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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (135837)	6/6/2004 5:35:54 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

>> The Nazis didn't used to wear strings of ears like the USA troops in Vietnam apparently did. I think that happened mainly in a one year-long operation in the central highlands, where the Tiger force was given the job of terrorizing the population so all non-fighters would be forced into camps, and the fighters who remained would be the target of free-fire zones. Some members of that force have finally been given the opportunity to tell their stories. Of course, the people who committed these atrocities are celebrated as heroes, and they have their admirers, including on this thread. Not a single one has been tried or punished for their actions. The morons however will not believe any of that, because as God's people, they do no wrong. hnn.us Tiger Force atrocities began with the torture and execution of prisoners in the field, then escalated to the routine slaughter of unarmed farmers, elderly people, even small children. As one former sergeant told the Blade, "It didn't matter if they were civilians. If they weren't supposed to be in an area, we shot them. If they didn't understand fear, I taught it to them." Early on, Tiger Force began scalping its victims (the scalps were dangled from the ends of M-16s) and cutting off their ears as souvenirs. One member -- who would later behead an infant -- wore the ears as a ghoulish necklace (just like the character Toadvine in Blood Meridian, while another mailed them home to his wife. Others kicked out the teeth of dead villagers for their gold fillings. A former Tiger Force sergeant told reporters that "he killed so many civilians he lost count." The Blade estimates that innocent casualties were in "the hundreds." Another veteran, a medic with the unit, recalled 150 unarmed civilians murdered in a single month. Superior officers, especially the Glanton-like battalion commander Gerald Morse (or "Ghost Rider" as he fancied himself), sponsored the carnage. Orders were given to "shoot everything that moves" and Morse established a body-count quota of 327 (the numerical designation of the battalion) that Tiger Force enthusiastically filled with dead peasants and teenage girls.