SAN DIEGO - Jury selection began on Monday in the trial of a U.S. Navy SEAL platoon leader court-martialed on charges of murdering a wounded Iraqi prisoner and shooting unarmed civilians, a war crimes case that has drawn the attention of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Gallagher, 39, is charged with murdering a wounded, helpless Islamic State fighter in his custody by stabbing him in the neck, and with attempted murder in the wounding of two civilians - a schoolgirl and an elderly man - shot from a sniper’s perch in Iraq. Empanelling the jury is expected to take one or two days and the proceedings in a military courthouse at the San Diego base are due to last three weeks.
The presiding judge, a Navy captain, ultimately removed the lead prosecutor from the case and freed Gallagher from pre-trial confinement.
How can Navy seals be trialled for war crimes ?..
elonmusk TEDTalks zannymb What war crimes? I never said her name when I lamented .. my 'private data' was dig up to make the chaos happen .. she happily participated .. I was the one pushing and speaking for peace .. and this was done to me in return? They got money, right?
War crime is an oxymoron.
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