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Army Ranger Sentenced to 25 Years For Killing al Qaeda operative
Tonight on Andrea Shea King -
On March 20th, 2009, Army Ranger 1st Lieutenant Michael Behenna was sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing Ali Mansur, a known Al Qaeda operative, while serving in Iraq.
Here’s the backstory-
Army intelligence ordered the release of Mansur and Lt. Behenna was ordered to return the terrorist to his home.
During the return of Mansur, Lt. Behenna again questioned the Al Qaeda member for information about other members of the terrorist cell, and financial supporters. During this interrogation, Mansur attacked Lt. Behenna, who killed the terrorist in self-defense. The government subsequently prosecuted Lt. Behenna for premeditated murder and found him guilty. Lt. Behenna is presently serving a reduced sentence of 15 years behind bars in Leavenworth Prison. Many say this was a grave injustice on Lt. Behenna, based on political coverup and withheld evidence that would have exonerated the young soldier.
Tonight his childhood sweetheart Shannon Wahl joins us with her story. I hope you’ll make time to join us too. The show begins at 9pm ET at the link below:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/askshow/2012/07/18/the-andrea-shea-king-show–shannon-wahl
CrustyB
July 17th, 2012
A scapegoat for the empire. Injustice from our own goddamned government against our own men. Who will champion our champions?
Jack Daniels
July 17th, 2012
You are witnessing the birth of the new military, as well as the beginning of the end of her glorious and noble past unless someone from the top undoes the recent changes.
Gender free urinals (I really don’t care what the logical argument for it is, there is another, uglier agenda) gays in the military, Christianity being weeded out, rules of engagement that prohibits the soldiers to do their job and the list goes on and on.
Moral along with the sense or morality in the military is on an ever increasing downward slide. I cannot see any upside in all these changes except to destroy her from within and from the top (commander in chief) down.
Jack Daniels
July 17th, 2012
I meant to say openly and militant gays
Loretta in Indiana
July 17th, 2012
We should have given Lt. Behenna a medal, instead of a prison term.
Who will want to join the military now, when you are punished for destroying the enemy?
scribble
July 17th, 2012
I wouldn’t mind if the first thing President Romney does is pardon this American hero before he takes care of obamacare.
pops
July 17th, 2012
john kerry can shoot a vc in the back win a siver star now he is a united states senator? what the fuck did i miss?
Toaster
July 17th, 2012
How can I describe what the problem is? Hmmmm…
There’s something on the dashboard and passenger seat of this car that doesn’t belong there.
jclady
July 17th, 2012
The current ROE has our military so tied up. This soldier deserves a medal, not a sentence.
I’m praying that more logical minds will prevail after November.
Bri
July 17th, 2012
Romney should pardon all these guys.
Toaster
July 17th, 2012
There’s been a problem with all of the Federal Government recognizing the threat from radical Islamists for quite a few years. In the Bush years Grover Norquist exerted his influence and there was far too much pandering to org’s such as CAIR. It’s gotten much worse under 0bama.
The linked article is from FPM, written in 2003. It’s worth reading.
Sorry about the moose limb joke earlier. There are a tremendous amount of problems to be unwound within the government and specificaly within the military to prevent (and hopefully reverse) injustices like this.
Zombie Breaker Morant
July 18th, 2012
@CrustyB: “A scapegoat for the empire”
It could have been worse
Zombie Breaker Morant
July 18th, 2012
@CrustyB: “A scapegoat for the empire”
It could have been worse
Metprof
July 18th, 2012
Meanwhile Bill Ayers walks free among us.
Roscoe P. Soultrane
July 18th, 2012
@Metprof: “Meanwhile Bill Ayers walks free among us.”
It’s worse than that. How many people stop bullets every weekend in the metro Chicago area? And no one can put one in that clown and/or his wife?
cato
July 18th, 2012
Obama’s trifecta………….
destroy the constitution,
destroy the economy and
destroy the military
House of Kell
July 18th, 2012
As a former Ranger, my question has to be this…
IF you didn’t want our soldiers killing these motherfuckers, why’d you send us the hell over there? This is either a war or its not…in war, having ones way, by extreme violence, is what determines the winner (though no-one really wins…not anymore) and if this fuckstick didn’t want to die for his country, he should have stayed in his cave!!!
JohnR
July 18th, 2012
Why dont we lock Obama for all his killings from the drones?