breaking: stunning verdict reached in war crimes trial of navy seal eddie gallagher

One day later, he was sacked.Ī tale of three tales. Navy’s strategy to counter China and expand operations in the Arctic, all while batting away reports he was going to step down from his job over President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon a Navy SEAL. Throughout the weekend, Spencer spoke on the U.S. Spencer joined a group of 300 top diplomats, military officials, experts (and this Foreign Policy reporter) at the annual Halifax International Security Forum in Canada this weekend. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer’s swan song, even if he didn’t know it yet. Scott responded, “Yes.HALIFAX, Nova Scotia-It was U.S. John told the courtroom that Scott had immunity, and suggested he was claiming to have killed the ISIS prisoner to prevent Gallagher from going to prison. Brian John reiterated several times that Scott had never said this before. Gallagher allegedly stabbed the prisoner, and Scott testified that he would have lived through the stabbing had Scott not suffocated him, according to the Associated Press.During Scott’s testimony, prosecutor Lt. On Thursday, Scott said the ISIS prisoner was stabilized after he and Gallagher treated him for wounds suffered in an airstrike, according to the AP. Gallagher is facing a court-martial on charges of murdering the ISIS prisoner, as well as charges of the attempted murders of an elderly man and young girl during the time he was deployed in Iraq.

Scott said he “wanted to save” the prisoner from the fate he would face if turned over to Iraqi authorities, adding “I knew he was going to die anyway,” according to the New York Times. Special Operator 1st Class Corey Scott testified he saw Gallagher stab the ISIS prisoner in 2017, but that it was Scott who suffocated him to death, describing it as an act of mercy. In a shocking twist, a Navy medic testified on Thursday in military court that it was he, not former Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, who killed an ISIS prisoner who was in Gallagher’s care.

Breaking: stunning verdict reached in war crimes trial of navy seal eddie gallagher