A Soldier Promises to Save Unlikely Iraqi Informant-Teen Who Turned In Dad

[NNN0LHI]

Soldier Promises to Save Unlikely Iraqi Informant - Teen Who Turned in His Father

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB3XNYYTZD.html

FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) - First Sgt. Daniel Hendrex was getting ready to leave the war when he went to see the Iraqi teenager one last time. He roused the boy from sleep and gave him his floppy camouflage hat and a promise.

Stay safe, Hendrex said. We will do what we can to get you out of here.

The 13-year-old clutched the hat and held out his arms. They hugged, teary-eyed. And then Hendrex was gone.

It had been four months since the skinny, street-smart Iraqi blurted out to American soldiers at a border checkpoint in Husaybah, Iraq, that he wanted to turn in an insurgent - his father.

more...This must be some of that good news from Iraq we were told was coming soon. Yep. Kid snitched out his own pappy. These are great times we live in.

[Dr Fate]

1. Sounds like 1984- children snitching on their parents...

...this kind of thing can only come from a "snitch" culture of percieved opression.

Bush has screwed this up but good-we need new leadership in the world if it is to fixed.

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. Were I a scared kid living in the Bush Regime Iraq

I may have done the same thing in order to survive. Who knows how much horror this kid has witnessed or lived through in his short life, especially during the past 17 months? Fuck Bush and the burden of hell he placed into the lives of the Iraqi children!

[private_ryan]

3. family values

snitched because dad fought an occupier.

[LisaL]

4. Looks like his father was abusing him and beating him.

That probably had a lot to do with the kid turning his father in.

[NNN0LHI]

5. Hey kid

Did you ever see pictures of your old man with womens panties on his head?

No?

Want to buy some?

Don