No photo – no problem: NATO to ban its Afghan forces from taking war-zone pics

May 27, 2012 12:46

NATO forces in southwestern Afghanistan will implement a total ban on soldiers’ taking personal photos during military operations. This comes in the wake of major scandals involving US servicemen being pictured with dead Taliban fighters.

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Kermit Frazier (unregistered) 29.05.2012 23:43

Oh, THAT's a big winner! Focus on taking photos of the INSIDE of Military Bases and putting those on FaceBook/etc. Nothing like a little inside info to help the Enemy's Infiltration Efforts that much easier.

Maybe they should just restrict all photos to sexting (etc) INSIDE the trailers they call barracks these days. That might even make the War Effort popular, again!

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harry (unregistered) 28.05.2012 02:56

Soldiers in the 1970s when I was serving were not allowed camera,flashlights,j ust combat kit.Only the corporal used a red lensed flashlight  for map reading.There are so many camera devises out there today that criminal acts will most likely be recorded .But  nothing is soldier proof,dumb things will be done by bored silly young men armed to the teeth.You must stop conflicts happening in the first instance .Police are peace keepers,they keep the peace ,soldiers are killers,they kill people that is their job,do not use soldiers to keep the peace.

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Lateran Thinking (unregistered) 27.05.2012 22:22

A.Smith (unregistered) wrote in #12

The stories of the deliberate slaughters of Afghanistan children and women will of course undoubtedly continue to come out but it's simply easier in the thinking of the Satanically evil Zionist corrupted US Pentagon's mind to quietly squash such stories and pay the surviving familys bags of free US Taxpayer dollars ----------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------S urely these idle Afghans could earn $79 dollars an hour selling windmills to Eskimos using wind up lap tops ...and save the planet .......while promoting much needed growth in the global economy?

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A.Smith (unregistered) 27.05.2012 21:35

With War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity being allegedly created and launched routinely across Afghanistan by USA and NATO troops, it is simply the Satanically evil Zionist corrupted US Pentagon's attempt to curtail photographic proof of those events taking place.

The stories of the deliberate slaughters of Afghanistan children and women will of course undoubtedly continue to come out but it's simply easier in the thinking of the Satanically evil Zionist corrupted US Pentagon's mind to quietly squash such stories and pay the surviving familys bags of free US Taxpayer dollars to hush them up rather than be exposed to the US Taxpayers just what precisely their enormous USA Defense funding is being used for and buying.

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ShadowGilgamesh 27.05.2012 19:50

This is stupid, soldiers are already not supposed to take pictures with dead bodies, why would expanding the rule solve people breaking it?

I feel like we have a room full of chimps making all the decisions.

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Cherimonie (unregistered) 27.05.2012 18:39

My husband was a penniless failed con man and Prime Minister ......until he joined Pope`s`R US and got the JP Morgan Midas Touch.

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kris (unregistered) 27.05.2012 17:49

What? They have lost the war? Censorship and propaganda? USA? Unbelievable:D

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JKVD 27.05.2012 16:51

good idea... but i have a better one.
GTFO of the Middle East

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American Indian (unregistered) 27.05.2012 16:10

Just imagine if every time a Clinton got up to ponderously pontificate about 9/11 and"defending the American people from terrorism"...and the wanton savagery of sending rockets into occupied Palestine...Red Indians and Palestinians could put up the unadorned truth about the fascist racist Zionist empire in unquestionably accurate photographic form? 
You are pirates liars thieves and mass murderers....and what is worse than that you don`t ever confront yourselves about it....while you mince about the global blood drenched moral high ground like naked stupid emperors with no clothes on......
......em perors who have a drone up their invisible sleeves.....or a Bliar or a torture chamber or a Merdock or an O`Barmy or a bent BBC programme ...... to throttle the truth....... and snuff out the lives...... and steal the land .......of anyone who stands in the way of your Frankenstein`s freedom and dictator`s democracy and the rule of YOUR law!

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PotFace 27.05.2012 14:34

I seriously doubt that each and every one of those service members are going to comply with this order.  This policy was always around.  The General is only reminding them of it.

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Kihnu (unregistered) 27.05.2012 14:07

Typical criminal mentality.  No evidence, no crime.

Perhap s the NATO troops will soon begin wearing "hoodies", then they can hide their faces from those they torment and murder.

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happysnaps (unregistered) 27.05.2012 14:05

Gen. GurgANUS called souvenir photographs of the barbarous acts .. urinating on deceased poor farmers as “happy snaps,” .. true story!

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NATO wants to hide its own war crimes (unregistered) 27.05.2012 13:33

Here we see NATO is not only morally bankrupted but its methods are becoming crude. In Syria today—we see NATO backs terrorists who are murdering women and children—these terrorists take photos and videos of their crimes and place them online—NATO wants these ‘evidence’ to justify war of regime change in Syria. But NATO does not want to know anybody in the world to know NATO’s own war crimes in places where NATO soldiers are killing women and children on daily basis. Any soldier with moral conscience must disobey this cynical order and collect evidence of NATO war crimes. NATO today brings only disgusting in my heart and soul.

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CON (unregistered) 27.05.2012 13:14

I think they call it evidence.

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