New crusade?
yiorgis
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Hi i am from Greece.I read about a week ago an article in a local magazine about a group of soldiers who participated in the conquest of Bagdat on 2004 and now are acused for murdering innocent people and young children.What was terrifying was on the pictures of the soldiers you could see tattoes on their bodies like "soldiers of christ".I am wondering if we still in some kind of a way are living in Middle Ages,and a new crusade is taking part.
Forgive me for any mistakes of the language
Forgive me for any mistakes of the language
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it's operation divine strake and it wasn't nuclear...it was scheduled for last summer...don't know if it happened....but the divine part does def lend itself to a crusade sound. Granted the rhetoric from Iran against Israel and other infidels sounds a bit like the crusades as well.
You're forgiven Borat.
Where's this article at? This is the first time I've heard of this and for the most part, I keep up to date on what happens in my country and my fellow veterans. Send me a link or something.
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
Any sources for this?
But a quick search on google for "operation divine strike" or "strake" will yield many more sources (though, like I said, some of my facts were wrong) than I can list here.
no, it was postponed until this year
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Strake
never heard of 'strake' before
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strake
A strake is
1. part of a boat or ship. It is a strip of planking in a wooden vessel or of plating in a metal one, running longitudinally along the vessel's side, its bottom or between them on the turn of the bilge.
2. a device for controlling air flow over an aircraft.
3. a tool for tamping down and levelling semi-fluid materials into a mould.
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
I read some articles on that, 57 spread across numerous US installations. Kind of a small number isn't it? I can recall about 10 guys just in my platoon alone who each respectively spent multiple years in various gangs stretching from California to Georgia and everywhere in between.
Divine Strake - washington post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/06/AR2006040601916.html
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/ops/divine-strake.htm
The divine thing probably stems from the fact that the bomb is coming from the skies. WOW what a coincidence. What about all the operations that had DEVIL in the title? OOOHHHH, did you know the first infantry division is also known as the "big RED one". A church at Fort Riley Kansas adjacent to the barracks is known as the "Devils Den". THINK ABOUT IT?
Either way, i think its a sad, and innappropriate choice of title.
Native Americans recently received a ruling in their favor from a United Nations committee in a dispute over land in Nevada at a site that the US
military has selected to test the effects of the types of tactical nuclear weapons that could be used in an air strike on Iranian nuclear processing facilities.
The weapons test, referred to as “Operation Divine Strike”, is designed to use 700 tons of conventional and chemical explosives to simulate a
battlefield-nuclear attack. The weapon to be tested is reported to be five times larger than the military’s largest conventional weapon.
This spring, the US escalated its rhetoric insisting that Iran not be allowed to develop nuclear energy resources so that it cannot make nuclear weapons. President George Bush recently told reporters that “all options are on
the table” with respect to the confrontation with the nascent nuclear power, including a small yield nuclear strike.
Members of the Shoshone Tribe brought the action before the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination disputing the Treaty of Ruby Valley signed in 1863. The committee ruled that the treaty “did not comply with contemporary human rights norms, principles and standards that govern determination of indigenous property rights.”
http://www.redstateupdate.net/full-page/fullpage-archive-49.html
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13000.htm
I've read it on a Greek magazine called E(you pronounce it "epsilon" in Greek)and described actions that took place on November of 2004 at Haditha.After an explosion of a bomb, american soldiers started getting people out of taxies and houses, shooting at them without knowing if they were dangerous or armed.I know that it's difficult to criticize a situation if you don't have a true experience of the situation, but we're talking about young women and children who lost their lifes.
Sometimes it keeps coming in my mind a phrase from Bob Dylans song about Roubin Carter
"How can a life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool's hand?"