http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1399990_1,00.html
Sunday Timesin artikkelissa kuvataan kuinka Blackwater USA kouluttaa viikon(!) tehokurssilla mm. merijalkaväen sotilaille sen, miten irakilainen vastarintataistelija ajattelee ja toimii. Sotilaat asettuvat irakilaisen rooliin, saavat englanniksi käännetyn Koraanin, syövät kuten arabit jne.
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"On the outskirts of Moyock, a roadside strip of a town in North Carolina, business is booming at the highly discreet, heavily guarded headquarters of Blackwater USA. The company supplied Paul Bremer, the former American envoy, with bodyguards in Iraq, and it was Blackwater former special forces employees who were hanged from a bridge in Falluja last spring, an incident that prompted an inconclusive American onslaught on the city’s insurgents.
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In a prefabricated classroom former marine Walter Purdy of the Terrorism Research Center welcomes two dozen marines, military interrogators and a smattering of homeland security operatives to his intensive week-long “mirror-image” jihadist training course.
For a touch of realism, newcomers are supplied with traditional Arab garments and ordered to take off their shoes indoors. “You need to think of yourselves as mujaheddin, holy warriors,” the group is told, “and you aspire to be a shahid, a martyr killed in battle.”
In Ali G accents, the trainees learn to call out Allahu Akbar (God is most great) and Alhamdu Lillah (praise be to God). They are given a Penguin Classics translation of the Koran and an Islamic prayer mat and are shown how to pray.
“One reason you are strong is that the infidels go to church only on Sunday, but you kneel and reflect your submission to God five times a day,” Purdy told them in character.
“We don’t have nuclear weapons, but we have you and you are more powerful than the weapons of the Jewish dogs and infidel crusaders.”
For supper they are given pitta bread, tahini and stuffed vine leaves, which they poke at mistrustfully with their fingers — there is no cutlery. In a room next door are peanuts, chocolate bars and crisps for those who cannot cope. “The guys are only used to hamburgers,” said Purdy.
Mornings are filled with lectures on the history of Arab terrorism, the planning that goes into each attack and the training techniques of Al-Qaeda and its allies, especially the Tawheed wal Jihad movement of Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, the Jordanian who is terrorising Iraq and beheading foreigners."
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Jotkut koulutettavista, jotka saavat arabityylisesti nimet esim. Abu Jeff, tempautuvat roolileikkiin tosissaan mukaan, epäillen heitä vakoiltavan.
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"One square-jawed crew-cut marine, Abu Larry, is so absorbed by the role play that he is convinced the group is being spied on: “Didn’t you notice the guy in the battered car over there watching us?”
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Yksi kouluttajista, Frank, selittää kuinka nuoret parikymppiset sotilaat eivät ymmärrä miksi irakilaiset taistelevat heitä, maailman ruokkijoita, vastaan eivätkä tiedä vihollisten kulttuurista mitään.
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“You’ve got 19 and 20- year-olds who don’t know anything about the culture of the enemy or how it fights,” he said. “All they know is, ‘Those sons of bitches. We feed the world. Why do they hate us?’ ”
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Mutta onneksi nuoret amerikkalaispojat oppivat kurssilla millaisia irakilaiset ovat.
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“We must put the infidel on his knees in a position of disgrace and slaughter him like an animal,” the insurgents are told. “We don’t slice our enemies quickly and cleanly, as the prophet Muhammad did after a battle. For the sake of theatre, we want the infidel to suffer like the common animals we butcher for meat.”
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Ja oppi totisesti menee perille! Blackwater tuntuu olevan varsin tehokas kouluttaja, ainakin eräs Irakissa jo 7 kk palvellut merijalkaväen sotilas on oppinut nyt viikossa irakilaisten ajattelu- sekä toimintatavan.
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"One marine had returned only six weeks ago from a seven-month posting in Iraq. He will be going back soon. “It’s what I do,” he said. Had the course taught him anything he had not learnt in the field? “It’s helped me to know how the enemy thinks and appreciate how sophisticated they are.”
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Kysyttäessä miten hän toimisi irakilaisten suhteen, jos johtaisi operaatiota:
"Tappaisin heidät kaikki. He eivät tiedä, mitä demokratia on."
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"If he were in charge, how would he deal with the Iraqis? “I’d kill them all,” he replied. “They don’t know what democracy is.”
(syvä hiljaisuus)
No, eipä se tuo jenkkisotilaan näkökulma koulutuksen jälkeen poikkea USA:n poliittisen ja sotilasjohdon kannasta...
Sunday Timesin artikkelissa kuvataan kuinka Blackwater USA kouluttaa viikon(!) tehokurssilla mm. merijalkaväen sotilaille sen, miten irakilainen vastarintataistelija ajattelee ja toimii. Sotilaat asettuvat irakilaisen rooliin, saavat englanniksi käännetyn Koraanin, syövät kuten arabit jne.
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"On the outskirts of Moyock, a roadside strip of a town in North Carolina, business is booming at the highly discreet, heavily guarded headquarters of Blackwater USA. The company supplied Paul Bremer, the former American envoy, with bodyguards in Iraq, and it was Blackwater former special forces employees who were hanged from a bridge in Falluja last spring, an incident that prompted an inconclusive American onslaught on the city’s insurgents.
...
In a prefabricated classroom former marine Walter Purdy of the Terrorism Research Center welcomes two dozen marines, military interrogators and a smattering of homeland security operatives to his intensive week-long “mirror-image” jihadist training course.
For a touch of realism, newcomers are supplied with traditional Arab garments and ordered to take off their shoes indoors. “You need to think of yourselves as mujaheddin, holy warriors,” the group is told, “and you aspire to be a shahid, a martyr killed in battle.”
In Ali G accents, the trainees learn to call out Allahu Akbar (God is most great) and Alhamdu Lillah (praise be to God). They are given a Penguin Classics translation of the Koran and an Islamic prayer mat and are shown how to pray.
“One reason you are strong is that the infidels go to church only on Sunday, but you kneel and reflect your submission to God five times a day,” Purdy told them in character.
“We don’t have nuclear weapons, but we have you and you are more powerful than the weapons of the Jewish dogs and infidel crusaders.”
For supper they are given pitta bread, tahini and stuffed vine leaves, which they poke at mistrustfully with their fingers — there is no cutlery. In a room next door are peanuts, chocolate bars and crisps for those who cannot cope. “The guys are only used to hamburgers,” said Purdy.
Mornings are filled with lectures on the history of Arab terrorism, the planning that goes into each attack and the training techniques of Al-Qaeda and its allies, especially the Tawheed wal Jihad movement of Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, the Jordanian who is terrorising Iraq and beheading foreigners."
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Jotkut koulutettavista, jotka saavat arabityylisesti nimet esim. Abu Jeff, tempautuvat roolileikkiin tosissaan mukaan, epäillen heitä vakoiltavan.
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"One square-jawed crew-cut marine, Abu Larry, is so absorbed by the role play that he is convinced the group is being spied on: “Didn’t you notice the guy in the battered car over there watching us?”
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Yksi kouluttajista, Frank, selittää kuinka nuoret parikymppiset sotilaat eivät ymmärrä miksi irakilaiset taistelevat heitä, maailman ruokkijoita, vastaan eivätkä tiedä vihollisten kulttuurista mitään.
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“You’ve got 19 and 20- year-olds who don’t know anything about the culture of the enemy or how it fights,” he said. “All they know is, ‘Those sons of bitches. We feed the world. Why do they hate us?’ ”
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Mutta onneksi nuoret amerikkalaispojat oppivat kurssilla millaisia irakilaiset ovat.
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“We must put the infidel on his knees in a position of disgrace and slaughter him like an animal,” the insurgents are told. “We don’t slice our enemies quickly and cleanly, as the prophet Muhammad did after a battle. For the sake of theatre, we want the infidel to suffer like the common animals we butcher for meat.”
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Ja oppi totisesti menee perille! Blackwater tuntuu olevan varsin tehokas kouluttaja, ainakin eräs Irakissa jo 7 kk palvellut merijalkaväen sotilas on oppinut nyt viikossa irakilaisten ajattelu- sekä toimintatavan.
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"One marine had returned only six weeks ago from a seven-month posting in Iraq. He will be going back soon. “It’s what I do,” he said. Had the course taught him anything he had not learnt in the field? “It’s helped me to know how the enemy thinks and appreciate how sophisticated they are.”
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Kysyttäessä miten hän toimisi irakilaisten suhteen, jos johtaisi operaatiota:
"Tappaisin heidät kaikki. He eivät tiedä, mitä demokratia on."
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"If he were in charge, how would he deal with the Iraqis? “I’d kill them all,” he replied. “They don’t know what democracy is.”
(syvä hiljaisuus)
No, eipä se tuo jenkkisotilaan näkökulma koulutuksen jälkeen poikkea USA:n poliittisen ja sotilasjohdon kannasta...
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Vanhimmat
Saa ne kuitenkin kurssilla hyvät sapuskat. Arabialaisen keittiön sotilasversio hakkaa länsiarmeijan laitoskeittiön milloin tahansa.
Sotilailta vain puuttuu vastarintataistelijoiden motiivi, eli sotilaiden perheet tapettaisiin ja kodit tuhottaisiin.
*motivaatio
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