Posted on 10/19/2005 8:54:52 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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.
An investigation by SBS's Dateline program, to be aired tonight, filmed the burning of the bodies.
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".
US soldiers said they burnt the bodies for hygiene reasons but two reporters, Stephen Dupont and John Martinkus, said the explanation was unbelievable, given they were in an isolated area.
SBS said Australian special forces in Afghanistan were operating from the same base as the US soldiers involved in the incident, although no Australians took part in the action.
The incident is reminiscent of the psychological techniques used in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
"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."
Hehehehehe...
And the problem is?
Cowardly Dogs Ha Ha Ha
"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"."
When the islamofascists start acting as soldiers, instead of murdering animals, then the GC can be applied.
oh, did we offend the little taliban ragheads, good....offend them some more, bury the next ones in pig carcasses
So they cremated them, big deal. Pig skin burial suits would be far more interesting.
"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."
They calls them like they sees them.
Evidentally butchering worldwide is not deeply offensive to these subhumans.
It says they have it on film. Let's wait and see. I can't see regular enlistments doing this, but Special Forces? On film?
ROFL! Now that is some smack talkin'.
I think we should start burying them in pig skin....see if that works as well as it did before.
I thought the Geneva convention only applied to uniformed soldiers of a nation's army. Silly me.
Wait -- they left out that we flushed a Koran down the toilet at Gitmo!! How could they forget that?? AS IF NBC has any credibility.
Note to extremly hysteric Leftist world wide. Taliban are ILLEGAL combatants. Under the Geneva conventions they have NO protection. If you are going to make arugments at least have the intellectual decency to FIND OUT THE FACTS before publishing your extremely stupid articles.
Excuse me, but Al-Qaeda isn't protected under the Geneva conventions right?
Anyway, did they pour Pig blood on em before they dropped the Match??? Good for the Good guys! These animals deserve no respect at all!
Way to go guys! Keep up the good work!!! Thanks for all that you are sacrificing to do this! We love and appreciate you!!!!!
"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"."
Provided of course that the combatants are fighting for a country. I always love the way left wing journalists bastardize things for their own agenda.
"The incident is reminiscent of the psychological techniques used in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison."
So, some dorky enlistees making asses out of themselves is "psychological techniques"?
Too bad they didn't have any pigs blood to sprinkle on them first. I think it might be offensive to some that when the Taliban had control of afghanistan, they would torture victims, chop oif hands of thieves, stone women convicted of adultery, and whip men for not wearing their hair and beards in accordance with their view of Islam. Oh yeah, no women would be caught outside without her head to toe burka, or they would be killed to. But where was the outrage over that abominable behaviour?
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