#6
I saw an article that claimed he was basically placing bets on stock prices in the hope of increasing his annual bonus. Nick Leeson was awfully happy he hadn't been involved this time.
Media rights groups called on Afghanistans president to intervene Wednesday after a court sentenced to death a young journalist who distributed articles said to insult Islam.
The primary court in the northern province of Balkh delivered the sentence on Perwiz Kambakhsh, 23, Tuesday after he was arrested nearly three months ago for distributing at his university material downloaded from the Internet.
Based on the crimes Perwiz Kambakhsh committed, the primary court yesterday sentenced him to the most serious punishment which is the death penalty, Balkh province deputy attorney general Hafizullah Khaliqyar told AFP.
Kambakhsh, a reporter for a city newspaper called Jahan-e Naw (The New World) and a journalism student at Balkh University, indicated he did not accept the verdict and would appeal, his family said. Afghan and international media groups called on President Hamid Karzai to step in. This is unfair, this is illegal, said Rahimullah Samander, president of the Afghan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA).
The reporter had had no legal representation and the media were unaware of the trial, he told AFP. The matter should also have been referred to a national media violations commission for adjudication, he said. AIJA had appealed to Karzai, parliament and the national attorney general to intervene and was also rallying support from international rights groups, he said. This is too big for a small mistake - he just printed a copy and looked at this and read it. How can we believe in this democracy if we cant even read, we cant even study?
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#1
Strangely absent is the content of the offending materials. Want to bet it was the truth?
#2
We should quietly put our foot down and direct that Afghanistan can only have a death penalty for homicide, and that it can only be given by a national court, with appeal up the government.
On top of that, make it a crime to even issue a death penalty without authorization.
#3
This is unfair, this is illegal,
No, thats-a sharia.
How can we believe in this democracy if we cant even read, we cant even study?
Democracy, maybe. Freedom of Speech and Critical Thinking, not until you all change one particular thing.
Hey, download this..
,!, sharia with a porcupine with its child sacrificing, idol worshiping, genetil infatuated, insecure thought constraining dark age wanna-be loser mahamed-this mahamed-cat bullcrap. I want it to be solidified as a weebal wobble so I can punch it all day long then pop it with a lawn dart. Spit.
Oh, coffee is done...
#2
For an outfit that claims it is all about revealing the truth, they are not off to a very good start:
"so-called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth falsely maligned Kerrys service record as payback."
Falsely maligned? Not false, as far as I can tell.
"the public has become agonizingly familiar with its excesses, most notably the torture of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib and the deliberate killing of civilians at Haditha."
Abu Graib actions were torture? Tell that to the Iraqis Saddam had there. Oh, you can't; they're dead.
And have the Haditha investigations yet revealed any intentional killing of known civilians?
#3
Imagine youre out on a convoy and you get hit by an IED, Millard said. And the SOP [Standard Operating Procedure] is you fire in that direction of that fire that came in..."
Pardon my ignorance, but isn't an IED a lot like a land mine in that there isn't incoming fire like with small arms (I understand that setting off an IED could be the first move in a set up ambush but that was not what was said or even implied)? So, would this character saying he would start shooting at the hole or dead animal the IED was placed in?
#4
Oh, my - there'll be about a hundred milbloggers doing internet searches, every minute of every televised statement. I am pretty certain that every veteran that steps in front of the camera will be fisked down to the subatomic level, and their DD-forms and service histories will be assembled before they even step down from the mike.
This will be fun. It took years for the first 'winter soldier" fakes to be debunked, it's only going to take minutes for these idiots.
So tell us - how keen are you, to step in front of a moving buzz-saw?
Are they in fact, going to be able to find any genuice veteran whose service record will stand up to scrutiny, and who will mouth the gruesome story they want to tell the world?
Nah, I don't think so - Barbara, break out the industrial-quantity popcorn-popper! This is going to be fun, if they ever manage to actually launch Winter Soldier 2.
#5
Actually, the military standard is that you always cover a minefield with machine gun fire. But extrapolating that to an IED is a stretch.
As SOP for IED attack, I suspect they include things like watch out for a second IED nearby; listen for any gunfire covering the position; set up counter snipers immediately; and if you need a tow or emergency vehicle, set out a defensive perimeter.
Along with, if you can still roll, when is it best to just bug out. Watch out for the IED initiating a close ambush. Look for locals acting as lookouts, and rent-a-mobs trying to converge on your position.
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