"We've got Aryan Nations graffitti in Baghdad. . . that's a problem," a Defense Department investigator is quoted as saying in a new report. Neo-Nazi groups have long sought to place members in the U.S. armed forces, as a way to train them on the use of weapons and explosives for the "race war" they believe is imminent. The Pentagon has had a ten-year declared "zero tolerance" policy towards such volunteers -- but the report, from the domestic terror-tracking Southern Policy Law Center, says pressure on recruiters as a result of the Iraq war has led to violent racists getting accepted -- and trained, and deployed.
The report quotes Scott Barfield, a Defense Department investigator, saying, "Recruiters are knowingly allowing neo-Nazis and white supremacists to join the armed forces, and commanders don't remove them from the military even after we positively identify them as extremists or gang members." (NY Times)
Friday, July 07, 2006
We got your terror right here
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Talk about the Iraq War recruiting terrorists. I wish I were a fundamentalist, because W really deserves being called an antichrist. The global war on terror looks every day more likely to deliver. How about those rambutans.
Yep, all signs seem to indicate that there's really quite the balance between defeating terrorists and creating new ones. But since we can hardly even define "terrorist" in the first place other than politically (see "freedom fighter"), it becdomes rather tricky figuring out what winning or losing the GWOT actually means. As usual, the administration operates on vague, ambiguous, and "misleading" premises.
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