Military Jury Clears Navy SEAL in Terrorist Abuse Case in Iraq
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, April 22, 2010, 4:55 AM
One of the Navy SEALS was cleared of charges in Iraq today.
The SEALS were accused of mistreating a wanted Iraqi terrorist who was behind the murder of 4 US contractors in Fallujah in 2004.
It was 2004: Fallujah, Iraq. Four civilian U.S. contractors were transporting supplies for a catering company. They were ambushed, killed, their bodies burned and dragged through the streets, then hung from a bridge on the Euphrates River. A NAVY SEAL TEAM captured one of the military’s “most wanted” terrorists, the one responsible for the heinous crime. Now 4 of our bravest and finest are facing prosecution because the scumbag terrorist claimed he got a bloody lip while in their custody.
Today one SEAL was cleared of charges.
FOX News reported:
A U.S. military jury cleared a Navy SEAL Thursday of failing to prevent the beating of an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding a 2004 attack that killed four American security contractors.
The contractors’ burned bodies were dragged through the streets and two were hanged from a bridge over the Euphrates river in the former insurgent hotbed of Fallujah, in what became a major turning point in the Iraq war.
The trial of three SEALs, the Navy’s elite special forces unit, has outraged many Americans who see it as coddling terrorists.
Petty Officer 1st Class Julio Huertas, 28, of Blue Island, Illinois, was found not guilty by a six-man jury of charges of dereliction of duty and attempting to influence the testimony of another service member.
The jury spent two hours deliberating the verdict.
Hat Tip K. Solomon
The filthy terrorist killer Ahmed Hashim Abed testified Wednesday in the opening day of a court-martial of a Navy SEAL that he was beaten hard by U.S. troops while hooded and tied to a chair.
The military jury didn’t buy it.
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archer52 commented:
And that should be that. In trial you go after the one you think you can will first because it creates a coattail. Lose it and you create a drag.
How can they charge the remaining SEALS for the same crime that no one witnessed when the first on was found to be innocent of the crime no one witnessed.
Andreas K. commented:
It’s a scandal that there even is a trial.
Joe commented:
This whole affair is disgusting! Apparently, there are a lot of left-wingers in charge of the military now. The SEALS are heroes, putting their lives on the line for their country. This whole thing looks rotten.
bill-tb commented:
The idea is to get America to think badly of her warriors. It won’t work.
The mere fact that he can actually testify is credit to the warriors.
DMartyr commented:
Its a filthy, cowardly tactic to claim abuse when their side savagely beats, tortures, and murders their prisoners.
But why shouldn’t they use the tactic, since the West’s PC governments are too happy to bend over for them?
Militant Conservative commented:
This SEAL did not beat the captured terrorist. The Left BEAT the couple in New Orleans. One is in a hot war zone the other was not. The wheels are comming off of the obama express. Stand your ground proudly patriots. powder is dry.
Corporal Vere commented:
Best news I’ve had since my soldier son got home from Afghanistan in January!
Fist pump!
Greet them ever with grateful hearts.
jerryl commented:
as a navy vet sad wasnt able to make seal but still a vet all i can say is yayyyyyyyyy and ty to these brave REAL american heros
avery commented:
It a disgrace to put them on trail in the first place,it has become an up side down world.
Taken For Action commented:
Finally. This was an all-time low for SOCCENT and the JAG corps in general.
Andreas K. commented:
Hell, even if they would have beaten him… He’s a terrorist hell bent on killing all of us. And let’s not forget what his kind does to Coalition soldiers when they manage to capture them.
War is ugly. Some people need to get that into their heads.
It’s really sad that the concept of “innocent until proven guilty” is not applied to those who defend this very concept with their lives.
brooklyn commented:
Great news indeed.
Three cheers for the wrongly accused.
Get the target off Our Brave Service Men and Women.
Joanne commented:
The Seals probably have more control that every last other blue-blooded American, who would have kicked his backside to the North Pole and back.
AvantiBev commented:
Yes, Andreas, et al, war is ugly. Now if my fellow Americans could only get into their heads that THIS is jihad, a 1400 year old WORLD war which has killed and enslaved tens of millions from Indonesia to the Hindu Kush to Tours, France. This is NOT the “Iraq War” nor the “Afghanistan War”. This is world war.
The Filippino lady giving excellent care to my elderly mom was talking with me the other day grateful to know that I was informed about what the southern portion of her country was enduring. Bishop Gassis pulls no punches with identifying who killed 2 million of his fellow Sudanese and are not yet done. The indigenous people of Egypt are the Coptic Christians who weekly endure torture, massacre or imprisonment by the Islamic government.
Could we please, please, please get our head in the game and at least TRY to treat this as the world war that it is!? Let’s cut the PC, multiculti crap. Islam means “submission”. Islam is supremacist and totalitarian in design. To borrow from an old anti-Vietnam war poster: Jihad is harmful to women, puppies and other living things.
bg commented:
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Thank You God!!
It Has Always Been The Soldier
It is the soldier,
not the President who gives us democracy.
It is the soldier,
not the Congress who takes care of us.
It is the soldier,
not the Reporter who has given us Freedom of Press.
It is the soldier,
not the Poet who has given us Freedom of Speech.
It is the soldier,
not the campus [community] Organizer who
has given us the Freedom to Demonstrate.
It is the soldier,
who salutes the flag;
who serves beneath the flag,
and whose coffin is draped by the flag,
that allows the protester to burn the flag.
~ Father Dennis O’Brien, US Marine Corp. Chaplain
God Bless America!
God Bless Soldiers everywhere for putting THEIR
lives on the line to protect us ALL from terrorism!
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bg commented:
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AvantiBev @ 9:32 am #15
re: [Now if my fellow Americans could only get into their heads that THIS
is jihad, a 1400 year old WORLD war which has killed and enslaved tens of millions from Indonesia to the Hindu Kush to Tours, France. This is NOT
the “Iraq War” nor the “Afghanistan War”. This is world war.]
albeit they are part of the GWOT, Amen..
unfortunately for US dhimmis, we are unable to recognize the fact that to most Muslims, Obama is more or less their Mahdi, not to mention the NOI’s Messiah, and of course the Utopianists (by any other name) Savior..
how stupid are we is a moot question.. *sigh*
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Valerie commented:
A little bit of background for this story, from the service member’s point of view, with some good summary of the case:
http://www.blackfive.net/main/2010/04/one-down.html
The reason these guys are being tried is that they were offered essentially a plea deal to take administrative punishment — i.e., to admit guilt and tank their careers — and they chose trial (court martial).
The case against them looks very weak from here, and so I tend to think of the offer of administrative punishment as a political cya. I applaud the Seals’ decision to demand trial, instead. According to the facts as I’ve read them, they should never have been charged.
kay commented:
2 hours.
People – please focus on the part that said they deliberated 2 HOURS.
now i suppose there could have been a deck of cards smuggled in and they played poker for 1 hour and 55 minutes after taking the first 5 to get to their places around the table and then vote NOT GUILTY, but on the other hand there’s the possibility that they actually spent 2 hours of back and forth arguing over the issue.
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2 HOURS SPENT ARGUING OVER THE ISSUE OF WHETHER THEY WERE guilty or not.
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I don’t like it. Now with the remaining 2 still to have their cases judged by a jury of their peers, will one of the 2 have a 3 hour verdict and the last a 4 hour lag before a verdict is reached?
Opaobie commented:
Lawyer for Seals, “Let’s go over the charges. Tie the witness to the witness chair and put a hood over his head…….is this what they did to you?”
dirtbag Muslim terrorist, “Yes, this is what they did to me. I was frightened. They yelled at me!”
Lawyer for Seals, “Did they then do this?”…starts beating the crap out of the dirtbag Muslim terrorist, kicks him in the crotch, slugs him in the head and in the abdomen, kicks him in the shins…….”
dirtbag Muslim terrorist, “Yes!, Yes!, Yes!, Yes!, Yes!, Yes!, …..I mean, NO!, STOP!, YOU’RE HURTING ME!!!”
Lawyer for Seals, “Well, you heard him say ‘NO’, so I guess the charges are false. No more questions.”
oldguy commented:
I don’t think the line officers think very highly of the lawyer corps of the military or the politically appointed generals. To just think of bringing charges against elite troops like Marines or Seals is poison for military recruitment. I think line officers understand this.
BarbaraS commented:
Weren’t these charges brought against these seals in retaliation for the early rescue of that navy captain from the Somali pirates. I remember the Obama administration was very angry about that rescue. I think they had some political plan that was scotched by the rescue. In my mind it really looked bad for the US to see one of our naval officers humiliated in the hands of trash like those pirates and looked to the world that we are so weak we could not rescue him quickly. But the Obama administration delayed and delayed rescue.