US soldiers to Reuters camera crew: "Let's have sex." (Thats our boys)

[NNN0LHI]

News agency demands inquiry after American forces in Iraq allegedly treated camera crew as enemy personnel

Luke Harding in Baghdad
Tuesday January 13, 2004
The Guardian

The international news agency Reuters has made a formal complaint to the Pentagon following the "wrongful" arrest and apparent "brutalisation" of three of its staff this month by US troops in Iraq.
The complaint followed an incident in the town of Falluja when American soldiers fired at two Iraqi cameramen and a driver from the agency while they were filming the scene of a helicopter crash.

The US military initially claimed that the Reuters journalists were "enemy personnel" who had opened fire on US troops and refused to release them for 72 hours.

Although Reuters has not commented publicly, it is understood that the journalists were "brutalised and intimidated" by US soldiers, who put bags over their heads, told them they would be sent to Guantanamo Bay, and whispered: "Let's have sex." snip

"He protested that he was a journalist but they stuck a shoe in his mouth anyway. They also hurt his leg. One of the soldiers told him: 'If you don't shut up we'll fuck you.'"

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[ringmastery]

1. watch the republicans

find a way to blame this on the gays in the military.

[Cannikin]

2. The militant gay wing of the Army.......

[papau]

3. the ottoman empire scared the world for 300 years with a gay army!

Janisaries (spelling?) went through gay sex as standard part of training. They were the lead troops - the most feared - the ones that kept the empire together.

[La_Serpiente]

4. really?

wow...learn something new every day

[izzie]

6. Are you sure you mean gay? They used to do other things........

I also do not think Americans understand the way men acted to wards other men in other societies. It does not follow you are gay if men have male friend or women have females friends.

[noonwitch]

5. That's why my great grandma hid her sons in the cellar when the turks came

through their village in Austria. My grandpa was a little kid in WWI and says that the turks would ride through mountain villages in his area (he was near Trieste, Italy) and would kidnap boys for their army. His mom would pack all her sons into the cellar. Grandpa says he remembers getting a glimpse of the army once, and said it was terrifying. They wore necklaces made of severed human ears and carried those long, curved swords.
He's 90 years old and probably still has nightmares about WWI. If it wasn't the turks raiding his village, it was the italians (the village is now in Italy). They left and came here in 1924.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

7. Frightening

Reminds me of the brown shirts