Pendleton 8 Comment

I received a comment concerning the Pendleton 8 recently. It has taken me some time to peruse the comment and for that I apologize. The post was sent by *WB. WB contends the Pendleton 8 were railroaded to Court Martial because of the public perception (no doubt as described by the MSM) painted a picture of a heinous crime in Hamdania, Iraq.

Here is the initial background to the Hamdania incident as described in 2006:

Assault charges were filed against six Marines on Thursday as the result of an incident that occurred in April in the Iraqi village of Hamdania and was uncovered during an unrelated investigation into the slaying of an Iraqi civilian later that month, military officials said.

Three of the Marines charged Thursday are currently in the brig at Camp Pendleton on kidnapping and murder charges in connection with the April 26 slaying of 52-year-old Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Hamdania. The other three had not been charged in that case.

Meanwhile, a seventh Marine, an officer, is expected to be charged next week in the assault case, according to Lt. Col. Colby Vokey, the Marine Corps' defense coordinator for the western United States. The nature of the assault was not described.

The six charged in the assault were identified as Lance Cpl. Saul H. Lopezromo, Pfc. Derek I. Lewis, Lance Cpl. Henry D. Lever, Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III, Cpl. Trent D. Thomas and Lance Cpl. Jerry E. Shumate Jr.

Hutchins, Thomas and Shumate are also charged in the Awad slaying.
Attorney Joseph Casas, who represents Pfc. John Jodka III, one of the eight people charged in the Awad slaying, said that investigation uncovered incidents separate from the killing in which Marines allegedly engaged in misconduct.

Casas had not seen the charge sheets for the three Marines named only in the assault case, but is familiar with the almost 600-page investigation report. He said it details incidents where Marines allegedly extracted information from suspected insurgents, or "high-value individuals," using force.

"The charges are going to be about the nature and method with which these Marines obtained information," Casas said. "It will probably be that they used physical force."

According to a statement from the Marine Corps, the assault charges are not connected to Awad's April 26 death.

In bringing murder charges against the seven Marines and one Navy corpsman now in the Camp Pendleton brig, investigators say that without provocation they went into the Hamdania, took Awad from his home, tied him up, put him in a hole and shot him.

After the killing, according to investigators, the troops placed an AK-47 assault rifle in Awad's hands and put a shovel in the hole to make it appear he was an insurgent planting explosives.

In coming weeks, the charges against the eight in the brig are to be considered at an Article 32 hearing, which is similar to a grand jury proceeding. At such a hearing a commanding officer determines if there is probably cause to bring the defendants to trial. (Free Republic Archive)

Not a pretty picture. Thing is evidence is beginning to come to the surface that the government case against the Pendleton 8 may have used prosecutorial misconduct in order to appease the anti-American insurgent propaganda in Iraq and the biased reporting of the MSM of what happened in Hamdania. It sounds much like the same circumstance to try to railroad the Haditha Marines over a non-existent massacre there. (You can follow the Haditha thread HERE)

Here is the WB’s Comment Post relating to the frame of the Pendleton 8:

JRH 4-14-08
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Pendleton 8 Exposed
WB
Fri 4/11/2008 9:51 AM

Documents and other evidence that have not been seen in public - ever before - will be posted soon...

Coming to an internet connection near you.

Sempers,

Bones
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http://euphoricreality.com/journal/2008/04/08/2578/
http://euphoricreality.com/journal/2008/04/09/2580/
http://euphoricreality.com/journal/2008/04/09/2581/
http://euphoricreality.com/journal/2008/04/10/2582/
http://jaghunters.blogspot.com/
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Pendleton 8 Exposed - The Real Story, Part 1 http://www.salem-news.com/articles/april092008/iraq_hamandia_4-9-08.php

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Just to let ya know who's interested, the site meters from Euphoric Reality and the JagHunter are quite revealing...

The NIST. Yes, That National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Military contractors and sub-contractors from the UK.

Guild Associates. Google 'em.

housegate10.house.gov [SlantRight Editor – Sample of Google search: Here, Here, Here, Here and Here to show a miniscule few] i.e.: Information Systems, U.S. House of Representatives ...

whitehouse.gov
pentagon.mil.
army.mil
house.gov

Universities and colleges who have contracts with DARPA and other military contractors.

US military bases and contractors from the East Coast to the West Coast.

Dozens of 'em...

Why are they so interested...eh?

Give ya a hint: Ike, and General Butler before him...were absolutely right.

S.

Warren "Bones" Bonesteel
Author and Researcher
Sgt USMC 1976-1983
55 Crestview Drive
Rapid City, SD 57701
(605) 348-2830
wrsteel@blackhawke.net
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I am not certain if Warren “Bones” Bonesteel is a pseudonym or not. My readers can do the research on that. As a rule I do not show the identity of commenters; however WB placed this information as part of his actual comment and so I am including it. Nonetheless, the Euphoric Reality and the “Pendleton 8 Exposed – The Real Story” are authentic links that I did verify. In fact you should check out the Salem-News.com story written by Kit Lange on April 9, 2008.

JRH 4/14/08