Thursday, November 26, 2009

Note to Taliban Info-Machine: Trevor Greene's NOT Dead!

Fact check alert for the English-language version of this steaming statement grunted out by the Taliban Info-machine today (English - official and Google translation - as well as Arabic versions available in PDF here at a non-terrorist web site) ....
A fourteen-year old boy, Qari Muhammad Zarif, killed an American soldier with a scythe on Nov. 24, hereabout Mumlah area of the Kugyano district. As a matter of fact, it is not the first time that a boy of this age has carried out such an act of bravery out of true Islamic feelings, nearly 4 years ago a boy of ten, Shaheed Abdul Karim, had killed a Canadian marine with an ax in Bakhto area of the Shawlikoot district in Nangrahar (sic.) Furthermore, last year, a boy of the same age, Abdullah, threw petrol at a U.S. marine who was burned to death.
1) Shawalikoot (or, as spelt elsewhere, Shah Wali Kot) is in KANDAHAR, not NANGARHAR.

2) It wasn't a Canadian "marine" who was hit with an axe in Kandahar in 2006 - last I heard, Canada doesn't have Marines.

3) Trevor Greene, the victim of the attack by the ten-year-old "shaheed" (martyr) is VERY MUCH alive, and doing astonishingly well thanks to the determination, grit and hard work of both him and his partner - unless the Globe & Mail's fact checkers dropped the ball here and here earlier this month.

Keep enjoying the lies - more bitchiness here.

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Blogger Unknown said...

Greetings from New Zealand, I came across one of your blog postings about a civilian with no military background being made a Hon. Lt Col.
That I find very surprising as I could not imagine our Infantry Regiment ever having a Colonel who had not served or who was not a member of the Royal family.
A reward for raising money , why is more money not put in by the government ?
I read about the so called patriot love dinner and to be blunt it turned my stomach.
People believing they are serving by buying a dinner ticket.
Tommy comes to mind.

4:53 p.m., November 26, 2009  

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