Former Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher Now Says Platoon Members Agreed 'To Do Medical Scenarios On ISIS Prisoner Until He Died'

In the podcast interview, Gallagher continued to deny that he stabbed the fighter. He claimed, instead, that the SEALs did not treat the fighter for his injuries and jointly decided to practice medical procedures on him until he died  

Daily Mail: 'Our intention was to kill him': Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher who was found not guilty of murdering ISIS fighter now claims entire platoon agreed 'to do medical scenarios on prisoner until he died' 

* Eddie Gallagher, 41, was found not guilty in 2019 of murdering an injured 17-year-old ISIS fighter while on deployment in Iraq 

 * He has now claimed his entire platoon agreed to kill the captured fighter as part of a plan to practice medical procedures on him 

* Prosecutors claimed during his trial that Gallagher briefly treated the ISIS fighter by inserting a breathing tube in his neck after being injured in an airstrike 

* Gallagher's platoon members told investigators they then saw Gallagher stab the fighter in the neck several times 

* He has always claimed the war crimes charges brought against him were made up by six platoon members who wanted to force him out 

* His attorney claims that prosecutors already knew that the SEALs had practiced medical procedures on the ISIS fighter before he was pronounced dead 

 * The knowledge that the fighter was used for medical training was detailed as part of a defense motion filed back in 2019 and also in other court documents 

Former Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, who was found not guilty of murdering an injured ISIS detainee, has now claimed his entire platoon agreed to kill the captured fighter as part of a plan to practice medical procedures on him. 

The 41-year-old retired SEAL made the bombshell admission in an interview on Apple's 'The Line' podcast on Tuesday regarding the 2017 death of a 17-year-old militant captive in Iraq. 

'The grain of truth in the whole thing is that that ISIS fighter was killed by us and that nobody at that time had a problem with it,' he said.  

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Update: Eddie Gallagher now says SEALs intended to kill unarmed fighter and ‘nobody had a problem with it’ (Task and Purpose)  

WNU Editor: There is still a lot of bad blood between Eddie Gallagher and the six former fellow soldiers that he says wanted to force him out.

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