Iraq, American soldiers et al

[barbaro]

Marines executed Iraqis, photos indicate

By Tony Perry and Julian E. Barnes
Los Angeles Times


WASHINGTON — Photographs taken by a Marine intelligence team have convinced investigators that a Marine unit killed up to 24 unarmed Iraqis, some of them "execution style," officials close to the investigation said Friday.
The killings occurred in the insurgent stronghold of Haditha in November after a Marine was killed in a roadside bombing nearby.
The pictures are said to show that some of the victims, who included several women and six children, were shot in the head and some in the back, according to congressional and defense officials.
One government official said the pictures show that infantry Marines from Camp Pendleton "suffered a total breakdown in morality and leadership, with tragic results."

Link: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...marines27.html

[Butterfly]

I saw that this morning. It's Vietnam all over again.

[barbaro]

Muslims are a sick and strange bunch, that's for sure.
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Iraqi athletes killed for wearing shorts
By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer Sat May 27, 10:01 PM ET


BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi tennis coach and two of his players were shot to death this week in Baghdad because they were wearing shorts, authorities said Saturday, reporting the latest in a series of recent attacks attributed to Islamic extremists.

....gunmen stopped a car carrying the Sunni Arab coach and two Shiite players, asked them to step out and then shot them, said Manham Kubba secretary-general of the Iraqi Tennis Union.

Extremists had distributed leaflets warning people in the mostly Sunni neighborhoods of Saidiyah and Ghazaliyah warning people not to wear shorts, police said.
"Wearing shorts by youth are prohibited because it violates the principals of Islamic religion when showing forbidden parts of the body. Also women should wear the veil," the leaflets said.

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060528/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

[Little Chuchok]

Muslims are a sick and strange bunch, that's for sure.
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Iraqi athletes killed for wearing shorts
By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer Sat May 27, 10:01 PM ET


BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi tennis coach and two of his players were shot to death this week in Baghdad because they were wearing shorts, authorities said Saturday, reporting the latest in a series of recent attacks attributed to Islamic extremists.

....gunmen stopped a car carrying the Sunni Arab coach and two Shiite players, asked them to step out and then shot them, said Manham Kubba secretary-general of the Iraqi Tennis Union.

Extremists had distributed leaflets warning people in the mostly Sunni neighborhoods of Saidiyah and Ghazaliyah warning people not to wear shorts, police said.
"Wearing shorts by youth are prohibited because it violates the principals of Islamic religion when showing forbidden parts of the body. Also women should wear the veil," the leaflets said.

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060528/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Muslims = nice people...pffffft!

[Butterfly]

Something like that would have never happened under Saddam.

Extremists had distributed leaflets warning people in the mostly Sunni neighborhoods of Saidiyah and Ghazaliyah warning people not to wear shorts, police said.
"Wearing shorts by youth are prohibited because it violates the principals of Islamic religion when showing forbidden parts of the body. Also women should wear the veil," the leaflets said.

[Boon Mee]

Something like that would have never happened under Saddam.

Extremists had distributed leaflets warning people in the mostly Sunni neighborhoods of Saidiyah and Ghazaliyah warning people not to wear shorts, police said.
"Wearing shorts by youth are prohibited because it violates the principals of Islamic religion when showing forbidden parts of the body. Also women should wear the veil," the leaflets said.

Yeah...those were the days my friend - we thought they'd never end - lol
Then along came Dubya!
Poof! No more plastic/human shredding machines - no more Uday and Qsay!
Them were the days!

[Butterfly]

^ I think you missed my point. This war will soon turn into a religious civil war. Not sure if that's an improvment over Saddam. At the end Americans will have killed more Iraqis than Saddam. And shooting kids in the back is as bad as the schredding machine (if that's even true, more dubious intelligence considering the source)

[Boon Mee]

^ I think you missed my point. This war will soon turn into a religious civil war. Not sure if that's an improvment over Saddam. At the end Americans will have killed more Iraqis than Saddam. And shooting kids in the back is as bad as the schredding machine (if that's even true, more dubious intelligence considering the source)

Well, I used to be more in favor of the war than I am now.
Also looked at it as a real good chance to earn some significant money re-building the country after Saddam but the friggin' place is just too damn dangerous.

[Mhz]

Also looked at it as a real good chance to earn some significant money re-building the country after Saddam but the friggin' place is just too damn dangerous.

A bundle of thanks to GWB.

By the way MEE sounds so familiar.

[dirtydog]

Of course the only way America can win any war is if they get more women into the military, that would sort out all those squeamish nancy boy soldiers.

[Butterfly]

^ is this safe to click ? with your movies I am never sure

[dirtydog]

no nudity or anything, just your normal everyday american woman beating up a nancy boy american man

[Boon Mee]

no nudity or anything, just your normal everyday american woman beating up a nancy boy american man

And here's another one which I prefer to call National Malaise:

[Little Chuchok]

no nudity or anything, just your normal everyday american woman beating up a nancy boy american man

She should have put the boot in.

[attaboy]

^ I think you missed my point. This war will soon turn into a religious civil war. Not sure if that's an improvment over Saddam. At the end Americans will have killed more Iraqis than Saddam. And shooting kids in the back is as bad as the schredding machine (if that's even true, more dubious intelligence considering the source)

Question: Do Iraqi muslims due to their faith and/or tribalism need a brutal dictator to cull them regularly to keep them from killing each other on their own? I mean that's what it sounds like over there.

Shooting kids in the back is a terrible thing but it is not US policy. Saddam's murders were government policy. In the case of the marines, individuals cracked under pressure. It happens. The US military tries its best to moniter people, reinforce their training and rotate troops stateside and to R&R sites.

As far as why we aren't involved in N.Korea and Burma, they lie in the sphere of Chinese influence. We have our Monroe Doctrine and we wish it respected so we aren't heavily involved. My guess is the USA works indirectly through the UN, World Bank, etc.. I don't know if we are still shipping tons of humanitarian aid to the people of N.Korea. We don't exert more pressure directly on China because they are making progress and they are open to progress.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washing...-myanmar_x.htm



Cross the stream by feeling the stones. - Deng XiaoPing

[dirtydog]

Foks News.

American man secretly filmed on suicide car bombing mission.

[RDN]

Foks News.

American man secretly filmed on suicide car bombing mission.

If only that were true...

[machangezi]

Muslims are a sick and strange bunch, that's for sure.
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Iraqi athletes killed for wearing shorts
By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer Sat May 27, 10:01 PM ET


BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi tennis coach and two of his players were shot to death this week in Baghdad because they were wearing shorts, authorities said Saturday, reporting the latest in a series of recent attacks attributed to Islamic extremists.

....gunmen stopped a car carrying the Sunni Arab coach and two Shiite players, asked them to step out and then shot them, said Manham Kubba secretary-general of the Iraqi Tennis Union.

Extremists had distributed leaflets warning people in the mostly Sunni neighborhoods of Saidiyah and Ghazaliyah warning people not to wear shorts, police said.
"Wearing shorts by youth are prohibited because it violates the principals of Islamic religion when showing forbidden parts of the body. Also women should wear the veil," the leaflets said.

Link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060528/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

All Muslims? Gernralising again Milky mate? I personally don't give a rats arse if they're wearing shorts.

[barbaro]

^ I didn't want to over-generalize but this code of dress is interpreted from the Quran.

[Storekeeper]

The facts of this case remain to be released. But if this group is found guilty then I hope they get the death penalty. If not then at least life in Fort Leavenworth.