Free The Fallujah One!
In global law-enforcement news, American war criminals face courts martial for denying civil rights of man-caused disaster activist. FOX:
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, sources told FoxNews.com.
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.
This is frightful. The man wanted for murdering four Americans, torching and dangling their charred bodies from a bridge while a mob danced gleefully around for the cameras may have been criminally roughed up while being deprived of his liberty, to the point of suffering a grieviously emfattened lip!
The real question is not whether these swabs will be dragged before courts martial while U.S. counter-terrorism operations are disrupted. That goes without saying.
The question is whether Mr. Abed will be allowed to pursue justice in an American court. Not just to repudiate any criminal charges he may face, but to seek redress in a civil action for the fat lip he has endured. It’s been well-established after all in KSM, Holder etal vs. Common Sense, that people who conspire overseas to kill Americans are fully entitled to U.S. constitutional rights, to include full media circus access and OJ defense protocols as established under the Ito precedent.
OK, some Hated Crusader commentary:
The former American war criminal Don Surber, who once served in the United States Oppression Forces: “They should have just shot him.”
Anti-Jihadi-Internet-Freedom advocate Jawa: “Daily Kos now in charge of military?”
The blasphemous infidel Allahpundit at HotAir correctly notes the U.S. Navy SEAL war criminals cynically seek to embarrass the wannabe-better-liked criminal administration of the apostate Barack Obama by refusing to accept their punishment. But when he points out the dire fatness of the lip left authorities with little choice but to proceed with charges, Allahpundit is subjected to hurtful abuse by the war criminal Uncle Jimbo at Blackfive.
The Howardite Tim Blair, the anti-Islamic Crocodile Dhimdee of al-Internet who has cruelly mocked respectable imams for pointing out that women who wear short skirts are like catmeat rotting in the street to be devoured by dogs, cynically suggests the U.S. Navy SEAL war criminals should claim they were psychological traumatized by the hated Bushitler regime’s anti-Muslim warmongering. This is absurd. It has been well-established that is only applicable as a defense for the mass slaughter of Americans.
Powerline, “sickening.” It’s true, that in this day and age, the persecution of freedom fighters persists.
The Zionist Goldfarb at the Murdochite Weekly Standard expresses astonishment the US Navy SEAL war criminals didn’t summarily execute the rights-deprived Iraqi sovereignty advocate in the desert. Hmm … good point.
The notoriously pro-Christian disparager of Islamic election and crowd control practices Gateway calls it “unreal” that the US Navy SEALs face courts martial, noting that other American war criminals were beaten to death, burned and dangled from bridges for their crimes. Wait a minute, maybe that’s not how he put it …
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Topics: Iraq, crime, justice, moronocy, punishment
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:35 am Comments (5) on Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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November 25th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Having just read the story on various blogs, it sounds like it went political fast. Normally, NJP is the equivalent of pleading guilty and throwing yourself on the mercy of the court. No, it isn’t supposed to be, but by the time you are written up, someone has decided you must be punished. NJP is limited to what can be done to you but after you have one NJP or Captain’s Mast, you get a bad eval and then they can try to throw you out with a General or Other Than Honorable Discharge instead of an Honorable. It can be a career killer in either case. Not always but yes, it has happened.
By requesting a Court martial, it sounds like someone didn’t want to get thrown to the wolves. It will be interesting to see who didn’t want this to get out.
I spent five years in the Navy and only one enlisted man requested a court-martial. He actually had charges dismissed when it turned out he was covering for an aviator and said aviator would have to testify. Rather than have one of their own get in trouble, the command let the enlisted swine go free.
November 25th, 2009 at 11:23 am
I have a theory: Ol’ Ahmed gave himself the fat lip for just this reason, or else he got it struggling with his captors, knowing he could make a big deal out of it. And the PC Brigade is falling for it, as he knew they would.
I despair for our civilization.
November 27th, 2009 at 1:26 am
That is a standard tactic when in trouble. If you think that the charges against you are phonied up you can ask for a Court-Martial and the higher standard of proof will sometimes get you off. It can also backfire on you. You’d better have your ducks in a row when you ask for one.
November 27th, 2009 at 1:33 am
Just in case anyone misses the point I’m not saying that they shouldn’t ask for a Court-Martial, I think that they should get off. I also think that they shouldn’t have been charged.
And I do not like the rules of engagement. McChrystal gets his 40,000 or 34,000 troops and they still can’t fight because of the ROE! Excuse me there’s a brick wall that I’m in the process of trying to demolish, one head butt at a time!
November 29th, 2009 at 9:46 am
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