While the country waits for the release of the latest rounds of Abu Gharib
abuse photos to emerge, news is coming out of Australia that U.S. soldiers
burned bodies of Taliban rebels in an effort to taunt their opponenets. The
following is from Australia’s
Fairfax Digital where they have obtained footage of this act:
Film rolls as troops burn dead
By Tom Allard
US soldiers in Afghanistan burnt the bodies of dead Taliban and taunted
their opponents about the corpses, in an act deeply offensive to Muslims and
in breach of the Geneva conventions.An investigation by SBS’s Dateline program, to be aired tonight, filmed
the burning of the bodies.It also filmed a US Army psychological operations unit broadcasting a
message boasting of the burnt corpses into a village believed to be
harbouring Taliban.According to an SBS translation of the message, delivered in the local
language, the soldiers accused Taliban fighters near Kandahar of being
“cowardly dogs”. “You allowed your fighters to be laid down facing west and
burnt. You are too scared to retrieve their bodies. This just proves you are
the lady boys we always believed you to be,” the message reportedly said.“You attack and run away like women. You call yourself Taliban but you
are a disgrace to the Muslim religion, and you bring shame upon your family.
Come and fight like men instead of the cowardly dogs you are.”The burning of a body is a deep insult to Muslims. Islam requires burial
within 24 hours.Under the Geneva conventions the burial of war dead “should be honourable,
and, if possible, according to the rites of the religion to which the
deceased belonged”.US soldiers said they burnt the bodies for hygiene reasons but two
reporters, Stephen Dupont and John Martinkus, said the explanation was
unbelievable, given they were in an isolated area.SBS said Australian special forces in Afghanistan were operating from the
same base as the US soldiers involved in the incident, although no
Australians took part in the action.The incident is reminiscent of the psychological techniques used in
Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison.
This will do nothing but cause the Muslim world to hate America even more.
Why do they hate us? Well it seems the actions we take in this war are a damn
good reason for that. This is also not helping our security but rather hurting
it. It will generate more Muslims that will be willing to fight against the
infidels (us) and even become martyrs. We have taken a war against those who
attacked us and turned it into a holy war against the second largest religion in
the world. Who do we hold responsible for these actions? The commander in chief
is ultimately responsible and since there has been numerous violations of the
Geneva Convention in Iraq and Afghanistan it is appearing more orchestrated than
isolated.