redstar2000
17th May 2006, 08:35
America-lovers: go eat a shit sandwich and die in a fire!
Originally posted by San Francisco Chronicle
A bequest of papers led reporters to discovery of atrocities in Vietnam
Tiger Force
A True Story of Men and War
By Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss
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During the summer of 1967, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Gerald Morse radioed soldiers operating under his command in the central highlands of Vietnam and barked, "You're the 327th infantry. We want 327 kills." It was an unforgivable statement that would eventually lead to one of the most appalling killing sprees of the Vietnam War and the unwarranted deaths of hundreds of Vietnamese men, women and children.
Sallah and Weiss, reporters for the Blade newspaper of Toledo, Ohio, were tipped to the story by a fellow reporter at their newspaper who was bequeathed boxes of secret documents from Henry Tufts, a former head of the Army's Criminal Investigations Command (known as CID), after his death in July 2002.
Asprey's investigation would, over the course of a harrowing three years, slowly uncover the Tigers' wrongdoings, all neatly summarized in a 55-page report. The Army was determined to bury the case. It was deemed too similar to the My Lai massacre and too close to Nixon's resignation to warrant pursuing. Within the month, Asprey was exiled to an office in Seoul, South Korea. It took until Tufts' death for the files and the story of Tiger Force to come out in the open.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c...RVGLRILDS61.DTL (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/14/RVGLRILDS61.DTL)
Watch the news for 2046...when we'll learn what U.S. troops are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan right now.
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Originally posted by San Francisco Chronicle
A bequest of papers led reporters to discovery of atrocities in Vietnam
Tiger Force
A True Story of Men and War
By Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss
------------------------------------------------
During the summer of 1967, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Gerald Morse radioed soldiers operating under his command in the central highlands of Vietnam and barked, "You're the 327th infantry. We want 327 kills." It was an unforgivable statement that would eventually lead to one of the most appalling killing sprees of the Vietnam War and the unwarranted deaths of hundreds of Vietnamese men, women and children.
Sallah and Weiss, reporters for the Blade newspaper of Toledo, Ohio, were tipped to the story by a fellow reporter at their newspaper who was bequeathed boxes of secret documents from Henry Tufts, a former head of the Army's Criminal Investigations Command (known as CID), after his death in July 2002.
Asprey's investigation would, over the course of a harrowing three years, slowly uncover the Tigers' wrongdoings, all neatly summarized in a 55-page report. The Army was determined to bury the case. It was deemed too similar to the My Lai massacre and too close to Nixon's resignation to warrant pursuing. Within the month, Asprey was exiled to an office in Seoul, South Korea. It took until Tufts' death for the files and the story of Tiger Force to come out in the open.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c...RVGLRILDS61.DTL (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/05/14/RVGLRILDS61.DTL)
Watch the news for 2046...when we'll learn what U.S. troops are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan right now.
http://www.websmileys.com/sm/cool/123.gif