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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nWe’ve been following Andre Shepherd since he first deserted and applied for asylum<\/a> in Germany in 2008. He was a mechanic for Apache helicopter gunships who was to deploy with his unit for a second time. We’ve been told by people who deployed with him that he wasn’t very dependable anyway – he ran their dayroom during his first deployment. According to someone who knew him<\/a> before he joined the Army, he wasn’t very dependable back then either.<\/p>\n German courts denied his application for asylum back in 2011<\/a>. I guess his lawyer appealed that decision, and they were in court the other day where asylum was denied once again, according to Russia Today<\/a>;<\/p>\n Andre Shepherd, 39, deserted his post at Katterbach Kaserne military base in southern Germany in 2007 after being told he would have to return to Iraq for a second tour. He claims he felt that he would be forced to take part in what he called \u201cwar crimes\u201d if he did.<\/p>\n However, that excuse failed to hold up in court and the case was dismissed on Thursday, with presiding Judge Josef Ruber ruling that Shepherd had failed to exercise all available options to leave the military before deserting, making no attempt to join another military unit.<\/p>\n Ruber also said that Shepherd \u2013 who served as an Apache helicopter mechanic for the US Army \u2013 was unable to prove that he would have been forced to commit war crimes on returning to Iraq….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I think he was more scared that Jody was going to steal his German girlfriend than he was about being forced to commit war crimes, to the extent that a depot-level mechanic can commit war crimes while mopping up the dayroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"