![]() Gallagher insisted that disgruntled subordinates with no prior battlefield experience fabricated allegations against him over grievances with his leadership style and tactics. Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, pictured during his 2017 deployment. ![]() He was convicted on a charge stemming from the photos he and fellow SEAL team members took with the dead Islamic State fighter, who was brought to Gallagher’s camp by an Iraqi general after being badly wounded in an air strike. North America Decorated US Navy SEAL accused of war crimes in Iraq Special Operations Chief Gallagher, a highly-decorated US Navy SEAL faces life in prison after being accused of shooting at civilians and killing a teenage IS fighter. Gallagher also was charged with attempted murder in the wounding of two unarmed civilians – a schoolgirl and an elderly man - shot from a sniper’s perch, as well as with firing deliberately on other non-combatants and with obstruction of justice. Some of the same witnesses also said they saw Gallagher, who was originally trained as a medic, perform a number of emergency procedures on the detainee before he died. Several fellow SEAL team members testified he fatally stabbed the captured Iraqi prisoner in the neck with a custom-made knife after the teenage fighter was brought to Gallagher’s outpost for medical treatment in 2017.
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