| Anyone know why US troops think it's a good idea to burn the bodies of Taliban fighters on the outskirts of an Afghan town and then drive round the town with a tanoy on the back of a truck annoucing that the town's menfolk are a bunch of "lady boys" who are too chicken to fight!
Is this a new military tactic, goading an enemy who fought the Soviets and probably aren't stupid enough to think they can outgun the US military by confronting them with rusty ak47's?
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Last week, U.S. soldiers were caught on videotape burning the bodies of two dead Taliban fighters--something forbidden under Islamic law--in Gonbaz, a village in southern Afghanistan.
After the bodies had been defiled, U.S. psychological operations specialists used loudspeakers to taunt local villagers, in an attempt to draw out other Taliban supporters. "Attention, Taliban, you are all cowardly dogs," blared the loudspeakers, after calling out several religious leaders by name.
"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...You attack and run away like women. You call yourself Talibs, 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."
http://www.counterpunch.com/ruder10262005.html |
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