Marines Will Not Be Charged In Afghan Deaths
As it should be…
RALEIGH , N.C. - A Marine Corps general says two officers whose unit was accused of killing up to 19 Afghan civilians in 2007 will not face criminal charges.
The Marines said Friday that Lt. General Samuel Helland made the decision not to bring charges after reviewing the findings of a special tribunal that heard more than three weeks of testimony in January.
The tribunal investigated allegations that as many as 19 Afghan civilians died when a unit of Marines special operations troops opened fire after a car bomb targeted their convoy in March 2007.
It was the first time in more than 50 years the Marines empaneled a Court of Inquiry. It only considered the actions of two officers: company commander Maj. Fred C. Galvin and platoon leader Capt. Vincent J. Noble.
(AP)
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Damn. This has got to piss off the Islamofascists and their main supporters - the treasonous American Democrat(ic) Party.
What really pisses me off is the actions that were taken against these men, actions taken against the rest of their union and the fact that the Brigade Commander felt the need to apologize before the investigation was completed.
From an article in the Raleigh News and Observer:
Galvin and several other Marines were sent back to Camp Lejeune after the shooting. The rest of the unit was ordered to leave Afghanistan and returned to the ships of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit in the Persian Gulf.
An Army investigation later concluded that 50 people were injured and 19 were killed. The brigade commander in charge of regular forces in the province publicly apologized for the shootings, saying he was ashamed of what had happened.
But a week later, Marine Corps commandant Gen. James T. Conway said the Army officer shouldn’t have apologized because an investigation into what occurred was still ongoing. Nunnally has said he believes three to five people died and less than 19 were injured.
“This is a concurrence that all the Marines on the patrol did the right thing,” said Galvin’s civilian lawyer, Mark Waple.
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:47 amGood news, but it still probably ruined some careers of good Marine officers.
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:03 pmWTF, the DAzz Brigade Commander felt the need to apologize before the investigation was completed, what is wrong with the idiot PC officer!
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:06 pm