1 posted on
12/12/2011 8:40:49 AM PST by
expat1000
To: expat1000
But the biometrics camera they were using takes ten minutes to scan so the private was ordered to cut off the fighters' index fingers in the hope of being able to identify them later. Absolutely the right command decision while under the fire. And the dead Taliban won't be missing them anyway.
2 posted on
12/12/2011 8:43:28 AM PST by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: expat1000
I have no problem with this.
It’s not like they were saving them as souvenirs.
IMO whoever is demanding their trial is an assahole.
3 posted on
12/12/2011 8:50:28 AM PST by
Venturer
To: expat1000
And this is a bad thing because...?
5 posted on
12/12/2011 9:00:46 AM PST by
Old Sarge
(RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
To: expat1000
They came up with an effective and sensible solution...
6 posted on
12/12/2011 9:01:38 AM PST by
isthisnickcool
(Sharia? No thanks.)
To: expat1000
The title makes it sound like they were taking trophies.
The facts are they were doing due diligence.
Case dismissed, prosecutor censured, should be the final result in a perfect world.
/johnny
To: expat1000
They also going to execute persecute prosecute coroners doing autopsies for 'mutilation of a corpse' or whatever they call it over there?
10 posted on
12/12/2011 10:00:53 AM PST by
ApplegateRanch
("Public service" does NOT mean servicing the people, like a bull among heifers.)
To: expat1000
How can it be a “war crime” to mutilate the corpse of an illegal combatant? The British should wait for some country to claim the illegal (disguised as civilians) combatants, then charge that country with war crimes. If the combatants had been wearing uniforms and dog tags, identification would have been simpler and would not have required “mutilation”.
12 posted on
12/12/2011 10:30:57 AM PST by
Ragnar54
(America's enemy: Obama replaced Osama)
To: expat1000
The troops include a 25-year-old lieutenant who is the youngest officer ever to be awarded the Military Cross Not relevant to the article, but I hate seeing ridiculous mistakes like this made in the media.
Many many Military Crosses have been awarded to officers under 25. The Decoration was specifically created during the First World War as a medal for junior officers (since 1993 non-officers can also receive it after the British ended the practice of awarding different medals to officers and other ranks).
For a start, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith MC AFC earned his as a twenty year old Lieutenant of the Royal Flying Corps in 1917. He's just one example I can name instantly - he certainly wasn't the youngest either. I can't name any but there were many British officers as young as 18 during the First World War, and I would be stunned if none of them earned an MC.
13 posted on
12/12/2011 4:25:58 PM PST by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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