Major 'guilty of faking battle'

[emad]

BBC News


An Indian army major has been found guilty of faking acts of gallantry by a military court.

Major Surinder Singh of the elite Gurkha regiment has been sentenced to three years rigorous imprisonment and dismissed from the army.

The court martial found him guilty of seven charges including faking two battles in 2003 on the Siachen glacier, the world's highest battlefield.

He had claimed that he blew up enemy bunkers and killed Pakistani soldiers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4114411.stm

[Earth_First]

1. Let's see, where have I seen dillusional commaders before...

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5. Boyin's come to mind and that General Colin Powell

In June of 2002, Jerry Boykin stepped to the pulpit at the First Baptist Church of Broken Arrow, Okla., and described a set of photographs he had taken of Mogadishu, Somalia, from an Army helicopter in 1993.

The photographs were taken shortly after the disastrous “Blackhawk Down” mission had resulted in the death of 18 Americans. When Boykin came home and had them developed, he said, he noticed a strange dark mark over the city. He had an imagery interpreter trained by the military look at the mark. “This is not a blemish on your photograph,” the interpreter told him, “This is real.”

“Ladies and gentleman, this is your enemy,” Boykin said to the congregation as he flashed his pictures on a screen. “It is the principalities of darkness... It is a demonic presence in that city that God revealed to me as the enemy.”

Boykin told an Oregon congregation. “He was appointed by God.”
Boykin has made public statements in which he seems to say that Muslims worship a false god—an “idol.”

In my wildest dreams I didn't ever expect this nitwit to get a free pass. I thought he'd be kicked out of the Army after he was exposed.

[bushisanidiot]

7. Holy Crap! That guy should NOT have access to a weapon

and needs some serious psychological counseling.

[Dhalgren]

2. Sounds "Falujah-esque" to me

[emad]

3. Maybe the guy trained at the Rumsfeld Finishing School....

[SariesNightly]

4. Same old

I'm no longer surprised by whatever these military idiots do anymore, this dog and pony show I see every damn day on CNN.

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8. Shut CNN down by not viewing!

[gratuitous]

6. Sounds like presidemential material to me!

India gets its own version of George W. Bush.