Army Apologizes For Soldier Using Quran For Target Practice - With Shootemup Video
I know, I know, target practice, not good. Doesn’t this soldier know any better?
You’re supposed to use that book for WIPING YOUR ASS!
I don’t care what anybody told you, but this shit should never be tolerated, I mean ISLAM. A little leaven leavens the whole lump, just look at Eurabia.
Fuck that. Get that shit from Hell outta my face, bitch.
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A soldier used the Quran — Islam’s holy book — for target practice, forcing the chief U.S. commander in Baghdad to issue a formal apology on Saturday.
Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, commander of U.S. forces in Baghdad, apologized to leaders in Radhwaniya, in the western outskirts of Baghdad, for the staff sergeant who was a sniper section leader assigned to the headquarters of the 64th Armored Regiment. He also read a letter of apology by the shooter.
It was the first time the incident — which tested the relationship between U.S.-backed Sunni militiamen and the military — was made public since it was discovered May 11.
“I come before you here seeking your forgiveness,” Hammond said to tribal leaders and others at the apology ceremony. “In the most humble manner I look in your eyes today and I say please forgive me and my soldiers.”
Another military official kissed a Quran and presented is as “a humble gift” to the tribal leaders.
The soldier, whose name was not released, shot at a Quran on May 9, villagers said. The Quran used in the incident was discovered two days later, according to the military.
Hammond also read from the shooter’s letter: “I sincerely hope that my actions have not diminished the partnership that our two nations have developed together. … My actions were shortsighted, very reckless and irresponsible, but in my heart [the actions] were not malicious.”
A tribal leader said “the criminal act by U.S. forces” took place at a shooting range at the Radhwaniya police station. After the shooters left, an Iraqi policeman found a target marked in the middle of the bullet-riddled Quran.
Copies of the pictures of the Quran obtained by CNN show multiple bullet holes and an expletive scrawled on one of its pages.
A military investigation found the shooter guilty and relieved him of duty; he will be redeployed to the United States for reassignment away from the 1st Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division, a U.S. official said.
“The actions of one soldier were nothing more than criminal behavior,” Hammond said. “I’ve come to this land to protect you, to support you — not to harm you — and the behavior of this soldier was nothing short of wrong and unacceptable.”
Officials said the soldier claimed he wasn’t aware the book was the Quran. U.S. officials rejected the claim.
Tribal leaders, dignitaries and local security officials attended the ceremony, while residents carried banners and chanted slogans, including “Yes, yes to the Quran” and “America out, out.”
Sheikh Hamadi al-Qirtani, in a speech on behalf of all tribal sheiks of Radhwaniya, called the incident “aggression against the entire Islamic world.”
The Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq also condemned the shooter’s actions and the U.S. military’s belated acknowledgment of the incident.
“As the Association of Muslim Scholars condemns this heinous crime against God’s holy book, the Constitution of this nation, a source of pride and dignity,” the groups statement said, “they condemned the silence by all those who are part of the occupation’s agenda and holds the occupation and the current government fully responsible for this violation and reminds everyone that God preserves his book and he [God] is a great avenger.”
(CNN)
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Yeah well fuck that…. there’s alot of things the muzzie pricks need to start apologizing for….
May 17th, 2008 at 7:31 pmAnother Jihad?! When will we learn that Islam is NOT peaceful. It wasn’t peaceful a thousand years ago, and why the hell should it be peaceful now, when they are still living the same lives as a thousand years ago?
May 17th, 2008 at 7:45 pmHey that video looks like one of my family’s summer parties. The kids just love to plink any piece of garbage they can get their hands on (the adults too, including the ladies).
May 17th, 2008 at 7:51 pmIslam sucks.
May 17th, 2008 at 8:33 pmMohammed was (and still is) a pedaphile.
The Quran, Koran, how ever it is that you want to spell the name of the evil, little, funny (as in weird), false-prayer book sucks.
Clear enough for you Akbar and Habib? Brothers blasphymie ya got it now?
DEATH TO ISLAM.
lol i love how Rammstein’s Feuer Frei! (Fire Freely) was in it. I wasn’t expecting that. But i find it laughable. I vote continue to shoot them up and throw them on te ground. Screw the Koran. You can do that to the bible and no one says anything. But do it to a Koran and we are horrible people.
May 17th, 2008 at 8:43 pmGood shootin. Looks like fun, I think I’ll do the same to the hadith, after I piss on it of course.
Fuck islam.
Fuck muslims.
Fuck muhammed.
And fuck the goat he rode in on.
May 17th, 2008 at 9:21 pm“reminds everyone that God preserves his book and he [God] is a great avenger”
a great avenger? I thought their god just fucked children.
May 17th, 2008 at 10:04 pmWow, after a day of solid
that was awesome. I can go to sleep happy now.
May 17th, 2008 at 11:50 pmThat video was done in arizona by a blogger called Archangel. Its a good vid. That soldier still screwed up, he should have set it on fire so it wouldn’t become an isssue.
May 18th, 2008 at 12:53 amFuck the Association of Muslim Scholars. I was near Fallujah, and one of my turret gunner got hit with a wire strung across the road. He wasn’t injured, and we dismounted and hit the house that the wire was set up at. The owner of the house was a high up member of the Association of Muslim Scholars, and he had a Cadillac in mint condition, a Sega Genesis in his house, and servants, while every other house in the neighborhood was flooded with shit-water and trash. He wasn’t too happy about our search of his house after the event. Fuck them.
May 18th, 2008 at 4:50 amKill ‘em all and let the creator sort ‘em out later.
May 18th, 2008 at 5:16 amLiberals would say, How do you win hearts and minds if a soldier does this?
I say there were no hearts and minds to begin with. So fuck it.
I severely want to buy that soldier a beer. He doesn’t need to apologize.
May 18th, 2008 at 5:18 amI’m with Bash. You aren’t suppose to shoot the Qu’ran, you wipe your ass with it. Damn, when are these soldiers going to learn?
May 18th, 2008 at 5:30 amyeah, you’re right Pete, he shoulda burned it afterwards or taken it back to his hootch. that’s where he screwed up.
to the soldier that did the shooting!
May 18th, 2008 at 10:55 amBash, you’re right, that’s all the cursed book is good for, wiping my ass or target practice!
at any rate
Does Borders carry that book? If so, I’m taking one to my range.
May 18th, 2008 at 4:53 pmeh, dont get one from borders, get one off ebay, used on amazon or a used bookstore. dont want to directly support those bastards. hell, go to a local mosque, tell they you’re interested in islam and if they’d give you one, that would be the best! hand it back to them afterwards, see the look on their face!
May 18th, 2008 at 6:04 pmThe only thing the Koran is good for is to be riddled with bullets since it was written by a false prophet. At least now THAT copy of the book is holey!
May 19th, 2008 at 1:19 am