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Iraq
Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist
2009-11-24
Navy SEALs have secretly captured 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. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges.

The three, all members of the Navy's elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment -- called an admiral's mast -- and have requested a trial by court-martial.

Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber," told investigators he was punched by his captors -- and he had the bloody lip to prove it.

Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers.
Posted by: Anonymoose

#21  So Ali bin Bad, dreaded terrorist, wanted on 12 systems, is crying like a little girl because someone gave him a fat lip? What happened to all that we love death stuff? They just don't make 'em like they used to.
Posted by: SteveS   2009-11-24 23:37  

#20  I am now officially switching from encouraging young people to join the Military (as a good way to start life, and a way to re-pay this great nation) to URGING people to avoid the military...and dodge the inevitable draft!

I spend 8 years in the Marines...and am now watching this dickwad of a "President" destroy our military.

Fuck him!
Posted by: Justrand   2009-11-24 23:32  

#19  Several observations:

Doesn't give much incentive for Seals to apprehend terrorists, as many police apprehensions on COPS result in worse than a fat lip for perpetrators guilty of only evading arrest.

A Seal will probably do OK in the general population at Levenworth. I don't think the clepto Disbursing Officers and haphazard CMS Custodians will be punking him and swapping him for cigarettes.

At worst a disgraced Seal will strike it rich as the badest posse member in some rappers crew.
Posted by: Super Hose   2009-11-24 22:52  

#18  I vote for #12 NomoreBS' comment. This is a silly but serious effort on the part of Holder's DoJ and Obama's admin to grind down the military and neuter it. Same goals with bring KSM to New Yohk, New Yohk. They are putting the Bush Admin, Cia , and the military on trial to neutralize them and destroy their effectiveness.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2009-11-24 22:25  

#17  "Someone with stars needs to make some calls and make this silliness go away..."
NoMore BS; do you really think that anybody with stars will make a diffe? Look how long McCrystal has been trying to get Obambi to send more troops and the "Ditherer-in-Chief 'might' announce his decision after Thanksgiving. Yet reports today indicate that he will probably send about 34k more troops in, BUT with a 6 month or so 'off-ramp' stategy. so the bad guys just need to run out the clock. No sad to say there is no support for the guys with stars from this admin. The SEALS (God bless them)should have just shot him trying to escape and been done with it.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2009-11-24 20:58  

#16  I think the "fell" and bumped his lip on the floor. Case closed.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder   2009-11-24 20:46  

#15   Yaassss...Furtive movements, just the thing.

The old "He was making a furtive movement, Sarge, and I was forced to snuff him." trick.

Use a #8 Piano wire.
Posted by: Angleton9   2009-11-24 20:32  

#14  or the morale of the SEALs and our other special ops guys will be irreparably harmed

Too late.
Posted by: Besoeker    2009-11-24 20:05  

#13  Damage to their morale is no doubt the intent.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2009-11-24 19:46  

#12  Let me see if I understand correctly. You send in the premier counter terrorism snatch unit to grab the mastermind of a horrific crime against Americans in Iraq, and then to beef them because them punched him in the snatch? Jeebus, there is something missing in this story. I smell BS DOJ lawyers applying some PC law enforcement standard here, and some Navy Commander/JAG folding to undue Command Influence. This is a travesty. Someone with stars needs to make some calls and make this silliness go away, or the morale of the SEALs and our other special ops guys will be irreparably harmed, not to mention the chilling effect.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2009-11-24 19:22  

#11  CrazyFool, IIRC, under the Geneva Convention, you have to give an illegal combatant a court martial before you execute him. Of course, if I had my way, the court martial would go something like this:
Lt. Col (the judge): Sergeant, is this man a terrorist?
Sergeant: Yes sir. I saw him terrorizing people.
Lt. Col: Guilty. Execute him.
Bang!
Lt. Col: Next case.
Repeat as needed.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2009-11-24 18:49  

#10  Beck highlighted it today in starting off his show. I think angry tirades to congresscritters should help to push back on the JAG PC bullshit
Posted by: Frank G   2009-11-24 17:32  

#9  One can hope crosspatch.

And it would be entirely within the Geneva Convention too since terrorists are usually 'illegal combatants'.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2009-11-24 17:20  

#8  DOJ, Fighting for the other side again...
Posted by: 49 Pan   2009-11-24 17:13  

#7  And now a moment from the Greatest Generation.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2009-11-24 17:13  

#6  I suppose from now on, terrorists will all be caught reaching for something or making some other furtive movement.

Posted by: crosspatch   2009-11-24 17:06  

#5  I'm sure they will be allowed to use pop-guns or low-power BB guns. No worries....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2009-11-24 16:55  

#4  Perhaps we should send the lawyers to fight?

Cyber Sarge, you're a genius. And if they manage to come back with anyone, we can set them free.
Posted by: gorb   2009-11-24 16:54  

#3  I am just wondering, when this is all sorted out will our military still be allowed to use guns? Perhaps we should send the lawyers to fight?
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2009-11-24 16:48  

#2  I guess this means Saddam is free to go and resume his position as dictator of Iraq.
Posted by: ed   2009-11-24 16:14  

#1  Good lord. Punched in the mouth, was he? Wonder what he said to deserve it. I can only hope this is quietly disposed of and the three SEALs all get the commendations they deserve.
Posted by: Steve White   2009-11-24 15:57  

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