Saturday - March 27, 2010

Royal Marine faces jail for whooping a roadside bomber.  Great way to fight a war. War? This is War?

It’s an armed conflict in a war zone. Or something like it. What’s the point of having a war without mass bombing from the air and a policy of no prisoners unless the mood takes ya. Nuke the freeken place and be done with it and the war’s over in minutes. Make a parking lot out of the place and then start mass bombing of high concentrations of this scum in other places.  Don’t give em time to organize and plan. Don’t give em pity cos it’s wasted. 

Just another damn thing to get the dander up during the wkend.  Hey, the Sgt. was right. Somebody should have shot the bastard dead right at the start.
So now two good Brit soldiers face jail. Just cos they beat up a bomb planter. What’s the big damn deal?  Screw the silly rules of war that only one side has to live by. And btw .... arrest?  The would be bomber in a war zone gets arrested instead of shot?  The Tommy is now a policeman? Bah. 

Every night on the radio I hear these different folks talk about how this war is not winnable and that Brits should withdraw NOW! Sure thing and I agree because with that attitude and with sending soldiers to jail just for beating up some slime ball roadside bomber, yeah.  I’d agree that this war is not winnable.
If that’ how they fight a war these days, it damn sure ain’t winnable. In spite of the hard fighting and the bravery of Brit troops.

I’m ranting on and need to quit.  I just sympathize with the soldiers in question here. Their trial is just more bogus pc bull to soothe the left.

Royal Marines sergeant faces jail for using Wellington boot to beat Taliban suspect ‘planting roadside bomb’

By Daily Mail Reporter

A Royal Marines sergeant who beat an Afghan prisoner with a Wellington boot has been convicted of causing him actual bodily harm.

Suspected Taliban fighter Mohammad Ekhlas suffered a cut lip, two loose teeth and facial bruising after Captain Jody Wheelhouse and Sergeant Mark Leader each hit him with the rigid rubber boot.

A court martial heard the pair burst into a tent on the base where Ekhlas was being held and struck him around the head with green, size 10 boots.

The 48-year-old had earlier been captured by marines after four men were spotted ‘digging in’ an IED roadside bomb just 150 metres from their base in Afghanistan.

Ekhlas had run off and then resisted arrest when approached by two marines sent to deal with the threat, but they managed to wrestle him to the ground and subdue him.

The marines then took him to their base in Wishtan, east of Sangin, in Helmand province, before he was transferred to nearby Forward Operating Base Jackson.

There he was guarded by a troop of marines led by Cpt Wheelhouse and Sgt Leader, both of 45 Commando.

Although Capt Wheelhouse admitted a charge of causing actual bodily harm, Sgt Leader pleaded not guilty, saying he acted in self-defence against a ‘dangerous and violent prisoner’ who was trying to escape.

The court martial panel deliberated for three-and-a-half hours before finding Sgt Leader guilty of assaulting Ekhlas on March 19 last year.

During the five-day trial at Bulford Camp in Wiltshire, the court was told that Ekhlas later entered into Afghan custody and was subsequently later released.

Ekhlas was not present at the trial as he could not be found.

Prosecutor Colonel Nick Clapham told the hearing that the marines had a duty to look after Ekhlas while he was being detained, regardless of if he had attempted to kill British forces.

The court heard Ekhlas had suffered facial injuries when he was captured at around 2pm that day.

A military policeman took him two kilometres from Wishtan to FOB Jackson, where he was given a medical examination.

There Lance Corporal Ellen Chun took responsibility for him, ensuring Ekhlas had food and taking photos of his injuries before he was placed in a tent for the night.

Lc Cpl Chun told the court martial that Sgt Leader visited the tent at about 6.30pm.

She said: ‘Sgt Leader said something like “I don’t know why they brought him back, they should have killed him.” Lc Cpl Chun then left to get him a sleeping bag, returning 20 minutes later.

‘When I got a few metres from the tent I heard screaming and someone crying out - it sounded like someone calling for help.

‘I ran into the tent and shouted, “What are you doing?” The detainee was knelt in the back-left corner, covering his face with his hands.

‘There were two males next to the detainee. One of them was Sgt Leader, who was making a striking motion at the detainee with his right hand, which was holding something long and dark.

‘The two men then ran out past me.’

Lance Corporal Robert Fegan, the military policeman who earlier escorted Ekhlas to the base, said he saw the prisoner at the medical centre at 8pm.

He said: ‘His injuries were a lot more severe than when I handed him over to Lc CplChun.

‘He was streaming with blood from his face and down his torso and there was a lot more swelling down the left-hand side of his face.’

Capt Wheelhouse, based at Arbroath in Scotland, and Sgt Leader, now of the Commando Training Centre in Lympstone, Devon, will both be sentenced next month.

SOURCE

Posted by peiper     on 03/27/2010 at 11:16 AM   
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