U.S. Muslims seek Pentagon probe on Iraq photo

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called for a Pentagon investigation of a photograph circulating on the Internet that apparently shows an American soldier mocking an Iraqi child.

The photo sent to CAIR seems to be of an American soldier standing next to two Iraqi children who are giving the thumbs-up sign. One child holds a hand-lettered sign in English that reads: “Lcpl Boudreaux killed my Dad,
th(en) he knocked up my sister!” (“Knocked up” is American slang for making someone pregnant out of wedlock.)

“If the United States Army is seeking to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, this is the wrong way to accomplish that goal,” said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad.

Awad said CAIR has also received an anonymous letter from a soldier who recently returned from Iraq that claims a commanding officer engaged in inappropriate conduct with prepubescent Iraqi girls.

This is disgusting!

[More: CAIR]
[via Bouillabaisse]

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Mohamed Marwen Meddah is a Tunisian-Canadian, web aficionado, software engineering leader, blogger, and amateur photographer.

3 thoughts on “U.S. Muslims seek Pentagon probe on Iraq photo”

  1. That is absolutely not funny at all. If this was to be true, that lieutenant (sp?) corporal oughta face charges of child molestation and whatever other crimes he committed. And whoever that guy is in the picture should be punished somehow also! How very lame and tasteless! It makes me sick!

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