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Failure To Obey Orders, Not Yet A Mutineer
On June 19, Army Spc Eleon Eli Israel put himself at great personal risk by making the courageous decision to refuse further participation in the U.S. occupation of Iraq. The 26-year-old from Arlington, Virginia told his command that he will no longer be a combatant in this illegal, unjustified war. Eli believes that the U.S. government used the attacks of September 11, 2001 as a pretense to invade Iraq and that "we are now violating the people of this country (Iraq) in ways that we would never accept on our own soil." Eli is stationed at Camp Victory in Baghdad with JVB Bravo Company, 1-149 Infantry of the Kentucky Army National Guard and intends to seek a discharge as a conscientious objector. If he so much as suggests to another soldier that they join him, it will be Mutiny. As it is right now, it is just failure to obey a lawful order and maybe peripheral charges. Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-06-23 |
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