Judge: Navy SEAL posing, re-enlisting with ISIS corpse not a war crime
February 04, 2019 Laura Widener
A U.S. Navy judge has made a first ruling in the case of Navy SEAL Chief Edward “Eddie†Gallagher, and it clears Gallagher of at least one charge of several brought against him by his own SEAL teammates.
Capt. Aaron Rugh ruled that conducting a re-enlistment ceremony alongside a corpse or flying a drone over the corpse – two accusations made against Gallagher – does not meet the criteria of a war crime as defined in Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), according to a Navy Times report on Saturday.
Gallagher is accused of using a knife to stab a detained teenaged ISIS fighter multiple times in May 2017 in Mosul, which allegedly resulted in the fighter’s eventual death while in SEAL custody. Prosecutors say Gallagher then used the corpse as a prop for his re-enlistment ceremony.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/02/judge-navy-seal-posing-re-enlisting-with-isis-corpse-not-a-war-crime/
