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Army Releases Documents From The Scott Beauchamp Affair

Chris Jones — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:20:39 +0000

Documents released by the Office of the Chief of Staff, U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base Florida, in relation to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests files for documents relating to the military investigation into the Scott Thomas Beauchamp “Shock Troops” article in The New Republic magazine.

The following are the never-before published statements of soldiers interviewed in the course of the investigation. Names are redacted per federal privacy laws.

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The documents basically confirm once again that Scott Beauchamp was and is full of sh*t. He tried to smear the Army with a string of outrageous falsehoods that the liberal media swallowed up as fast he could invent them.

The New Republic clung to his lies for as long as possible before issuing a half-hearted retraction all the while leaving the door open to the possibility that maybe his stories could be true.

Other guys in his unit were shocked when they read his blog and saw all the bullsh*t stories he concocted. When asked if PFC. Beauchamp was a reliable soldier, every single person interviewed said he was a terrible soldier who had in fact been AWOL on two occasions.

I can’t believe they’re keeping such a dishonorable scumbag in the U.S. Army. He’s a disgrace to his unit, the U.S. Military, and to his country.

I hope the other guys in his unit dragged his sorry ass out into the desert and gave him a savage beating.

-Chris Jones

London Telegraph Makes Gen. Petraeus Person Of The Year

Chris Jones — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:04:51 +0000

Time magazine got it wrong, but London’s Sunday Telegraph gets it right. The Telegraph has made General David Petraeus its “Person Of The Year” and wrote a great piece about the man called General Petraeus: man with a message of hope.

He has been the man behind the US troop surge over the past 10 months, the last-ditch effort to end Iraq’s escalating civil war by putting an extra 28,000 American troops on the ground.

So far, it has achieved what many feared was impossible. Sectarian killings are down. Al-Qaeda is on the run. And the two million Iraqis who fled the country are slowly returning. Progress in Iraq is relative – 538 civilians died last month. But compared with the 3,000 peak of December last year, it offers at least a glimmer of hope.

Nonetheless, why should we choose to nominate Petraeus?

…the reason for picking Petraeus is simple. Iraq, whatever the current crises in Afghanistan and Pakistan, remains the West’s biggest foreign policy challenge of this decade, and if he can halt its slide into all-out anarchy, Gen Petraeus may save more than Iraqi lives.

A failed Iraq would not just be a second Vietnam, nor would it just be America’s problem.

It would be a symbolic victory for al-Qaeda, a safe haven for jihadists to plot future September 11s and July 7s, and a battleground for a Shia-Sunni struggle that could draw in the entire Middle East. Our future peace and prosperity depend, in part, on fixing this mess. And, a year ago, few had much hope.

It appears that not only are U.S. troops awed by Petraeus, but the British, Irish, Australians, and others are as well.

…it should be pointed out that British commanders hold Gen Petraeus in similarly high regard.

Several Northern Ireland veterans who worked with him in Baghdad this year came away with the opinion that it is now America, not Britain, that is the world leader in counter-insurgency.

I think it says a lot that our British friends recognize the positive turn of events in Iraq and the man responsible for that turnaround. In America on the other hand we have despicable groups like MoveOn.org who traffic in garbage like the now infamous “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?” advertisement.

-Chris Jones

Former Muslim Chaplain at Gitmo, James Yee, Lies on Syrian Television

Chris Jones — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 22:14:40 +0000

I don’t know how many people remember the James Yee case from 2003, but unfortunately this Muslim scumbag has popped up again, this time literally in cahoots with the enemy.

James Yee is the former Muslim Chaplain who was stationed at Guantánamo Bay. He was the religious counselor for all the terror suspects detained there.

Throughout his deployment many of his fellow soldiers became deeply suspicious of Yee, and felt that he was a sympathizer who was working against them as best he could.

When returning from duty at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, he was arrested on September 10, 2003, in Jacksonville, Florida, when a U.S. Customs agent found a list of Guantanamo detainees and interrogators among his belongings.

He was charged with five offenses: sedition, aiding the enemy, spying, espionage, and failure to obey a general order. These charges were later reduced to mishandling classified information in addition to some minor charges.

He was then transferred to a United States Navy brig in Charleston, South Carolina. The government did not name the country or entity for whom it suspected Yee was spying.

All court-martial charges against Yee were dropped on March 19, 2004, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller “citing national security concerns that would arise from the release of the evidence,” and he was released to resume his duties.

In April the noncriminal charges of adultery and storing pornography on government computers were dropped. He retired from the US military with an honorable discharge in January, but he is also seeking an apology.

Yee went on to write a crappy book detailing all the abuses the poor terrorists were subjected to. Since then most people had forgotten about the traitor, but now he has popped up on Syrian television. He tells the Arab world about all the abuse the Muslims detainees suffered.

Of course, he admits in the interview that he never actually witnessed any of the abuse, but the terrorists told him about it.

James Yee is a disgraceful individual who should be rotting in Gitmo with all his terrorist buddies.

Following are excerpts from an interview with former Guantanamo army chaplain James Yee, which aired on Syrian TV on October 19, 2007.

Interviewer: How was religion being used against those prisoners [in Guantanamo Bay]?

Yee: Great question. One, we’ve all heard how the Koran has been desecrated down in Guantanamo and as Koran, the holy Koran – the words which Muslims all over the world consider the literal words of God – was being desecrated in Guantanamo in many different ways.

Interviewer: It was thrown into toilets and whatever, that’s what we read.

Yee: The initial report that was printed by Newsweek indicated that perhaps the Koran was thrown into a toilet by an interrogator. It was unfortunate, that Newsweek had to retract that story, but I talked firsthand with prisoners who were held in Camp X-Ray, which was the first prison camp of Guantanamo, very early on in 2002, and prisoners told me directly that the Korans that they had brought with them were tossed into buckets – buckets which were used as toilets in that makeshift camp. I myself…

Interviewer: So… Buckets basically of urine and feces, is that correct?

Yee: Right, right, exactly. This was before I got there and this was in Camp X-Ray, where, again, it was a quick makeshift prison, set up for the first prisoners who arrived there. When I got there, Camp Delta, which was a little more sturdy and each cell had its own toilet, was already built by the time I got to Guantanamo in late 2002. The Korans were thrown on the floor by guards when they conducted cell searches. It has been reported and I have learned now that interrogators also were throwing the Korans on the floor or stomping on it. This was happening when I was there, and this was an issue.

Interviewer: You actually saw this happening?

Yee: I didn’t see it because I wasn’t a part of the intelligence operation, but I was aware directly from the prisoners, when they came to me with the complaints and concerns. It became such an issue that prisoners carried out massive protests. Some of them even attempted suicide in response to how awful the Koran was being abused. So this is something that was occurring, was addressed officially…

Interviewer: And did it stop?

Yee: …by myself and many others down in Guantanamo. It did come to a stop at a certain point. And one of the reasons is when one of the prisoners attempted suicide, the intelligence officers got a little bit smart, because they realized at that point that if a prisoner ended up killing himself, then they could no longer interrogate that prisoner. So they said we don’t want prisoners killing themselves…

Interviewer: Because we can’t put them to use anymore.

Yee: Exactly, but it was them who were driving them towards these suicide attempts by desecrating the Koran.

[...]

Yee: I learned from the prisoners that female interrogators were a big part of the intelligence gathering operation, and I recall even the commander of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Major General Jeffery Miller, often saying in media interviews that female interrogators were very creative in their approach to gathering intelligence and conducting interrogations.

Interviewer: What did he mean by “creative?”

Yee: What was actually going on in these interrogation rooms with these female interrogators was that they were very ready to conduct their interrogation by stripping off their clothes, being nude in front of Muslim prisoners, thinking that Muslims who come from a conservative Muslim society might break or be shattered by this type of behavior. But they went farther than that, and they would inappropriately rub their bodies against these prisoners. It has even been reported, and suggested in FBI memos that have been subsequently released, that female interrogators even went so far as grabbing the genitals of Muslim male prisoners in the course of interrogating them. For me, as a Muslim, and for many of the other Muslim Americans who were down there, when we learned of this, we thought this was not only degrading towards the prisoner, we thought this was degrading towards…

Interviewer: The women themselves.

Yee: …The women themselves who are engaging in this type of behavior. But we can take that even a step further, and say this was degrading to all women. Because what was essentially happening, these women were presenting themselves as simply sex objects and this is not how we should view women in any society.

[...]

Yee: And in my view, it happened to me – all of this – because of three reasons: One reason is because I am a Muslim, and in this post 9/11 era, in the West, in America, we find this tremendous anti-Muslim hostility and Islamophobia, in which, all Muslims are see as potential terrorists. And I’m a Muslim, an American Muslim, and I believe that played a large role in why I was targeted. The second is because of my ethnicity – I’m a Chinese American. I learned that when I was…

Interviewer: So you are not blond and blue eyed and whatever.

Yee: Yes. I learned that when I was under investigation someone had said of me: “Who the hell does this Chinese Taliban think he is, telling us how to treat our prisoners?” So the fact that I was called a Chinese Taliban is an indication that my ethnicity also played a role. That third reason was because I was objecting to the cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of prisoners down in Guantanamo. I believe this threatened many of those who were engaged in that possibly unlawful conduct, and I believe people might have been afraid that I was going to go public, because I was someone who actually interviewed with the media on a weekly basis, as the Muslim chaplain down in Guantanamo.

-Chris Jones

Army Says New Recruits at Record Low

Chris Jones — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:59:54 +0000

The Army began its recruiting year Oct. 1 with fewer signed up for basic training than in any year since it became an all-volunteer service in 1973.

Gen. William S. Wallace, whose duties as commander of Army Training and Doctrine Command include management of recruiting, told reporters at the Pentagon that the historic dip will make it harder to achieve the full-year recruiting goal—after just barely reaching it in the year ended Sept. 30.

Achieving the Army’s recruiting goals is a challenge even in the best of times, but finding new recruits is more important than ever with the Army being so heavily deployed.

The Army has decided that it must grow its active-duty force by several thousand soldiers a year in order to relieve strain on war-weary troops.

With a mixture of financial and other incentives, Gen. Wallace feels confident that he will meet the recruiting goal of 80,000 troops.

The Army is currently offering an incentive they call the “Quick Ship Bonus.” This offers a new recruit an additional $20,000 bonus if he/she agrees to leave for basic training the same month as they sign-up.

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