November 13, 2007, - 11:48 am
Alien U.S. Soldiers Get Naturalized: Guess Where They Aren’t From
By Debbie Schlussel
Yesterday, 60 U.S. soldiers who were foreign aliens got naturalized and became U.S. citizens at the American military base in Bagram, Afghanistan.
The soldiers came from countires like Cuba, Philippines, Vietnam, and Ethiopia. But strangely, there were many countries that weren’t mentioned: Like anywhere in the Muslim Mid-East. No Saudis. No Lebanese. Syrians, nada. Egyptians, zilch. Etc., etc., etc.
An earlier ceremony of 150 U.S. soldiers getting naturalized happened Sunday in Iraq at the Balad Air Base. Taking bets on how many were from Arab and/or Muslim nations. I’d bet very, very few, if any. Will get the exact breakdown, but most of them are Latino.
Tags: Afghanistan, Bagram, Balad Air Base, Cuba, Debbie Schlussel Yesterday, Ethiopia, Iraq, Philippines, United States, Vietnam
You forgot to mention “Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar, a black Muslim convert, fragged commanding officers at a military camp in Kuwait on the eve of his Army unit’s push into Iraq. He killed two of them and wounded 15 others. Akbar, recently convicted of murder and given the death sentence, said at the time he did it out of loyalty to the umma, or global community of Muslims. “You guys are coming into our countries,” he said, “and you’re going to rape our women and kill our children.”
See http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=247363882578735
melchloboo on November 13, 2007 at 7:53 pm