Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
Convicted Islamic State terrorist got security job at Austria Center Vienna, is on trial for raping coworker
Monday, April 18, 2022
Austria Center
Robert Spencer : A convicted IS terrorist worked as
security guard on the vaccination and test center in the Austria Center
Vienna (ACV) at the beginning of the year. The 21-year-old was arrested
there on January 6 ā he is said to have forced himself on a work
colleague the night before. The man has been in custody ever since. On
Wednesday, he had to answer for rape at the Vienna Regional Court, where
his criminal record came up.
How the 21-year-old managed to get a
job in the security service in the largest vaccination and test center
in the federal capital as a legally convicted ex-IS terrorist with three
other relevant previous convictions seemed worth questioning, not only
to the public prosecutor .
His past life should obviously not have
been adequately checked by the company that employed him ā it was
neither the Austria Center Vienna nor the Arbeiter Samariter Bund Wien
(ASBW) as a vaccination and test road operator, as research by the APA
showed.
What is certain is that the man was sentenced in June 2017
in Vienna to two and a half years in prison, ten months of which were
unconditional, for being part of a terrorist organization and criminal
organization. A not inconsiderable degree of punishment for a young
person ā he was 17 at the time. According to the verdict, he had joined
the radical Islamist terrorist militia āIslamic Stateā (IS) at the end
of May 2016 and wanted to undergo combat training in a terrorist camp in
Syria.
However, he was apprehended by the Turkish authorities in
the southern Anatolian border town of Gaziantep, prevented from
continuing his journey and sent back to Austria. Back in Vienna in July
2016, he approached eleven and twelve-year-old boys in a park and tried
to recruit them for IS.
After serving his unconditional part of
the sentence, the young man was no longer conspicuous for committing
terrorist offenses. However, he continued to commit crimes, most
recently being convicted of intentionally causing serious bodily harm.
On
January 5, working as a security guard at the Austria Center, he met an
employee on Impfstrasse with whom he made an appointment to meet after
work. They met in the city, went to a fast food restaurant for something
to eat and then, according to the indictment, went to a hotel at his
urging. As the prosecutor explained, the woman is said to have been very
intimidated by the tall, strong and dominant man at this point.
So
she went to bed and pretended to sleep while he took a shower. When he
came back from the bathroom, he told her to undress, counting to ten and
repeatedly raped her despite crying and begging her to stop.
The
accused, who was brought into the courtroom by a heavily armed special
task force from the prison guard because of his terrorist past, denied
this. He got along very well with the woman: āShe went with me, I didnāt
ask her at all.ā In the hotel, while watching TV together in bed, she
put her head on his chest, stroked him, and asked if he wanted to sleep
with her.
He said yes: āIām a man. When she said she didnāt want any
more, I stopped immediately.ā
