Two Republican lawmakers are seeking to have charges dropped against three Navy SEALs facing court-martial for accusations of abusing a terror suspect arrested for an ambush killing of U.S. contractors in Iraq.Charging these Seals is a travesty of justice aimed at appeasing the far left close GITMO crowd.
The SEALs -- Special Warfare Operators 2nd Class Matthew McCabe and Jonathan Keefe and Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Julio Huertas -- were part of a team that in September 2009 captured Ahmed Hashim Abed, the Al Qaeda terrorist behind the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA contractors in Fallujah in 2004.
The contractors' bodies were burned and left hanging from a bridge. The image came to symbolize the rise of Al Qaeda in Iraq and the brutality of the enemy Americans face there.
McCabe is accused of punching Abed in the stomach and giving him a bloody lip during the arrest.[According to Abed]
Reps. Dan Burton, R-Ind. and Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. are holding a news conference Thursday with McCabe and more than a dozen retired Navy SEALs and other special forces personnel.
Burton and Human Events, a conservative publication, have gathered petitions with more than 150,000[mine included] signatures demanding that the charges be dropped against the men.
The SEALs were offered what's call administrative punishment if they admitted wrongdoing but that would have hurt their future as special operators.
Rather than accept the reprimand, the sailors chose to fight the charges in a military court.
h/t Joanne
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