US military jury clears SEAL in Iraq abuse case

Why would they take the word of a freaking terrorist over the word of a NAVY SEAL!!!!!! Whoever brought these charges should be drummed out of the military and then out of the country to join Al QUeda of Iraq themselves.

Who could possibly bring charges against any soldier for smacking around scum like this ? A traitor, that's who.

Any human being capable of doing what the murdering sack of shit did on the bridge in Fallujah to our citizens should be executed on the spot.

Fu)(&*^*(&%$&#$&^* ANIMALS

Fortunately the system worked partially as they shouldn't have been charged and have been treated as guilty and must prove their innocence!!! What if he wasn't found innocent?

At long last at least there's One down and Two to go, and how can they even proceed against the other 2 at this point?  .

FOXNews.com - "BAGHDAD (AP) — A U.S. military jury cleared a Navy SEAL Thursday of failing to prevent the beating of an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding a 2004 attack that killed four American security contractors.

The contractors' burned bodies were dragged through the streets and two were hanged from a bridge over the Euphrates river in the former insurgent hotbed of Fallujah, in what became a turning point in the Iraq war.

The trial of three SEALs, the Navy's elite special forces unit, in the abuse case has outraged many Americans who see it as coddling terrorists.

A six-man jury found Petty Officer 1st Class Julio Huertas, 29, of Blue Island, Illinois, not guilty of charges of dereliction of duty and attempting to influence the testimony of another service member. The jury spent two hours deliberating the verdict.

'It's a big weight off my shoulders,' a smiling and composed Huertas said as he left the courthouse at the U.S. military's Camp Victory on Baghdad's western outskirts.

'Compared to all the physical activity we go through, this has been mentally more challenging.'

Huertas said he plans now to continue with his military career and 'to go home and kiss my wife.'

Huertas was the first of three SEALS to face a court-martial for charges related to the abuse incident and the verdict was a major blow to the government's case. All three SEALs could have received only a disciplinary reprimand, but insisted on a military trial to clear their names and save their careers.

The trial stems from an attack on four Blackwater security contractors who were driving through the city of Fallujah west of Baghdad in early 2004. The images of the bodies hanging from the bridge drove home to many the rising power of the insurgency and helped spark a bloody U.S. invasion of the city to root out the insurgents later that year."

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