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It seems like people want credit for being heroes-- even when they are far from it. Now that Osama bin Laden has met his end at the hands of Navy SEALs, there are many that want to jump on the bandwagon. One case is a pastor from Pennsylvania, Jim Moats, who has been telling his congregation for five years that he was a Navy SEAL in Vietnam: Apparently at least part was based on Steven Seagal's 1992 film Under Seige: Among other things, Moats said he was subjected to waterboarding when he trained at Little Creek Amphibious Base in Virginia...

A Chinese national was arrested Tuesday for allegedly creating a phony U.S. Army unit and recruiting other Chinese nationals by telling them it was a path to U.S. citizenship. Yupeng Deng, also known as David Deng, was taken into custody by agents from the FBI and the U.S. Department of Defense and jailed in lieu of $500,000 bail. According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, the 51-year-old El Monte resident is facing 14 felony counts, including obtaining money, labor or property by false pretenses, deceptive document crime and an unrelated count of possession of matter depicting a minor...

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 much 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 true discharge form, showing that he was kicked out of the Army after six weeks...

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...

The U.S. Army says it has no record of a man who claimed to have "slaughtered" hundreds of civilians while serving with the Army Rangers in Iraq.Jesse MacBeth, appearing in a 20-minute video produced by Randy Rowland, a 1970s antiwar activist, claimed to have personally killed 200 people, many of them at close range, while on patrols with the Army Rangers during his 16 months in Iraq before being discharged due to wounds he received.

Debunking the claims of a minor Internet celebrity, the Army said it has no record of a man who claimed he committed atrocities with Army Rangers in Iraq. In an interview posted on the Web site SocialistAlternative.org, Jesse MacBeth claimed that his job was to “strike fear in the hearts of the Iraqi people” while serving with the 3rd Ranger Battalion. “We would go into people’s houses and plow down entire families,” MacBeth said. “We would interrogate people. If we didn’t like the answers that they gave, then we would kill the youngest child. If they gave more answers that...

Perhaps this will finally put this sad chapter to bed once and for all. I, through some old connections, have managed to come up with the unaltered DD214 of Jesse MacBeth. This isn't a joke or some funny little photoshop gig. It is the actual, real DD214 of one Jesse Adam Macbeth.

Earlier this week, the DUmmies were left with EGG on their collective faces when it turned out that their hero, Jessie MacBeth, who confessed to committing war crimes in Iraq was a Fake Army Ranger. After having to gorge on crow, the DUmmies are now back and essentially saying that the fact he was fake doesn't matter because our troops are committing war crimes despite the LACK of evidence to back up this assertion as you can see in the THREAD titled, "Does anyone doubt that certain G.I.'s are committing war crimes?" Yes, "Fake but Accurate" seems to be...

I want to alert everyone here to save the page and associated images from this poser's profile, just to document the poser's real identity.Warning: There is quite a bit of profanity written on it. Here's what I caught as descrepencies: 1.It is so obvious this DD-214 has been edited, probably with MS Paint. 2.The wording in some altered sections is obviously nothing like what would actually be printed in those parts of the document. 3. This is probably part of his actual separation, for failure to complete basic training. Note the phrase "Member has not completed first full term of...

"Ex-'vet' who posted anti-war video turns out to be a fake" Click on the link to check out the video.

May 22, 2006 [Editors' Note: As of last night, we were able to access the Peace Films website, where the damning video in question was posted, without problem. As we go to press this Monday morning, the website is now inexplicably unavailable, with only the following error message to be found: "Site Temporarily Disabled, This site has been temporarily disabled. If you are the owner of the site, please contact customer care."]

Iowahawk Guest Commentaryby Jesse MacbethIraq War Veterans Against GoogleBreakfast Shift Associate, Wendys of Tacoma.As a decorated combat veteran of Bush's Iraq misadventure, I am all too familiar with the saying "the first casualty of war is truth." Because this administration sold us a war of empire on a double stack combo of lies, biggie sized them, and served them up with extra mustard. And I was there to see it, man.My story starts in 2001. I was a sophomore at Mayfield High, a star athlete who was captain of the basketball, football, and track teams, and had singlehandly scored 200...

From a Pima County Arizona Superior Court record search:   CASE INFORMATION Case No. Caption Case Date C234837   07/09/86 PARTY INFORMATION Party Group 1 (Plaintiff/Petitioner/Groom) Party Group 2 (Defendant/Respondent/Bride) PARTY GROUP NAME PARTY 1 MACBETH, JESSE ADAM PARTY 1 AL-ZAID, JESSE ADAM DOCKET INFORMATION FULL DOCUMENT DOCUMENT TYPE DOCUMENT TITLE FILE STAMP DATE ARCHIVED CASE DOCUMENTS ARCHIVED CASE DOCUMENTS Archived Case Documents - Vol 001 5/6/2003 12:31:20 PM NAME CHANGE ORDERED ORDER NAME CHANGE ORDERED (Judge - 76530 Court - 10401 Judgement - 0) 7/10/1986 NEW CASE FILING NEW FILING NEW CASE FILING - 803 Converted Docket 7/9/1986 If...

What is this ... a hoax ... or is this guy telling the truth? http://www.youtube.com/results?search=jessie+macbeth&search_type=search_videos&search=Search Is Jessie Macbeth his real name?

Blackfive already has a good start on this and Protein Wisdom is all over it as well, but any help Freepers can give in outing this wannabe would be much appreciated.