CNN reporting story of reserves refusing "suicide mission".

[chimpymustgo]

Barbera Starr reporting.

[chimpymustgo]

1. Military calls this "isolated incident".

Prelim finding from "source", concerns were valid, according to Starr.

developing...

[knowbody0]

2. sounds like sabotage

anarky
mutiny
please mr custer, i don wanna die

[Proud2BAmurkin]

4. 17 soldiers "isolated"? LMAO

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[txindy]

3. YES! The story is in the mainstream media, now. Finally

Let's get the coverage cranked up on this.

[TrogL]

5. LBN link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x906709

[Texas_Dem]

6. I am clueless on this one. Can someone give details?

[chimpymustgo]

7. It was posted on Drudge.

I just checked CNN's website, but nothing there yet.

[truthpusher]

8. Link

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004410150366

"By Jeremy Hudson
[e-mail]

A 17-member Army Reserve platoon with troops from Jackson and around the Southeast deployed to Iraq is under arrest for refusing a "suicide mission" to deliver fuel, the troops' relatives said Thursday.
The soldiers refused an order on Wednesday to go to Taji, Iraq — north of Baghdad — because their vehicles were considered "deadlined" or extremely unsafe, said Patricia McCook of Jackson, wife of Sgt. Larry O. McCook.

Sgt. McCook, a deputy at the Hinds County Detention Center, and the 16 other members of the 343rd Quartermaster Company from Rock Hill, S.C., were read their rights and moved from the military barracks into tents, Patricia McCook said her husband told her during a panicked phone call about 5 a.m. Thursday.

The platoon could be charged with the willful disobeying of orders, punishable by dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of pay and up to five years confinement, said military law expert Mark Stevens, an associate professor of justice studies at Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount, N.C."

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http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2004410150366

[genius]

9. Good for them

[olddem43]

10. How do you ask a man to be the NEXT one to die for a mistake?

[chimpymustgo]

11. Here's a link to AP:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041015/D85O0B2O0.html


U.S. Probes if GIs Refused Iraq Mission

Oct 15, 1:14 PM (ET)
By JOHN J. LUMPKIN


WASHINGTON (AP) - The Army is investigating reports that several members of a reservist supply unit in Iraq refused to go on a convoy mission, the military said Friday. Relatives of the soldiers said the troops considered the mission too dangerous.

The reservists are from the 343rd Quartermaster Company, which is based in Rock Hill, S.C. The unit delivers food and water in combat zones.

According to The Clarion-Ledger newspaper in Jackson, Miss., a platoon of 17 soldiers refused to go on a fuel supply mission Wednesday because their vehicles were in poor shape and they did not have a capable armed escort.

The paper cited interviews with family members of some of the soldiers, who said the soldiers had been confined after their refusals. The mission was carried out by other soldiers from the 343rd, which has at least 120 soldiers, the military said.

Convoys in Iraq are frequently subject to ambushes and roadside bombings.

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