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Soldier Punished for Interfering in Child Assault by Afghan
The New York Times ^ | 09/22/2015 | By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted on 09/23/2015 7:17:05 AM PDT by Artemis Webb

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon and the White House condemned on Monday reports that Afghan forces who worked with U.S. military personnel sexually assaulted boys, and members of Congress complained about a U.S. soldier being forced out of the military because he intervened in 2011, attacking an Afghan police commander he believed was raping a child.

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and others are questioning whether the U.S. military routinely discouraged troops from intervening in such sexual assaults. Hunter said Army Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland must leave the Army by Nov. 1, because his intervention to stop a child rape triggered a negative mark on his service record.

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The New York Times reported that Martland and Dan Quinn, a former Special Forces captain, beat up an Afghan militia commander who was working with the Americans but also was discovered to have kept a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: military; obama; obamapolicy; pedophiles
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I have not been following this story closely, though I was aware of it. It's good though that The New York Times has picked it up. Maybe it will now get some traction.
1 posted on 09/23/2015 7:17:05 AM PDT by Artemis Webb
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"The New York Times reported that Martland and Dan Quinn, a former Special Forces captain, beat up an Afghan militia commander who was working with the Americans but also was discovered to have kept a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave."
2 posted on 09/23/2015 7:18:09 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (Let me know if you want on The Baseball Ping List)
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To: Artemis Webb

The transformation continues.


3 posted on 09/23/2015 7:20:16 AM PDT by hometoroost
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To: hometoroost

Yes it does.


4 posted on 09/23/2015 7:21:24 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Artemis Webb
if they are covering it at all, that means that the foreign media has embarrassed them into it.
5 posted on 09/23/2015 7:22:48 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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Well, what’s wrong with that! Martland and Quinn are not fit for Obama’s Army. They need to help us out HERE in America after this country crashes and burns... won’t be long seeing how Barry and the Mean Girls are bringing 100,000+ of these fine muslims into America ASAP.


6 posted on 09/23/2015 7:23:07 AM PDT by Sioux-san
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The Pentagon and the White House condemned on Monday reports that Afghan forces who worked with U.S. military...

So...the Pentagon and White House condemned the reports???

7 posted on 09/23/2015 7:23:51 AM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: Artemis Webb

This policy is thanks to our fearless leader. If I write the adjectives I’m thinking I’ll get banned from FR.


8 posted on 09/23/2015 7:27:13 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: Artemis Webb

Its probably the only reason Obama is still interested in Afghanistan


9 posted on 09/23/2015 7:27:16 AM PDT by PGR88
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I hope. It is a sickening, shocking story.

We should also look at what is going on in this country. Judges have given a pass to violent pedophiles, yet nothing has been done. Judge Torrence of Missouri gave probation to a man who molested a six-year-old girl and continued to abuse her for eight years. There was a judge in Ohio - I forgot his name - who sided with a horrific serial pedophile, bring up this "cultural" thing. Others also.

Furthermore, we are admitting immigrants who find pedophilia acceptable.

10 posted on 09/23/2015 7:27:24 AM PDT by Dante3
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“The New York Times reported that Martland and Dan Quinn, a former Special Forces captain, beat up an Afghan militia commander who was working with the Americans but also was discovered to have kept a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave.”

Again:

“The New York Times reported that Martland and Dan Quinn, a former Special Forces captain, beat up an Afghan militia commander who was working with the Americans but also was discovered to have kept a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave.”

WHY WOULD MARTLAND AND QUINN LIE ABOUT THIS?????


11 posted on 09/23/2015 7:29:15 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (LanceyHoward would AGREE)
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Not as a lie, but a revelation about the unworthiness of those whom we are supposed to be using to “build a nation” in Afghanistan, where no national consciousness has ever existed.

“We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren’t punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That’s war. And this is war.” Ann Coulter, September 12, 2001.

Ann was seriously excoriated for making that statement at the time, but in retrospect, it would have been the most humane and conscientious course of action we should have taken in the wake of the Islamic Jihadist declaration of war.

But alas, Political Correctness carried the day.


12 posted on 09/23/2015 7:40:56 AM PDT by alloysteel (If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers.)
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This is a monumental problem. It is criminal to abuse children and we simply cannot look the other way. Please reference the Rotherham sex scandals, where the police and city council (run by the Leftist Labour Party) looked the other way as hundreds of (mostly) female children were used as sex slaves IN BRITAIN. Their main excuse was ‘it’s just their culture and we don’t want to be perceived as racists’.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11391314/Rotherham-child-sex-abuse-scandal-council-not-fit-for-purpose.html


13 posted on 09/23/2015 8:18:10 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: LeonardFMason

The “ Dancing Boys of Afghanistan” is available
On the internet. It had been for a long time.
The US government knew long ago this was going on


14 posted on 09/23/2015 8:35:29 AM PDT by oldironsides
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Martland and Dan Quinn, a former Special Forces captain, beat up an Afghan militia commander who.....there's the rub, they should have “shot, shoveled and forgot”.
15 posted on 09/23/2015 8:37:47 AM PDT by Recon Dad (Force Recon Dad)
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Agree.


16 posted on 09/23/2015 8:39:21 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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Will the run a front page reference to it for the next 3 months? Of course not, Abu Grab was obviously a much bigger horror committed by our evil soldiers!


17 posted on 09/23/2015 8:45:23 AM PDT by CSM (White wine sipping, caviar munching, Georgetown cocktail circuit circulating, Perrier conservative.)
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I don’t think the objection is that it isn’t true.
Obama et al think this should be allowed to happen,
and that anyone stopping it is in the wrong.


18 posted on 09/23/2015 8:47:57 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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It is difficult for the Obama administration to object to the story on the basis of it not being true...given that the court martial stipulated that it is true.

Therefore this is what the Commander in Chief wants.


19 posted on 09/23/2015 9:36:48 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Dante3

If the courts won’t dispense justice, the people must see to it. Pedophiles need to start “disappearing”.


20 posted on 09/23/2015 9:46:02 AM PDT by beelzepug (liberalism is not...a political philosophy. It is a stage of arrested emotional development.)
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