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MAIL RESTRICTIONS to US soldiers (no pork)
theleafchronicle ^
| 3/1/03
Posted on 03/01/2003 5:20:58 PM PST by knak
Edited on 05/07/2004 9:11:10 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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This was on the side of an article about Fort Campbells soldiers deploying. Thought it may interest some.
Why no pork? Is it the islam thing?
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posted on
03/01/2003 5:20:58 PM PST
by
knak
To: knak
"[NO] Mail containing religious materials contrary to the Islamic faith."
Dem's fightin' words!
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posted on
03/01/2003 5:29:46 PM PST
by
Unknowing
(Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.)
To: knak
These are the restrictions required by the host nation to which they are deploying. If it's Saudi Arabia or neighbors, this is no big surprise. I believe the restrictions were the same during the Gulf War...
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posted on
03/01/2003 5:33:11 PM PST
by
dandelion
To: knak
No pocket Bibles, looks like.
MM
To: knak
Ya know, we could solve this whole mid-east thing with out firing a shot.
Just carpet bomb the whole region with Pigs.
Lots and lots of Pigs.
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posted on
03/01/2003 5:40:59 PM PST
by
Falcon4.0
To: Falcon4.0
rofl
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posted on
03/01/2003 5:43:15 PM PST
by
knak
(kelly in alaska)
To: knak
ROFL...they can't even get hops, malt or yeast! Insane.
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posted on
03/01/2003 5:49:23 PM PST
by
B Knotts
To: knak
What about female members of our forces?
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posted on
03/01/2003 5:53:04 PM PST
by
Noslrac
To: knak
When I made deployments, we were limited to certain items and the bible was not on the list, but then again I packed my own bible and took it every where I went during those months. My last deployment ended a few months ago and I had one with me.
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posted on
03/01/2003 5:55:57 PM PST
by
navygal
To: knak
Pork or pork by-products. Who's going to know? Really, do muslims have a pork detection device to check incoming packages? Do they bring in a decontamination team if a package of pork rinds busts open in their mail handling room?
Firearms of any type.
LOL!!
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posted on
03/01/2003 6:00:50 PM PST
by
TADSLOS
(Gunner, Target!)
To: knak
bump
To: knak
Alcoholic beverages or materials used to produce alcoholic beverages (i.e.,
distilling material, hops, malts, yeast, etc.).
(forgive me if my recollection of this story is faulty, but...)
IIRC, there is a gravesite in one of the capitals of the major Middle-Eastern Muslim/Arab
countries of an British ex-patriate.
Supposedly, foreigners of all stripes who are posted in the city are said to visit his grave
and roundly curse the long-dead Britisher.
Apparently, until he died in some fairly public alcohol-related incident,
ex-pats in the country could get "adult beverages" for their own discrete consumption
despite the Islamic prohibition on alcoholic drinks.
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posted on
03/01/2003 6:07:36 PM PST
by
VOA
To: knak
I guess they are really anti-SPAM.
To: Falcon4.0
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posted on
03/01/2003 6:39:29 PM PST
by
6323cd
("Th-th-tha-th-th-tha-That's all, folks!")
To: knak
This sort of thing is an essential part of diplomacy(*) in Saudi Arabia and other arab "allies".
(*) The art of saying "nice doggy" until we find a rock.
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posted on
03/01/2003 7:07:22 PM PST
by
supercat
(TAG--you're it!)
To: Falcon4.0
I think we would get protests from the NOW.
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posted on
03/01/2003 7:10:27 PM PST
by
gitmo
(You know, I feel more now, like I did, than when I first got here.)
To: gitmo
I love it. Thanks.
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