U.S. military investigates leaked photo (of 190 Taliban militants at funeral/cemetery. MOAB Time!)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 9/13/06 | Paul Garwood - ap

[NormsRevenge]

KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S. military said Wednesday it is looking into the unauthorized release of a photo purportedly taken by an American drone aircraft showing scores of Taliban militants at a funeral in Afghanistan.

NBC-TV claimed that U.S. Army officers wanted to attack the ceremony with missiles carried by the Predator drone, but were prevented under rules of battlefield engagement that bar attacks on cemeteries.

Lt. Tamara Lawrence, a spokeswoman with the U.S. military in Kabul, said the photograph was released to the network by someone who did not have the clearance to hand it out.

"It is an operational security issue, and the photo was released at an inappropriate level," Lawrence told The Associated Press. "Inquiries are being made into how it was released."

Lawrence declined to provide further details. It was not clear when the photo was taken nor where the gathering took place.

The grainy black and white photo shows what NBC says are some 190 Taliban militants standing in several rows near a vehicle in an open area of land. The black outline of a box — apparently the sight of the drone — is positioned over the group.

NBC quoted one Army officer who was involved with the spy mission as saying "we were so excited" that the group had been spotted and was in the sights of a U.S. drone. But the network quoted the officer, who was not identified, as saying that frustration soon set in after the officers realized they couldn't bomb the funeral under the military's rules of engagement.

Taliban militants this year have been waging their bloodiest campaign of violence since their 2001 ouster from power in the U.S.-led invasion launched after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The U.S. military has previously used Predator drones with deadly effect, firing one missile into a Pakistani tribal area near the Afghan border in January in a failed bid to kill al-Qaida deputy Ayman al-Zawahri. The strike killed at least 13 civilians.

[tx_eggman]

The Link: The Other Side Has No Problems With PC Crap When it Comes To Killing

[Arrowhead1952]

Yes. They were lined up for a good chance to be taken out by a missile. I think it's to late trying to fight this PC war.

[SlowBoat407]

I ain't buying it. I say we're just setting them up to think they can use cemeteries as safe spots.

Shhhhh.

[processing please hold]

Maybe it should be kudos to the leaker and jail time to the one that refused to bomb...

Agreed. I thank the leaker.

[Enchante]

Since Islamo-fascists keep telling us how much they love death, a cemetary would be the perfect place to bomb them - save them the trouble of transporting the terrorist remains to the graveyard......

[mewzilla]

It's investigating the leak, but not the policy?!

[dead]

Don't really see how this leak is wrong. It exposed the higher up's idiocy for nto attacking. No leak and nobody would have ever known.

There is that aspect to it, but it's still not a good idea. The Taliban/AQ now have a much clearer understanding of our predator drones abilities. They won't be seen standing outdoors in tight formation ever again.

In addition, the fact that the drone was there might expose an operative who told the drone where to be.

[Minus_The_Bear]

which is why you fire the missle.

[rogue yam]

The Taliban/AQ now have a much clearer understanding of our predator drones abilities. They won't be seen standing outdoors in tight formation ever again.

Well, unless it's at a cemetery.

[dead]

which is why you fire the missle.

Obviously.

I was pointing out why it also wasn't a good idea to release the picture after making the stupid decision to not fire the missle.

[ChadGore]

I really do think CBS got suckered on this.

[cinives]

how about, they don't want to be court martialed ...

When we stop prosecuting soldiers for doing their jobs then we'd have soldiers willing to take chances.

[Diogenesis]

"If you open the can on these worms you must be prepared to go all the way
because they’re not gonna give up the fight until one of you is dead…
Do you want to know how to get Capone?
You’ve got to do it the Chicago Way.
He pulls a knife, you pull a gun.
He sends one o’ yours to the hospital, you send one o’ his to the morgue.
That’s the Chicago way. And that’s how you get Capone." :

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AMERICANS MURDERED ON A BRIDGE IN FALLUJA BY ISLAMIC SUBHUMAN TERRORISTS

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TORTURE OF AMERICANS BY ISLAMIC SUBHUMAN TERRORISTS.

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Islamic Terrorists (mainly from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) attack America
murdering 3000 Americans per hour [pictures censored by the MSM]

The War for Infinite Justice SHOULD HAVE BEEN ESCALATED IN 2001

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London attacked by Islamic terrorists.

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Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay attacked by Islamic terrorists.

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Madrid attacked by Islamic terrorists.

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Russia, at Beslan, with children murdered by Islamic terrorists.

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VERY PARTIAL LIST OF ISLAMIC TERRORIST ACTIVITIES
Full list is pages and pages and pages and pages.

1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated
1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)
1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days
1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981
1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982
1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut6, April 18,1983
1983 Bombing of Maring Barricks, Beruit, Oct 23,1983
1984 Hizballah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984
1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985
1985 Rome Airport murders
1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homacidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq
1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986
1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered
1988 Berlin Discoteque Bombing, Dec 21,1988
1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionarys Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 100's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing, Dec 30,2000
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
2001 Flight 93 murders
2001 Pentagon attacked, 180+ murdered
2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and murdered
2002 Philippines American missionary, Filipino nurse killed
2002 July 4, El Al attack Los Angeles LAX, several murdered
2002 Bali bombing - 200 dead, 300 injured
2002 Yemen, French Oil Tanker attacked
2002 Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2002 Washington D.C. sniper
2002 Russian Theater attacked, 100+ dead
2002 Nigerian riots against Miss World Pageant, 200 dead, dozens injured
2002 Mombasa Hotel Attacked, 12 dead, dozens injured
2002 Israeli Boeing 757 attacked by missiles, fortunately no one injured
2002 August Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia. 12 dead, dozens injured.
2003 Rusian concert bombing
2003 Phillipines airport and market bombing
2003 Foiled SAM plot in the USA
2003 UN Baghdad HQ Bombing
on and on and on and on their terrorism has gone .........

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Islamic terrorists promising to conquer America prior to murdering all Christians and Jews therein.

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith,
but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America,
and Islam the only accepted religion on earth"

--Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998

Qur’an 8:12 “I shall terrorize the infidels.
So wound their bodies and incapacitate them
because they oppose Allah and His Apostle.”

Qur’an 8:57 “If you gain mastery over them in battle,
inflict such a defeat as would terrorize them,
so that they would learn a lesson and be warned.”

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[cinives]

sums it all up in one graphic

[joe fonebone]

????????????????

[OnRightOnLeftCoast]

==I'm thinking we should change the rules of engagement. Terrorists don't play by these rules.==

Here's an interesting essay from American Digest:

"RULES? IN A KNIFE FIGHT?": Redrafting the Rules of Engagement in the First Terrorist War"

Harvey Logan: Rules? In a knife fight? No rules.
[Butch immediately kicks Harvey in the groin]
Butch Cassidy: Well, if there aint' going to be any rules, let's get the fight started.
-- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

"You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight.
I'ma get medieval on your ass."
-- Pulp Fiction

By rote and by ritual most Americans [claim] to assert that they "Support our troops." But as we all know, yet seldom admit, America has more of the known reserves of the world's bullshit than the Saudis have oil. The truth of the matter is that far too many Americans are becoming far too interested in our troops behaving correctly than actually supporting and sustaining them. They blather support out of one orifice while spewing disdain from the other. We hear these clapped-out flatulators daily at work, on the street, and over the tube of the boobs. I don't know about you, but for me these hyperventilating hypocrites are beginning to gripe my hindquarters big time...

Continued Here

[sarasota]

Remarkable article and thanks for posting.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

Right, over 6 yrs and a war, and no one realised this policy was in effect!!??

The phrase "there's a first time for everything" comes to mind. Probably we never had an opportunity like this until now.

And now, thanks to the lamestream press and a soldier who didn't think, we probably won't ever have it again.

[Criminal Number 18F]

"It is an operational security issue, and the photo was released at an inappropriate level," Lawrence told The Associated Press. "Inquiries are being made into how it was released."

Translation: the liberal-law-school JAGs are peeved that this latest of their many attempts to aid the enemy was exposed.

Believe me, stuff like this happens ALL the time. Most JAGs spend every working hour trying to either screw any troop or leader who is prosecuting the war effectively, or release, aid or defend every scumbag who would cut your childrens' throats if he got a chance -- in other words, the same crap they'll do after their tours when they're lawyers on the outside.

There are too many of them, they have too much influence, and they are poisoned by the hard-left atmosphere in the law schools.

Frankly, we ought to strap the JAGs on the predators and let 'em drop them on the enemy. Excuse me, on the other enemy.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

Most JAGs spend every working hour trying to either screw any troop or leader who is prosecuting the war effectively, or release, aid or defend every scumbag who would cut your childrens' throats if he got a chance -- in other words, the same crap they'll do after their tours when they're lawyers on the outside.

Name names.