In as much as we have been sharing the various news reports and opinions that we have been reading about regarding the charging of three Navy SEALs for allegedly assaulting Ahmed Hashim Abed, the suspect behind the brutal murders of Blackwater USA contractors in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004, our readers have been very generous with their opinions and their support of Navy SEALs Matthew McCabe, Jonathan Keefe and Julio Huertas.
There are readers who are calling for the dropping of charges against the three Navy SEALs altogether, very much in the same manner as members of the House of Representatives have written a letter calling for the same. And yet there are those who believe that the SEALs should have their day in court, if only to clear their names and prove once and for all that they are not at fault.
Reader Marilyn Pfaff shared with us a commentary that shared an interesting piece of information. A copy of the Al Qaeda Training Manual was apparently seized from an Al Qaeda member’s home by the Manchester (England) Manchester Police and translated. Lesson 18 of the manual talks about guidelines to be followed by “brothers” in prisons and detention centers and listed among them is to complain about being mistreated while in prison.
Could this be the reason why the SEALs had insisted on a court martial, when they could just have easily been reprimanded outside of court?
December 17th, 2009 - 11:24 am
“What king, whose enemy is yet a long way off, sends ambassadors to seek conditions of peace?” (Lk. 14:32)…”only that king who would serve the interest of another, or an agenda that serves not the interest of his own nation.”
December 19th, 2009 - 5:01 pm
[...] with assault charges, and there are some of them who are indeed talking the talk. Apart from commenting on blogs and coming up with passionate opinion pieces and commentaries, there are people who are [...]
December 20th, 2009 - 7:18 pm
I’ve got a big sign on the back of my truack that says “Screw The Leadership” —SUPPORT THE SEALS.COM
And I’m not taking it down either! I like to park my truck next to the Wing Commander’s staff car too! I’ve had to haul the SEALS on the C5 before and my philosohpy was leave them the hell alone, don’t bother them, don’t ask then any questions and if they need help, HELP THEM.
This case is giving me BAD memories of a leadership that gave us Major Abu Nidal Hassan and Major “Run from the truth” Jill Metzger. Google their names if you don’t know who they are but if you’re a SEAL, don’t even bother—you shouldn’t have to put up with BS like that too!
I hope those SEALS kick the leadership’s butt and I hope they rub their noses and faces in their own BS!
December 21st, 2009 - 2:03 am
[...] is probably the very reason why Lesson 18 of the Al Qaeda manual specifically states that “brothers” should complain about being [...]
December 21st, 2009 - 7:45 am
This makes the US military as a whole weak to the rest of the world, the leather ship knows this – another body of the goverment infiltrated.