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To: unclewest who wrote (119784)	11/17/2003 6:36:36 AM
From: Sig	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

And Al Queda says.................. "We tell the criminal Bush and his Arab and non-Arab followers (especially Britain, Italy, Australia, and Japan) that cars of death will not stop at Baghdad, Riyadh, Istanbul, Jerba, Nasiriyah or Jakarta," it said, referring to past attacks in Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Indonesia. Aksu, the Turkish interior minister, told the AP the attacks appeared to be suicide attacks. >>>> Who do these people think they are, anyway? They are going to "take on" 12 countries at one time? Where is their UN Authority ? The US discussed Iraq for 12 years with the UN and got 14 resolutions passed telling Saddam to shape up or get shipped out, before we did anything serious. story.news.yahoo.com

To: unclewest who wrote (119784)	11/17/2003 3:41:31 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Criminal investigators worked the story for 5 years and substantiated nothing and could not get a charge filed. I would concur. Not completely eliminating the possibility that some atrocities happened. However, given that Tiger Force was apparently a LRRP unit, does it makes sense that they were shooting up the countryside while out "sneakin' and peakin'"?? I'm not familiar with the unit, nor the particular battles in that area.. But given that you are, and the nature of the distinguished service record you had in that country, I think you probably know a fair shake more than either Jacob or I about the matter.. (I know how RUMINT gets around in the bush). But given that literally millions of US servicemen served in Vietnam over the course of that war, I think it's a tribute to our professionalism that there weren't more. Maybe one day Jacob will take the same interest in the atrocities the Viet Cong and NVA inflicted on various "non-cooperative" Vietnamese. But the bottom line was that I never intended to claim that American troops didn't have the capability to commit atrocities. My entire point was that we have a culture in the middle east that is turning mere children into weapons of war. Training them from a very young age to aspire to be Jihadists and find glory in dying for Allah.. That was what I found so atrocious. It's certainly against the international "rules" of warfare. Hawk