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Pants down !!

gar | 18.05.2009 10:08 | Globalisation | World

"freedom fighters' in action !!
A 19-year-old U.S. soldier (L in the photo ) has become an instant heartthrob after his photograph fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan in a pink underwear


A 19-year-old U.S. soldier (L) has become an instant heartthrob after his photograph fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan in a pink underwear made the front page news. (Photo: mil.huanqiu.com) >>  http://garizo.blogspot.com/2009/05/m.html

An Associated Press photographer captured Army specialist Zachary Boyd fighting off a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan in the pink "I Love NY" underwear. Boyd, who is from Fort Worth, Texas, said he was in his sleeping quarters at Firebase Restrepo in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar province when the Taliban attacked, forcing him to take up a defensive position while clad only in his helmet, protective vest, a T-shirt and his pink boxer shorts. The soldier's mother, Sheree Boyd, said her son called Monday night to tell her his picture might be in the New York Times. "He said, 'I hear the NY Times is what they put on the president's desk,'" she said. "Then he told us, 'I may not have a job anymore after the president has seen me out of uniform.'"

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Bullshit war propaganda

18.05.2009 10:53

The Daily Telegraph today links both Barak Obama and Gordon Brown to the torture, abuse, rapes and murders at Abu Ghraib and other US black prisons [1]. The supposedly liberal, anti-war, anti-torture President has just appointed General Stanley MacChrystal as his new army chief in Afghanistan. It links him to the Human Rights Watch report into that abuse 'No Blood, No Foul' [2].

The Telegraph doesn't mention this, but this report is one of several to contain testimony from US soldiers linking British SAS and Military Intelligence officers to the abuse.

At another time, Jeff saw a British SAS officer beat a detainee:
[It] was a beating in a kind of a bunker behind the main facility. . . . this British guy actually who wasn’t supposed to be interrogating anybody - a British soldier. SAS. That’s all I know about him. I don’t know his name or anything. But we went back there and he gave the guy a pretty good pounding. Nothing really in the face. A lot of stomach shots, and I would say two or three groin shots, very harsh. A knee to the abdomen. Thrown against the wall and so forth. He was very frustrated with this person, who supposedly had information about the whereabouts of Zarqawi. And he did. But we didn’t know exactly that. He was blatantly stalling us and lying to us. It was frustrating, but he [the British soldier] decided to go that route and get physical with him. . . . [W]e ended up cutting in. “This is not working, we need to stop this.”. . . I took the prisoner back and my partner took the other guy. It was reported. They weren’t upset about any type of abuse or anything. They were just upset that he [the British soldier] was interrogating anybody at all, because it was not in adherence with the rules. Because he wasn’t American or he wasn’t, you know, signed on to do that type of job. He was allowed to stick around, but he wasn’t allowed to talk to any more detainees.

[1]  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5335846/Gen-Stanley-MacChrystal-Americas-new-army-chief-in-Afghanistan-under-fire-over-rough-tactics-and-prisoner-abuse.html

[2] www.hrw.org/en/reports/2006/07/22/no-blood-no-foul -

Danny


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18.05.2009 10:56

Gee whizz, what a fuckin hero eh!

Dickless Wonder