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Gurkha ordered back to UK after beheading dead Taliban fighter


A Gurkha soldier has been flown back to the UK after hacking the head off a dead Taliban commander with his ceremonial knife to prove the dead man’s identity.
The private, from 1st Battalion, Royal Gurkha Rifles, was involved in a fierce firefight with insurgents in the Babaji area of central Helmand Province when the incident took place earlier this month.
His unit had been told that they were seeking a ‘high value target,’ a Taliban commander, and that they must prove they had killed the right man.

The Gurkhas had intended to remove the Taliban leader’s body from the battlefield for identification purposes.
But they came under heavy fire as their tried to do so. Military sources said that in the heat of battle, the Gurkha took out his curved kukri knife and beheaded the dead insurgent.
He is understood to have removed the man’s head from the area, leaving the rest of his body on the battlefield.

This is considered a gross insult to the Muslims of Afghanistan, who bury the entire body of their dead even if parts have to be retrieved.

British soldiers often return missing body parts once a battle has ended so the dead can be buried in one piece.

A source said: ‘Removing the head in this way was totally inappropriate.’
Army sources said that the soldier, who is in his early 20s, initially told investigators that he unsheathed his kukri – the symbolic weapon of the Gurkhas – after running out of ammunition.

But later the Taliban fighter was mutilated so his identity could be verified through DNA tests.
The source said: ‘The soldier has been removed from duty and flown home. There is no sense of glory involved here, more a sense of shame. He should not have done what he did.’
The incident, which is being investigated by senior commanders, is hugely embarrassing to the British Army, which is trying to build bridges with local Afghan communities who have spent decades under *Taliban rule.
It comes just days after a rogue Afghan soldier murdered three British troops from the same Gurkha regiment.
If the Gurkha being investigated by the Army is found guilty of beheading the dead enemy soldier, he will have contravened the Geneva Conventions which dictate the rules of war. Soldiers are banned from demeaning their enemies.
The Gurkha now faces disciplinary action and a possible court martial. If found guilty, he could be jailed.

He is now confined to barracks at the Shorncliffe garrison, near Folkestone, Kent.

The incident happened as the Gurkha troop was advancing towards a hostile area before engaging the enemy in battle.
Colonel Richard Kemp, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, said: ‘In this case, it appears that the *soldier was not acting maliciously, but his actions were clearly ill-judged.
‘The Gurkhas are a very fine regiment with a proud tradition of service in the British forces and have fought very bravely in Afghanistan.

'I have no doubt that this behaviour would be as strongly condemned by the other members of that regiment, as it would by all soldiers in the British forces.’
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: ‘We are aware of an incident and have informed the Afghan authorities. An inves-t*igation is underway and it would not be appropriate to comment further until this is concluded.’
The Ministry also revealed yesterday that four British servicemen had been killed in Afghanistan in 24 hours.
An airman from the RAF Regiment died in a road accident near Camp Bastion in Helmand and a marine from 40 Commando Royal Marines was killed in an explosion in Sangin on Friday.
A Royal Dragoon Guard died in a blast in the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand Province yesterday. The fourth serviceman also died in an explosion.
The British death toll in the Afghan campaign since 2001 is now 322.
Afghan troops trained by the British Army recently led a major operation into a Taliban stronghold.

It was one of the first operations organised by the Afghan National Army.
Regiment’s proud symbol of valour
The iconic kukri knife used by the Gurkhas can be a weapon or a tool. It is the traditional utility knife of the Nepalese people, but is mainly known as a symbolic weapon for Gurkha regiments all over the world.
The kukri signifies courage and valour on the battlefield and is sometimes worn by bridegrooms during their wedding ceremony.
The kukri’s heavy blade enables the user to inflict deep wounds and to cut muscle and bone with one stroke.
It can also be used in stealth operations to slash an enemy’s throat, killing him instantly and silently.
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ading-dead-Taliban-fighter.html#ixzz0u4UD5Z1s
 
re-reading the story

it makes me sick what they are doing to this guy

YOU "PEOPLE" DESERVE TO BE NUKED!:mad:
 
they might stop fighting if the taliban was told coalition forces bullets had pork grease on them.
 
Opium&resources war. The same old story. They should be left alone and kill between themselves if they want to. But tell that to those "democracy lovers" morons.
 
Daehreppoc said:
That is what the man was trained to do. If the situation did not require the degree of ferocity and savagery the Ghurkas bring to the battlefield, they should not have been committed.

The British fared very poorly during their last foray into Afghanistan. History is about to repeat itself...
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Correct. I have to say I was amongt those who believed we would fare at least as badly as the Russians, if not worse.

Afghanistan is not a country, it is a tribal area left over after other countries drew up borders deliniating all the territory they calculated they could control.

And even then they over-reached.
 
Peregrinator said:
Looks like a nice blade.

But maybe you misunderstood. That kukri IS a smaller one. He got me what I asked for.
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Service kukri blade is between 10.5 and 11.5 inches, has been for a while now. If yours is a service item it may have NEPAL very plainly stamped near the hilt , or if ever intended for issue it will have extra letters and numbers added. A service kukri comes with a 'laced' frog rather than a plain one.

That pic doesn't look too far off. If you like Kukris would love my study.
The buggers are 'everywhere' . It was , 'once upon a not too long ago' , acceptable to turn a blind eye to what a lad might carry as his service No#1 weapon . It was quite common for them to turn up with a piece that was great-grandads , and had served in every conflict since the North-West frontier (even before in some families). Some the older Bhojpure or Ang Khola style pieces are bloody huge by comparison.

News like this in question makes you wonder if they'd be in bother for unauthorised kit.
Call me barbaric , but my main question would have been 'did he manage it in one?'.
If he did , make him an instructor by Tuesday.

For fucksake , some of these lads haven't seen a knife and fork until after they attest. haven't seen a TV, and have a very logical , uncomplicated , world view. If it is said that an individual's identity is to be verified there is a very simple and straight forward way to do it , without lugging a fucking corpse for miles. He did it.

All he did was the equivalent of an Goorkha DNA swab.
It just has the added value of shitting the opposition up at the same time.

Like you said , the Tali was already dead. As for scattering body parts being demeaning to Muslims. It doesn't seem to bother them when a walking-bomb is required. Then they can get by as puree.
 
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torchthebitch said:
Correct. I have to say I was amongt those who believed we would fare at least as badly as the Russians, if not worse.

Afghanistan is not a country, it is a tribal area left over after other countries drew up borders deliniating all the territory they calculated they could control.

And even then they over-reached.
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The only way you win in Afghanistan is by buying Afghans and using their own Warlord structure and methodology against them.

Making sure they have superior firepower and airpower to support them while they deny the opposition free movement and resupply.

And let units like the BoG just get on with 'encouraging the others' .

Our lads can't be guaranteed Human Rights once they are deployed , yet the enemy is.
A Politically Correct War is an oxymoron , and a humanitarian insult .

It may be that only one miltary axiom applies in A'stan...

'Grab em by the balls and their hearts and minds will follow'.

or maybe the politicos need to take note of ' get on with it, or get out'.
 
Those knives are cute, but there are precious few problems in this world that can't be solved with the proper application of high explosives.
 
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