Must be a Democrat.
At least he didn’t put panties on their heads.
Them durn translators again... they still don't know what the meaning of 'is' is.
Heard anything about this?
Just great
What’s the deal? Did he Nail her or that and something else?
Interesting
“Booze or p-tang.”
Bert Lancaster in “Go Tell the Spartans”
WAIT!!!
Is this the SAME Col Steele who was CAPT Steele in Black Hawk Down??
IF SO, that means he is the SAME LtCol Steele who issued orders to KILL EVERY MILITARY AGED MALE, had 5 of his men charged with MURDER for it, and he himself just got an article 15 for it!!
SSgt Girouard just went to jail for covering for one of his men for that incident while not shooting anyone himself!!!
IF this is THAT Col Steele , then he is a piece of scum, not worthy of respect!
I’m willing to give any member of our armed forces the benefit of the doubt.
But if it turns out he’s guilty... execute him.
He was having "sexual relations", perhaps?
WTFIGO
Ex-commander of US prison in Iraq detained-military
26/04/2007
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=8771
BAGHDAD, (Reuters) - The former commander of a major U.S. military detention centre in Baghdad has been detained and charged with “aiding the enemy”, the U.S. military said on Thursday.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Steele is also charged with having an improper relationship with a translator and with the daughter of a detainee, providing mobile phones to prisoners, and unauthorised possession of classified information. “He has been in detention in Kuwait since last month pending an Article 32 hearing, which is a preliminary hearing where evidence will be presented to determine whether this should go to court-martial,” U.S. military spokeswoman Lieutenant-Colonel Josslyn Aberle said.
Aberle said Steele was commander of Camp Cropper, a detention facility near Baghdad international airport that holds more than 3,000 detainees. They are reported to include former senior members of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
The U.S. military said in a statement that Steele faced charges under the Uniformed Code of Military Justice. The date of the alleged offences ranged from October 2005 to February 2007. No personal details of Steele were available.
Steele was accused of “aiding the enemy” by providing detainees with unmonitored mobile phones between October 2005 and October 2006, it said.
Other charges included:
— knowingly and wrongfully fraternising with the daughter of a detainee, wherein such acts constituted conduct unbecoming an officer in the armed forces.
— wrongfully providing special privileges to and maintain
an inappropriate relationship with an interpreter.
— having unauthorised possession of classified information ... and wilfully retaining the same and failing to deliver it to the officer or employee of the United States.
— wrongfully and knowingly storing classified information in his living space.
— wrongfully and knowingly possessing pornographic videos.
“These charges are merely an accusation of wrongdoing. Lieutenant-Colonel Steele is presumed innocent unless and until he is proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of any alleged offence,” the U.S. military said.
Camp Cropper was made famous by media reports that Saddam was held there during his three years of incarceration. But for the first time, the military said on Thursday the former Iraqi leader had been held in another, secret facility. He had visited Camp Cropper only for medical checkups and stayed there in the days leading up to his execution on Dec. 30. “Saddam was occasionally detained at Camp Cropper but it was not his full-time residence. We won’t say where he was held for operational reasons,” U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Garver said.
The other charges included unauthorized possession of classified information, fraternizing with the daughter of a detainee, maintaining an inappropriate relationship with an interpreter, storing classified information in his quarters, as well as possessing pornographic material, the statement added.
I’m sure that Reid, Pelosi, and Murtha will ralley to his defense and hold him up as a true patriot who knows who the good guys really are in this war.
What an idiot.
Nancy Pelosi arrested (”for Aiding the Enemy” in Iraq)
the way it should be
How could any officer aid our enemy in time of war?
Part of the problem seems to be due to the translator. Not the first time. Most of the translators are Muslims, and Muslims tend to put Allah first.
This is worrying, because the same forces of political correctness that sometimes have promoted women officers beyond their competence are also probably bending over backwards to promote Muslims, just to show we aren’t “profiling” them.
There was an article posted in FR a month or two ago saying that the military was making a very special point of admitting as many Muslims as possible to West Point, as a matter of political correctness. That sort of thing could backfire big time. I suspect we will continue to use Muslim translators rather than do the obvious thing, which is to train Americans in Arabic.
And that raises still another problem—that just about every academic middle eastern program in the country is run by Palestinian lovers and other hate-America types. So, how do we train people in Arabic without turning them all into good little arabists like the folks in the State Department? Especially since the Saudis have a long record of funding these departments in elite US universities?