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!
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Posted by: Jenn at April 12, 2004 02:26 AMThis is so sick, but what if it was fake? it seems easy to fake such pic.
Posted by: Muslim at April 12, 2004 09:40 AMBut, what if it's not fake?
I wouldn't be surprised that stuff like this is going on.
