Marine A

The case has been adjourned till Wednesday.




A Royal Marine who was jailed for the murder of an Afghan fighter has had his bail hearing postponed.

Alexander Blackman was due to hear today whether he will be released ahead of an appeal against his conviction.

But judges chose to postpone their decision until Wednesday.

Blackman's wife Claire left court to applause and cheers of "stay strong".

"Gasps in court as decision read out. He'll spend another anniversary in Prison but could be home for Xmas "

This guy is a true hero, over 30 enemy stopped, and after all the prison sh**(shame on the government and judges) , he was asked if he wanted to resume his carear on his relese, his reply was yes.
Now that is a true hero , f**ked over by the system he worked for , and still wants to serve

Reduced to 7 years which means he could be out in a few weeks after completing a 50% / 3.5 year term. Previously it was a minimum 8 years.

His QC was on BBC earlier, he apparently has been doing an OU degree and teaching maths to the other inmates. His wife needs a lot of praise too for her determination. Hope they can get back to some normality, if that is possible under the circumstances.

I watched a documentary a few months back on the war against the taliban and was amazed they are not allowed to engage with the enemy unless they come under fire first. Who makes this crazy stuff up and why ?

Several reasons, partly to do with winning hearts and minds and therefore not to get the locals turning against you. In a country where guns are common place just carrying an AK would not necessarily mean they are the enemy. Killing someone on a whim would turn the undecideds to the enemy and be counter productive (see Vietnam).

It also (theoretically) places forces under the civil law which as this was a counter insurgency mission rather than a state on state war was necessary for the above too.

There are a few ex forces on here who may be able to expand as they may be more familiar with the rules in Northern Ireland where a "Yellow Card" of dos and don'ts was issued.

As stu said hearts and minds , if an enemy doesnt play by the geneva convention then we shouldn't either, thing is the media are in war zones and focus on when we do something wrong, so we have to be whiter than white.
These days it's supposed to be favorable to injure rather than kill the reasoning is thus , if you kill an enemy thats it ,if you wound an enemy in theory it remove 3 or 4 people fron the fight , as they tend the wounded , in the conflics of late the enemy dont give a stuff about thier wounded so it would be more beneficial to have an stck policy as if you drop enough the numbers turn in your favour.

another issue with this hearts and mind bollocks is that once we leave the enemy move back this was seen extensively in afghanistan .
We have to wonder why once the taliban was driven fron the poppy fields that not only the yanks but Brown refused to sign off on destroying the crops as he said it would mean the farmers would be skint that year, never mind the countless addicts worldwide from these crops, the devastation caused to families of burglary to buy drugs, imo this was done more to keep people down as lets face it the more people out of it on drugs the less people will vote.

It appears he will be released in the early hours of tomorrow morning.
Fantastic news, made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end, can't believe it, imo a miscarriage of justice has almost been undone, good luck Marine A in whatever you choose to do in future , You are sa true hero in every sense of the word , i doff my cap to you

As I understand it, the fact he was serving a custodial sentence and was originally "discharged with dishonour" affected his pension calculations. However the discharge has been reclassified and he is now a free man. His QC said on the radio this morning that his full pension entitlement has now been regained.