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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Australian Socialist Labor government refuses to increase troop numbers and supplies to Afghanistan
Australian Socialist Labor Government to try Australian Soldiers for manslaughter !!!!!
Australia:Australian Officers demand more support for Diggers
"The army has let us down mate and I am disgusted." Battle of Derapet, Australian Soldier’s shocking account of needless death of Lance Corporal Jared Mackinney
Australia’s Finest laid to rest, Lance Corporal Jared MacKinney’s wife gives birth hours after Funeral of her Husband
Koran Burning: Australian Diggers under attack in Afghanistan by Islamic Sociopaths Inc.for NOT Burning the Koran.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Australian Socialist Labor Government to try Australian Soldiers for manslaughter !!!!!
Daily Telegraph
September 27, 2010 1:24PM
THREE former Australian soldiers will be charged with manslaughter following an incident in Afghanistan last year, the Director of Military Prosecutions says.
"The accused persons will be charged with various service offences, including manslaughter, dangerous conduct, failing to comply with a lawful general order and prejudicial conduct," the director said in a statement.
The director, Brigadier Lyn McDade, had been considering whether to lay charges against the former commandos who conducted a night-time raid on a residential compound believed to harbour Taliban insurgents in February 2009.
Defense previously has said the deaths occurred as the soldiers conducted clearance operations using gunfire and hand grenades.
One suspected insurgent and five children were killed, while another two children and two adults were wounded.
Three former members of the Special Operations Task Group will be charged with service offences, Brigadier McDade said.
The soldiers facing charges were not named in the statement.
Brigadier McDade said her investigations had been completed only recently and only after "careful, deliberate and informed consideration".
In a statement released the day after the attack, defense said the deaths occurred as SOTG soldiers conducted clearance operations through a number of compounds.
"During the conduct of this operation the soldiers were fired upon by Taliban insurgents," it said.
"The SOTG engaged the insurgents, returning fire in accordance with their rules of engagement."
Two of the commandos say they will strenuously defend themselves.
Soldiers A and B, who remain anonymous, have issued a lengthy statement in response, promising to fight the charges.
"We will strenuously defend the charges and we look forward to the opportunity of publicly clearing our reputations, as well as the reputation of the Australian Defense Force," the pair said through the law firm Kennedys.
Defense Minister Stephen Smith said Brigadier's McDade decision was a matter for the "independent military legal process".
"It is not appropriate for me to comment on the decision of the military prosecutor, the incident itself, or to prejudge in any way the outcome which will be heard before a service tribunal or tribunals," he said in a statement.
Two ex-commandos to plead not guilty to manslaughter
By Peter Veness
Daily Telegraph
September 27, 2010 2:19PM
TWO former Australian commandos facing charges over an incident in Afghanistan that left five children dead say they will strenuously defend themselves.
The Director of Military Prosecutions earlier today announced three commandos would be charged with a range of offences including manslaughter.
Soldiers A and B, who remain anonymous, have issued a lengthy statement in response, promising to fight the charges.
"We will strenuously defend the charges and we look forward to the opportunity of publicly clearing our reputations, as well as the reputation of the Australian Defence Force," the pair said through the law firm Kennedys.
Australian forces have now been in Afghanistan for nine years.
Soldiers A and B attacked the media for "many cases" of inaccurate reporting of the clearance operations.
"Words will never adequately express our regret that women and children were killed and injured during the incident on 12 February 2009," they said.
"These were people we were risking our lives to protect."
The soldiers blamed the deaths on the enemy.
"It should not be forgotten that the casualties were ultimately caused by the callous and reckless act of an insurgent who chose to repeatedly fire upon us at extreme close range from within a room he knew contained women and children," the pair said.
Their story was backed by a defence statement issued at the time which told of close fire from Taliban insurgents as the commandos cleared buildings.
Director Lyn McDade said her investigations - only recently completed - had been "careful, deliberate and informed".
"The accused persons will be charged with various service offences, including manslaughter, dangerous conduct, failing to comply with a lawful general order and prejudicial conduct," Brigadier McDade said in a statement.
Soldiers A and B said when the full facts of the battle became public, their decision would be vindicated.
"It will be clear to everyone that we made the correct decision under truly awful circumstances."
Australia:Australian Officers demand more support for Diggers
"The army has let us down mate and I am disgusted." Battle of Derapet, Australian Soldier’s shocking account of needless death of Lance Corporal Jared Mackinney
Australia’s Finest laid to rest, Lance Corporal Jared MacKinney’s wife gives birth hours after Funeral of her Husband
Koran Burning: Australian Diggers under attack in Afghanistan by Islamic Sociopaths Inc.for NOT Burning the Koran.
I knew this would be Labor’s way of getting back at our soldiers,too obvious are the old ways of their Union financiers boycotting supplies and sabotaging equipment, simply charge OUR Soldiers with criminal offenses for fighting Islamic terrorism.Australians MUST stand with OUR Soldiers, the Australian Labor Party / ACTU / Greens / Independents Pro Islam Marxist Coalition sure as hell wont.
The latest group of deceased Soldiers have returned home and have been buried, the nations highest ranking Atheist Madame Gillard has performed her contractual obligations by going through the motions of the various Church Funeral services and mouthed the obligatory insincere platitudes.
Now it’s time for Labor and their Marxist Loon coalition minority government, to get the Soldiers who don’t come home in a coffin, time for these loons to exercise their twisted perverted ideology
Tell Madame Gillard to leave OUR troops alone HERE
So just who is this Brigadier Lyn McDade?
She is a former civilian lawyer who has no previous military experience (and certainly no Australian infantry combat action badge), but who was brought into the new military justice system to aid in efficiency and effectiveness. Has she accomplished this? “There has been widespread discontent with the take-no-prisoners approach of the Director of Military Prosecutions, Brigadier Lyn McDade. Military lawyers have told The Australian they believed minor offences that were previously subject to prejudicial conduct hearings had been endlessly moved into the court.”
It doesn’t bode well when the very chief of the military justice system is taking what would previously have been between a Non Commissioned Officer and his enlisted men – what in the U.S. is called non-judicial punishment – and placing it in formal military courts. It would quite literally bring military justice to a halt in the U.S., cause undermanned units, and bring with it an atmosphere of dishonesty and suspicion.
http://www.captainsjournal.com/category/australian-army/
Friday, September 24, 2010
Australia:Australian Officers demand more support for Diggers
Rebellion in the Defence ranks - officers want more support for Diggers
Ian McPhedran
The Daily Telegraph
September 24, 2010 12:00AM
MILITARY officers are angry top brass failed to reveal hundreds of troops were available but not used during a fatal battle in Afghanistan.
They accused Joint Operations Chief Lieutenant-General Mark Evans of understating the numbers available for the August 24 battle against 100 enemy fighters that claimed the life of Lance Corporal Jared Mackinney.
Up to 200 soldiers were kept in reserve during the three-hour battle and mortar and artillery support were not deployed, according to a briefing paper written by a senior intelligence official and obtained by The Daily Telegraph.
"Why did we have to withdraw when the enemy would have been armed with nothing more than light machine guns, rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and we had artillery, attack helicopters, light armour, fixed-wing air support and 250 troops?" the brief read.
The brief echoes the frustration at a lack of fire support and heavy armour to Australian troops first outlined in an email from a Digger who fought in the battle.
The paper adds weight to the view Diggers are fighting with a hand tied behind their backs.
"No one is questioning the conduct of the tactical commander," the document said.
"No one is being an 'armchair general'. What is being asked is whether General-rank officers are doing their job, shaping the battlefield by providing to the tactical commanders in these fire fights the resources they need to do the job and prevail. Retreating from a battle does not win you a war."
The latest document reflects the frustration felt by soldiers who believe the Australian commander on the ground, Major General John Cantwell - an armoured corps officer - should be provided with Abrams tanks.
"The deployment of a troop of tanks [three or four Abrams main battle tanks] would provide the existing task force with sufficient heavy armour to make the task force self-sufficient in terms of heavy armour support," it said.
According to sources, General Cantwell regularly requests more fire support, but his pleas have been rejected by a Government that fears a Vietnam-style quagmire or civilian casualties.
The army has 59 Abrams available for deployment.
Some officers have also demanded $70 million Tiger attack helicopters, but the Army's 17 machines won't be ready to fly to war until May next year.
"This battle has got to have raised doubts in the minds of the troops that we are behind them all the way," the report says.
"The army has let us down mate and I am disgusted." Battle of Derapet, Australian Soldier’s shocking account of needless death of Lance Corporal Jared Mackinney
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Koran Burning: Australian Diggers under attack in Afghanistan by Islamic Sociopaths Inc.for NOT Burning the Koran.
Ian McPhedran From:
The Daily Telegraph
September 18, 2010 12:00AM
AN AFGHAN man is dead and relations between Australian troops and local villagers are on a knife edge following a violent protest sparked by a rumour that Diggers were burning copies of the Koran.
The soldiers were conducting a regular burnoff of rubbish and documents in a pit outside the secure blast walls of forward operating base (FOB) Mirwais in the Chora valley, north of the main base at Tarin Kowt, on Thursday when all hell broke loose.
Suddenly an angry mob of 100 local men was on the rampage and raining rocks down on the soldiers as they retreated back into the base.
Somehow word got around the village that troops were burning copies of the Koran.
"They were doing a burn in the pit and the suggestion spread that they were burning the Koran," a source said.
The dispute, just two days before local parliamentary elections, escalated from rock throwing when a man brandishing an AK-47 assault rifle allegedly aimed the weapon at troops in a guard tower.
An Afghan soldier attached to the Australian force deployed at the base used maximum force and shot the protester, following the army's rules of engagement.
The gunman was taken away before troops could check his condition, but according to sources he died from his wounds. No soldiers were injured in the melee.
According to intelligence reports the protest was sparked by the high-profile plan by American pastor Terry Jones to burn copies of the Koran outside his Florida church on the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
He backed away but was unrepentant yesterday.
The Department of Defence was yesterday unable to comment on the protest.
* NEW footage has been released of the battle between Australian and Taliban soldiers that ended with the death of Lance Corporal Jared Mackinney.
The five-minute video shows Diggers and Afghan soldiers pushing through canals and lightly wooded areas as they respond to an attack from the Islamist militants.
The August 24 video was shot by one of Lance Corporal Mackinney's colleagues through a camera strapped to his helmet.
Australia’s Finest laid to rest, Lance Corporal Jared MacKinney’s wife gives birth hours after Funeral of her Husband
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Australian Fire Fighters near end of cross country “Tour of Duty” run to honour September 11 victims and rescue organizations.
America Speaks! Historic 911 Rally Draws 40,000
“Few leaders can identify in their tenure an event of such magnitude that it truly changed the course of history, and even fewer can attest to being at that event.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was preparing for a media conference in the offices of the Australian Embassy in Washington, when the terrible news of the first attack on the World Trade Center filtered through. Initially I thought it was a terrible accident, however events moved at pace and, with the attack on tower two and the subsequent explosion at the Pentagon, it became apparent that America was under attack, and by a quirk of fate the leader of one of the US's staunchest allies was in the midst of it.
I was scheduled to speak at a joint sitting of the US Congress the next day, an opportunity that could not go ahead. I instead went to Congress to express Australia's support, and my entourage was the only party allowed into the chamber. The emotion of the moment and shared grief left an indelible mark upon my consciousness, for the September 11 attack was not just on America, but on all things that our great freedom-loving societies stand for, as subsequent attacks have shown.
The US-Australian alliance has transcended the test of time. We stood side by side in all the major conflicts of the 20th century, endured depressions and the tribulation of worldwide natural disasters, and together we faced and defeated the scourges of totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century. I knew at that moment that together again we would have to face an even more invidious challenge, that of religious extremism in the 21st century.
The Los Angeles to New York 2010 run is a practical reflection of the values and the aspirations that two great freedom-loving societies enjoy. The run rejects the notions of exclusion, of hatred and above all of extreme ideologies. The run rather embraces the enlightenment of life, its liberties and freedom's and it rejoices in the goodness that is the essence of the human race. But ultimately it honours the brave men and women of the emergency services who sacrificed their futures on that fateful day to ensure that others could live: the very embodiment of those values.
I am honoured to be the Patron of this run and to support the endeavours and exertions of committed firefighters from Australia and the US who have undertaken it, to ensure that the sacrifice and suffering of that fateful day will not fade into the history books.”
Former Australian Prime Minister John Winston Howard
John Howard
The Background
Arrival September 11 2010
See the official Tour of Duty Website for the whole story.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Australia’s Finest laid to rest, Lance Corporal Jared MacKinney’s wife gives birth hours after Funeral of her Husband
"We have lost a remarkable soldier and an honourable Australian,"
Digger's widow gives birth
The Daily Telegraph
September 10, 2010 7:03PM
THE widow of the latest soldier to be killed in Afghanistan has given birth to his son just hours after his funeral.
Lance Corporal Jared MacKinney, 28, was killed in late August, during an intense three-hour battle with Taliban insurgents in the western part of Afghanistan's Oruzgan province.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and defence chief Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston were among those gathered for the military funeral at Ashgrove Baptist Church in inner western Brisbane.
LCpl MacKinney's casket was carried, in heavy rain, from the church through an honour guard drawn from his unit, the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR).
His widow Beckie among those paying tribute to him. Hours later, she was giving birth to his son. Noah Jared MacKinney was born at 3.10pm (AEST) today - two weeks early.
In a statement released before the service, Beckie Mackinney said Noah would learn all about her dad's life.
"The long journey without Jared has begun for Annabell and me, and soon also little Noah Jared, who is due to come into the world in a fortnight," she said. "Noah will never get to meet his father but he'll come to know him for the incredible man he was through our love and memories.
"We have reached the deepest depths of despair since we were told of Jared's death but we have also been helped and comforted by the support and extraordinary generosity of spirit of old friends, new friends and strangers who cared."
His father-in-law, senior police officer David Smallbone, paid tribute to a "wonderful, loving husband".
"We all remember Jared's great sense of humour and cheeky grin, but his entire face would smile at the thought of Beckie and his princess Annabell, as well as the impending arrival of his little man," Mr Smallbone told about 700 mourners as rain fell outside the Ashgrove Baptist Church.
Ms Mackinney also paid tribute to her husband's mates in Afghanistan and at home. "I want to thank you for your caring and incredible messages of support," she said. "I know Jared wants me to tell you that we are very proud of you and support you in the job that you are doing."
Commander of the 7th Brigade, Brigadier Paul McLachlan, also paid a heartfelt tribute to Lance Corporal MacKinney who "was never afraid to let his humanitarian side shine through".
"We have lost a remarkable soldier and an honourable Australian," Brigadier McLachlan said at the funeral service. "I reckon he could have run for mayor of Gallipoli Barracks (in Enoggera, Brisbane) and won in a canter."
At the conclusion of the service soldiers fired three blank volleys.
Australia it’s time to help AUSTRALIANS FOR A CHANGE!!!!
Forget the Socialist spin from the Gillard Federal Government and their professional Bleeding Hearts
with their United Nations inspired guilt trip,Australia and the West has NOTHING to be ashamed of,
its time to ensure AUSTRALIANS are looked after and NOT those who BOAST that they are sworn to KILL us.
Australia, Australia, Australia !!!!! Legacy,Legacy,Legacy!!!!!!