Posted on 05/05/2005 10:38:39 AM PDT by Gondring
Where did you get the information the wounded men left behind in the Mosque were "captured"?
None were in contraints. None were "marked" as prisoners. None were in a "zone" designated as a "detainee holding pen"..
What is true - is that they should not have been left unguarded by the first unit that went through the Mosque after the PREVIOUS fight. I recall hearing the Sunni object to their Firing Positions (Mosques) being occupied by Marine infidels guarding wounded Jihadists.
It was their bad luck to have picked a fight, that they lost. That doesn't entitle them to any special consideration from the second Marine team that had to clear the second batch of fighting bastards out of the same Mosque...
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Treat our people any worse than they are? Every person who is captured by the terrorists are beheaded with a dull knife, not even given the benefit of a swift beheading with a sword. How on earth do you think they could treat them any worse?
Given that snipers are never popular with the enemy, it's pretty unlikely that a sniper will allow himself to be taken alive. Those 2 snipers in Mogudishu went down fighting. It would be an unusual circumstance if a sniper were captured, so I don't know the situation/dilemma you are alluding to would ever really occur.
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