drillanwr
Babalu Blog
3/21/2011
Fasten your seatbelts. Here comes Obama’s “Abu Ghraib” … But apparently this one takes place on the Afghanistan battlefield. German newspaper Der Spiegel is set to release a number of what are being described as “trophy photos” of members of the US Army’s 5th Stryker’s self-proclaimed ‘kill team’ posing with KIA Afghanis, much like a hunter would with a prey he had just dropped. The Brit and German publications are describing the victims as ‘civilians’ … and that they were ‘murdered’. Well, isn’t that pretty much the bulk of the enemy we have been fighting in two war theaters? And hasn’t that been the anti-war/anti-American meme from the European and American leftist MSM for over ten years? They’ve all been innocent because America’s foreign policy is always wrong. I am not defending. I am just noting the media’s agenda, and also would like to point out the lack of reportage of the enemy’s inhuman acts on our captured military, hostages, and village civilians they want to control through terror. It’s a different war, folks, and a highly politicized media covering it.
Allegedly there are far more gruesome details to the back story here…
The article continues at Babalu Blog.
H/T Michael Yon’s Facebook page. Michael began writing about this late Sunday night. Early Monday morning he had verified the story with at least one NCO in Afghanistan. He told his readers he awaits the outcome of the trials which are underway in Seattle.
