![]() ![]() John Glenn, D-Ohio and Donald Riegle, D-Mich.–McCain is the only one still serving on Capitol Hill. Of the “Keating Five”–the others were Alan Cranston, D-Calif. ![]() Old political hands in Washington and Arizona recall Keating’s grandfather as a politically active developer and financier who became embroiled in a savings and loan scandal that ensnared five U.S. We owe them a deep debt of gratitude,” Earnest said, AP reported. “They are taking grave risks to protect our country. He said the incident was a “vivid reminder” of the dangers facing U.S. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said President Barack Obama had been briefed on the incident and extended condolences to Keating’s family. Joshua Wheeler, who also was performing the advise-and-assist mission, died from enemy fire in October during a hostage rescue operation in Iraq. Cardin died March 21 during an ISIS rocket attack at an outpost near the town of Makhmour, about 40 miles southeast of Mosul.Īnd U.S. troops in Iraq since the 2014 launch of Operation Inherent Resolve, the coalition campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. ![]() The combat fatality is the third among U.S. (Photo: Liz Keating via The Arizona Republic) The Pentagon said Keating was 2 to 3 miles behind the front lines when he was killed.Ĭharles Keating IV flanked by his grandfather, left, and father in a family photo taken at his graduation as a Navy SEAL in 2008. troops performing that mission are not on forward edge of the front lines and do not directly participate in fighting. local time from a gunshot wound, two defense officials told Navy Times. Military officials told the wire service that Keating died after being hit by small arms fire. He died around 9:33 a.m. “It shows you it’s a serious fight that we have to wage in Iraq,” Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in announcing the “combat death” in Stuttgart, Germany, without releasing the name, AP reported. Keating was conducting an advise-and-assist mission with the peshmerga, a Kurdish fighting force allied with the U.S.-led coalition in the war against the Islamic State, the Islamist militant group also known as ISIS. Keating, grandson of the late Arizona financier Charles Keating, grew up in Phoenix and attended the Naval Academy before becoming a SEAL based out of Coronado, Calif., AP reported. Late in the day, the Associated Press identified him as Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Charles Keating IV, 31, reporting that Arizona Gov. The SEAL, whose name and rank were not immediately disclosed, died during an Islamic State attack on the town of Tel Skuf, about 17 miles north of the terrorist army’s stronghold of Mosul. Navy SEAL died in combat Tuesday while embedded with Kurdish peshmerga soldiers in a battle against the Islamic State, Department of Defense sources said. ![]() Binger noted, among other things, that during Rittenhouse’s trial, Schroeder sided with defense attorneys who argued that Wisconsin law prohibits minors from possessing short-barreled rifles and short-barreled shotguns but allows them to possess long guns.ERBIL, Iraq-A U.S. A jury acquitted Rittenhouse of homicide and other charges in November.īinger told Schroeder that he didn’t believe he could move forward with the felony counts against Black, who testified against Rittenhouse. Rittenhouse used the rifle to shoot three people, killing two, during a tumultuous night of protests in Kenosha in 2020 over the shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, by a white police officer. Each felony count would have been punishable by up to six years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Under the deal, Black will pay a $2,000 fine. Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger dropped two felony counts of intent to deliver a dangerous weapon to a minor as part of the deal.Ĭontributing to the delinquency of a minor is a misdemeanor punishable by up to nine months in jail, but Binger reduced the charge to a non-criminal county ordinance violation. Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder accepted Dominick Black’s plea during a six-minute hearing. The man who bought an AR-15-style rifle for Kyle Rittenhouse pleaded no contest Monday to a reduced charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor in a deal with prosecutors that allows him to avoid prison. ![]()
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