On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:20:09 +0000,
[email protected] (fred) wrote:
| On Wednesday, in article
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[email protected] "Dave Fawthrop" wrote:
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| > On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:35:05 +0000,
[email protected] (fred) wrote:
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| >
| > | I see those kids the Americans were keeping in cages and chaining
| > | to the floor while they tortured them tuned out to be innocent.
| >
| > You really should keep up with the news and not repeat such blatant
| > falsehoods.
|
| I do keep up with the news. The news is that America is keeping
| innocent kids in cages and chaining them to the floor while torturing
| them.
This is totally untrue, They have now been returned home.
The boy did not mention chains, in the middle east you do not keep a guest
in chains. There is a classic translation problem here "guest" is a lot
stronger word than in English.
| Haven't you seen the headlines?
|
| > The Beeb found one of the children in Afghanistan after he was released.
| > He is now a teenager, very articulate, and clearly knew what was what. He
| > said that he had been treated "like a guest" and given schooling. In
| > Middle Eastern Countries it is tradition to treat *guests* very well and
| > provide them with the best you can. His father considered that because he
| > had been taught English and given education the whole episode had been a
| > Good Thing.
|
| That sounds a lot like a rapist saying he was justified in malesting
| a girl because she was ugly and would probably never have got laid if
| it wern't for him.
I was reporting what the boy/teenager, and his father said, not what the
Americans said. Please do not misrepresent my posts.
Dave F
