In the video affidavit shown in a San Diego courtroom, the general said he handed the 17-year-old prisoner - previously said to be 15 - over to the Navy SEALS. Abbas al-Jubouri said in the testimony recorded June 3. “I was in position until the bad guy died,” Gen. Gallagher, who served as a medic, has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Gallagher is on trial for the pre-meditated murder of the teen fighter, as well as other war crimes including posing for a photograph with the boy’s body while he and other SEALs held a reenlistment ceremony, and shooting two non-combatants during the deployment. deployment to Mosul was shown in video testimony Thursday, June 27, saying he was at a teen ISIS fighter’s side and never saw Navy SEAL Edward “Eddie” Gallagher do anything but try to save the boy’s life. If convicted, the decorated career combat veteran could face life in prison.An Iraqi general whose forces partnered with American troops during a 2017 U.S. He has pleaded not guilty to those and other charges, including obstructing justice.

The charges stem from Gallagher’s deployment as a platoon leader to Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, in 2017. Gallagher is charged with murdering a helpless, wounded Islamic State fighter in his custody, and with two counts of attempted murder in the wounding of two unarmed civilians, a schoolgirl and elderly man, shot from a sniper’s perch. The finding came near the end of a two-day hearing that wrapped up just 10 days before Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher is due to stand trial in a case that has drawn the attention of U.S. Courtesy Andrea Gallagher/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Navy SEAL Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, charged with war crimes in Iraq, is shown in this undated photo provided May 24, 2019.

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