Film Rolls as (US) Troops Burn (Afghan) Dead

US soldiers in Afghanistan burnt the bodies of dead Taliban and taunted their opponents about the corpses, in an act deeply offensive to Muslims and in breach of the Geneva conventions.

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It also filmed a US Army psychological operations unit broadcasting a message boasting of the burnt corpses into a village believed to be harbouring Taliban. According to an SBS translation of the message, delivered in the local language, the soldiers accused Taliban fighters near Kandahar of being "cowardly dogs". "You allowed your fighters to be laid down facing west and burnt. You are too scared to retrieve their bodies. This just proves you are the lady boys we always believed you to be," the message reportedly said.

"You attack and run away like women. You call yourself Taliban but you are a disgrace to the Muslim religion, and you bring shame upon your family. Come and fight like men instead of the cowardly dogs you are."

The burning of a body is a deep insult to Muslims. Islam requires burial within 24 hours. Under the Geneva conventions the burial of war dead "should be honourable, and, if possible, according to the rites of the religion to which the deceased belonged".

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1019-05.htm

What a bunch of fucking animals. Not in my name.

it goes hand in hand in what you're about to see on this video.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3267.htm

Pass it on!

C'mon its only AmeriKa spreading Freedumb.

Let us NOT heap the majority of the Soldiers and Sailors who DON'T represent OUR country like this, in with these few animals.

Sgt. Joe Sixpack who does what he can to put on a good face for us, given the huge shit sandwich he's been asked to take a bite of, doesn't get on the news....these assholes do.

This puts a couple of my friends in Iraq right now at risk. God help them if they're taken alive.

Sorry, but damn, this sickens me.

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...war is about the business of death and killing and power.

I have an 18yr old neighbor who just graduated from the Marines boot camp. He is a great kid who just what's to make something out of his life. I hope that All our sons and daughters will not come to harm for the sins of a few.

--heap the majority of soldiers & sailors in. Why are you putting words in his mouth?

A little too optimistic I would say.

in with the animals that hanged burnt corpses from a bridge? What's good for the goose is good for the gander?

Jay

I am guessing here that we are getting away with doing this because no one calls that a war zone anymore. Therefore we are acting like this.

The rest of the world needs to step up and force sanctions on us to try to force our war policies to follow the Geneva Convention.

comes before the UN. The rest of the world, combined, lack the military we have to resort to force. Isn't that why we try so hard to make sure other countries can't have nukes?

Ain't it great to be the bully of the world? The only 'super power'? Or the fascist state?

we are insulting the religion of the people who we're trying to win over.

Ask any (informed) Catholic about a religion's "tolerance" of an insult . . . (Galileo vs the Pope) . . .

there's film?? Have 'we' sunk this low to do these things? And when the 'enemy' retaliates and maybe chops up soldiers and burns them, that's OK? This is insane and a long term problem when these soldiers return to the US with these horrible memories. They will never be normal again.

of Kurtz from Apocylpse Now?

When Kurtz related the story of the enemy amputating arms of children innoculated for smallpox he marvelled about how perfectly evil the enemy was and wondered if WE could be that evil.

War, I think, is an escalation of evil. Each side commits greater and greater atrocities in order to intimidate the other side. It's inevitable and why, precisely, war should be avoided at all costs.

I hate to think these acts might provide enemy combatants with indicators for how they're supposed to behave toward US troops....

You can't prevail (in the long run) if you stoop to this.

eventually all new recruits will cycle through iraq or Afghanistan, and their bosses will make damn sure they don't leave 'til they've killed a few rag-heads to get the taste for it.

Wild animals have taken over, our culture is dead, our warriors know nothing but unleashing their most base instincts.

Let`s hear some more about moral values.

whoopeeeee! Here we go again!

... become BuschCo's private militia? The invasion of Iraq was illegal. The occupation of Iraq is illegal. The acts of senseless brutality occurring there are certainly illegal. While I do sympathize with and support what I believe to be the horribly exploited individuals who make up our troops serving in Iraq, I cannot and will not support what, as a group, they have, through no fault of their own, become: BushCo's Militia.

http://www.karlandkinggeorge.com/The_Few_the_Proud_the_Abused.html

Break the enemies moral, destroy his confidence in his ability to fight. Of course all they've done is EMBOLDEN the enemy to fight harder. Didn't work in Vietnam and it won't work in the ME.

the Muslim faith to come up with these ideas? Don't tell me this isn't being directed by someone much further up the chain.

This will get the rest of the world to hate us even more, jeez this is dumb

Not.

With all the human rights abuses captured on video or photographed I shudder to think what hasn’t been filmed.

To add insult to injury one of the soldiers burps while the bodies are devoured by the flames. Absolutely disgusting.

Censored photos from the video here: http://dave128.blogspot.com

I wonder if they were influenced by Arnold?

which attracts men that are insecure about their own sexuality.

you got it all wrong. This is just an isolated incident involving a few bad apples. Just some boys having good ol' fun. </sarcasm>

In Afghanistan?

Again?

(Oy.......... they will.)

He was a conscientious objector that served over there and speaks in a lot of places detailing a lot of this abuse. Try some of these video links... We need more of our soldiers to start efforts like he has!

http://www.archive.org/stream/ConscientiousObjectorAidanDelgado/conscientiousobjector.mp4

Berkeley presentation
Part 1: http://websrvr20.audiovideoweb.com/avwebdswebsrvr2143/news_video/adelgado1_300k.mov
Part 2: http://websrvr20.audiovideoweb.com/avwebdswebsrvr2143/news_video/adelgado2_300k.mov

The insurgency is made by us.

assult on Islam will bring more vengence upon Amerika. Is the Bush Admin. trying to inflame the entire Muslim population around the world? Is this US Military out of control and this action was not a direct Neo Fascist policy? Does it matter to Amerika's imgage around the globe?

Mosques being defiled by Amerika's troops has occurred in Iraq many times such as the photo below.

Arrogance and ignorance. Dehumanize the enemy and all who look like him. Same same Viet Nam.

then we can get mad and do worse to them next time, the cycle continues...

Why are there no POWs and MIAs in a cluster-fuck like Iraq? Why? It is TOP-SECRET, Code-Word (and CRYPTO), EYES-ONLY THE PRESIDENT. He, and he alone, kills the sadist stories of this fucked-up war. There have to be MIAs (kidnappings on Baghdad streets, for example). There have to be POWs. It is impossible for there not to be! It is war. Another impeachable lie. A big impeachable lie! Fuck these liars. It has become so much like Viet Nam that I am nauseated. Fuck these lying mother-fuckers!


Lying mother-fucker. This asshole would not lay down his life for a Vietnam veteran's spit. He, indeed, hates the veterans of Vietnam because of what it reminds him of .. and that ain't good. His very AWOL and desertion .. the President of the United States. DemoTex shakes head.

It's ALL going to come out, and spin from rush ain't going to do him much good. I hope the Rethugs can keep good watch on all those lone-wolves they've cultivated. I'd really like to know what they think is going to happen, what the hell are they thinking? Almost makes me think they don't plan on ever being out of power, and if the bird flu hit's in time, who knows, maybe they won't be.

it seems to oddly slip out of my mind and I forgett about it for a while longer. That's weird. So the official tally is POWs: 0 MIA: 0 ?

that is kinda hard to believe

... will it be shown to America or not?

Will any subsequent atrocity (e.g., burned upside down on a cross)
be used as fuel for the "crusade" meme or would it be covered up
to keep to the "we're in control" meme?

:shrug:

Which is what they've done since before the Taliban fell.

What we do seems to have had little effect on what they do: what they did before we captured our first Talib is what they do now, given the opportunity.

Think of the sick perverted minds that would come up with something that puts down women and gays in just a couple of sentences:

You attack and run away like women.... come and fight like men instead

I don't support the troops or their criminal mission. I will support the individual soldier that wants to leave the war.

Desecration Charges

U.S. probes Afghan body desecration charges
If true, incident would apparently violate the rules of warfare

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9755213/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1857393&mesg_id=1857393

Tesha

I added a post to GD this morning.
I was sure it would already be here. You Late Breakers don't miss a beat.
Isn't this some of the sickest crap you have ever heard?
They faced the burnt corpses toward Mecca.
God Forgive Us!

This was nothing more serious than a fraternity prank.

:-(

Senior US military officials launched an investigation today into claims that US soldiers desecrated the bodies of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan as part of a propaganda campaign.
Australian investigative news programme Dateline broadcast a film which appeared to show US soldiers burning the bodies of two fighters and using their charred and smoking corpses as a taunt to nearby Islamic militants.

The programme, which aired last night, depicted what was described as a US psychological operations team broadcasting over a loudspeaker toward a village thought to be harbouring Taliban fighters and sympathisers.

According to a transcript of the program, the soldiers faced the bodies towards Mecca in a deliberately provocative move and set them on fire. One said: "Wow, look at the blood coming out of the mouth on that one, fucking straight death metal."

A message was then broadcast over a loudspeaker in the local dialect which, according to the freelance cameraman, Stephen Dupont, embedded with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, said: "Attention, Taliban, you are all cowardly dogs. You allowed your fighters to be laid down facing west and burned. You are too scared to come down and retrieve their bodies. This just proves you are the lady boys we always believed you to be."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,1596556,00.html

*bush , the soldiers who performed the atrocities or the one who filmed it. This is just the type of thing this country doesn't need. :grr:

It's disrespectful under any other circumstances.

US troops burned bodies in Afghanistan because 'they stank'
(AFP)
Updated: 2005-10-22 10:36


US soldiers burned the bodies of two Taliban fighters in Afghanistan because villagers had not claimed them a day after they were killed and the bodies "were bloated and they stank," a US magazine reported, citing soldiers who were present at the incident.

Australian television reported on Wednesday that soldiers had burned the bodies of two suspected Taliban militants and afterwards used the incident to insult villagers and try to provoke them into attacking US-led coalition troops.

The incident has prompted a US military investigation into the alleged desecration of the corpses, which is in violation of the Geneva Convention on human rights.

It also further clouds the United States's reputation, already tarnished by the sexual humiliation of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and allegations of mistreatment of "war on terror" inmates at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.


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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-10/22/content_487015.htm