7 February 2012

SEAL 10 Statements on McCabe Detainee Assault

US Navy SEAL Matthew McCabe (and two others tried separately) was tried and found not guilty in a military court in May 2010 for assaulting a detainee in Iraq.

May 6, 2010

"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."

The US Navy Criminal Investigative Service took sworn statements about the alleged assault from unit SEAL 10 members serving with McCabe. These were introduced at the trial. The statements:

http://cryptome.org/2012/01/mccabe/mccabe-seal-10.pdf (6.7MB)

Matthew McCabe in Iraq

SEAL Team

Matthew McCabe after trial