Israelische Armee: Ende der umstrittenen "Hannibal-Direktive"

Israel's Military Chief Orders End to Secretive Hannibal Directive
It ensures the use of all force necessary to prevent the capture of an Israeli soldier.

Newsweek, June 28, 2016

 

http://europe.newsweek.com/israels-military-chief-orders-end-secretive-hannibal-directive-475328?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=yahoo_news&utm_campaign=rss&utm_content=/rss/yahoous/news&yptr=yahoo                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Militärisches Training

Militärisches Training soll auf den Kampf vorbereiten. Die Denkmuster und Reflexe, die dabei eingeübt werden, können sich auf eine ganze Gesellschaft auswirken.
Unter dem Vorwand, die Soldaten abhärten zu müssen, verlieren Instruktoren zuweilen jegliches Maß. In Elite-Einheiten gilt Brutalität oft als Qualitätsmerkmal. Derzeit wird in den Kalifornien der Tod eines Navy SEAL Trainees untersucht, der von seinem Trainer möglicherweise so lange unter Wasser gehalten wurde, bis er starb. Erst als Reporter nachfragten, wurde der Todesfall bekannt gegeben.



May 13 2016           
Sources Challenge Navy Version of SEAL Trainee Death

by Ken Dilanian and Mike Hixenbaugh                

This story was prepared in partnership with The Virginian-Pilot.
A week after a Navy SEAL trainee died following a swimming drill in California, accounts are emerging that challenge the Navy's narrative of what happened and paint a darker picture, alleging that the death may have been the result of an instructor going too far.
Seaman James Derek Lovelace, 21, died May 6 during what a Navy spokesman described as a swimming exercise in the first week of SEAL training. A safety observer noticed Lovelace "having a hard time," the spokesman said, and instructors guided him to the edge of the pool and tried to revive him. He never regained consciousness. ...

The Virginian-Pilot and NBC News first reported on the incident Tuesday, four days after Lovelace died in Coronado, Calif., during the first week of Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training, better known as BUD/S and considered among the world's most challenging military training regimens. The Navy announced the death only after officials were contacted Tuesday by reporters for NBC News and The Pilot. ...

In response to detailed questions for this story, Cmdr. Jason Salata, a Navy spokesman, said in a statement Friday that Naval Special Warfare Command is "fully cooperating" with the NCIS investigation and a separate Navy safety investigation into the training death.
"It would be premature to discuss any details until those investigations are complete," Salata wrote.                      

Unlike what was described by the Navy, the sources say the drill involved physical harassment of trainees by instructors in the water, intended to test their ability to stay afloat under stress. It wasn't a "drown proofing" drill, according to three of the sources, but rather a more intense exercise known as "combat tread." During "combat tread," according to former SEALs, students swim in camouflage uniforms while instructors grab at them in the water. ...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/sources-challenge-navy-account-seal-trainee-death-n573866?cid=par-sy-lenovo-gen4

Auf der Suche nach einem Bombenziel - Kette der Irrtümer bei dem Angriff auf ein Krankenhaus in Afghanistan

Pentagon Details Chain of Errors in Strike on Afghan Hospital

The New York Times    

By MATTHEW ROSENBERG

April 30, 2015

 

AC-130 gunship circled above the Afghan city, its crew struggling to figure out where exactly to direct the aircraft’s frightening array of weaponry. Missile fire had forced it off course, and now the gunship’s targeting systems were pointing it to an empty field, not an enemy base.

About 1,000 feet to the southwest, however, the crew spotted a collection of buildings that roughly matched the description of the Taliban compound provided by American and Afghan forces on the ground. Nine men could be spotted walking between the buildings.

The gunship’s navigator called an American Special Forces air controller on the ground seeking guidance. The response was immediate and unequivocal.

“Compound is currently under control of the TB, so those nine PAX are hostile,” the air controller said, using common military shorthand for “Taliban” and “people.”

The air controller was wrong. His mistake was one link in a chain of human errors and equipment and procedural failures that led to the devastating attack on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan last year that killed 42 people, the Defense Department said Friday, in its first extensive account of what happened in the city of Kunduz, early on the morning of Oct. 3. ..

 

The punishments for the attack will be “administrative actions” only, and none of those being disciplined will face criminal charges because the attack was determined to be unintentional, General Votel said, and neither the gunship crew members nor the Special Forces on the ground who were directing the strike “knew they were striking a medical facility.” The punishments include suspension, removal from command and letters of reprimand, which can seriously damage or end career.

But General Votel was clear on one point: The hospital was a protected facility that was at no time being used by active Taliban fighters, though some wounded insurgents had been treated there. His statement directly contradicted the claim by many senior Afghan officials that Taliban fighters were in the hospital and therefore a legitimate target.

Still, the release of the investigation’s findings and the announcement of the disciplinary measures were unlikely to satisfy Doctors Without Borders and other human rights groups, which on Friday reiterated their calls for an independent criminal investigation. Some also directly disputed General Votel’s declaration that the airstrike did not constitute a war crime because it was the unintentional result of mistakes and equipment failures, not a deliberate attack. ...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pentagon-details-chain-of-errors-in-strike-on-afghan-hospital/ar-BBsqDfD?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=LENDHP

SPIEGEL ONLINE29.04.2016

Das US-Militär stuft den Angriff auf ein Krankenhaus im nordafghanischen Kundus nicht als Kriegsverbrechen ein. Das ist das Ergebnis einer internen Untersuchung, die General Joseph Votel in Washington vorstellte. ...

   Bei der Bombardierung des Hospitals der Organisation Ärzte ohne Grenzen (MSF) waren am 3. Oktober vergangenen Jahres 42 Menschen getötet worden, 24 Patienten und 18 Mitarbeiter. Die Hilfsorganisation warf den USA wenig später vor, das Gebäude absichtlich bombardiert zu haben.
In einer ersten Reaktion zeigte sich MSF-Präsidentin Meinie Nicolai unzufrieden mit den Ergebnissen der Untersuchung. "Es ist unbegreiflich, warum der Angriff unter den von den USA beschriebenen Umständen nicht abgebrochen wurde", teilte sie mit. Die Organisation hatte wiederholt eine unabhängige Untersuchung gefordert.
Nach Angaben von Ärzte ohne Grenzen wurden allen Konfliktparteien die genauen Geodaten ihrer Einrichtungen vorsorglich mehrfach übermittelt, zuletzt am 29. September. Nach Beginn des nächtlichen Angriffs habe man zudem das amerikanische und afghanische Militär erneut kontaktiert; dennoch habe der Beschuss noch mehr als 30 Minuten angehalten.

US-Militär: Funksystem funktionierte nicht

General Votel sprach von technischen und menschlichen Fehlern. Die Ermittlungen hätten ergeben, dass das Krankenhaus auf einer Liste von Gebäuden stand, die nicht hätten angegriffen werden dürfen. Die Besatzung habe aber keinen Zugriff auf diese Liste gehabt, weil ihr Funksystem nicht funktioniert habe. Ihr Einsatz sei zudem sehr kurzfristig erfolgt.

Sie hätten das Krankenhaus deshalb für ein Gebäude gehalten, das von den Taliban kontrolliert werde, sagte Votel. "Sie hatten keine Ahnung, dass das, was sie angreifen, eine medizinische Einrichtung ist." Wer die Beteiligten sind, wollte der General nicht sagen. Er sagte lediglich, dass sich darunter auch ein höherer Offizier befinde. Manche von ihnen seien vom Dienst suspendiert worden, andere hätten eine schriftliche Verwarnung erhalten....

 

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/kundus-angriff-auf-klinik-war-laut-us-militaer-kein-kriegsverbrechen-a-1090144.html

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Ob Schüler von Oberstleutnant Dooley beteiligt waren?



TAZ, 11.05.2012 “Islamophobie im US-Militär - Mekka und Medina zerstören”
“US-Offiziere lernten in einem Ausbildungskurs, wie Krieg gegen den Islam geführt werden sollte – inklusive Atombombe. Erst jetzt meldete sich ein Teilnehmer mit Bedenken.
von Frauke Böger
Der Islam sei keine Religion sondern eine Ideologie, lernten US-Offiziere. 

BERLIN taz | Ein neuer Skandal um islamophobe Ausbildungsinhalte erschüttert die US-Armee. „Was also können wir tun?“, fragte ein Kurs für Offiziere des US-Militärs am Norfolk Virginia College. Die Antwort war „ein Modell für einen Gegendschihad“ von Oberstleutnant Matthew A. Dooley, dessen Unterrichtsmaterialien jetzt von der Onlineausgabe des US-amerikanischen Magazin Wired veröffentlicht wurden.
In fünf Phasen wird ein Krieg gegen den Islam geplant, wobei die erste Phase der „Abschreckung“ als gescheitert betrachtet und deswegen nicht weiter erläutert wird. Die verbleibenden vier Phasen gehen von einer UN-Resolution, die erklärt, was „der Islam wirklich ist“ bis zu einer militärischen Vernichtung des Islam als Weltreligion. Von der Auslöschung ganzer Städte ist die Rede, Angriffe auf die Zivilbevölkerung werden immer „wenn nötig“ erwogen. Als Beispiele dienen die Angriffe auf Hiroshima oder Dresden.

Feind der USA sei nicht nur al-Qaida, sondern die islamische Welt insgesamt. Und der Islam sei keine Religion, sondern eine Ideologie, heißt es in den Unterrichtsmaterialien. ...

http://augengeradeaus.net/2012/05/lehrmaterial-an-us-militarakademie-totaler-krieg-gegen-den-islam-modell-hiroshima/
zitiert auf
http://zettelmaus.blogspot.co.ke/2012/05/was-hat-mckiernan-wirklich-gesagt.html

 Der Islam-Nazi-Vergleich ist verbreitet; siehe auch auf diesem Blog
http://zettelmaus.blogspot.com/2016/04/der-islam-nazi-vergleich.html

Widerstand in Hitlers Wehrmacht: Unterminierte die Forderung nach bedingungsloser Kapitulation ihre Wirkungsmöglichkeiten?

Viele Amerikaner erfuhren erst durch den Film Valkyrie mit Tom Cruise, dass es überhaupt einen deutschen Widerstand gegen Hitler gegeben hatte.

Obwohl die Strategie der "bedingungslosen Kapitulation" und der damit verbundenen Flächenbombardierungen überwiegend als die einzig mögliche gesehen wurde und wird, gab und gibt es auch Stimmen, die dies hinterfragen. Dabei spielt besonders die Überlegung eine Rolle, dass ein wachsender Widerstand von innen heraus, dessen Spitze im Attentat vom 20. Juli 1944 sichtbar wurde, aufgrund der Forderung nach "bedingungsloser Kapitulation" und dem davon ausgelösten Gefühl der totalen Aussichtslosigkeit im Falle einer Niederlage keine breitere Unterstützung innerhalb der Wehrmacht und in der Bevölkerung finden konnte.

Von Interesse ist das Thema nicht nur aus historischer Sicht, sondern auch im Hinblick auf heutigen Entscheidungen, z.B. im Kampf gegen islamistische Terrorgruppen. Welche Auswirkungen haben Luftangriffe, die auch die Zivilbevölkerung treffen, auf die Loyalitäten der Bewohner einer Region; wie wird Widerstand in der Bevölkerung gestärkt oder geschwächt?

Quellen zu diesem Thema u.a.:

World War Two in Europe - Seite 1271

https://books.google.de/

David T. Zabecki - 1999

Unconditional surrender (q.v.) remains one of die war's more controversial policies. It was born of Roosevelt's concern that Stalin was losing confidence in the alliance in 1942. ... Therefore, he announced the doctrine of unconditional surrender at die Casablanca Conference, and Churchill reluctantly agreed.

Die Nationalbibliothek von Neuseeland hat eine Sammlung bemerkenswerter Titel zum Thema Anti-Nazi-Widerstand; darunter auch zu der Frage, welche Auswirkungen die Forderung nach bedingungsloser Kapitulation auf die Wirkungsmöglichkeiten des deutschen Widerstands hatte:

• Unconditional surrender; the impact of the Casablanca policy upon World War II
  Date: 1961 From: New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press [1961] By: Armstrong, Anne, 1924-
  http://natlib.govt.nz/items?i%5Bcategory%5D=Books&i%5Bsubject%5D=Anti-Nazi+movement&page=1

 

 

wird fortgesetzt

Die Bergdahl-Kontroverse

 

Bergdahl war nicht der einzige US Soldat in Afghanistan, der sich unautorisiert vom Camp entfernt hat. Manche gingen raus, um Drogen zu kaufen. Einer ging in ein Dorf und toetete 16 Bewohner.

Man weiss bisher nicht, was Bergdahl veranlasste, das Camp zu verlassen. Er wurde von Taliban aufgegriffen, fuenf Jahre lang gefangen gehalten und kuerzlich im Austausch gegen 5 beruechtigte Guantanamo-Insassen frei gelassen. Die Wellen der Kontroverse um diesen Austausch schlagen hoch.
 

Bergdahl Wasn't Only Soldier to 'Walk Off' Afghan Outposts
http://news.yahoo.com/bergdahl-wasnt-only-soldier-walk-off-afghan-outposts-161259328--abc-news-topstories.html

                    

By JAMES GORDON MEEK June 9, 2014 12:12 PM

WASHINGTON - Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl left his combat outpost in Afghanistan in 2009 and fell into enemy hands for five years, but the former Taliban prisoner wasn't the only trooper to sneak out of a U.S. base in recent years, military sources told ABC News on Sunday.

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• Hagel: Soldier's health required urgent action Associated Press
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• From prayers to fury: The journey of Bowe Bergdahl Associated Press

"At least a dozen guys just walked off their posts" in Afghanistan since 2009 for a variety of reasons, said an experienced soldier, one of four Afghan war veterans familiar with the incidents who spoke to ABC News. The other sources estimated the number could be more than a dozen.
The highly experienced combat veterans -- whose deployments cover the entire Afghan campaign -- said the significant incidents spanned a timeframe from when President Bush in late 2008 boosted conventional troop numbers in Afghanistan to well beyond President Obama's early 2010 surge that added 30,000 more troopers to the fight.

 

The soldiers discreetly slipped "outside the wire" to find drugs or were already intoxicated, left to "hang out" with local Afghan villagers or Afghan forces, or just simply snuck away without any idea where to go or what to do, the Army sources said.

"There was one kid who walked off his camp with an axe and some beef jerky with a plan to walk to Iran. The Afghan Local Police found him and brought him back," a second seasoned soldier with many deployments to Afghanistan confirmed.

              

The most infamous incident involved Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, a Stryker Brigade soldier who left a U.S. special operations camp in Kandahar province one night in March 2012 without authorization or apparently being noticed and entered a local village. Bales gunned down 16 Afghan civilians, half of whom were small children, and set their remains on fire. He was charged with murder by the Army, pleaded guilty and received a life prison term.

Military officials declined comment on Sunday. A spokesperson for the Office of Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel referred an ABC News reporter to NATO's International Security Assistance Force in Kabul, which in turn said U.S. Central Command was the proper authority to comment on the issue. A spokesman for that combatant command based in Tampa, however, said it was a matter that should be addressed by the U.S. Army since it involved soldiers leaving their posts. An Army spokesperson advised a reporter to contact ISAF and CENTCOM.
There is no evidence that any of the soldiers who walked off post were charged with any form of desertion or intended to join the enemy. All were disciplined in various ways, the military sources said.
"This happens in wartime," said Gary Solis, a retired Marine Corps prosecutor who has taught law at West Point and Georgetown University.
Bergdahl's intentions once he left Combat Outpost Mest in Paktika province remain murky to officials five years later, though Army leaders have said they will hold him accountable as part of his reintegration process should any misconduct be proven.

In 2010, a Green Beret staff sergeant at Forward Operating Base Salerno in Khost took one of his teammates and a low-level "Category One" Afghan interpreter on an unauthorized joyride outside the base which ended in a deadly shootout with Afghan National Security Forces at a checkpoint, the four soldiers told ABC News, including sources who knew the Special Forces operator and a senior officer who is familiar with details of the case.

"While off base, they were mistakenly engaged by Afghan forces," the senior officer said. "The interpreter died and the SF soldier was wounded... I believe the SF soldier was administratively separated from the Army as a result of this."

One soldier who knew the joyriding Special Forces soldiers said they were suspected of being high on hashish, a highly concentrated form of marijuana, which is a cash crop in Afghanistan. But blood test results were misplaced.
"They took his beret and gave him the boot," the soldier said.
The senior officer said the investigation did not turn up evidence of drug use, but acknowledged drugs and alcohol are often prevalent at many outposts, including Special Forces camps. Bales admitted to using steroids, which he claimed altered his mood.
"Pills are huge over there because they're so cheaply made in Pakistan," said the first soldier, whose background and knowledge was verified by other soldiers.
"It was certainly not unheard of in Vietnam," added Solis, a Vietnam veteran, referring to both substance abuse as well as troops walking off their combat bases. "In Afghanistan, there were so many outposts 'away from the flagpole' out in the countryside."
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Rich 38 minutes ago                    

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  We have an obligation to listen to Bergdahl's story. I served in Vietnam as an infantryman in '69-70 with the 25th. Soldiers left their bases frequently, especially if they were near villages. Deserter? This guy was in the boonies of Afghanistan. Who was he going to desert to? He was certainly AWOL, but probably half of all soldiers go AWOL at some time in their tour, I certainly did. AWOL can just mean you're not where you're supposed to be, common Article 15 offense, no big deal. He certainly made a stupid choice and I bet he was immediately sorry he made it.
  
  Question for Dialed In, Rung Sat was in IV Corps, The Hobos (I'm intimately familiar with them) was in III Corps, Parrots Beak (also familiar with it) was in Cambodia adjacent to III Corps, Laos was up in II and I Corps. What were you a traveling salesman?

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  I remember my 3 tours in vietnam and how tired and fed up with everything you got. The rain, mud, heat, humidity. mosquitoes, bugs of all kinds, snakes, spiders of all sizes, officers, mortar attacks, snipers, patrols into the rung sat special zone, which was mostly swamp, fear, loneliness for family and loved ones, ambushes where they hit and run, and my job which was explosive ordinance disposal, which also included many varieties of booby traps as I was udt/eod and little treks on the different tributaries of the Mekong Delta river. After a while you just become rather numb to the whole mess and the last thing you worried about was the UCMJ or such crappola. I would have liked to desert and spend all my time in saigon with booze and women as my only concern, but I didn't.

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    Same here my time in Nam was no picnic and then when you came home on leave you did not dare wear your uniform or use your military id for fear of being spit on or worse... This little puke had a choice to join the Army or not, no one made him... Too bad he was not accepted into the French Foreign Legion.... can you imagine what they would do to him?... I saw how they treated Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.....;-)

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  Another in a long line of MSM attempts to try and insulate Obama from the criticism he so richly deserve for this idiotic "Wag The Dog" prisoner swap. Other desertions or "walk aways" is irrelevant, they didn't involve prisoner swaps. Not to mention one of if not the primary reason he swapped such high level detainees is he actually is going to try and start negotiating with the Taliban and is dumb enough to think the swap will be viewed as a "Good Faith Gesture"

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  I served in Korea 52 to 53, during that conflict. The posts by service people who served in Nam, Afghanistan and stayed the course are to be commended. Korea was nowhere that bad. As I remember, I'm 80, the worst we had was the terrible, cold winters. I have discussed with members of my MCLD of the terrible conditions that existed in their conflicts (Nam, Afghanistan, Iraq) and, again, they are to be commended for doing the job even 2, 3, and 4 terms. SEMPER FI

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  a big THANK YOU to you dudes and dudettes who stayed the course and put yourself in harms way for my freedom. Seriously, I love you.
  i read a few posts from those who served in vietnam and korea on this board, and they detail what its like to be in "the trenches" and they stayed the course. they held out through all of the bad times. Again, thank you for your service.
  I know this post doesnt mean alot to you or anybody else, but there are people out there who appreciate what you do or have done.

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  It ridiculous how just about everyone acts these days when our fellow citizens are in harms way making difficult/life ending decisions on a daily basis. The fact that our gov is so screwed up, in house bickering, and just an overall abrasive country attitude, is embarrassing and we should be ashamed of ourselves. We are so much better than this. Watch lone survivor and then think about what choices they made without any hesitation but yet look at what happens here on a daily basis with the current administration/media/and just the overall "me first" attitude of our nation, you will have a different outlook and we can do better..A not big enough thank you goes out to all those who have or will serve, we love you and you have people that care. Our nations finest!!!!

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  We seem to have some confusion as to what constitutes AWOL and what constitutes Desertion. IF you are DUSTWUN, you are AWOL...which means no one knows where you are. This is given to someone who is missing for 1 - 30 days. AFTER 30 days, you designation is UPGRADED to Desertion.
  
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  I further haven't seen as yet any charges or real physical proof he is a traitor. THAT will have to be determine in a military court.
  
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  Why the hell are we even there? What the hell are we even trying to accomplish over there again? Bring 'em home, enough is enough. Our people keep dieing for what? To help people keep the peace? These are a people who will never know peace, yah know why? They don't want it and they never will want it! They fight for Allah and this is a god that does not want anything like peace! Allah want's you to pick up a gun and shoot someone or take a bomb and and blow some people up! Now does that sound like a God to you? Me nether! It sounds more like the devil to me! But to these people the word God is just another way of saying the devil ! I think the best way we could fight terrorism with these people is to send obama over there and then put a fence up around the country and don't let anyone out and that means obama too! If these people mean so much to obama then he can fight them! We have lost to many of our good people over there! If obama wants to waist his life that's ok with me! Or we can just drop a bomb on them and be done with them once and for all!

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  Every Veteran who served under life threatening circumstances has thought of going AWOL. I did. I gave 4 years to the Submarine Service during the Cold War. All east coast submarines were used for espionage against the Soviets. We were never told in advance where we were going. I recall reporting back after leave to the USS Blenny at Sub Base New London. As I walked down the pier there were base welders topside, welding our escape hatches shut. Meanwhile a huge food handling party were loading a truck full of stores through the crews mess hatch. I instantly knew we were going somewhere very dangerous. I had been on these missions before and if you get caught the Secretary of the Navy will disavow any knowledge of your whereabouts. Comforting huh? Just for a moment I thought of falling off the gangway and maybe breaking a leg so I would have to be left in port. I'm not defending Bergdahl but it is something every veteran has thought of.

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• New Poll:
  A solid majority of veterans surveyed in a new USA Today/Pew Research Center poll say President Barack Obama was "wrong" to trade Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five senior Taliban leaders. Overall, 68 percent of veterans condemn the trade while 16 percent said that it was the right decision. The research also showed that only 6 percent of veterans felt sympathy for Bergdahl, who has been accused by his own platoon of leaving his post before he was seized by the Taliban five years ago...

Hearing fails to calm anger over deal to free Bergdahl

• By David Alexander and Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A closed-door congressional hearing on the release of Bowe Bergdahl failed to calm Republican anger on Tuesday over the administration's secretive deal to trade five Taliban leaders held at Guantanamo for the U.S. prisoner of war. But…

  Reuters

   
• 5 US troops killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan
• KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Five American troops with a special operations unit were killed by a U.S. airstrike called in to help them after they were ambushed by the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, in one of the deadliest friendly fire incidents in nearly 14 years of war, officials said Tuesday.

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• 'The Daily Show' Explains Why Obama Got Fleeced on the Bowe Bergdahl Trade

  According to a new poll, a majority of Americans agree that President Obama pretty much botched the Bowe Bergdahl rescue. So to help him out, The Daily Show laid out the way Obama should have brought the POW home.  Most Americans believe Bergdahl did indeed deserve to be rescued – they just don't…

  The Atlantic Wire

  Bergdahl Wasn't Only Soldier to 'Walk Off' Afghan Outposts
• Vets Say Drugs, Alcohol and Joyrides Behind Absences, But G.I.s Weren't Deserters

  ABC News

• When Bush Paid Terrorists a Ransom

  Republicans are howling (with no proof) that Obama paid a ransom for Bowe Bergdahl’s freedom. Funny. They weren’t howling when Bush actually did it.

  The Daily Beast

   
• By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional committee voted on Tuesday to bar the use of federal funds to transfer detainees from the Guantanamo prison, as lawmakers fumed about the White House's failure to tell them in advance about the swap of Taliban prisoners from the base in…
 
• 'Friendly fire' kills five US soldiers in Afghanistan
• A NATO air strike in Afghanistan killed five US soldiers in an apparent "friendly fire" accident during clashes with insurgents, officials said Tuesday, as troops try to ensure security for the presidential election. Local police and the Afghan army said that the US troops, as well as one Afghan…

  AFP
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• U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Talk Bergdahl
• A military officer in Afghanistan reports on how troops there have reacted to the news of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s release.

  The Daily Beast

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Gefangene auf Guantanamo
Bild:
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USAA - Wir wissen was es heisst zu dienen

USAA - We know what it means to serve.

Der Werbespot laeuft taeglich mehrmals in US Fernsehsendern.
Er endet damit, dass ein ca. vierjaehriger Junge begeistert ein Spiel-Kampfflugzeug hoch haelt.

Ich musste erst im Internet nachsehen, um zu verstehen, was USAA ueberhaupt ist und anbietet.
USAA steht fuer "United Services Automobile Association". Es geht um Autoversicherung und andere Finanzdienstleistungen, wobei Soldaten und Veteranen einen Rabatt bekommen.                                            

USAA began in 1922, when 25 Army officers agreed to insure each other's vehicles when no one else would. Today we follow the same military values our founders prized: service, loyalty, honesty and integrity.

https://www.usaa.com/inet/pages/why_choose_usaa_main?wa_ref=pub_global_usaaandu

Interessant: Die Verbindungen zwischen Automobilverbaenden und Militaer. Diese gab es ja auch in Deutschland; Beipiel Geschichte des ADAC.


The organization was originally called the United States Army Automobile Association. In 1924, the name was changed to United Services Automobile Association, when members of other military services became eligible for membership. The company opened offices in Frankfurt, Germany, and London, England early in its history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAA


(Ergaenzungen folgen)

Wenn Kriegsheimkehrer durchknallen

Sueddeutsche Zeitung   4. April 2014


Bluttat in Fort Hood "Er schien glücklich zu sein"

Hatte er Streit mit seinen Kameraden? Spielten psychische Probleme eine Rolle? Die Ermittler sind auf der Suche nach dem Motiv des Schützen von Fort Hood. Und dürften dabei vor allem Positives über ihn hören.                

Erneut hat ein Soldat auf der größten amerikanischen Militärbasis um sich geschossen. Erneut rätseln die Menschen in den USA, was zu der Gewalttat geführt haben könnte.
Äußerungen von Seiten der Ermittler und des Militärs, von Familienangehörigen und Wegbegleitern, lassen zwei Tage nach der Tat zumindest erahnen, wer der Mann war, der im texanischen Fort Hood drei Menschen erschossen, 16 weitere verletzt und anschließend sich selbst getötet

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/bluttat-in-fort-hood-er-schien-gluecklich-zu-sein-1.1929470


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Meldung vom 3. April 2014

 

Gunman kills 3, wounds 16 at Fort Hood Army base                  

By WILL WEISSERT and PAUL J. WEBER   

Deadly Shooting at Fort Hood Military Base

 

FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — An Iraq War veteran being treated for mental illness opened fire Wednesday on fellow service members at the Fort Hood military base, killing three people and wounding 16 before committing suicide at the same post where more than a dozen people were slain in a 2009 attack, authorities said.

The shooter apparently walked into a building and began firing a .45-caliber semi-automatic pistol. He then got into a vehicle and continued firing before entering another building.

He was eventually confronted by military police in a parking lot. As he came within 20 feet of an officer, the gunman put his hands up but then reached under his jacket and pulled out his gun. The officer drew her own weapon, and the suspect put his gun to his head and pulled the trigger a final time, according to Lt. Gen. Mark A. Milley, senior officer on the base.

The gunman, who served in Iraq for four months in 2011, had sought help for depression, anxiety and other problems. Before the attack, he had been undergoing an assessment to determine whether he had post-traumatic stress disorder, Milley said.

http://news.yahoo.com/gunman-kills-3-wounds-16-fort-hood-army-030737677.html

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Lieber eine Datenbasis der "aktiv psychisch Kranken"
als Waffenzugang fuer alle einschraenken


Meldung vom 4. April 2014

Reacting to the shooting at Fort Hood on Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner reiterated a popular NRA talking point: "There’s no question that those with mental health issues should be prevented from owning weapons or being able to purchase weapons." Those suffering the same diagnosed illnesses as the shooter — depression and anxiety — might be surprised by Boehner's willingness to take away their Second Amendment rights.
Ivan Lopez, the alleged shooter, was being evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder at the base, where he was stationed and lived with his wife. According to CNN, Lopez "was undergoing a variety of treatments for conditions including depression, anxiety and sleep disturbances," according to Army Secretary John McHugh. Lopez "was prescribed drugs that included Ambien" and "was fully examined last month by a psychiatrist."
An estimated one-in-10 Americans suffers from depression, according to the Centers for Disease Control. That's about 31 million people, skewed told older people and women. The National Institutes of Health puts those suffering from "major depressive disorder" at the lower figure of 14.8 million. As for anxiety? The NIH says that 40 million Americans suffer from that.
Even if Lopez had been diagnosed with PTSD, that's still sweeping up 7.7 million Americans — 2.5 percent of the country. Who John Boehner, it seems, doesn't think should be allowed to have a gun.
That's almost certainly not actually what he believes. His comments, as The Hill's Russell Berman reports, came in the middle of an event at the Capitol. After saying there was "no question" that people with mental illness shouldn't be allowed to buy or own guns, he went on: "we need to continue to look at to find a way to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them."
In the wake of the Newtown massacre, the NRA reiterated its call for one of the few gun control measures it supports: a database of the "actively" mentally ill, which gun sellers could use to screen buyers. Such databases exist, but usually with standards that are far, far more rigorous than anything Lopez was close to manifesting. Current federal law prohibits those who've been committed to an institution or officially determined to be "mentally defective" from buying a gun.
That wasn't Lopez. This is the problem with using mental health as the screen for gun ownership: for many of those who commit acts of random violence, those acts are the first manifestations of more serious mental health issues. And, furthermore, as the millions of depressed and anxious Americans can attest, only a tiny, tiny percentage of those with mental illness — mild or strong — would ever commit such acts.

http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/04/why-does-john-boehner-want-to-keep-40-million-americans-from-buying-guns/360131/

CrID: 40892538565

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Ergaenzung 10.4.2014
Nachdem sein Urlaubsantrag abgelehnt wurde, ballerte er um sich ...                                 

Fort Hood shooter snapped over denial of request for leave, Army ...

www.foxnews.com/.../fort-hood-shooter-snapped-ove...
2 days ago - Fort Hood shooter Ivan Lopez snapped after his request for leave
was denied and not because of some ongoing mental problem, an Army ...

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Vor der Hinrichtung noch ein Orden
Bestattung mit militärischen Ehren
Der Fall Manuel ("Manny") Babbitt

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Die verratenen Brüder
Von Andrea Böhm

(Der Vietnam-Veteran Manny Babbitt erhielt noch einen Orden, das
Verwundeten-Abzeichen "Purple Heart"; wenige Monate bevor er
wegen des von ihm verursachten Herztods einer 78-jaehrigen, auf
die er besinnungslos eingeschlagen hatte, hingerichtet wurde.

Sein Bruder Bill hatte ihn der Polizei uebergeben. Manny Babbitt
litt an deutlichen Symptomen des Posttraumatischen Belastungs-
syndroms.

http://www.bdzv.de/preistraeger-preisverleihung/
preisverleihung-2004/andrea-boehm/

Textauszuege siehe unten in der Kommentarfunktion 
 

LCpl. Manny Babbitt,
Marines, 3rd Division,
26th Regiment, 18 years old.
http://www.qofj.com/Bill.htm

... ueber schlampige Ermittlungen und nachlaessige Pflichtverteidigung
in Todesstrafen-Verfahren siehe auch"Suedstaaten-Blues";
Kommentar "Ein bombensicheres Urteil"

http://guttmensch.blogspot.com/2013/05/sudstaaten-blues.html


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Wehrdienstbeschädigung PTBS (Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung)

Bundeswehr: Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung bei Soldaten
SPIEGEL online 07.10.2013  
Markus Huth

[…] Das Kosovo und Somalia waren für die Bundeswehr die ersten Kampfeinsätze,
mit ihnen kam eine Welle von PTBS-Fällen. "Wir dachten damals nicht, dass wir
kämpfen müssen", sagt Maik. "Alles deutete auf einen Hilfseinsatz."
Die Bundeswehr zählte 1143 PTBS-Erkrankte im vergangenen Jahr, wie im Vorjahr
offiziell 194 Neuerkrankungen.
Mit Afghanistan schnellten die Zahlen in die Höhe. Im vergangenen Jahr ging dann
ein Soldat medienwirksam an die Öffentlichkeit: "Soldatenglück: Mein Leben nach
dem Überleben", heißt das Buch von Robert Sedlatzek-Müller. Der Diensthundeführer
und Fallschirmjäger hatte im März 2002 in Afghanistan eine Sprengstoffexplosion
überlebt, kam inmitten der Körperteile seiner Kameraden wieder zu sich. Fünf ISAF-
Soldaten starben.
Sedlatzek-Müller setzte sich über viele Jahre gemeinsam mit der Selbsthilfeorganisation
"Bund Deutscher Veteranen" dafür ein, dass der Bundestag das "Einsatz-Weiterverwen-
dungsgesetz" reformiert - mit Erfolg. Seit Ende 2011 haben alle ab 1992 körperlich und
seelisch verwundeten Soldaten Anspruch auf eine Weiterbeschäftigung bei der Bundes-
wehr, wenn ihnen der Truppenarzt eine sogenannte Wehrdienstbeschädigung attestiert. […]
Dass der PTBS-Beauftragte der Bundeswehr ein Brigadegeneral ist, macht es vielen
Betroffenen schwer, über ihre Krankheit zu reden.
Die Situation ist vertrackt: Berufssoldaten können bei der Bundeswehr eigentlich nur die
besten werden. Im Falle von PTBS-Patienten ist es genau umgekehrt: Die Armee muss die
schwersten Versorgungsfälle bis zum Ende ihres Berufslebens übernehmen. Das sorgt für
Spannungen. Viele Kameraden finden es unfair, dass jemand wie Maik Berufssoldat warden
darf, während es für Gesunde nicht ausreichend Stellen gibt, sagt ein Kompanie-Chef hinter
vorgehaltener Hand. […]
Maiks Chef hat von der Kommandantur nur ein vages Schreiben über den Neuen erhalten,
er will den ehemaligen Infanteristen zunächst in einer Ausbildungskompanie einsetzen.
"Ich musste ihm erst erklären, dass Schießen und Gefechtssituationen für mich keine gute
Idee sind." Als er endlich eine Bürostelle bekommt, hat er lange keinen Computer. Warum,
weiß er nicht. Aber ohne Computer ist ein Verwaltungsjob sinnlos.
Maik ist nun ein Krieger, der den Dienst an der Waffe verweigert. Es wäre dasselbe Sturm-
gewehr G36, mit dem er vor 14 Jahren bei Prizren ein Auto durchlöcherte. Es waren die
ersten tödlichen Schüsse eines deutschen Soldaten im Kampfeinsatz nach dem Zweiten
Weltkrieg. Zwei mit Kalaschnikows bewaffnete Serben starben. […]
Laut Bundeswehr beträgt die Erfolgsquote der Behandlung von PTBS-Symptomen 80
Prozent, aber: "seelische Narben können zurückbleiben." Auch nach 14 Jahren und
unzähligen Therapiestunden spürt Maik die Symptome. Ein Geräusch, ein Geruch oder ein
Bild genügt. Dann bekommt er Todesangst, Atemnot und Schweißausbrüche. […]
"Die Betroffenen versuchen das Trauma zu verdrängen. Ohne Therapie besteht die Gefahr,
dass sie in ständiger Bedrohung leben", sagt Oberstarzt Helge Höllmer. Er leitet die Abteilung
für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie am Bundeswehrkrankenhaus in Hamburg. Das könne bis
zur Suizidgefahr gehen. Ob jener Soldat, der sich Anfang Juni im Feldlager von Masar-i-Scharif
in Afghanistan das Leben nahm, an PTBS litt, ist noch ungeklärt. […]
Weichei, Simulant, Verpisser sind die Stigmata, die traumatisierte Soldaten fürchten, sagt
Höllmer. PTBS-Kranke hätten Hemmungen sich jemandem anzuvertrauen. Eine psychische
Krankheit in der Personalakte kann eine Soldaten-Laufbahn ruinieren. Deswegen gehen
Mediziner davon aus, dass die Fallzahl tatsächlich höher liegt. Tausende Soldaten werden
nicht gezählt, die aus dem Dienst ausgeschieden sind.
Der Umgang mit Kameraden mit der "unsichtbaren Verwundung", wie es auf einer Bundes-
wehr-Webseite heißt, ist schwierig. Ein "Psychosoziales Netzwerk" aus Ärzten, Truppen-
psychologen, Sozialarbeitern und Militärseelsorgern helfe schnell und anonym.
Die Ärzte sollen aber auch dem Arbeitgeber Bundeswehr helfen. Manchmal hätten sie ver-
sucht, das Trauma auf die Kindheit statt auf Kriegserlebnisse zurückzuführen, sagt Andreas
Timmermann-Levanas von der Deutschen Kriegsopferfürsorge. "So ist die Bundeswehr fein
raus." Es folgte ein jahrelanger, zermürbender Kampf zwischen Soldat und Dienstherr.
Zumindest das soll sich nun ändern. Weil immer mehr Soldaten mit Traumata aus Auslands-
einsätzen zurückkehren, will die Bundeswehr nun vor deren Entsendung spezielle Tests
durchführen, um psychologische Vorerkrankungen auszuschließen. […]

http://www.spiegel.de/karriere/berufsleben/bundeswehr-
posttraumatische-belastungsstoerung-bei-soldaten-a-925015.html



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Ausbildungsmethoden zum Abbau der Toetungshemmung

(Dieser Abschnitt wurde aus dem Blog-Post
"McKiernan und andere SS-Fans in den USA"
http://zettelmaus.blogspot.com/2012/05/
was-hat-mckiernan-wirklich-gesagt.html
hier einkopiert)

Die "Paladingruppe" wurde 1970 von dem ehemaligen SS-Offizier
Otto Skorzeny und dem ehemaligen Offizier der US Army James
Sanders gegruendet.

"The Paladin Group was created in 1970 in Albufera, near Alicante,
in the South of Spain by former SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny and
former US Colonel James Sanders"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paladin_Group


Aus dem Gedächtnis (Quellen heraussuchen - die Verbindung wurde
in bisher gefundenen Quellen nicht hergestellt, aber die Trainings-
methode wurde unabhängig von einander für die Ausbildung der SS und für
die Ausbildung, die Mc Veigh durchlaufen hatte, beschrieben):

Der zügig verurteilte und hingerichtete Terrorist von Oklahoma,
US Army Veteran Timothy Mc Veigh, war mit z.T. gleichen Methoden
ausgebildet worden wie Angehörige der SS: Abtrainieren der
Tötungshemmung durch Anweisung zum Töten eines Kaninchens,
das zuvor von dem Betreffenden aufgezogen und am Körper gewärmt
und herumgetragen worden war.


Der Militärpsychologe David Grossmann hat die Risiken des
Abtrainierens der Toetungshemmung bei Rückkehr ehemaliger
Soldaten in das Zivilleben thematisiert. 

On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
is a book by Lt.Col. Dave Grossman exploring the psychology of the act of killing
and the military and law enforcement establishments' attempt to understand and
deal with the consequences of killing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Killing


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Vollgestopft mit Medikamenten an die Front
und wieder nach Hause – nicht nur Einzelfälle
US-Soldaten und Veteranen erhalten massenweise
Medikamente, die das Verhalten beeinflussen können

“Medicating Our Troops Into Oblivion”:
Prescription Drugs Said To Be Endangering U.S. Soldiers
By Jamie Reno
International Business Times   April 19 2014

http://www.ibtimes.com/medicating-our-troops-oblivion-
prescription-drugs-said-be-endangering-us-soldiers-1572217



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Arthur John Shawcross [...1945-2008] war ein US-amerikanischer Serienmörder,
der zwischen 1972 und 1990 mindestens 13 Menschen ermordete. [...]
Eigenen Aussagen nach war Shawcross angeblich während der Morde ein anderer
Mensch. [...]
Zudem gab er an, aus seinen Erfahrungen im Vietnamkrieg resultiere eine
posttraumatische Belastungsstörung.
Shawcross Strategie konnte von der Staatsanwaltschaft als Lüge demaskiert
werden, so dass seine Verteidigung diese nicht weiter verfolgen konnte. Er wurde
im November 1990 aller zehn Morde von Monroe County für schuldig befunden
und zu 250 Jahren Haft verurteilt.
Wenige Monate später wurde er für den elften Mord im Wayne County zusätzlich
zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt. Während seiner Haft gestand er außerdem, als
Soldat im Vietnamkrieg zwei junge Vietnamesinnen ermordet und teilweise verzehrt
zu haben, was ihm jedoch nicht mehr nachzuweisen war.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_John_Shawcross

Ein spanisch-sprachiger Artikel befasst sich mit dem Fall Shawcross, ohne die
Prämisse, die Kriegserfahrung habe keine Rolle gespielt, anzunehmen.
In diesem Artikel (s. Abschnitt unten) werden zwei weitere Namen genannt:
Howard Unruh, Veteran des 2. Weltkriegs, der in New Jersey dreizehn Menschen
tötete, weil er glaubte, seine Nachbarn lachten ihn aus, und Michael Ryan, ein
27-jähriger „Rambo“-Bewunderer, der 1987 auf in militärischen Stil gekleidet
auf die Straße ging und dreizehn Menschen erschoss. (Dies entspricht aber
eher dem Muster „Amokläufe“; siehe dazu auch Thema „Übermensch-Fantasien“
auf http://guttmensch.blogspot.com/2011/12/entscheiden-wer-leben-darf-und-wer.html)

Uno de los primeros casos de los que se tiene noticia de los afectados de este
"síndrome" es anterior a la guerra de Vietnam. Se trata de Howard Unruth, v
eterano de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, asesinó a trece personas en Nueva Jersey,
porque creía que "sus vecinos se reían de él".
Aunque la paranoia suele ser el factor desencadenante de estos crímenes, en
algunos casos los medios de comunicación o la influencia de algunas personas
pueden llevar a cometer actos criminales. Es lo que se conoce en criminología
como "aprendizaje social", un proceso de observación e imitación. Este es el
caso de Michael Ryan, un joven de 27 años profundo admirador de Rambo, que
en 1987 salió a la calle ataviado al estilo militar y mató a tiros a trece personas.

Por: Margarita Bernal
 asesinos@metropoli2000.com
http://www.scribd.com/doc/155189422/Arthur-Shawcross-docx

 

Miguel Ramirez, Ricardo Ramirez

Der eine (Miguel) tötete “nur” seine Frau, nachdem er in Vietnam das
Töten gelernt hatte. Der andere (Ricardo) lauschte fasziniert den
Vietnam-Erzählungen seines Cousins und betrachtete dessen Polaroid-
Bilder von Vergewaltigung und Mord. Er wurde zum Serienmörder.

Aus Wikipedia zu „Richard Ramirez“

Ricardo Leyva "Richard" Muñoz Ramírez (… 1960 – … 2013) was an American
serial killer, rapist, and burglar […] infamously dubbed the "Night Stalker" by
the news media. He used a wide variety of weapons, including handguns,
knives, a machete, a tire iron, and a hammer. Ramirez, who was an avowed
Satanist, never expressed any remorse for his crimes. [..]
As a child, Ramirez sustained two serious head injuries. […]
When he was twelve, Ramirez became strongly influenced by his older cousin
Miguel ("Mike") Ramirez,[8] a decorated Green Beret combat veteran who
often boasted of his gruesome exploits during the Vietnam War and showed
him Polaroid pictures of his victims.[9] These included pictures of Mike raping
Vietnamese women; and some of them showed Mike posing with the severed
head of a woman he had abused.[10] Ramirez, who had smoked marijuana
since the age of ten, bonded with Mike over many joints and gory war stories.[11]
Mike taught his young cousin what he had learned in his combat experiences,
including dispatching someone using stealth and surety.[12]
Around this time, Ramirez began to seek escape from his father's violent temper
by leaving the house at night to sleep in a local cemetery.[…]
"Richie", as he was known to his family, witnessed the murder of Mike's wife,
Jessie, when Mike shot her in the face with a .38 caliber revolver during a domestic
argument on May 4, 1973.[…]
Richie began experimenting with LSD, and he also started to become more fascinated
with his interest in Satanism.[…] The adolescent Ramirez began to meld his burgeoning
sexual fantasies with violence, including those of forced bondage and rape.[…]
Having been found not guilty of Jessie's murder by reason of insanity (with his combat
record being a mitigating factor), Mike was released after four years of incarceration
at the Texas State Mental Hospital in 1977 and his influence over Richard continued.[…]
On April 10, 1984, 9-year old Mei Leung was found murdered in a hotel basement
where ["Richie"] Ramirez was living in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco. This, his
first known killing, was not initially identified as being connected to the crime spree. [...]
At his first court appearance [in 1988], Ramirez raised a hand with a pentagram drawn
on it and yelled, "Hail, Satan. […]

On September 20, 1989, Ramirez was found guilty of all charges: 13 counts of murder,
5 attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries.[…] He stated to reporters
after the death sentences, "Big deal. Death always went with the territory. See you in
Disneyland."[…]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ramirez

“I need not look beyond this courtroom to see all the liars, the haters, the killers,
the crooks, the paranoid cowards…We are all expendable for a cause.
No one knows that better than those who kill for policy, clandestinely or openly,
as do the governments of the world which kill in the name of God and country.”
—Richard “The Night Stalker” Ramirez, addressing the court

Quoted in “Programmed to Kill” by David Mc Gowan, 2004
http://www.scribd.com/doc/122871211/Programmed-to-kill



Morris Solomon Jr.
“Trauma, Töten, Prostitution, Heldentum”

Killed at least 6 people, possibly up to 7 (1986-87)Vietnam veteran introduced to his favored class of victims, prostitutes, during
his service with the active encouragement of his commanders. His attorneys titled
a section of his appeal, “Vietnam: trauma, killing, prostitution, heroism.”
It described the widespread use of child prostitutes on the base where he served
and how they were both dehumanized and seen as a potential threat related to
the Vietcong. It further described how his Army training taught him to dehumanize
people as preparation for killing them, and that he participated in the dragging
death of prisoners and the crushing death of enemy troops by an armored vehicle.
The appeal included testimony that he returned from Vietnam with a negatively
changed personality and symptoms of post-traumatic stress. “Vietnam…was thus
a place in which trauma occurred every day, aggression was sanctioned, and
women offering sex were debased,” said one expert in testimony.

http://ajaor.wordpress.com/2012/12/

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Howard Unruh
Killed 13 people (1949)World War II veteran gunner, awarded several medals.
Before enlisting, collected and memorized news clippings about the war. Kept
a detailed record of every man he killed during the war, including details of the
corpse, if possible. Later decorated his bedroom with military memorabilia and
war souvenirs. After his crimes, his brother said that “since he came home from
the service, he didn’t seem to be the same.”

David Livingstone Funchess
Killed 2 people (1974)
Vietnam veteran, the first to be executed for civilian crimes. Was decorated,
including with Purple Heart. Defense attorneys blamed his crimes on post-
traumatic stress disorder from his combat experience.

Rex Warren Mays (aka “Uh-Oh the Clown”)
Killed 2 people (1992)
Later said he committed his crimes using killing techniques he learned in the
Marines.

Nathan Gale
Killed 4 people (2004)
The handgun he used in his crimes was a gift from his mother marking his
military service.

Christopher Jordan Dorner
Killed 4 people (2013)
Navy Reserve. Iraq War veteran.  Earned a rifle marksman ribbon and a pistol
expert medal. Led a security unit. Had “top secret” security clearance. Honorably
discharged as a lieutenant two days before he began his crimes. Attributed his
crimes in part to the loss of his military career in a dispute with his employers.
In a manifesto, he repeatedly compared his crimes to U.S. military strategy and
guerilla warfare; decried Americans’ ability to purchase military weapons and carry
out mass killings; and thanked his drill instructor for “ma[king] sure the vicious and
intense personality I possess was discovered.” 

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