#UK Afghani Marine leader understands George is loony tunes
Weasel Zepp
Mark Rowe and agencies
Tuesday March 26, 2002
The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukresponse/story/0,11017,674355,00.html
The commander of the British Royal Marines in Afghanistan has today
said he will not carry out unreasonable orders from the American
forces as his troops prepare to fight the remnants of al-Qaida and the
Taliban.
Around 1,700 Marines will arrive at the Bagram air base north of Kabul
over the next 10 days in Britain's biggest overseas deployment since
the 1991 Gulf war.
The Marines will be under the ultimate command of the US forces but
Brigadier Roger Lane, commander of the 3 Commando Brigade, has made it
clear he has the power to veto any mission in which he feels his
forces should not participate.
Bgdr Lane said: "Every national commander has the right to advise the
coalition partners as to any mission that he thinks he has been given
that is unreasonable for his force."
But Bgdr Lane, whose commandos are expected to be ready for action by
the middle of April, said he did not expect to have to use his "veto
power" in deciding which missions his troops would take.
Any disagreements would be worked out with US Major General Frank
Hagenbeck, commander of the US-led coalition ground forces, he said.
"From my discussions with Gen Hagenbeck, it is difficult for me to
think that he would give me something that is inappropriate," he said.
Tension has already been reported between US and coalition forces in
the region. The French newspaper Le Monde said earlier this month
France had refused to let its warplanes attack some targets in
Afghanistan assigned to them by US commanders, arguing the missions
endangered civilians.
Bgdr Lane said he would not hesitate to make it clear if he felt some
missions were inappropriate for the Marines. "I would anticipate we
would be discussing the developments of operations in which I would be
saying to him 'that's a good task for us, perhaps that's best for
somebody else'," he said.
Meanwhile, the Marines are continuing to negotiate with Pakistan to
use the port of Karachi as a staging post en route to Afghanistan.
Around 250 Marines are on HMS Ocean, off the Pakistan coast.
Pakistan has so far refused to grant them access and is believed to
have security concerns about the presence of the troops. If Pakistan
refuses to back down then the troops will either be flown direct to
Bagram or via the Gulf state of Oman.
"Negotiations are still going on with Pakistan to use that route in,"
said a Royal Marines spokesman. "However, if that doesn't work, then
we've obviously got alternatives that we can use," he said.
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Christopher Morton
wrote:
>Marine commander will veto 'unreasonable orders'
Zepp thinks that another 3,000 murdered Americans is "reasonable".
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bob
Christopher Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:09:24 -0800, Weasel Zepp <ze...@snowcrest.net>
> wrote:
>
> >Marine commander will veto 'unreasonable orders'
>
> Zepp thinks that another 3,000 murdered Americans is "reasonable".
Actually, he thinks it's "a good start".
Bob
righ...@scumbag.com
<chr...@ameritech.net> wrote like a right wing nut;
>wrote:
>
>>Marine commander will veto 'unreasonable orders'
>
>Zepp thinks that another 3,000 murdered Americans is "reasonable".
and you think that thousands of your racist posts are normal.
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*Try* it, you crappy little faggot bitch. Don't just sit there:
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Marksman
<righ...@scumbag.com> wrote in message
news:3ca10dfc...@news.enetis.net...
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:54:41 -0500, Christopher Morton
> <chr...@ameritech.net> wrote like a right wing nut;
> >On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 06:09:24 -0800, Weasel Zepp <ze...@snowcrest.net>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>Marine commander will veto 'unreasonable orders'
> >
> >Zepp thinks that another 3,000 murdered Americans is "reasonable".
>
> and you think that thousands of your racist posts are normal.
>
And you think the hundreds of thousands of your fascist, hatemongering, vile
and racist posts are normal.
ROFL!
Cheers cowardly fascist!
Got My Mind Right, Boss!
You truly ARE the stupidest bastard on the network, MarksBozo!
It appears that you didn't know what ROFL stood for, or truly are
a right wing zero at the 12 year old level.
banjocat
<cool...@luke.com> wrote:
>And you "Rolled on the Floor, Laughing"?
>
>You truly ARE the stupidest bastard on the network, MarksBozo!
>
>It appears that you didn't know what ROFL stood for, or truly are
>a right wing zero at the 12 year old level.
You could change the operand to "and" and have a completely accurate
statement. After all, he really is the "stupidest bastard on the
network".
We would be remised if we didn't also give dishonorable mention to the
other right-wing-nut morons, Bithead and Joe Krolikowski
guy-jin
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