It sounds like something out of the plot of a mob movie: Two corrupt government employees offer a third party who discovers one of their schemes a cut of the profits. When he refuses to accept their dirty money, he is promptly “taken care of."
Unfortunately, that fictitious trope is suspiciously close to reality in the strangulation death of Sgt. Logan Melgar, a green beret who was found dead back in June while he was participating in a special forces mission in Mali, where a cohort of US military “advisers” have been assisting French and local forces in rooting out terrorist groups affiliated with the Islamic State and Al Qaeda.
According to the Daily Beast, military investigators now suspect that two of Melgar’s colleagues who were members of the elite Navy SEAL team six murdered him after he discovered they were illegally skimming money from a fund used to pay informants. The SEALS offered to cut him in, but Melgar declined, according to the Daily Beast’s sources.
A few days later, he was found dead.
Sgt. Logan Melgar
Nobody knows - or at least nobody would tell the DB - what specifically started the June 4 altercation at 5 am. But the fight quickly escalated and ended with Melgar losing consciousness. He also stopped breathing. The SEALs attempted to open an airway in Melgar’s throat, officials said. It is unknown whether Melgar died immediately. The SEALs and another Green Beret, according to former AFRICOM officials, drove to a nearby French clinic seeking help. Melgar was dead when he arrived at the clinic, the official said. Asphyxiation was the cause of death. While his death was initially ruled an accident, NCIS investigators now suspect that he was strangled to death. Melgar had been working directly with the SEALs during the intelligence mission in Mali.
The fact that the SEALs apparently did such a poor job of covering their tracks has greatly aided investigators. With Melgar dead, an apparent panic set in. The SEALs told superiors that Melgar was drunk during so-called combatives—that is, hand-to-hand fighting exercises - and that he was becoming dangerously violent. However, Petty Officer Anthony E. DeDolph, one of the SEALs, was a mixed-martial arts pro. A source told The Daily Beast the SEALs filed at least one operational report about the incident and possibly two. At least one of the reports included an account that Melgar was drunk.
However, when an autopsy was performed, doctors found no signs that Melgar had been drinking or using drugs at the time of his death. At least one of the DB’s sources said Melgar didn’t drink alcohol. Another said it was “the worst excuse they [the SEALs] could’ve possibly come up with."
At least one Africa Command official said Brig. Gen. Donald Bolduc, then commander of Special Operations Command-Africa, was skeptical of the initial reports of Melgar’s death from the outset. He alerted Army Criminal Investigation Command and told commanders in Mali to preserve evidence.
Melgar’s wife, Michelle, was also suspicious. She raised concerns about the cause of death and allegations of drinking, including providing investigators emails sent by her husband about problems he was having with the SEALs.
But perhaps the most disturbing detail provided by Michelle Melgar was the account of a phone call she shared with her late husband just days before his death. Melgar told his wife that he had a bad feeling about two of his SEAL team partners.
Not wanting to say much more, Melgar said he’d fill Michelle in on the rest of the story when he got back home.
Military officials interviewed by the DB were hard-pressed to come up with another example of elite US special forces troops turning on each other like this.
Just 34 years old when he died, Melgar, a Texan, was an Afghanistan veteran twice over. His hometown paper, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, reported that Melgar was a 2006 graduate of Texas Tech. He enlisted in 2012 and joined the Army as an 18X - an off-the-street Special Forces recruit. He graduated from the Special Forces Qualification course in 2016.
“Staff Sgt. Melgar did what most only dream of and excelled at every turn!” wrote a Melgar family representative on social media. “His life was epic! He is missed dearly every single day, but his legacy lives on."
As the Daily Beast explains, the US has a “minimal” troop presence in Mali - much smaller than the 800 troops in neighboring Niger, another West African nation that hosts a sizable special operations cadre.
The special operations forces “advisers” aid US diplomats, Malian soldiers and their French partners in gathering intelligence on a confluence of capable local militants trending Islamist. As the elite troops do in so many countries, they operate in the shadows, with comparatively little oversight - and what their actions actually look like on the ground can be much dirtier than the heroic image the Pentagon prefers to portray.
Of course, Melgar’s death isn’t the only suspicious death of a green beret in Africa this year. Last month, four green berets were killed in Niger after reportedly being ambushed by Al Qaeda-affiliated militants.
After lawmakers and the soldiers’ families demanded more information on exactly what happened, it was revealed a few days ago that the body of Sgt. La David Johnson was discovered in a state suggesting he had been captured and then executed, according to eyewitness accounts. Readers might remember Johnson as the soldier at the center of the Donald Trump “condolence call” controversy that occupied headlines for about a week last month as Trump feuded with a Florida Congresswoman who had been friendly with Johnson’s family.
retired?
Retarded?
I think is in the same heaven with SEAL 6, the guys that "PR killed" the already dead from kidney failure Bil-Laden.
maybe they thought if they could get away with the bin laden farce they could certainly get away with knocking off a beret. .
Story I heard was that Melgar was tipping off the Muslims and the SEALs plugged the leak.
If I have to choose between that story, and the one the Daily Beast is promoting, I'm sticking with that story.
Interesting. Didn't hear that. Do you have a link to your story?
would appreciate the link if you can find it.
Oh wait, I just read further down. Maybe I was thinking of the Sgt La David Johnson case, that he might have been killed by SEALs or fellow Green Berets after he got caught tipping off the Muslims.
"Of course, Melgar’s death isn’t the only suspicious death of a green beret in Africa this year. Last month, four green berets were killed in Niger after reportedly being ambushed by Al Qaeda-affiliated militants.
After lawmakers and the soldiers’ families demanded more information on exactly what happened, it was revealed a few days ago that the body of Sgt. La David Johnson was discovered in a state suggesting he had been captured and then executed, according to eyewitness accounts."
That said, one thing is for sure, I wouldn't trust the Daily Beast to accurately report that the sky was blue, much less what happened in Mali.
Who cares! One less beaner to overpopulate our great country.
When a country's trained killers go rogue.
The Big Picture here ZHers:
It is all totally, absolutely, and irredeemably corrupt. FED, MILITARY, STATE, COUNTY, TOWNSHIP, CITY, and VILLAGE levels. Burn the entire edifice to the ground, and repeat to eliminate the new scum that arrives to fill the void. ALL OF IT.
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Reminds me of a story came out 30-40 years ago, about some NZ special forces types who killed a bunch of US grunts in Vietnam when they found them pack-raping some some local girls. Never have been able to find a reference to that.
I would have to guess the GB was an outsider who discovered the actions of the seals. But that such endeavors are common among the seals but even seals not involved keep quiet.
Sounds like you're full of shit. "Tipping off the Muslims?" Which muslims and how exactly does one tip off muslims? "Hey you know how you're getting bombed for Israel? Yeah, well expect more of that tomorrow" "Gee thanks Allahosnackbar!"
Let me ask you a question: Do you or do you not have a foreskin on your penis? No? Rabbi chewed it off? Fuck off jew.
Jew? LOL, no, just check my posting history.
But you sound like an assclown. "Hurr durr, nobody ever spied for the other side during wartime! DERP"
Also, I would respectfully point out that La David Johnson is a nog.
No one ever skimmed money from the petty cash? If he'd been selling info to "the muslims" they'd have just turned him in.
As it is, you think some spearchuckers would have enough money to afford to pay a green beret to switch sides? Helluva risk to take just to be paid in rhino horn.
No. You're full of shit. I don't give a shit about your history - fact is you're bullshitting like a jew now.
5 weeks here and slinging mud?
Joe ScarBro? lol.
Not defending anything anyone posted but I am curious how long one needs to be here for their opinion to be "valid".
I see these type comments all the time from people who have obviously been here two long or do not belong.
A good rhino horn is worth six figures easy, just saying.
These sissy faggots quarrel like old women. Buncha submissive bottoms, trust me..
However, the whole thing stinks. I don't believe a word of any of it. another layer of cog dis.
Roxi
-Replicants- SEALS are like any other machine. They're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem.
No. It is the same unit designation, but THAT Navy Seal Team 6 all died in a helicopter crash 2 months after throwing an unidentified body over the side of a ship (which U.S. officials claimed, without offering any proof, to be bin Laden) in the middle of the night. That Navy Seal Team 6 was ordered into a trap and their close-air-support C-130 gunship was ordered not to engage so that they could be killed. The Obama administration then covered up the details of their assassination. All the American Sheeple can go back to worshipping their uniformed murderers now... on High Holy Day. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/5/obama-stonewalls-seal-te...
"Extortion 17"!? Is there a message in that? Maybe someone just wanted to sell his book rights about what happend with Bin Laden?
It seems interesting that people like the seals are doiing their masters bidding and then their masters have them whacked in return. After a while, loyalties must wear thin.
This.
The important take away from your note is that these guys are enforcers for a criminal elite. In the case illustrated by the article, they wanted a bit more than Uncle Sam paid them and killed someone over it.
You should note the "The Kraft" is full of these Seal Team 6 fucks. It was them that pulled off the Boston Marathon Bombing false flag...so the fake Bin Laden thing was child's play. Their fake death in Afghanistan is something the deep state does to "graduate" them into full-blown CIA-mode. I'm sure some of them, if not all, have been happily role-playing as ISIS in Syria. Let's pray that one or all of them REALLY bit the dust by way of a Russian cruise missle.
These are the worse kind of traitors....the sneaky kind that don't mind murdering Americans. They are country-less. They are made of the same stuff as John McCain. Shit.
Then they put those Seals on a helo which they blew up (I mean crashed due to enemy fire) so that dead men would tell no tales. The CIA way(rhymes)
It was probably Mossad, not CIA, who arranged that, but either way there isn't a dimes worth of difference between them, so yeah.
Do you like our Owl...?
Is this similar to a certain Ambassador running an illegal arms operation out of Libya and being left to be fried and raped? Anyone joining the military should at some point get a clue that the thugs running The Empire will turn on you in a heartbeat.
Guaranteed, the CIA had been installing ratlines in Mali, probably for human organ trafficking, and got caught out when their sponsor, Killary Kunton, lost the election. So there's probably all kinds of crooked shit going sideways on the ground there given the regime change at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Organ trafficking shouldn't be too hard in Mali since those Nigger Muslim fuckers are chopping up whole Christian villages at a time.
The real problem is showing up in time with ice.
These are the most evil fuckers on the planet. They need to be eradicated.
Nothing worse than waking up dead
All Navy Seals are trained physicians too as evidenced by their attempts to surgically open an airway.
Pack some dirt in it and suck it up” oh wait, wrong page, insert tube into anus....no no wait...
This happens in Detroit all the time - friendlies firing on friendlies. Pat Tillman too.
Tillman uncovered a bigger plot and silenced forever.
Just a branding problem. Seal Team 6 to Seal Team FIX
very heroic
The 2 Seal members have a promising future at the Clinton Foundation.
You may want to match their leave schedule with Seth Rich's last day ;-)
10 more seals doing time at the greybar hotel in Kansas and we could do a remake of the Dirty Dozen. Look out lil Kim, we got The Suicide Squids.
I would not like to be their jailer.
Mossad has offers out.
After eight years of "the one" and "I cleaned the server with a cloth?" Hillary...
Corruption at all levels of the military and the government
..and academics, and industry, and banking, and mediciine, and church, and everything. We are at what is euphemistically called a nadir.
It will get a lot worse, before it gets better. When Americans stop sending troops to stupid-ass places like Mali, then you know it might start getting better.
I can already hear Hollywood masturbating at the thought of movie rights...
Pretending to gag on tiny penes
Another idol falls.
“Staff Sgt. Melgar did what most only dream of and excelled at every turn!”
Excelled at what? Killing? Wonderful. :-\