Bob McCarty Writes

EDITOR’S NOTE: On July 31, 2008, Army Ranger 1LT Michael Behenna was charged with the premeditated murder of Ali Mansur, a known Al-Qaeda agent operating near Albu Toma, an area north of Baghdad.  Seven months later, the leader of the 18-member Delta Company, 5th platoon of the Army 101st Airborne Infantry Division was convicted of [...]

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EDITOR’S NOTE:  Six days ago in my post, Appeals Court Upholds Army Officer’s Conviction, Ignores Evidence in Death of Al-Qaeda Operative, I shared news about Michael C. Behenna, the Army Ranger officer convicted of unpremeditated murder in the death of Ali Mansur, a known Al-Qaeda agent operating near Albu Toma, an area north of Baghdad.  [...]

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I’m on the road right now, but when I came across some terrible news this afternoon that I simply had to share:  The U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals rejected the appeal of Michael C. Behenna of Edmond, Okla., and upheld his murder conviction and 15-year prison sentence at the U.S. Military Disciplinary Barracks at [...]

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The world premiere of Michael Wilkerson’s powerful, hour-long documentary about Army Ranger 1LT Michael Behenna and his platoon, entitled “PURPLE HEARTS – A REQUIEM FOR MAD DOG 5,” is set for June 11 at the deadCENTER Film Festival in downtown Oklahoma City. Lieutenant Behenna, the subject of some four-dozen posts on this blog during the [...]

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A newly-discovered FBI memo appears to support claims of Iraqi involvement in the Oklahoma City Bombing first made in 2004 by Jayna Davis, award-winning investigative reporter and best-selling author of “The Third Terrorist:  The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing.” The once-classified memo, according to an article published Tuesday by The Center for Public [...]

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Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. surprised a lot of people when he told a packed House Intelligence Committee hearing room audience the Muslim Brotherhood is “a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried al-Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.” Not me, though.  I’m already familiar with his [...]

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While many Americans will park in front of their televisions to watch football on Super Bowl Sunday, others will tune in just to see the commercials.  Unknown to most Americans, one commercial will be seen only by members of the U.S. military deployed overseas.  Sadly, it’s a spot that probably needs to be shown to [...]

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