Witness At War Crimes Trial Says HE Killed The ISIS Prisoner In Iraq
Claims it was mercy killing:
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-...not-gallagher/
Witness at Navy SEAL trial admits killing Islamic State prisoner, not Gallagher
By: Julie Watson, The Associated Pressand Brian Melley, The Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — The latest on the trial of a decorated Navy SEAL charged with killing an Islamic State prisoner in his care (all times local):
11:10 a.m.
A Navy SEAL called by prosecutors to testify at the murder trial of a colleague has acknowledged killing a wounded prisoner in Iraq in what he described as an act of mercy.
Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Corey Scott said Thursday that he asphyxiated the teenage Islamic State fighter after Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward Gallagher unexpectedly stabbed him.
Gallagher is facing court-martial on charges of murder and attempted murder.
Scott says the militant had been stabilized and was breathing normally after he and Gallagher treated him for wounds suffered in an airstrike.
Scott says the patient would have survived the stabbing, but he decided to plug the youth's air tube because he believed he would eventually be tortured by Iraqi forces.
A prosecutor says Scott never revealed that version of events in previous conversations and accused him of lying to help Gallagher.
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