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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
THE MURDER OF LINDA NORGROVE
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insidejob | 14.10.2010 08:29 | Anti-militarism | Terror War | World
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Comments
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Really this takes the biscuit...
14.10.2010 12:46
You make me depair of this site and radical politics in general.
Pathetic.
You fools
Why did they kill her then?
14.10.2010 20:44
Certainly it sounds like a bit of a gung-ho fuckup though from the Yanks.
anon
Annoyed squaddies
14.10.2010 21:47
I presume US special forces has to rescue a Brit rather than the SAS because the incompetent SAS would have screwed up and killer her.....
insidejob
Pest control.
14.10.2010 23:33
Linda's 'aid work' had already got her close to the Talib and it was this closeness that Nato tacticians were 'concerned' about.
The Talib were about to release her with video and evidence based accounts of the reality of what the Talib really are and what they are about. A reality that certainly would have again torpedoed the myopic and hate-filled US and coalition 'narrative' that we at home are perpetually subjected to. Linda was on the edge of seriously sinking US public opinion over the occupation.
The rescue mission was designed to kill everybody including Linda.
The US army doesn't make mistakes. Even when it makes mistakes.
Reality check.
inside job
14.10.2010 23:51
You didn't 'know' anything. You fucking "guessed".
We can all guess shit and be right some of the time. A friend of mine bought a car off a paki and I 'knew' there would be a major fault with it. Turns out i was right.
>>> I presume US special forces has to rescue a Brit rather than the SAS because the incompetent SAS would have screwed up and killer her.....
insidejob
fuck off you paki cunt. Go on - fuck off out of the country if you don't like it here. You fucking traitor. You are clearly on their side because you are so anti US/UK repeatedly. Its so obvious whos side you are on so one wonders why the fuck you are here.
You may criticise the competence of the US forces, but at the end of the day we've killed a heck of a lot more of you than you could ever dream of killing us. Wanna know why? Because we didnt spend the last 2 centuries sitting in a mosque praying and headbanging a wall. We looked into things like science and engineering.
If it comes down to it, you lot are fucked in a war with us.
We've got nukes
Apaches - you seen those babies fire their 30mm cannon HE rounds? Each one like a hand grenade - blow you to smithereens!
cunt
Seems to me
15.10.2010 00:04
You got around kidnapping an aid worker then you aren't going to get much support from the left.
toolbox lover
May you rest in peace Linda.
15.10.2010 01:05
You got around kidnapping an aid worker then you aren't going to get much support from the left."
Anyway, mental retardation to one side.
I think that Linda died in the most appalling circumstances imaginable.
Its just another example of just how pathetic and futile this war has become. The people who are fighting it are completely clueless about what they are doing. The 'media' people who are defending it now appear to be half insane, the internet commentators (do they actually exist or are they ALL soldiers trying to avoid the shame) now come across as lamentable.
This war cannot be won and is just making us the laughing stock of the world. I don't believe there has ever been a time in history when we have ever been more pitiful than we are now.
It is time for a wholesale rejection of those who continue to make excuses, who continue to apologise and who continue to shame and embarrass us all. It is time to reject them en masse and to refuse to engage with them any further. It is now time these people were chained to the beds they have made for themselves.
In every soldier, a troll.
In every troll, defeat.
In every defeat, humility.
In every humility, victory.
RIP Linda.
re: Pest control.
15.10.2010 13:28
That is certainly an interesting conspiracy theory - what evidence do you base it on?
And @cunt - I think it is you who is the appropriately-named class traitor. Assuming you aren't just an armchair warrior, you must be pretty gullible to go and be cannon fodder for the politicians and wealthy interests.
Also I think you'll find a lot of science and engineering originated in Islamic and Arabic areas, ironically. Algebra/al-jebr, anyone?
anon
Eat this biscuit
15.10.2010 15:17
British aid worker had ESCAPED Taliban captors and was in foetal position when elite troops detonated grenade
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:47 PM on 14th October 2010
A British aid worker who died during a botched raid on the compound where she was being held hostage had escaped her captors and was hiding when a U.S. grenade killed her.
Linda Norgrove was cowering in a foetal position when troops detonated the deadly grenade.
Now an elite U.S. commando is facing disciplinary action over the death of the 36-year-old after it emerged he failed to tell his commanding officers he had used a grenade.
American officials initially claimed Miss Norgrove had been killed when one of her Taliban captors detonated a suicide vest.
But after reviewing footage captured on the Navy Seals' helmet cameras the U.S. was forced to apologise for the fatal blunder...
insidejob
Rip Linda.
15.10.2010 16:51
The same evidence that caused the initial claim that the Talib had killed her to be abandoned in favour of the truth.
What else would I base it on?
Linda was from the UK. Do you think she doesn't have friends here?
Thank you @RIP Linda. She was a very gentle woman who put herself into a war-zone to do good work. She is sorely missed.
Reality check.