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TweetAww poor Taliban jihadi killers were held in dog pens due to lack of resources and a proper jail. They should have just interrogated, shot and then buried them face down and covered them with pork products. But that is just my opinion.
THE Government and Opposition yesterday combined to defend the actions of special forces soldiers in Afghanistan after embarrassing admissions by the army that dog pens were used to hold Taliban detainees.
Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon said yesterday the Diggers were not to blame for the situation that has infuriated Australian Muslim groups, who regard it as an insult to their religion, which classifies dogs as dirty animals.
Speaking on ABC radio, Mr Fitzgibbon said the troops had no option but to use the dog pens before relocating their prisoners to the main base at Tarin Kowt.
He accepted that cultural sensitivities had been offended but there would be no apology.
“We are at war in Afghanistan with people who will employ any tactic, including the use of children as shields and as a means of propaganda, and it is a tough battle,” he said. “But we always endeavour to comply on all occasions with international law and I am confident that our people have done so.”
Mr Fitzgibbon was supported by Opposition defence spokesman Nick Minchin.
“It’s pretty outrageous for any Australian to complain about the behaviour of Australian troops in relation to these Taliban extremists who not only treat other troops but their own people with such degradation, cruelty and appalling procedures,” Senator Minchin said.
“In this case, I think Australians should give our troops a bit of slack.”
The row erupted after an operation on April 29 by Australian special forces close to where their colleague Lance Corporal Jason Marks had been fatally shot by Taliban insurgents two days earlier.
Four suspected Taliban were detained and brought to an unnamed Australian-built forward operating base where they were housed in individual pens formerly occupied by bomb squad dogs.
The Australian understands that the pens were open air and petitioned by wire and hessian cloth.
Defence declined a request by The Australian to provide details of the former dog pens despite anonymous telephone calls yesterday from Tarin Kowt-based Diggers that said numerous photographs had been taken of the rudimentary quarters for a separate Defence inquiry.
A 70-year-old detainee was later released but the others were brought to the main Dutch detention facility at the Tarin Kowt base.
Those Aussies! Gotta love em, they stand together on the important stuff. It’s funny, I bet my next paycheck that not one single muslim in Australia would have protested had the Taliban caught a soldier and skinned him alive, or decapitated him and put it on video. But dare to put a muslim terrorist in a dog cage, and they cry foul. You know what, that IS foul. No dog should ever have to share an accomodation with a Taliban jihadist piece of pig sh*t. It is almost as insulting as naming a Teddy Bear “muhammad”, poor bear.
Read the original story as it appeared in The Australian.
I wish OUR government would have told people to shut the hell up in a similar fashion, about Abu Ghraib. Awww poor terrorists were made to play naked twister, and photographed with a girl pointing at their lack of genitals and laughing. I guess it would have been better had the soldiers simply resorted to jihadi tactics and just sawed their heads, as they did to so many of us, contractors, reporters, and soldiers.
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