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Because many of the SEALs who became witnesses against Gallagher are in operational units or expected to return to overseas work, officials asked Navy Times to withhold naming them, at least until theyre called as witnesses in a public trial. One of those incidents allegedly occurred on the day after he left. Legal filings and messages exchanged between defense attorneys and prosecutors provided to Navy Times show other SEALs who broke contact with NCIS after the initial round of interviews. He told NCIS it had a blade a few inches long, although photographs of the weapon make it look stubbier. In this June 23, 2014, file photo, fighters from the Islamic State group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle on the main road in Mosul, Iraq. Gallagher repeatedly sent us to positions where SEALs and our Iraqi partner forces were wounded or killed by small arms and rockets. And others have declined to participate in the ongoing NCIS probe, including a Marine staff sergeant and a pair of Navy explosive ordnance disposal technicians attached to the platoon during the 2017 deployment. Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward Eddie Gallagher in Iraq in 2017. But he said Portier wanted to hold off reporting the incident until he determined Iraqi security forces hadnt shot the girl. Special Warfare Operator Chief Edward Eddie Gallagher in Iraq in 2017. By early 2019, however, the prosecution had settled on a narrative about what began going wrong in Iraq two years earlier, according to legal filings and internal correspondence provided to Navy Times. William Brangham reports and talks to Steve Walsh of San Diegos KPBS public radio about how the dramatic case evolved. We took our officers at their word when we repeatedly alerted them to these crimes. Eddie Gallagher says SEALs lied in Investigators found no bodies, so no autopsies were performed. I just want to make clear that this small group of SEALs that decided to concoct this story in no way, shape or form represent the community that I have, you know, loved and gave my soul to. Eddie Gallagher