Military jury in Virginia: Navy SEAL not guilty of punching suspected Iraqi terrorist
By , APThursday, May 6, 2010
Va. military jury finds Navy SEAL not guilty
NORFOLK, Va. — A military jury in Virginia has found a Navy SEAL not guilty on charges of punching a suspected Iraqi terrorist.
Jurors deliberated about an hour and 40 minutes before returning their verdict Thursday in the court-martial of Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew McCabe.
The 24-year-old Perrysburg, Ohio, man was tried at Naval Station Norfolk on accusations of assaulting Ahmed Hashim Abed, who is suspected of plotting the 2004 slayings of four U.S. contractors in Fallujah.
The defense suggested throughout the trial that Abed employed a standard terrorist tactic of feigning injury, perhaps even biting his own lip to spill blood onto his clothing.
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