October 20, 2005
The Other White Meat
The web is running wild with reports that U.S. soldiers desecrated the bodies of two Taliban terrorists by cremating them, and then used the action to taunt other terrorists.
According to Jason Coleman, some liberal blogs are claiming that the bodies were intentionally placed facing west as an insult.
That is demonstrably false, and easily proven.
Warning: graphic photo below the jump.
If the body was facing east or west, the shadows would be running parallel with the alignment of the bodies. As you can tell by looking at the feet of the bodies, they are perpendicular to the shadows.
The narrative does not hold.
Coleman and Dan Riehl, and Hyscience have much more about both the incident itself, the Austrailian embed who reported it, and the news organization that reported it.
This stinks
Bob,
The bodies stank, the anti-warrior filmed it, the PsyOps guys show up and do the right thing. Then the ghouls and hyenas conflate distinct events to builg a narrative.
The Aussie Jihadi is what stinks. Even Fox is giving credence to this BS. The true story will come out but it will be too late and on page A18.
Headline and Soundbite reading America will buy another big lie. That's what really stinks.
Tom
Posted by: RiverRat at October 20, 2005 10:40 PMYep, the real story will come out: http://guambatstew.blogspot.com/2005/10/more-on-that-burning-issue.html
Jason gave us some plausible scenarios. CENTCOM will be the judge of that.
Posted by: guambat stew at October 21, 2005 12:45 AMSecond installment up, solidifying that nothing "wrong" happened using Stephen Duponts own words.
"So what's really going on. . .(The Interview with Stephen Dupont) can be found at http://www.jasoncoleman.com/BlogArchives/2005/10/so_whats_really.html
Thanks so much for your support.
--Jason
Posted by: Jason Coleman at October 21, 2005 05:36 AMWhat's going on here: the Commie News Net is telling you that our people are worse than Ghengis Khan. Easily done. Tape 45 minutes, edit out the truth, and pitch another brick at the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.
I want the ACLU to sue whomever to release the photos of the WTC jumpers!
Posted by: T. Shaw at October 21, 2005 01:43 PMNotice the difference in media play between this incident, and the burning of the contractors' bodies in Iraq by "insurgents" a few months back?
Posted by: Skeezix at October 21, 2005 02:21 PMHmmmm. Remember those "holy" Saudi police that
would not permit girls trapped in a burning
school building to escape, as they were not
properly dressed.
Anyone hear from the "Internation Criminal Court"
on that one.
Only dead bodies not be burned. OK, but what
happens after suicide bomber blows up - guess
his 72 virgins are over 80 years old.
I do not understand why we "respect" their
beliefs when it is illegal to wear a cross or
bring a bible into Saudi land. And now there
are complaints about the cross on the Red Cross
aid shipped to Pakistan.
These peoples believe in "totems" and fear them.
We think that when we allow theirs and subvert
ours that we showing "cultural respect".
What they see is our fear of their "totems" and
when we submit to them, it proves their strength.
Can anyone imagine if the Vatican were totally
destroyed and all within also destroyed that the
Catholic Church would fold up shop.
When you deal with believers in "totems" it is
a very different result and the same as the
result when armies believe in the leader and not
deeply in the cause.
So one can wonder what result of destruction of
primary "totems" of Islam would be in long run.
(not immediate chaos, but longterm)
Allah after all sent Katrina. Wonder who sent
earthquake with now over 80,000 deaths?
My wife and I saw this on the news last night and both of us thought...so what...why are we bothering with this. These were the bodies of the enemy and they were burnt..so what...if they placed them facing west as an insult...so what...a non story as far as we were concerned.
Posted by: Mark at October 21, 2005 04:08 PMI thought the critical thing was to face Mecca, which is usually East when one is in the Western world. But from Afganistan, Mecca would be to the West, right?
Just seems to me that this is more of a non-musilums issue than a musilums issue. A tempest in a tea pot.
And if it were all true, and it was a great dissrespect? Perfect! I think it sould be made into policy that any enemy KIA should be burned while facing down. The fire should be started with bacon fat.
