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Another Marine Exonerated Of War Crimes

Posted by: Curt @ 3:12 pm in Military

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Yet another Marine accused by overzealous liberal’s of committing war crimes has been exonerated. This time its Jose Nazario. He was accused of killing unarmed prisoners during the intense Fallujah battle of 2004. They said he ordered unarmed prisoners shot because they didn’t have time to take the prisoners while clearing the houses. He denied ever shooting any detainees and now a jury has exonerated him:

Jose Nazario remained emotionless as the verdict on each count was read. Behind him, his family began to cry and cheer and the judge had to stop the reading between the second and third count.

One juror, a 36-year-old real estate agent in Lake Elisnore, California, spoke to Defend Our Marines.

He said he didn’t know a thing about the case until he heard about it in court. When the jury began deliberating, he said three jurors thought Nazario was guilty. By the end of the first day, only juror still thought so.

“If I thought there had been a crime,” the juror said, “I would have had no trouble voting for a guilty verdict. We weren’t trying to send a message about the war, or trying to take the moral high ground. The government just didn’t make a case. There was nothing there.”

Good news once again, but when will Murtha stand trial for his treasonous actions?

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chad

How was this guy tried in a civilian court. Crimes committed in Fallujah while on active duty should have been in a court martial. If this was a state proceeding the military should have stepped in and exercised jurisdiction.

August 28th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

Scott Malensek

Somehow…I don’t envision Senator Obama expressing joy at this vindication in his speech tonight. We’ll hear about all kinds of things, but the political persecution by prosecution as a means of opposing Iraqi Freedom…nah.

I’m glad this story’s happening, and being reported, but the speech tonight, the VP tomorrow, Britney Spears’ latest tattoo the next day, and so on…it’s lost.

Curious, anyone know how many times Haditha was ranted about the failing NYT, and will they report it once? How about Keith Olberman? Anythone think he’ll report it as often as he ranted about it?

August 28th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

MataHarley

According to another page on the link in the post above, Nazario, the squad leader, is being prosecuted under the under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act or MEJA, Chad.

The untested law was passed by Congress in 2000 to give the federal government a vehicle to charge US citizens who worked for the armed forces overseas with crimes they allegedly committed where the American government lacks prosecutorial jurisdiction.

Perhaps it was this, or somehow fall under Iraq laws… which is why I don’t want a SOFA with Iraq that doesn’t bring charges like this against our warriors into the Iraq courts. Two more, under Nazario’s command, are facing courtmartial in the military courts. Perhaps command status is the reasoning?

Don’t know if my interpretation of this judicial status is correct (based on the website news). Perhaps our currently, or past, serving military FA authors can verify this.

August 28th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

thebronze

This was a complete sham and a witch-hunt. Hopefully the Government will be a little more leery to want to try someone else under this stupid law, after their huge smack-down.

August 28th, 2008 at 9:31 pm