The U.S. Army is investigating a video a soldier posted on his Facebook page that depicts two Iraqi children being taunted and referred to as gay terrorists.
"The conduct in the video is disgraceful and clearly inconsistent with the high standards expected of every Soldier," a statement from U.S. Army officials in Alaska said.
"The Soldier was directed to remove the video from the website," the statement added.
In the video, the two young boys are shown standing next to each other on a dirt road. The person who appears to be holding the camera asks them if they are homosexual and perform homosexual sex acts. The boys nod but it is unclear if they speak English.
The narrator then asks the boys if they are going to grow up to become terrorists and if they are going to plant roadside bombs. The boys give the thumbs up sign. But then one boy seems to become aware that he is being mocked. He puts down his thumbs up sign and pushes the others boy's arm down as well.
The army said it will "take appropriate action based on the findings of the investigation."
The soldier, posted at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, was not named in the military statement. CNN has not been able to reach the soldier.
CNN-affiliate WRAL said the video, titled "future gay terrorist," was posted by a soldier who said he was from Fairbanks, Alaska. WRAL identified the soldier as Spc. Robert Rodriguez. CNN could not reach Army officials to independently confirm the soldier's identity.
The video has caused a stir in some military circles far away from Alaska.
Army Staff Sgt. Veronica Jones, stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, called the video a case of "stupidity and boredom."
"Somebody took advantage of those kids because they don't speak English. That's sad," Jones told WRAL. "(This is) not a representation of soldiers. Not at all. I know plenty of soldiers who would not do anything like that."
Then how can you avoid the punishment, if you disbelieve, on a Day that will make the children grey-headed?
Sura Al-Muzzammil 73:17
Yes, the people Americans are currently fighting with are Muslims, but that's not the reason why they're fighting them, if it was, then US should invade like Indonesia.
Ooohh.. this is just too easy for me.
Obviously, you have little knowledge about world's contemporary political history.
the US, as recent CIA declassified documents have also showed, provided intelligence aid and funds to general Suharto when he staged coup d'etat against previous president Sukarno who refused to kow tow US government and US policy.
Suharto then became a president (dictatorial in practice) for 30 years, who suppressed all kinds of Islamic activities regarded as "fundamental" (not unlike the current Husni Mubarak of Egypt). The use/wear of hijab are banned from ALL public places (my high school mates were kicked out of school for daring to wear hijabs). Thus, Indonesia was considered "friendly" by the US. In addition, the US corporations were given total freedom to exploit Indonesian natural resources (oil, gas, coal, gold, copper, timber, etc etc) and took most of the profits.
Contrast that to Iran, Iraq or Libya who limited how foreign corporations operate in their countries. Surprise surprise, those countries are branded as "evil" by the US.
Not until several strange turns of events culminated with the Asian economic crisis that the people forced Suharto to step down. And now Indonesians are more knowleadgable and Islam are flourishing here (sadly, so are western evil influences) and the country is much stronger than before.
Given the geographical nature of the country (archipelago state with over 17,000 islands), huge population (230 millions), the US would be out of their mind if they decide to attack Indonesia, even if they could do so or wanted to.
You're generalizing, just because some soldiers act in an "appalling" matter does not mean every soldier does, I bet there are plenty of soldiers in Iraq right now who haven't even gotten into a firefight.
A solider is a general term described of those invading Iraq and other neighboring countries indeed, thus we generalize them, as they are all there to fulfill a particular purpose! You are so smart..
Saying that Americans are in Iraq to "rob the wealth of the nation, destroy their monuments, rape the women, kill the men and pose them for pictures and dissolve the religion of God " is a massive over statement. And technically we're all animals
It is a correct statement.. and only atheists are animals! '' God has created the rest of us in a dignified form'' those that haven't evolved past apes by choice are animals! so again thanks for stating the obvious about your ilk!
You said something insulting about me, so I'm gonna return a favor and say something insulting to you.
No, we simply state the obvious as you were an astute ape to take notice and confirm with your own testimony!
My prostitutes are your women
Really they sell Arabic looking blow up dolls?
Last edited by جوري; 06-02-2010 at 10:56 PM.
Text without context is pretext If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him
If those kids were mine, I wouldn't walk up to that soldier with a machete and decapitate that soldier, but I would just tell:"Hey man, can you knock it off ?"
Hey man knock it off? Really? Get off it man..!
I bet that there were more than a few Iraqis on that day who didn't get victimized/abused.
Oh dear, the point is, why should ANYONE be subject to something of that nature? Have some empathy.
Perhaps you should stop generalizing, and thinking that just because one soldier did something like this everyone else would as well.
Cause if you don't like when Muslims are generalized based on the actions of a handful of people, you probably shouldn't generalize as well
.
To be honest, if your whole country was taking over by people who have destroyed everything, killed so many people around you and also try to impose their own laws and system in a country YOU have lived in all your life, you'd really run and give him a hug wouldn't you?
You said you apparently don't feel the war was justified, so why are you trying to justify the sick actions of the solider's who are fighting that very war?
You appear as a very ignorant minded individual and I don't feel your worth the time and effort (as of this post) to reply. Your comments are baseless and I don't understand why you feel the need to even post.
Adios.
Verily, you cannot make the dead to hear nor can you make the deaf to hear the call (i.e. benefit them and similarly the disbelievers). when they flee, turning their backs. [27:80]
Seriously brothers and sisters, please stop wasting your time here.
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