Preposterous Assertion Of The Day
According to "Ray" in the comments thread of my post immediately below, David Hicks was not captured guarding a Taliban tank.
He was waiting for a cab.
Taxi users - think before you hail! BusHitlerCo wants you for GITMO!
He was waiting for a cab.
Taxi users - think before you hail! BusHitlerCo wants you for GITMO!
posted by James Waterton at 11:39 pm
4 Comments:
If you don't believe the cab story, have a look at the official allegations.
Hicks had sold his weapon and was in the process of leaving Afghanistan at about the time it was being overrun by the allies and the ruling government was falling.
Ray
Yeah, yeah.
He was also, only by chance, back in Afganistan because, so he and his Dad say, he had a total change of heart and was going to head straight home, but he had to run back to Afganistan first to pick up his passport and clothes.
Who the hell leaves their passport and clothing in Afganistan for gawd's sake?
The Hicks argument being, along the lines of: oh, oops, darn it, if only I hadn't left my passport and clothes in Afganistan, and if only I hadn't had to go back and get them, I wouldn't have been there, and would simply never have been arrested. So there! Merely in the wrong place, innocently retrieving his belongings from a popular tourist destination. Could have happened to any innocent person.
Caz said...
Yeah, yeah.
He was also, only by chance, back in Afganistan because, so he and his Dad say, he had a total change of heart and was going to head straight home, but he had to run back to Afganistan first to pick up his passport and clothes.
Who the hell leaves their passport and clothing in Afganistan for gawd's sake?
[Ray] Hicks had only travelled a few hours across the border to Pakistan from Kabul. People don't carry all their belongings everywhere they go when they are living in a boarding house.
[Caz] The Hicks argument being, along the lines of: oh, oops, darn it, if only I hadn't left my passport and clothes in Afganistan, and if only I hadn't had to go back and get them, I wouldn't have been there, and would simply never have been arrested. So there! Merely in the wrong place, innocently retrieving his belongings from a popular tourist destination. Could have happened to any innocent person.
[Ray] Hicks had planned to stay in Kabul for a while longer after his Pakistan visit across the border, but after Sept 11th he decided to return home after picking up his things but it became impossible after the border was closed after he crossed back into Afghanistan.
Westerners were being arrested, and he and others were kicked out of the boarding house in Kabul, so he stayed with the other trainees and followed [Taliban] orders.
None of that activity included any fighting - even when he went to "the front" after the fall of one of the Taliban government strongholds, Mazar-e-Sharif sometime near 9th Nov.
Ray
Ah, so, in a matter of hours, with no defining moments, other than being really excited about the beaut events of 9/11 (his documented reaction), he had a change of heart?
You KNOW that's not true. It was 9/11 that had him all gung-ho - or more gung-ho. It wasn't a trigger for him to come home. It was the impetus for him to become trigger happy, if only he'd had something to shoot.
It wasn't your normal response.
Show me anywhere - documented or witnessed - that Hicks was disturbed, rather than elated by, 9/11?
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