Ah! I see your Billy Jeff Bin Laden and raise you one Hitlery -
Another Freeper did the original art (cannot locate who, though).
I only animated it!
Posted on 12/02/2001 2:09:35 PM PST by mdittmar
A 20-year-old American who fought with the Taliban and survived a bloody prison uprising near Mazar-i-Sharif last week has been taken into custody by U.S. special forces troops, Newsweek magazine said on its Web site on Sunday.
A spokesman for U.S. Central Command, which is running the military campaign on Afghanistan , confirmed that a man claiming to be an American was in the control of U.S. military forces.
``Military forces in Afghanistan do have in their control a man who calls himself a U.S. citizen,'' Marine Maj. Brad Lowell, a Central Command spokesman, said.
``He was among the al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners; he was held by the Northern Alliance in Mazar-i-Sharif. He is injured and is being given medical assistance by U.S. forces,'' he told Reuters.
The man, described by Newsweek as ``a white, educated-sounding, apparently middle-class American,'' who identified himself only as Abdul Hamid, was taken into custody on Saturday at a hospital where he had been taken for treatment of minor gunshot and shrapnel wounds.
The special forces soldiers who detained Hamid took him aside for treatment and later left with him, doctors told the magazine. A Northern Alliance military source said the U.S. soldiers had taken Hamid to Mazar-i-Sharif, Newsweek said, adding that U.S. forces refused to comment on his whereabouts.
Hamid told Newsweek earlier he was a Washington, D.C., native but indicated he grew up elsewhere in the United States. He said he converted to Islam at age 16 and later went to Pakistan to study the Koran, Newsweek said.
Hamid said he came into contact with Taliban teachings while studying in Pakistan and traveled to Afghanistan six months ago to help ``because the Taliban are the only government that actually provides Islamic law,'' the magazine reported.
He fought with the Taliban at the siege of Kunduz in northern Afghanistan and surrendered along with hundreds of other fighters after the two sides negotiated a deal.
Hamid later was transferred along with hundreds of other prisoners to Qala-i-Jhangi fortress west of Mazar-i-Sharif, where a revolt ensued a week ago. The uprising was violently put down by U.S. warplanes and Northern Alliance ground forces.
Several hundred prisoners were believed to have been killed. A CIA officer was among those killed in the uprising, the first reported American combat death in Afghanistan.
When was that? My point is that those that go off into the military aren't the majority.
He would have gleefully popped a cap in your Infidel hide.
True. Thank God for the Second Amendment so that I could get him before he gets me. Most 20 year olds wouldn't pop a cap in anybody for anything that meant anything to them. They'd more likely light up a joint and pass you a beer, sadly.
Get a nice new rope, paid for by US taxpayers, and string this POS up!
He's not a hero or noble. Just being willing to die for something doesn't make you so. Would a person willing to die for Naziism be noble? Well, it's the same principle here.
If you want to die for a cause, it should be an honorable cause. He was pleased with the attack on civilians on 9/11. Not the least noble.
Save your sympathy for someone deserving.
I didn't stand up for him, I just made an analysis of him versus most apathetic 20 year olds.
I already had figured out your IQ ... but what is your age ???
Maybe Abdul and fellow turncoat traitor Jim Jeffords can get together and tell us about the dangers of the American right wing.
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