Gallagher was also 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. He could face other punishments, such as a demotion in rank and reduced pay. He could have faced imprisonment for life if found guilty of “premeditated murder” but due to the ruling, he now only faces four month in prison but he is set to walk free as Gallagher had already served nine months in prison during pre-trial confinement.

The court said Gallagher was 'not guilty of murder, not guilty of stabbing, not guilty of shooting, not guilty of all those things, they found him guilty of taking a photograph,' Timothy Parlatore, one of Gallagher's lawyer's informed journalists. The seven-member jury deliberated for about nine hours before delivering its verdict in the court-martial of Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, 39, a decorated career combat veteran whose case had drawn the interest of U.S. US Navy SEAL Facing War Crimes Charges for Killings in Iraq Navy SEAL platoon leader accused of war crimes in Iraq was acquitted by a military jury Tuesday of murder and all other charges except for unlawfully posing with the corpse of a captive fighter from the Islamic State Group.

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