The BARBARIC US Troops in Afghanistan

Rihanna as the cover girl of Rolling Stone April issue. Benci la tgk dier permkan rambut dier. Rasa cm nk cukur je pala dier bg botak.

WARNING ! GAMBA2 DI BAWAH SGT NSFW. VIEWER DISCRETION IS TOTALLY ADVISED

So baru2 ni ak dload Rolling Stone magazine. Pas dh dload cm annoy lak tgk Rihanna as the cover girl. So ak browse la lagi pdf ni n skali terjumpa article kat page dlm RS magazine ni yg bertajuk 'THE KILL TEAM: How US soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses - and how the officers failed to stop them'. Pas dh browse ag ak sgt terkejut dgn gamba2 yg Rolling Stone released kat dlm magazine ni. Sgt mengerikan ! Sgt kejam sebahagian tentera US ni sebenarnya sehingga sggp membunuh suka suki je penduduk Afghanistan. Ak x baca full article dier ag but ap yg ak dpt summarisekan kat sni ader satu US division ni sgt addicted nk bunuh civilians n mereka akn duk lawan2 sape ag cool bunuh org. Besides dorg jadikan tabiat ni sbg satu sukan n masing2 akan proud klu sape yg dpt bunuh Afghans. So kat bawah2 ni ak ad buh gamba2 bukti kekejaman US troops ni which di mana sebelum ni Pentagon telah cuba untk censoredkan. Caption bg stiap gmba di bawah ak ambil from website Rolling Stone. Huhu.

The culprits ! DAMN YOU TO HELL !

On January 15th, 2010, U.S. soldiers in Bravo Company stationed near Kandahar executed an unarmed Afghan boy named Gul Mudin in the village of La Mohammad Kalay. Reports by soldiers at the scene indicate that Mudin was about 15 years old. According to sworn statements, two soldiers – Cpl. Jeremy Morlock and Pfc. Andrew Holmes – staged the killing to make it look like they had been under attack. Ordering the boy to stand still, they crouched behind a mud wall, tossed a grenade at him and opened fire from close range. This photograph shows Mudin’s body lying by the wall where he was killed.

Following the routine Army procedure required after every battlefield death, the soldiers cut off the dead boy’s clothes and stripped him naked to check for identifying tattoos. Here they are shown scanning his iris and fingerprints, using a portable biometric scanner.

In a break with protocol, the soldiers also took photographs of themselves celebrating their kill. In the photos, Morlock grins and gives a thumbs-up sign as he poses with Mudin’s body. Note that the boy’s right pinky finger appears to have been severed. Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs reportedly used a pair of razor-sharp medic’s shears to cut off the finger, which he presented to Holmes as a trophy for killing his first Afghan.

Holmes poses with Mudin’s body. According to a fellow soldier, Holmes took to carrying Mudin’s severed finger with him in a zip-lock bag. “He wanted to keep the finger forever and wanted to dry it out,” one of his friends would later report. “He was proud of his finger.”

Prior to the murder of Mudin, in November 2009, the soldiers of Bravo Company were dispatched to recover the body of an insurgent who was killed by rockets from a helicopter gunship. As they collected the remains, which appear to be those shown here, one took out a hunting knife and stabbed the corpse. Staff Sgt. Gibbs, who had recently joined the platoon as a squad leader, began playing with a pair of scissors near the dead man’s hands. “I wonder if these can cut off a finger?” Gibbs asked.

A pistol found at the scene of the helicopter strike. Gibbs routinely collected such weapons and planted them on the bodies of unarmed civilians they killed, in order to frame their victim as enemy combatants. The presence of a “drop weapon” virtually guaranteed that a shooting would be considered a legitimate kill.

Morlock posing with an Afghan child. The photos collected by soldiers included many shots of local children, often filed alongside images of bloody casualties. At one point, soldiers in 3rd Platoon talked about throwing candy out of a Stryker vehicle as they drove through a village and shooting the children who came running to pick up the sweets.

In the process of suppressing the photographs, the Army may also have been trying to keep secret evidence that the killings of civilians went beyond a few men in 3rd Platoon. In this image, the bodies of two Afghan men have been tied together, their hands bound, and placed alongside a road.

A sign – handwritten on cardboard fashioned from a discarded box of rations – hangs around the dead men’s necks. It reads: TALIBAN ARE DEAD. According to a source in Bravo Company, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the men were killed by soldiers from another platoon, which has not yet been implicated in the scandal. “Those were some innocent farmers that got killed,” the source says. “Their standard operating procedure after killing dudes was to drag them up to the side of the highway.”

The collection of photos includes several dozen images of unidentified casualties, including this one of a severed head. In many of the photos it is unclear whether the bodies are civilians or Taliban. It is possible that the unidentified deaths are unrelated to 3rd Platoon, and involved no illegal acts by U.S. soldiers. But taking such photos, let alone sharing them with others, is a clear violation of Army standards.

An unidentified image of severed legs passed around among the members of Bravo Company. Even if such unidentified bodies were enemy combatants rather than innocent civilians, their inclusion in the collection of photos bespeaks a shocking disregard for human life. “We were operating in such bad places and not being able to do anything about it,” Morlock tells Rolling Stone. “I guess that’s why we started taking things into our own hands.”

Source Rolling Stone

Sgt horror tgk gmba2 ni. Ya Allah betapa teruknya keadaan di Afghanistan. Ak doakan supaya the Afghans can somehow balas dendam to these BASTARDS or Allah turunkan bala secepat mungkin pada askar2 ni. Aku taktau lak ap nasib askar2 yg MANIAC ni pas dah kantoi. Nt klu ak dah baca ak update ap jadi kat dorg. Kpd Amad and Mirul, ak arap la korg tak jadi cmni klu korg kena serve jadi askar pengaman mana2 ke in da future. Of kos skang kiter bole ckp takkan sesekalinya kiter akan jadi cmni but in da future who knows? Tibe2 korg jadi gile ke patu trus nk bunuh je sesape sekeliling korg. Macam2 bole berlaku.

Moga2 kiter smua sentiasa dijauhi dgn sgala bala yg sebegini. Amin. Huhu

p/s: Examinations always suck ! 

p/ss: Rolling Stone ader cover gak pasal Femme Fatale album Britney baru. Hehe. Tekan gamba bawah klu nk baca r.

p/sss: Rolling Stone bukan sekadar majalah hiburan semata2.

p/ssss: Mirul sy mintak maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap k. Tak berniat pon nk wat bnda jahat kat ko. Chill k ! Hee

Disasters

Jadual exam ku yg macam gampang

Damn it's already 3.37 AM and I'm still awake. Nk tdo tapi mata tak ngantuk lak. Haish. Plan nk bgn awal sok paginya pasal nk g lengkapkan notes India cuz Kames ni dah start final exam history of India and Mughals ! Time dah nk final brla kelam kabut nk update notes. Act notes ni pon pinjam dr kawan ak n br nk fotostat. Byk gile kot kena hafal for sbjk ni. Awal2 sem ni ak bukan men excited nk laja sbjk ni pasal fascinated dgn Mughal punya history pas tgk Jodha Akbar wich Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai berlakon. Skali time n pas laja sbjk ni ak trus benci gile sbjk ni pasal byk gile kena ingt n lect ak plk mmg ajar duk tekan slide kat dpn je. Mmgla dier byk selitkan elemen2 klaka dier but aku stil tak dpt gak fokus dlm klas ni. Sem lps ak amik sbjk len dgn dier but ak stil leyh masuk dgn dier ag but dis sem mmg ak trus down n takle masuk lgsg. In fact ak makin blur dier ckp kat dpn pasal slang India dier. Makin wat ak tension pasal kna dgr btul2. Huhu

Papepon aku sgt riso dgn final exams sem ni. Aku rasa byk subjek ak akan kantoi. Ntah r sem ni ak rasa ak cm screwed up je. Dahla ak amik 21.5 credit hours = 7 sbjk so kesimpulannya bykla paper final ak kna amik n yg paling bestnya smua paper jarak dkt2 je. As for accounting, ak berdoa ak dpt C pon jadi or ckp2 lulus pasal sbjk nila plg ak benci n clueless gile sem ni. Nmpknya harapan nk kekalkan Dean List smpi grad mmg makin pudar. Act ak cm dah tak kesah dh dgn DL ni. In fact ak makin tak saba nk abes laja ader r. Dah bosan dh laja ni. Brla skang ak paham nape ramai org kat luar sana tak nk smbg laja. Takpon myb ak dah bosan dgn UIA. Hmm

Duet rakyat kat dlm Bank Islam tggl sket je. Plan nk keja time short sem ni. So far dilema nk keja kat area Kepong or KL. Klu keja kat Kepong gaji tak bape masyuk sgt but dapat cut cost minyak and makan but klu pilih KL vice versa. Tp ag teringin nk keja kat KL cuz nk tkr environment skit. Tgk r cmne nt.

Btw skang tgh addicted gak dgn Wuts App. Slalu chat dgn Amad, Mirul, Mash and Ein. Upa2nya ngumpat org n gossiping dlm menatang ni ag best. Haha. Dah addict dgn app ni rasa nk subscribe mobile tenet weekly. But rasa cm nk beli BB pon ader gak pasal ag murah mobile tenet dier klu pakai Maxis. Ok gak second phone BB. iPhone guna men game while BB for social networking. Hehe

p/s: Tetibe nk stop subscribe National Geographic and subscribe History Today. Cm lagi gempak je. Oh I really WANT THE BRITISH MUSEUM's ROSETTA STONE T-SHIRT ! 

Barula truly historian subscribe mag ni. Haha

Nk order online size M dah abes. Skang arapkan Safwa g tgk kat BM nt whether ader saiz ni tak kat dlm gift shop BM tu. Huhu

Kenapa Budak-budak Sekolah Tak Suka Sejarah Haa ?

Post ni diciplak drpd blog BFF aku Khairunnisa' Kamaruddzaman. Dier telah mengemukakan beberapa hujah nape kebanyakan students kat Malaysia ni tak suka subjek Sejarah time kat Sekolah Menengah dlu. Aku rasa sgt terpanggil utk post kat dlm blog ak pas dh mintak permission drpd dier. So sape2 yg sanggup baca post panjang2 n nk taw sgt nape korg eh silap ramai bdk (hehe. tak berniat nk kutuk pon) benci History kat sekola dlu silala baca post di bawah ni. Enjoy !

sebab semua orang pun puji Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa, nisa pun blog walking la sekejap kan..oh ye! masa mula-mula HMM keluar trailer die, nisa macam orang gila dah jerit "nak tengok!" excited sebab dia bkn macam PGL. excited sebab dia filem sejarah yang nampak hebat dari segi karetorgrafinya (tak tau betul ke tak eja ni.. hee). tapi tak tengok pun lagi. nak final ni banyak yang menuntut perhatian.

ok, bila baca satu blog ni in which dia cerita kelebihan & kekurangan HMM, tiba-tiba nisa dapat jawapan kenapa nisa TAK SUKA sejarah yang kita belajar dekat sekolah dulu walaupun sekarang ini degree nisa in History & Civilization! jawapan yang nisa cari dari tahun 2008 ke 2009 lagi tah. kenapa ramai orang tak suka sejarah. kenapa ramai orang mengantuk bila sebut sejarah. kenapa semua orang macam nak muntah sangat dengar perkataan sejarah tu.

jawapannya?

huh?

sebab sejarah masa dekat sekolah banyak sangat ajar pasal penjajah.! daripada mula diorang nak masuk negara kita sampai kesan-kesan penjajahan.

* Form 1: mula-mula ceritalah pasal sumber sejarah semua tu. paleolitik, mesolitik, neolitik..bla bla bla then masuk la Parameswara, kegemilangan Melaka semua. lepas tu adalah sentuh sikit pasal asal usul negeri-negeri dekat Tanah Melayu.

* ok, form 2 pulak, kalau tak silap nisa chapter 1 tu dah cerita dah macam mana Francis Light dapat Penang. lepas tu masuk la macam mana satu-satu negeri tu kena jajah termasuk la revolt by local leaders semua. then, masuk la sikit adat temenggung adat perpatih semua tu.. then, dah nak akhir-akhir tu ada la pasal buku-buku, majalah and paper masa zaman penjajah. macam al-manar, al-ikhwan, saudara semua tu. dan kaum tua kaum muda.

* Form 3: oh! time ni nisa benci gila baca buku teks kuning gambar hitam putih tu (as compared to buku form 1 & 2. masa ni memang pasal macam mana kita (eh? kita ke? tak. arwah atok nenek kita! ) struggle nak dapatkan kemerdekaan. apa itu jus soli, Malayan Union semua. tak baca pun! walaupun cikgu kata kena baca buku teks nak jawab PMR. hehe.. alhamdulillah dapat jugak A.

* bila naik form 4, baru macam world sikit. ada belajar pasal tamadun-tamadun awal. oh! saya memang suka dengan ancient civilization! sampai nak jadi archeologist! tapi tak dapat restu. so, simpan dalam-dalam je lah. then, belajar la pasal kegemilangan tamadun-tamadun Islam, Rom, Yunani semua. adalah cerita pasal Madinah sikit. tapi pelik, masa ni baru kita belajar teori-teori macam mana boleh wujud Melayu dekat Tanah Melayu ni. dah tingkatan 4 ok baru tau asal usul sendiri setelah diajar macam mana kita melawan musuh! macam mana ditunjukkan kelemahan senjata yang kita ada untuk melawan musuh baru diberitahu "kamu ini datangnya ada dari Semenanjung Arab, ada dari tanah besar China dan mungkin juga kamu dari India" ! dush!

* oh, lepas tu tingkatan 5? belajar balik Malayan Union, Suruhanjaya Cobbold, Jus Soli bla bla bla sampai nisa rasa nak muntah study sejarah masa nak SPM! serious ! tak tipu ! ingat sampai sekarang !

so? nampak tak kita tak didedahkan sangat dengan kehebatan bangsa kita. kita hanya didedahkan dengan kata-kata "bangsa kita hebat suatu ketika dahulu" asyik dok ulang kita hebat je. tapi bukti nya kurang. asyik dok cerita macam mana kita usaha menentang penjajah. tapi tak tekan kan sangat pun isi kandungan Sejarah Melayu, karya-karya hebat semua. kalau ada pun tu terlalu sedikit dan lagi parah bila letak dekat chapter belakang-belakang. selalunya bila dah belakang-belakang ni belajar pun express je sebab nak habiskan silibus. balik-balik kita belajar Melaka. padahal kita dah ada Langkasuka dulu dah masa tu. kita tak ditekankan sangat dengan siapa yang dikatakan Orang Laut tu. kita tak dikenalkan pun siapa pelayar kita yang hebat, macam mana sistem politik kita sebelum Islam datang. memang semua Hindu je ke? yang lain atheis ke? naturalist ke? adat resam yang popular masa tu macam mana? siapa tokoh pemikir masa tu? apa yang dia bawak? apa hebat sangat keris yang berlekok tu? (hebat ok! sebab keris lekok dari rantau Melayu ini berbeza; tengok je kita dah tau. tak caya pergi tengok dekat muzium). sistem ekonomi kita macam mana?

oh, nisa cakap buku zaman sekolah tau. bukan lepas sekolah yang kita boleh cari sendiri. lepas tu mula la "oh." "ha.." "ea.." "eiiyy" semua ada ! hehe. dan nisa tak kata nisa tak appreciate apa yang PM dan orang dulu-dulu dah buat untuk merdeka. dan nisa jugak tak bermaksud perkauman ke apa sebab semua yang ada dekat Tanah Melayu pun berusaha keluarkan penjajah ! Nisa tak maksud apa-apa! tak ok! tapi, cuba kita fikir balik kenapa mereka sanggup berkorban untuk bangsa dan tanah air ni? kenapa patriotik mereka sangat tinggi?

sebab mereka tahu sejarah. mereka tahu kita hebat. tapi generasi kita KURANG tahu kita pernah hebat. kita KURANG tahu asal usul kita. bahasa kita. tulisan jawi kita yang sangat hebat sampai perkataan English pun dijawikan! (walaupun masa buat course work translate from jawi to english ni nisa rasa headache semacam, tapi jauh dekat sudut hati bangga tu tetap ada.

kita diajar mencintai tanah air dengan membenci penjajah tetapi bukan dengan kekuatan dan kehebatan kita. yang kita ada! 5 tahun belajar sejarah, 3 tahun daripadanya lebih kepada sejarah Malaysia sebelum dan selepas kemerdekaan. masuk universiti? oh! benda tu lagi dok hadam ! dua course pulak tu ! nasib baik ada detail sikit. ada yang tak ditulis dalam buku teks diberitahu masa ni. to me, nak instill semangat suka kan sejarah negara sendiri kena belajar dulu kehebatan, kekuatan, kelemahan yang kita ada. then, bila kita dah tau benda ni, baru cerita pasal penjajah-penjajah ni. baru semua orang boleh fikir, kita kena jaga dan pelihara heritage yang kita ada supaya kita tak mudah diperkotak-kotakkan oleh mereka! kita kena betulkan kesilapan dahulu supaya tak lakukan benda yang sama hari ini.

hoho. nisa pun tak tau macam mana nisa boleh suka subjek ni masa sekolah walaupun macam boring dengan silibus yang ada. haha. pelik je. bila dah major in history, terus decide "ok, aku tak nak belajar sejarah Malaysia or south east Asia ke apa ni". nak fokus dekat West and Middle East. macam ada kick belajar pasal diorang ni. sebab diorang ni nampak hebat ! nampak gah ! culture, economic, politic semua.

sekarang dah ada jawapan bila orang tanya "kenapa awak tak suka sejarah Malaysia?"..hmm

sekarang kena cari sendiri 'asal usul diri sendiri'.

As for me, aku just nk cadangkan skit je a few suggestions cmne nk bg KBSM Sejarah kiter syok n menarik.

1. Wajibkan wat lawatan kat skola melawat tempat2 sejarah kat Malaysia ni. Cm kat Turki ni ha feymes landmark dier Blue Mosque ni. So klu kat Malaysia bwk r students tu g umah Mahathir ke, umah Merdeka ke takpon istana2 lama yg berlambak kat Semenanjung ni. Haa bwk g masjid Tengkera kat Melaka tu pon ok wut. At least dptla dorg tnm smgt sygkan bangunan2 sejarah ni ke. Takpon paling koman pon muzium yg ader kat stiap negeri kat Malaysia ni ha. Ni tidak bwk g muzium time tadika or sekola rendah. Manala bdk2 2 phm. Klu bdk2 remaja ni brla dorg paham ap yg ade kat muzium tuh.

2. Bykkan masuk info pasal kerabat diraja kat Malaysia ni kat dlm syllabus KBSM Sejarah kiter. Everyone loves monarchy kot wlupon mereka sentiasa 'disayangi' dan 'dijunjung' oleh rakyat. Smua org suka amik taw pasal lavish n complicated life dorg. Tgk cm kat England ni. Klu kiter laja sejarah dorg suku dr sejarah dorg tuh laja pasal monarchy dorg je. Best kot laja pasal raja2 ni.

3. Tolongla update syllabus KBSM ! Ni stakat laja smpi merdeka n early 70 and 80s cm2 je. Cuba kembangkan smpi waktu sekarang ke. Or masukkan sejarah smpi pemerintahan Tun Mahathir pon ok wut. Dan silala jgn bias sgt nk bg kerajaan je btol kat dlm buku tuh. Buhla flaws n mistakes yg govt wut dlm sejarah Malaysia ni brla org minat nk baca cm reformasi time Anwar kena pecat ke dan mcm2 lagi. Sejarah penuh dgn messy n dirty facts ok. Sejarah yg cmni la br dikatakan sejarah yg sebenar.

4. Cikgu2 Sejarah kat skola tu silala rajin2kan diri tempah Bilik Multimedia kat skola tuh n paksa bdk2 sekola menengah korg tgk pape citer yg historical related. Ak taw kat Malaysia ni tak byk sgt historical movies ni but dpt tnjk satu dua pon jadi la. At least bdk2 tuh dptla gmbaran ttg cmne keadaan sejarah time dlu2 kat Malaysia ni wlupon dlm bentuk filem. Ha takpon soh dorg tgk documentary. Patu cikgu2 rajen la wat hw skit n time movie or documentary ni bgla komentari sket. Brla bdk2 excited nk taw. Hehe saje je buh poster The Young Victoria pasal suka gile movie ni ! Hee

p/s: Stakat ni tu jela alasan yg aku bole pikir nk bg bdk2 sekolah menengah kiter minat sejarah. Ak ni tak pandai cm Khairunnisa soo takle r nk wat komentari pjg2 pasal bnda ni. Haha

p/ss: Saje je buh gmba yg bukan berkaitan dgn Sejarah Malaysia pasal sy mmg tak suka sejarah Malaysia. Soryla sy rasa cm dah terlambat utk sy nk minat sejarah negara sndri.

p/sss: Khairunnisa la satu2nya rakan ak yg aku leh borak pasal History smpi lebam ! Hee