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On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:03:45 GMT, Gunner
wrote: On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 08:51:26 -0500, Jake Nichols wrote: On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 16:20:26 -0700, "Dan" wrote: A military has few compunctions about firing on armed combatants, but is more reluctant about doing so on unarmed civilians. Kent State University And in the middle of the Turbulent 60s, with bomb throwers, mass riots, takeovers and thrashing hundreds of universities, the only one you can come up with is Kent State? Four Dead in Ohiiiooo! Sounds pretty ****ing reluctant to me. Gunner And since we are discussing the US military and civilians.. lets not forget that we (USA Military) has now sunk to kidnapping as well. http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/03/7/28/17267240.cfm Col. David Hogg, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division, said tougher methods are being used to gather the intelligence. Wednesday night, he said, his troops picked up the wife and daughter of an Iraqi lieutenant general. They left a note: "If you want your family released, turn yourself in." And torture http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...news-headlines ASHLEY, Pa. -- Last year at this time, the four Army reservists were civilians, leading middle-class lives in the coal-laced hills of Pennsylvania they had always called home. Two were preparing for college, one was a state trooper who spent the summer running a camp for kids, and a fourth had served in Bosnia-Herzegovina and was a prison corrections officer. Today, 6,000 miles away and on active duty, the four are at the center of a controversy that has shaken this old mining town, where their 320th Reserve Military Police Battalion is based: They have been charged with mistreating and beating Iraqi prisoners of war -- charges that could lead to courts-martial and prison. |
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