前海军海豹突击队·埃迪·加拉格尔，谁被判无罪……的谋杀指控2017年，一名年轻的伊斯兰国被拘留者在伊拉克死亡，这一令人震惊的指控称，这名被拘留者的死亡是对他实施医疗程序的计划的一部分，他的同胞海豹突击队队员都同意这一想法。

加拉格尔是他在海豹突击队的排的高级队长，也是一名军医，他为这名被拘留者提供医疗服务，包括在他的喉咙插入一根呼吸管，但他否认了这名被拘留者在刺伤他后死亡的指控。

直到现在，加拉格尔一直坚称自己是无辜的，并声称不满的成员他的一个排的士兵站出来指控他行为不端。

“整件事的真相是，那个伊斯兰国战士是被我们杀死的，当时没有人对此有意见，”加拉格尔在苹果电视上说播客《The Line》，主持人丹·塔伯斯基。

“我们杀了那个家伙。我们的意图是杀了他，所有人都在船上，”加拉格尔在苹果播客上说。"这是为了在他死前对他进行医学模拟."

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“不管怎样，他都要死了，”加拉格尔声称，“每个人，就像，让我们只是对他做治疗，直到他走了。”

“每个人都知道发生了什么，”加拉格尔说。“这是整个过程中唯一真实的事情。然后剩下的，就像，一堆扭曲的谎言，就像，把整个场景都压在我身上。”

加拉格尔还坚持说，他从未刺伤被拘留者，“那家伙死于所有的医疗，有很多医疗对他做了。”

2019年，一个军事陪审团裁定加拉格尔无罪，指控他涉嫌刺伤受伤的青少年，并指控他谋杀未遂和妨碍司法公正。但他被判与17岁被拘留者的尸体合影有罪，并被判服刑4个月。

唐纳德·特朗普总统后来恢复了加拉格尔的地位使他能够以一名首席士官的身份退休，并允许他保留三叉戟徽章，该徽章表明他是海豹突击队人。

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审判之后《纽约时报》公布的视频显示，加拉格尔所在排的成员向调查人员描述他是“邪恶的怪物”和“有毒的”

“你可以看出他完全可以杀死任何移动的人，”一级士官科里·斯科特说，他后来在审判中作证，享有豁免权，他说加拉格尔刺伤了被拘留者，但斯科特后来掩盖了他喉咙里的呼吸管，使被拘留者窒息，作为安乐死。

斯科特告诉法庭，他这样做是因为他认为这名被拘留者在被移交给伊拉克安全部队后可能会遭到酷刑和杀害。周二，当被问及加拉格尔的新主张时，斯科特的律师拒绝对美国广播公司新闻发表评论。

2020年1月，加拉格尔猛烈抨击了他所在部队中指证他的海豹突击队队员，发布视频在脸书列出了他们的身份和任务，这是海豹突击队队员通常不允许维护他们的行动安全。

加拉格尔在短视频中说:“这个故事从来没有完全暴露出真实发生的事情。”。“你可能认为你知道，但你不知道。”

在播客中，加拉格尔声称，当他被指控谋杀，他所在排的海豹突击队队员可能会指证他时，“我知道要守口如瓶”，并且从来没有告诉过他的上级。

“那时，我的直觉起作用了，我就像，‘我没有和任何人谈论这件事，尽管我是无辜的，’”他说。

加拉格尔在播客中解释说，他之所以执行将呼吸管插入被拘留者喉咙的救生程序，唯一的原因是“只是为了练习”

“我在练习，看看我能跑多快，”他在播客中说。

在军事法庭上，加拉格尔的律师蒂姆·帕勒托讲述了一个故事，说这个排里心怀不满的成员密谋搞垮加拉格尔，因为他们不喜欢他的领导风格。

“这个案子与谋杀无关。这是关于兵变的，”Parlatore在开场白中说，并指出，对据称用于刺伤的刀的法医分析没有发现血迹。

议员周二告诉美国广播公司新闻，加拉格尔的新陈述为军事检察官和该案的主审法官所知，但没有出现在检察官的陈述中。

“当时我没有必要强调这一点，就像我一样，因为最终它不会改变底线——事实——即埃迪·加拉格尔没有犯下谋杀罪，”议员说。

加拉格尔“一直认为真相是人们需要知道的东西，而不是已经发表的叙述，”帕勒托说。

这位律师说，加拉格尔提出的新叙事“总是存在的，但只是表面之下。”

“我们知道这件事，检察官知道这件事，它的一部分被提交给陪审团。它也是在一项动议中提交给法官的。

然而，Parlatore并没有指出具体提出共谋指控的法庭记录。他在对证人的交叉询问中从未提出阴谋论，事实上，他在驳回起诉的动议中抱怨说，检察官不当扣留证据，声称一名医生对被拘留者实施了不必要的程序。议员和加拉格尔都没有解释为什么他现在提出这个理论，也没有提供支持任何阴谋的直接证据。

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Parlatore辩称，尽管对他进行了医疗程序，但这名被拘留者没有机会从伤势中生还，因为他不会被授权乘坐美国军用医疗后送直升机飞往医疗设施。

加拉格尔的新声明令埃里克·奥莱希不安，他是海军海豹突击队排的前指挥官，也是美国广播公司新闻的撰稿人。

“道德义务是，如果你有敌人的战斗人员，你必须照顾他们，”奥莱希说，他指出有一项法律要求“要让他们活着。”

“你治疗一个病人只是为了拯救一条生命，”欧勒里奇说。“你不要把它们当成活组织医疗。”

Eddie Gallagher's shocking claim that SEALs intended for detainee to die

Former Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher,who was found not guiltyof thecharge of murderin the death of a young Islamic State detainee in Iraq in 2017, has made the bombshell allegation that the detainee died as part of a plan to practice medical procedures on him and that his fellow SEALs had all agreed to the idea.

Gallagher, the senior enlisted leader of his SEAL platoon and a medic, provided medical care to the detainee including the insertion of a breathing tube to his throat, but denied allegations that the detainee died after he stabbed him.

Until now, Gallagher has maintained his innocence and alleged thatdisgruntled membersof his platoon had stepped forward with allegations of misconduct to frame him.

"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," Gallagher said on the Apple TV+podcast"The Line," hosted by Dan Taberski.

"We killed that guy. Our intention was to kill him, everybody was on board," Gallagher said on the Apple podcast. "It was to do medical scenarios on him until he died."

"He was going to die regardless" Gallagher claimed, alleging that "everyone was, like, let's just do medical treatments on him until he's gone."

"Everybody knew what was going on," said Gallagher. "That's the only truthful thing to this whole process. And then the rest of it, just is like, a bunch of contorted lies to, like, pin that whole scenario on me."

Gallagher also maintained that he never stabbed the detainee, "that dude died from all the medical treatments that were done and there's plenty of medical treatments that were done to him."

In 2019, a military jury found Gallagher not guilty of a murder charge for allegedly stabbing the wounded teenager, as well as charges of attempted murder and obstruction of justice. But he was found guilty of posing for a photo with the corpse of the 17-year-old detainee and was sentenced to four months of time served.

President Donald Trump laterrestored Gallagher's rankenabling him to retire as a chief petty officer and allowed him to keep the Trident insignia pin that identified him as a SEAL.

After the trialThe New York Timesreleased videos that showed members of Gallagher's platoon describing him to investigators as being "freaking evil" and "toxic."

"You could tell he was perfectly OK with killing anybody that was moving," said Petty Officer 1st Class Corey Scott who would later testify at the trial, under immunity, that Gallagher had stabbed the detainee, but Scott had afterwards asphyxiated the detainee by covering up the breathing tube in his throat as a mercy killing.

Scott told the court that he did that because he believed the detainee would likely be tortured and killed after being turned over to Iraqi security forces. An attorney for Scott declined to comment to ABC News on Tuesday when asked about Gallagher's new claims.

In January 2020, Gallagher lashed out against the SEALs in his unit who had testified against him,posting a videoon Facebook that listed their identities and assignments, something typically not allowed for SEALs to maintain their operational security.

"The story has never been fully exposed about what really happened," Gallagher said in the short video. "You may think you know, but you have no idea."

In the podcast, Gallagher claimed when it appeared that he was going to be charged with murder and that SEALs from his platoon might testify against him, "I knew to keep my mouth shut" and never told his superiors.

"At that point, my intuition kicked in and I was like, 'I'm not talking to anybody about it even though I'm, like, innocent,'" he said.

Gallagher explained on the podcast that the only reason why he performed the life-saving procedure of inserting a breathing tube in the detainee's throat was "just for practice."

"I was practicing to see how see how fast I could do one," he told the podcast.

During his court martial, Gallagher's attorney Tim Parlatore, laid out a narrative that disgruntled members of the platoon had conspired to bring down Gallagher because they did not like his leadership style.

"This case isn't about murder. It's about mutiny" Parlatore had said in his opening remarks and also noted that a forensic analysis of the knife allegedly used in the stabbing found no traces of blood.

Parlatore told ABC News on Tuesday that Gallagher's new narrative was known to military prosecutors and the presiding judge in the case, but did not come up in the narrative presented by prosecutors.

"There was no necessity for me to highlight it at the time, any more than I did, because ultimately it doesn't change the bottom line -- truth -- which is that Eddie Gallagher did not commit murder," said Parlatore.

Gallagher "has always been of the opinion the truth is something that people need to know, not the narrative that has been put out," said Parlatore.

The attorney said that the new narrative as laid out by Gallagher "was always there, but just beneath the surface."

"We knew about it, the prosecutors knew about it, pieces of it were presented to the jury. And it was also presented to the judge in a motion," said Parlatore.

Parlatore, however, has not pointed to court records specifically raising the conspiracy allegation. He never raised the conspiracy theory in his cross examination of the witnesses and, in fact, complained in a motion to dismiss that prosecutors had improperly withheld evidence asserting that one medic had conducted unnecessary procedures on the detainee. Neither Parlatore nor Gallagher have explained why he is raising the theory now or have offered direct evidence supporting any conspiracy.

The Navy has not responded to a request for comment.

Parlatore argued that the detainee had no chance of surviving his injuries despite the medical procedures performed on him because he would not have been authorized to be be flown to a medical facility aboard a U.S. military medevac helicopter.

Gallagher's new claims are unsettling to Eric Oehlerich, a former commander of a Navy SEAL team platoon and an ABC News contributor.

"The moral obligation is that if you have enemy combatants you've got to take care of them," said Oehlerich, who noted there is a legal requirement "to keep them alive."

"You only treat a patient to save a life," said Oehlerich. "You don't treat them as live tissue medical treatment."