{"id":10381,"date":"2009-05-05T04:54:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T09:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=10381"},"modified":"2009-05-05T08:50:21","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T13:50:21","slug":"al-jazeera-draws-targets-on-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10381","title":{"rendered":"Al Jazeera draws targets on troops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Al Jazeera is trying to stir up the Afghan population<\/a> by misrepresenting events at Bagram Airbase last year;<\/p>\n

In other footage captured at Bagram, Sergeant Jon Watt, a soldier set to become a military chaplain, said during a Bible study class: “I also want to praise God because my church collected some money to get bibles for Afghanistan. They came and sent the money out.”<\/p>\n

It is not clear that the Bibles were distributed to Afghans, but Hughes said that none of the people he recorded in a series of sermons and Bible study classes appeared to able to speak Pashto or Dari.<\/p>\n

[Brian Hughes, a documentary maker and former member of the US military] said: “The only reason they would have these documents there was to distribute them to the Afghan people and I knew it was wrong, and I knew that filming it \u2026 documenting it would be important.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, however, according to the Stars and Stripes<\/a>, it is clear whether or not those Bibles were distributed;<\/p>\n

The Bibles were confiscated before they could be distributed because that would have violated General Order No. 1, which prohibits proselytizing, said Spc. Mary L. Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for Combined Joint Task Force 101.<\/p>\n

“The servicemember was not aware of that at the time,” Gonzalez said Monday.<\/p>\n

The Bibles were not paid for or translated by the U.S. military, she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, even though it happened a year ago and the military prevented the young sergeant from distributing the Bibles, Afghan officials are calling for an investigation and getting their 12th century panties in a wad.<\/p>\n

Now it gives Obama something else he can blame Bush for while Al Jazeera paints the war as a religious occupation.<\/p>\n

Added:<\/strong> A frequent, but silent, reader tried to convince TSO and I to go easy on Al Jazeera based on the obvious superficial content of this video. You don’t even need to turn the sound on to see why this particular reader begs our sympathy for the news service.
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