LOL
Never heard that term before.
Posted on 07/15/2008 11:37:39 PM PDT by HarryCaul
Omar Khadr, a Canadian detainee accused of killing an American soldier during a firefight in 2002, is seen both sobbing and angry in the seven and a half hours of poor quality video issued by his lawyers.
Khadr, 21, describes mistreatment at the hands of American guards. But his main complaint, of damaged eyesight, dates from the shoot out with a US patrol in Afghanistan. In one segment he repeatedly cries: "Help me."
Khadr, who played in Osama bin Laden's private compounds as a child, was 15 when he was arrested and 16 when the Canadian agents were granted access to him at Guantanamo.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
How about the part where he cries that nobody cares about him? I would advise him that suffering for Islam is the whole point of jihad. Being at Guantanamo makes him a martyr.
News flash, kid. You were in a shoot out with a US patrol. Too frigging bad about you eye. Lol it's too bad you didn't catch one between your eyes.
Quit your whining, you muslim jerk.
He should have been treated according to the Geneva Convention; shot on the spot as an illegal combatant.
...so he has that going for him.
“You don’t care about me”??? what the he77 is that all about? Of course we care about him, he is able to provide valuable information. Then he could be a useful organ donor.
This piece of human excrement killed another human being, a soldier. He was in Bin ladens camp playing as a child. he joined the jihad and tried to kill us and is a terrorist.
I saw no evidence that he was being mistreated at all in any way shape or form. For him to be quoted as saying “help me” means that he is looking for his interviewers to help him and feel pity for him. If he was being tortured he would be screaming “please stop hurting me”
WTF This is WAR. they started it and now we should feel sorry for him?
LIBERAL BUNK!
As many as 200,000 Americans lied about their age in order to enlist in the US military during WW-II.
Young Warriors: Some Veterans Lied About Their Ages
Gerry Barlow was a 15-year-old who manned an anti-aircraft gun on a Navy carrier."I was fifteen. But nobody knew it," he said. "I didn't even think I knew it. I didn't feel like 15. I felt like everybody else around me."
Barlow found himself in the Navy after he ran away from a Brooklyn orphanage. He was down on his luck when he strolled past a Navy recruiting station one day.
"I walked in and that's when I asked, 'Can I join the navy?'" said Barlow.
Using his older brother's birth certificate and paying five dollars to a skid row drunk to sign his enlistment papers as his mom, Barlow became a seaman. And though he was a mere child himself, Barlow saw plenty of adult combat.
Didn’t Audie Murphy lie about his age to get in the Army?
This conclusion can not be argued.
It reminds me of what people endured in my freshman English class. Horrible!
This conclusion can not be argued.
It reminds me of what people endured in my freshman English class. Horrible!
You're right. He accuses them of not caring about him, they assure him that they do care about him. They offer him a break and a sandwich.
This is not anyone's idea of what a military interrogation looks like. Hollywood could not write this script.
Whatever the kid's lawyers are trying to make of this, its not working. It shows the very opposite of what they are trying to claim.
It shows army interrogators treating the kid with deference and respect, and even some affection. He clearly feels at ease and safe with them.
LOL
Never heard that term before.
He asked to be shot. The US forces refused to do so, and patched up the places where they had shot him in the back twice.
That is, he is complaining about American treatment, but the interrogation in the video is by Canadian agents. The Canadian court forced the release.
He did? Do tell.
Your claim doesn't match the Pentagon claims, nor the soldiers on the ground.
The troops assumed that nobody could be alive in the compound after it was hit with 500-pound bombs. When they approached, however, a grenade came over a wall and killed the Special Forces medic.
The original report said that another fighter had thrown it before being killed. This report was subsequently changed to say that Omar Khadr must have thrown it because it came after all others were dead and Khadr was the only one alive.
Then, the Pentagon accidentally released papers showing that a US soldier entering the compound found there were actually two people still alive inside--the US solider then killed the first one; the other (Omar Khadr), was crouched facing away from him, and he shot Khadr in the back twice. (Interesting side note...the Pakistani army later shot his younger brother in the back and paralyzed him. Tough break, getting your "war wounds" in your back!) Khadr asked to be killed, but the troops refused. They patched up their wounded, and then patched him up.
The case against Khadr is pretty weak.
Nobody saw Khadr throw a grenade...and the assumptions upon which they based his guilt were later found to be wrong. Then we have the fact that the Pentagon is tampering with reports. These don't add up to a very good case and give the appearance that the Pentagon was trying to cover up and justify why it had Omar Khadr in Gitmo.
Omar Khadr claims he was acting as a translator in Afghanistan, yet he is seen in a training video on bombmaking so he knew what was going on. Obviously, he's not innocent, but the case being made is not "general association with bad guys."
He was raised hate America and to love Islam and to be an obedient son. How many American 15-year-olds would question their fathers when told to defend their heritage against an invading foreign enemy? Although there's his own responsibility, it was the twisted indoctrination by his late father, his mother, and other relatives that led to this.
I don't see a conviction coming from this..and then I wonder if there will be a lawsuit against the US for "shooting an unarmed boy in the back."
No problem. http://www.militarycity.com/valor/honor.html is a good link. It lists all the soldiers that have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan or other operations supporting the GWOT. I’m sad to say that while looking for SFC Speer at that sight I learned that someone else I know was killed in Afghanistan on July 13th.
RIP MSG Mitchell Young.
http://www.militarycity.com/valor/3627780.html
I am beginning to think this whole thing is a mess - one big circle jerk.
Our leaders don’t have a handle on what’s happening, and our contenders for the presidency are clueless flip-floppers.
***He should have been treated according to the Geneva Convention; shot on the spot as an illegal combatant.***
But they have rights! The Supreme Court said so!
*barfs*
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