Komrade Kannaday's Reason for Attacking Running Dog Capitalist Facebook Pages Discovered
Former Marine Teams up with Russian Propaganda
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| Russia Today TV show Featuring Rep. Chris Kannaday |
TV Show to Accuse American Military
of Misconduct and Torturing Terrorist Prisoners
An Obama Marine if there Ever Was One
We published the story of House Leadership's attack on the Sooner Tea Party led by Rep. Chris Kannaday, an attack upon the 149 individual Facebook pages that had been set up covering each House and Senate district in the state. Kannaday bragged to a South side OKC political activist who in turned warned the Sooner Tea Party of the threat of an unspecific impending attack.
Then shortly after Christmas the 149 pages were reported one by one to Facebook and taken down by their automatic bots when someone claims they are offensive or not following the rules. Some appeals were successful and the pages republished by Facebook but the majority of the pages were permanently unpublished with no further appeal possible.
What we didn't know was why House Leadership was so afraid of the Facebook pages that consisted of the 2017 Oklahoma RINO Index vote score for that particular public official and a series of posts explaining each bad vote and why the bill was against Oklahoma values and the GOP Party Platform. The posts weren't mean, they were unusually mild for one of our publications so we were left wondering what had set House Leadership off.
Then on Monday we learned the reason. Some of the pages had attracted admins, either activists or people in the district that liked what was being done and volunteered to maintain one or more pages. We found out that on of the admins had posted a video on Kannaday's district Facebook page, one where Rep. Christopher Kannaday had an interview on Russian TV and that he was terrified that his voters would learn about the video.
RT used to be called Russia Today and now goes by its initials. The company is known as a Russian propaganda tool, well known and well funded.
The Russian TV show episode is on Youtube, and under the screen is the disclaimer: "RT is funded in whole or in part by the Russian government ", leaving no doubt that Kannaday was cooperating with the Russian government propaganda efforts to slander the American military.
The video opens with the news anchor, obviously Russian accent, introducing the scandal and then going to a reporter and Kannaday in the Russian TimesWashington D.C. Studio. The reporter interviews Kannaday while Kannaday wears a full Marine uniform. Among the complaints made by Kannaday is that the "government" cut their funding so they could only send one lawyer back to facilitate the arrival of Mohammed Jawad who Kannaday had represented at Gitmo. Kannaday sounded like the bleeding heart liberal that he is, complaining about Jawad being sent back to a country at war, that Jawad was suicidal, and Kannaday vouched for Jawad, saying he had facts in his case that set him apart from the other detainees.
When asked why the former terror suspect was suing the U.S. Kannaday mentioned monetary damages, perhaps getting a college education so he could be successful in life, and in short made it look like the U.S. military had arrested a mere child with no evidence. Much is made of Jawad's age, quoted as being 12 years old but relatives in other interviews put his age at 17 to 19 years old at the time of his capture and arrest. A bone scan done by military doctors determined Jawad was in his very late teens.
Jawad was arrested and accused of throwing a grenade into vehicle carrying U.S. soldiers. Below is a description of what he was accused of doing:
"On December 17, 2002, two American Special Forces soldiers, Michael Lyons and Christopher Martin, along with their Afghan interpreter, drive an unmarked, soft-top jeep into a Kabul bazaar. They visit with a couple of vendors whom the team is cultivating as informants. They make a final stop, at a shop selling clocks. Lyons enters, asks the owner, "How is everything?" The shopkeeper responds in broken English, "Everything's fine. How are you?"
"No," says Lyons, "how's everything...for me?"
The shopkeeper goes to the front of the store, scans the street, returns. "Everything's fine," he says. "For you."
Lyons wants twenty-five wall clocks. A long conversation ensues, less haggling than an ercise in trust-building, and then he "tips out," overpaying an encouraging amount of money. Meanwhile, standing guard on the street, Martin has had a chilling premonition, a feeling that he's being watched through the scope of a rifle. When Lyons exits the shop with the interpreter, they quickly load the clocks, and all three hop in the jeep. The marketplace swarms with hundreds, thousands, of people just released from afternoon prayer at the mosque; traffic is bumper-to-bumper. Smoke from the outdoor barbecues wafts thickly with the scent of kebab meat. The jeep nudges forward, unable to merge into the swirl around a traffic circle.
And then a sickening thing occurs: The windshield suddenly shatters, leaving a spiderweb of cracked glass. "What the hell was that?" blurts Lyons in the driver's seat. They've been shot at from the front, he thinks, but there's no sign of attack on the street. Then there's a hollow thud, like an empty bottle rolling on the floor. Martin, riding shotgun, glances over his shoulder at the interpreter, who's scanning the floor of the jeep. Martin looks down, frantically searching back to front, and as he lifts his eyes, a blinding flash of orange engulfs everything.
And then a deafening explosion.
In the next instant, Lyons lies slumped over the wheel, unresponsive, blood gushing from a tear in his femoral artery. His legs are mangled; his left foot is missing a toe. Meanwhile, Martin, who's still in the passenger seat, looks down at his hands to find them covered in blood. But whose? The interpreter, badly wounded himself, flags a nearby taxi, piles the two U.S. soldiers in the back with their feet hanging out the open door, and sends the driver off with directions to get to a German field hospital. The taxi wedges through the crowd, hitting people with the open door as it goes, the bloody legs dangling.
Back at the bazaar, various men are apprehended, but soon the only one left is the main suspect, who is described as "very young and clever" and who was allegedly caught in the act, arm cocked with a second grenade near the smoldering jeep. Unlike a suicide bomber or martyr, the subject is alive, talking, a tangible terrorist potentially packing vital information. Within hours, he supplies a written confession that reads:
I came to Kabul alone from the province of Khost... No one had assigned me this task. I did this myself... I have a grudge against the Brits and the foreigners. They should not be in our country... I ecuted this operation in Pul-e Khishti while they were riding in their Jeep. When they were on the street, I didn't attack them because innocent people were going to be killed. Once they climbed into their vehicle, I threw the hand grenade at them. I am sorry that some Afghans got wounded. I am happy that the foreigners got killed. "
Jawad was caught running away from the scene with two grenades in his pockets, running for a lake after a shopkeeper had told him to dispose of the grenades in the lake. Kannaday's sob story is that his is just a poor kid that was in the wrong place and didn't recognize what a grenade looked like. In fact children in Afghanistan are recruited as young as six years old and take religious studies as well as learning to use weapons and plant IEDs.
This isn't the only terrorist that Rep. Christopher L Kannaday helped escape justice. Noor Uthman Muhammed was another terrorist suspect that Kannaday managed to represent so well that the terror suspect is going to get early release. Kannaday claimed that Noor was a sliver of the terror organization but Noor admitted to training other terrorists to use weapons and to filling in as the camp commander on occasions.
What Iraq and Afghanistan veterans will tell you is that even the kids are dangerous, more so than the adults because the soldiers let their guards down. The bottom line is that Kannaday chose to defend accused terrorists instead of protecting his fellow American soldiers.
And Kannaday bragged about it on Russian propaganda TV. Cooperating with the Russians to defame American military officers and enlisted men that were fighting to stop global terrorism. Were there problems with the Jawad prosecution and arrest? Perhaps, but the other prosecutors seemed to be smart enough to keep their head down and keep a low profile while doing any task they were ordered to do. Kannaday seems to have thrown his heart into his work and crossed the line from being a lawyer to a Russian collaborator.
If Kannaday was ever a Marine he was certainly an Obama Marine and ought to have been prosecuted for going on Russian TV to attack America.
