Navy SEAL charged with murder, shooting at noncombatants

[Julian Englis]

Source: CNN

Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher is being charged by the Navy with stabbing and murdering a wounded person, shooting at noncombatants, posing for a photo and performing his re-enlistment ceremony next to a dead body.

Gallagher is being charged with various violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice while deployed to Mosul, Iraq, in 2017, related to the various incidents.

Gallagher "did ... with premeditation, murder a wounded male person" under his care by "stabbing him in the neck and body with a knife" while battling ISIS in Mosul in May 2017, according to the charge sheet dated Friday.

Cmdr. Tamara Lawrence, public affairs officer with the Naval Special Warfare Command, said the Navy is taking the allegations seriously.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/16/politics/navy-seal-murder-shooting/index.htm

[USALiberal]

1. Wow, lock him up for life. Disgusting. nt

[Blue_Tires]

2. jesus...

[sarge43]

3. The officer conducting the reenlistment should be up on charges, too. n/t

[demsocialist]

4. and this kid is probably coming home....

war does awful things to some people.

[LuvLoogie]

5. Some are sociopaths before they don a uniform

and go to war. There are some cops like that, too.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. He is 39 years old. Not a kid.

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

[Judi Lynn]

7. Regarding the gear on Edward Gallagher in the lower photo:

Wouldn't he end up waddling into battle with all that stuff on him, stuck in, or on his clothing?

Why don't they give them little rolling carts, or wheelbarrows, instead?





How on earth would someone who went off the deep end like that ever adjust to civilian living, anyway? Could he ever be trusted, again, anywhere, by anyone?

It should, if they're not too busy, be worthwhile to start asking politicians if they could spend some time considering NOT murdering people in order to get instant gratification when they want to take control of another country? What's wrong with dialogue, with human communication, with compromise, after all? What could ever be so urgent they can't cool their underhanded heels and learn to use their heads, rather than the bodies of young men who must either obey their orders or be imprisoned?

[dalton99a]

9. Gallagher is a murderous medic. Details from NYT:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/16/politics/navy-seal-murder-shooting/

In a two-day preliminary hearing at Naval Base San Diego that concluded Thursday, prosecutors presented accounts from several other SEALs in Chief Gallagher’s platoon describing his behavior as reckless and bloodthirsty. They said he fired into civilian crowds, gunned down a girl walking along a riverbank and an old man carrying a water jug, and threatened to kill fellow SEALs if they reported his actions.

Some platoon members were so distraught by the chief’s actions, investigators said, that they tampered with his sniper rifle to make it less accurate, and fired warning shots to scare away civilians before the chief had a chance to shoot them.

His eighth deployment, from February to September 2017, was to Mosul, Iraq. Some of the SEALs who served under him told investigators that at first they were excited to be led by someone with Chief Gallagher’s reputation, but they soon started to see him as unhinged. He fired his rifle about ten times as often as other snipers, they said, even at times when there seemed to be no targets.

In May 2017, Iraqi forces captured an enemy fighter who had been wounded in an airstrike. Video images show the bleeding fighter, who was thought to be between 12 and 17, being brought to the SEAL platoon on the hood of a truck, and Chief Gallagher and others cutting away his clothing to give medical aid.

Photos of the fighter viewed by The New York Times appeared to show that medics had put tubes used to treat a collapsed lung in his side and cut an emergency airway in his throat.

Navy investigators said that one SEAL medic was kneeling over the fighter’s head, treating him, when Chief Gallagher walked up and, without saying a word, took out a handmade knife and stabbed the teenager several times in the neck and side.

Investigators said two other SEALs gave similar accounts.

Members of the platoon then posed for photos with Chief Gallagher as he held the teenager’s head up by the hair with one hand, and held his knife in the other. Photos show Chief Gallagher then raising his right hand to perform a re-enlistment ceremony over the dead body, while another SEAL member holds an American flag.

Soon after the episode, investigators said, Chief Gallagher texted a photo of the body to a fellow SEAL member with the message, “I got him with my hunting knife.”

Investigators say several SEALs in the platoon spoke to commanders about the episode, but that no action was taken.

[yardwork]

10. War crimes.

[pwb]

11. Chief is a high rank enlisted person.

Seems he went to the dark side after too many tours overseas. Guys like that in Nam got fraged.