Our intention was to kill him
“We killed that guy. Our intention was to kill him, everybody was on board. It was to do medical scenarios on him until he died,” he added. The former SEAL also claimed that the captive “was going to die regardless” and alleged that “everyone was, like, let s just do medical treatments on him until he’s gone”.
“Everybody knew what was going on. That’s the only truthful thing to this whole process. And then the rest of it, just is like, a bunch of contorted lies to, like, pin that whole scenario on me.” He also said that he had never stabbed the teen and that the latter died from all the medical treatments that were done to him.
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Former Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, who was found not guilty of the charge of murder in the death of a young Islamic State detainee in Iraq in 2017, has made the bombshell allegation that the detainee died as part of a plan to practice medical procedures on him and that his fellow SEALs had all agreed to the idea.
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(WASHINGTON) Former Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, who was found not guilty of the charge of murder in the death of a young Islamic State detainee in Iraq in 2017, has made the bombshell allegation that the detainee died as part of a plan to practice medical procedures on him and that his fellow SEALs had all agreed to the idea.
Gallagher, the senior enlisted leader of his SEAL platoon and a medic, provided medical care to the detainee including the insertion of a breathing tube to his throat, but denied allegations that the detainee died after he stabbed him.
Our intention was to kill him : Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher who was found not guilty of murdering ISIS fighter now claims entire platoon agreed to do medical scenarios on prisoner until he died
Eddie Gallagher, 41, was found not guilty in 2019 of murdering an injured 17-year-old ISIS fighter while on deployment in Iraq
He has now claimed his entire platoon agreed to kill the captured fighter as part of a plan to practice medical procedures on him
Prosecutors claimed during his trial that Gallagher briefly treated the ISIS fighter by inserting a breathing tube in his neck after being injured in an airstrike