bills - that they believe the sticky-fingered soldiers stashed away to be recovered by them at a later time when the coast was clear, sources said.</p>