REMEMBER: [Jan 6,
2013] CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina - A U.S. Marine pleaded guilty
on Wednesday to urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters [whom they
thought had killed a fellow Marine] in Afghanistan and then posing for
photographs in a scene captured in a widely circulated video on the Internet
and denounced by world leaders.
Staff Sgt. Edward W. Deptola said he knew desecrating the
corpses and posing for the "trophy photographs" was wrong and he
offered no excuse for the behavior during his court martial at North Carolina's
Camp Lejeune.
"I was in a position to stop it and I did not,"
said Deptola, a native of Southold, New York, and married father of two.
Although the judge presiding at Deptola's trial recommended
a stiffer sentence, the maximum penalty he will face under the terms of a
pre-trial agreement is a reduction in rank to sergeant.
CREDIT:
CONTRAST WITH: THE EXECUTION OF DANIEL PEARL, Feb 21, 2002
Daniel Pearl was held for more than a week by the militants
and then beheaded - allegedly by Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, one of the architects
of the Sept. 11 attacks.
His body was found, beheaded and mutilated, in a shallow
grave outside Karachi. Pakistan's links to militant Islamic groups became an
increasing topic of discussion in the corridors of power in Washington.
CREDIT: AP/CBS NEWS
CONTRAST WITH: THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBER
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev admitted to authorities Sunday that he and
his brother were behind the Marathon bombings, according to a senior law
enforcement official.
Tsarnaev made his admissions to FBI agents who interviewed
him at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he is being treated for
multiple gunshot wounds. He had not yet been given a Miranda warning.
Tsarnaev’s attorneys
are certain to challenge the legal admissibility of those admissions, and other
information he gave them, such as claiming that he and his brothers acted
alone, and that his brother was radicalized in an extreme form of Islam in part
because he opposed US actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
CREDIT: BOSTON GLOBE
AN INTERESTING
ASIDE:
Marathon bombings mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev was living on
taxpayer-funded state welfare benefits even as he was delving deep into the
world of radical anti-American Islamism, the Herald has learned. In addition, both of Tsarnaev’s parents
received benefits, and accused brother bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan were
recipients through their parents when they were younger, according to the
state.
CREDIT: BOSTON GLOBE
THIS SHIT IS WRONG AND HAS TO STOP!!!
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