U.S. Tries to Limit Damage From Taliban Body Burning Allegation

Remember what these bastards did to us!

And this is a problem because?

The U.S. was trying to limit damage Thursday (October 20th) from an Australian TV report that said American soldiers in Afghanistan burned the bodies of two Taliban fighters and used the incident to taunt other Taliban. The State Department said it had instructed its embassies around the world to tell local governments that the alleged abuse didn't reflect American values while spokesman Sean McCormack called the allegation, quote, "very serious" and "very troubling." Meanwhile, the military said the Army Criminal Investigation Command was looking into the incident, which the operational commander in Afghanistan called, quote, "repugnant." The U.S. is trying to avoid the kind of anti-American outcry in the Muslim world that took place in May after a Newsweek report that U.S. soldiers at Guantanamo Bay had desecrated the Koran.

After hearing the allegation, Islamic clerics expressed outrage and Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned the incident and ordered an inquiry by the Afghan Defense Ministry. Australian TV broadcast the video taken by a journalist embedded with the troops that showed them burning the two bodies. The journalist, Stephen Dupont, said the soldiers told him they were doing it for hygienic reasons, because the bodies had been there for a day. Cremation, however, is banned under Islam, and the bodies were reportedly faced west, towards Mecca, as an insult. Then, according to Dupont, a U.S. psychological unit later broadcast taunting messages to a nearby village believed to be harboring Taliban, calling them cowards who didn't come to get the bodies of their men. Dupont told Australian TV, "They deliberately wanted to incite that much anger from the Taliban so the Taliban could attack them. ... That's the only way they can find them."

These soldiers are totally justified in what they did and I support them 100%. The MSM and Muslim clerics seem highly selective and very inconsistent with their outrage.

Ms. Underestimated writes...

I am personally outraged BY the outrage that is coming out about this! These bastards would sooner kill you and me, and everybody else who is a non-Islam-believing infidel! Where was the media outrage when the American contractors were not only slaughtered, but were tortured, dismemebered, THEN burned and hung in a sick, twisted effigy from a bridge in Falljuah! Did you forget about that? I damn sure didn't, but the MSM not only forgot about it, but they didn't even give it any damn thought in the first place!