(blog.usnavyseals) A report on Fox News certainly caught our eye – and ire. Apparently, three Navy SEALs are set to face separate arraignments on December 7 for assault, all in connection with the successful completion of a mission to capture the perpetrator of one of the more heinous crimes in Iraq.
The Fox News article was not at all visibly opinionated about the news – but check out the difference. This man, Ahmed Hashim Abed, military code name “Objective Amber”, has been wanted for quite some time. His alleged crime is being the mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four security guards for Blackwater USA in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004.
The security guards were at that time transporting supplies for a catering company. They were ambushed, shot and had grenades thrown at them. And as if that was not enough, their bodies were burned and then dragged through the city. The bodies of two of them were hung on a bridge over the Euphrates, for all the world to see.
It is for this reason that Abed was being tracked down for quite a bit of time, touted as one of the “most wanted terrorists” in Iraq. He was finally captured by Navy SEALs, and instead of these SEALs receiving a ‘thank you’, they were slapped with assault charges instead.
(americanthinker) I don't quite know where to file this one. My "Idiotic Things Done by the UN" file is stuffed - couldn't fit anything more in there. Also, my "Reasons the UN Should Never, Ever, Be Taken Seriously" file is similarly bulging.
Just days after Iran abandoned a high-profile bid for a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council, it began a covert campaign to claim a seat on the Commission on the Status of Women, which is "dedicated exclusively to gender equality and advancement of women," according to its website.
Buried 2,000 words deep in a U.N. press release distributed Wednesday on the filling of "vacancies in subsidiary bodies," was the stark announcement: Iran, along with representatives from 10 other nations, was "elected by acclamation," meaning that no open vote was requested or required by any member states - including the United States.
The U.S. currently holds one of the 45 seats on the body, a position set to expire in 2012. The U.S. Mission to the U.N. did not return requests for comment on whether it actively opposed elevating Iran to the women's commission.
Iran's election comes just a week after one of its senior clerics declared that women who wear revealing clothing are to blame for earthquakes, a statement that created an international uproar - but little affected their bid to become an international arbiter of women's rights.
(americanthinker) I don't quite know where to file this one. My "Idiotic Things Done by the UN" file is stuffed - couldn't fit anything more in there. Also, my "Reasons the UN Should Never, Ever, Be Taken Seriously" file is similarly bulging.