Eddie Gallagher - The Line

[Peter1469]

Under Article IV of The Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, 12 August 1949 (GCIII) of 1949, he qualified as a PW. Even if he didn't, you can't just murder them once they are in custody.

Under GCIII terrorists are not combatants and are not prisoners of war if captured.

I didn't bring up other sources of law.

[Peter1469]

So, you didn't hear about the multiple eyewitnesses who testified that Gallagher stabbed the child (age estimated between 12 and 15 years) in the neck. Those witnesses included other SEALs and Scott, the medic who claimed he was the one who killed him AFTER he was granted immunity, but previously testified that Gallagher stabbed him in the neck? You didn't hear that Gallagher himself boasted about stabbing the prisoner?

If Scott had not been granted immunity and recanted his original testimony made under oath, the case would have been a slam dunk against Gallagher. The only thing that saved his psycho punk ass was Scott changing his testimony.

Yes, those were the younger SEALs on the team.

The backstory to that was that they hated Gallagher because older SEALs treated the younger SEALs like they were not real SEALs because of lower standards in Buds. This was a SEAL-wide problem.

I have no opinion on which version of events is the correct version. Clearly one side or the other is lying.

[Cletus]

Under GCIII terrorists are not combatants and are not prisoners of war if captured.

I didn't bring up other sources of law.

It doesn't matter. You can't just murder someone in your custody, whether he qualifies as a PW or not. Once you take a prisoner into custody (I didn't specify PW), you can't just kill him. You become legally responsible for his safety.

[Peter1469]

It doesn't matter. You can't just murder someone in your custody, whether he qualifies as a PW or not. Once you take a prisoner into custody (I didn't specify PW), you can't just kill him. You become legally responsible for his safety.

That comments doesn't address what I said. I was simply responding to PW status.

[Cletus]

That comments doesn't address what I said. I was simply responding to PW status.

His PW status is really irrelevant. He was in custody. That created an obligation for us to protect him.

[Peter1469]

His PW status is really irrelevant. He was in custody. That created an obligation for us to protect him.

My comments are never not relevant.

This one was responding directly to only one issue.

[MisterVeritis]

The Iraqi general

Scott said he witnessed it. Other witnesses testified it happened. Gallagher himself boasted of doing it.

No blood on the knife? Really? You are running with that? How long after the event was the knife examined? You don't think it may have been wiped clean? No good hunter leaves his knife bloody after he uses it.

No blood on the uniform? Assuming the prosecution even got to examine the uniform he was wearing, I could easily demonstrate to you how to stab someone in the neck without getting a drop of blood on my uniform, especially if the guy was already wounded and down.

Now you are just being ridiculous.

The knife was tested for DNA. They found no blood. There are photos of Gallagher followed the supposed stabbing. Gallagher has no blood on his uniform. The liar who made up the story said the blood was spewing lie vomit.

The Iraqi general as there to secure the one surviving perp following the Hellfire attack that killed the other 40 or so perps. The survivor had lung damage.

"A sworn deposition of Major General Abbas al-Jubouri taped in San Diego earlier this month was played on Thursday for the jury in a court-martial that has drawn attention from U.S. President Donald Trump, who intervened months ago to ease the conditions of Gallagher’s pre-trial confinement.

Contrary to prior testimony that Gallagher or a medic in his team had acted deliberately to cause the death of a helpless Islamic State fighter in their custody, al-Jubouri said the Navy SEALs did all they could to save the teenager’s life.
“They support him. They did their best to get him to survive,” al-Jubouri testified in broken English, saying he remained with the detainee at U.S. outpost until he had died."