Just over two months ago, a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up at an entrance to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, killing an Afghan interpreter and wounding three U.S. soldiers and three Afghan troops. The reason for the attack? The U.S. military had dropped leaflets in the area that were highly offensive to Muslims,
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And it was also just a "mistake" in 2012 when U.S. troops at Bagram burned an unknown number of Korans and were preparing to burn hundreds more, an incident that led to days of deadly nationwide protests and riots across Afghanistan.
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And before that it was U.S. troops at Bagram caught on film by Al Jazeera English preparing to distribute Bibles in the Dari and Pashtu languages in an effort to convert local Afghans, a blatant violation of CENTCOM General Order Number 1, which strictly prohibits any religious proselytizing in the CENTCOM Area of Responsibility (AOR), which includes both Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Just last week, we received an email from a retired military officer, now at Bagram as a civilian DoD employee, which read:
"As a retired military officer (30+ years) and current Department of the Army civilian serving in Afghanistan - I can say this B.S. never ends.
Attached to the email were the lunch and dinner menus posted at Bagram's five dining facilities on November 22 — menus on which were printed both a Bible verse and the message "Thank You Lord!"
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