Former Gitmo Prisoner: U.S. Soldiers Are ‘Mules’ — They Gave Us ‘Cornflakes and Yogurt When We Want Falafel and Broad Beans’
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The U.S. soldier “has the body of a mule and dreams of a bird” and despite his “awesome body” he’s “no Rambo.“ He also ”gave us cornflakes and yogurt for breakfast when we wanted falafel and broad beans.”
Those are the words of enlightenment from former Guantanamo Bay detainee Adel al-Gazzar as he disparaged U.S. troops in an interview on Egypt’s Al-Rahma TV.
MEMRI is back again with yet another outrageous clip from the West’s sworn enemies. According to its report, al-Gazzar was resettled in Slovakia by the Obama administration yet voluntarily returned to his native Egypt in June 2011 where he was immediately arrested.
According to MEMRI:
In 2002, during his incarceration at Guantanamo, he had been convicted in absentia of plotting to overthrow the Egyptian government and sentenced to three years in prison, in what his advocates have called a sham trial. He had not been repatriated to Egypt by the U.S., although he was cleared for transfer by both the Bush administration and an inter-agency task force set up by the Obama administration, because U.S. officials and his lawyers feared he would be persecuted or tortured upon his return.
The video is featured below. Transcript follows:
The interview aired on February 16, 2012:
Interviewer: “You said that some American soldiers in Guantanamo would cry and send letters to their mommies and girlfriends…”
Adel Al-Gazzar: “Right.”
Interviewer: “The American soldier looks strong, but is he really that strong?”
Adel Al-Gazzar: “Like the poet said, he has the body of a mule and the dreams of a bird. Some brothers even wrote a poem that goes: ‘This American, the real idiot. He resembles a donkey, in body and in stupidity.’
“This is just one part. This poem had many stanzas. He is a real idiot, and he resembles a donkey in his body and stupidity. Indeed, they have awesome bodies. They practice sports, and have muscles out to here, like Rambo. The U.S. soldier thinks he’s a Rambo. The cinema has made him believe that. But the truth is that he is no Rambo.” [...]
“The U.S. soldier cannot fight at all. During the first Gulf War, the Egyptian and the Syrian armies moved in, and the Americans stayed behind. When it was all over and all the ‘dispensable’ soldiers killed or wounded, the Americans would come and take pictures. [...]
“They would serve us breakfast that does not suit our nature. They would give you cornflakes and yogurt. People, we want falafel and broad beans… That stuff doesn’t cut it for us. It would never fill us.” [...]
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Comments (291)
Hank919
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:23amI‘m so upset by the story I don’t know how I’ll make iy through the day. Naaaaaaaaaaaa. LMAO.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:48pmWhat an ungrateful piece of work. Those people at gitmo were given specialty food to respect their religion and this is the type krap we get from those type people. What would he have eaten in his own country? Probably near starvation diet.
Report Post »dtbox
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 2:05pmYep, get a good look at that guys. Half way through a 10 mile hike with pack and he’d be a pile of sobbing jelly laying in the dirt. Oh please, let him go 2 minutes with a US serviceman, you wanna hear someone shout MOMMY!
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 2:59pmTake no prisoners, too much work, tap tap ; )
Report Post »snooop1e
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 3:41pmI have to agree with this guy. I am a U.S. Soldier who served in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan and I can tell you that the military is dominated by Zero Defects, Risk Averse,Politcally Correct Officers whose primary focus is pleasing the Left. and making rank. To the man every single Officer I ever knew who was a “soldier’s soldier” who focused on the mission and put the health morale and welfare of the troops in front of his rank was viewed as a renegade or a rogue warrior that needed to brought down. Google “Wanat Investigation” or “Chosen Company” or “Salvatore Giunta”. I fear the day we go up agaist a well trained, well equipped military with solid techniques, tactics and procedures. a significant percentage of the young troops today have been raised in a self entitled, everyone gets a trophy, you deserve everything culture and are nothing more than Wall Street Occupiers in uniform. Sorry to say but for the most part it’s true. God help us……
Report Post »Beltfeed
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 3:44pmGive them a Cochinita Pibil and mush. We should be treating them as they would treat us except for the beheading part.
Report Post »chiquita
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 5:37pmSNOOOP1E, unfortunately, I’m aware of the validity of your comment and agree………. God Help Us!!!! But, I still don‘t appreciate this moron’s comments on the subject and making these comments about our soldiers. Personally, they should be happy to get the cereal and yogurt!! And, from the photo, this guy isn’t hurting in the eating dept. now. There are a lot of hungry men, women, and children in the world that would appreciate a meal of cereal & yogurt, without complaint.
Report Post »Maji
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 7:00pmAhh… the prophet say dat dis mahn has the “brains of an azz”
and the “breath of a t*rd”!
alli akbard!
Report Post »Delta D-5-3
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:48pmWow, this is a story? I dealt with idiots like this sand monkey in Iraq. They are uneducated bots that run at the first sign of a real fight, trust me. He’s a big tuff guy now, but I’ll bet the farm that this idiot pis**d his pants before getting caught. They have little training, about as smart as your average 3rd grader, and are easly lead by “commanders” who have a 5th grade education, who by the way get most of them killed due to there pure stupidity. I’m surprised they can even read that so called holy book called the Koran. Otherwise known as the book of hate, and great bathroom tissue in a pinch!
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 8:00amhank919. me too i am broken up. i think bread and water and a multi vitamin per day and a wooden slat cot should be all they get for as long as they live.
Report Post »pslm5119
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 8:18amThis guy mocks the American soldier and complains about getting the wrong breakfast… Who is the wimp here? Poor baby.
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on March 4, 2012 at 1:56pmShould have just said “don’t like yogurt and corn flakes? Well, here’s a 7.62 full metal jacket.”
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 8:06amAny giving in to demands is seen as a weakness to them. We should feed them bread and water and nothing else. We should give no concessions to terrorists who are imprisoned for trying to kill Americans. You want your specialty foods? Don’t get put in an American prison.
Report Post »RichFU
Posted on March 5, 2012 at 9:38pmYeah they ate well, most gained 30lbs. I was at GTMO they would sing a song when we came on the block “MP,MP,MP,Unit#,Unit#, Donkey” I do not want to put the #:) I remember this guy, he was very complient…. He is a tough guy now it seems lol.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:22amGive them “HEBREW”… hot dogs…!
Report Post »cyclops
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 4:36pmHey how about some ham sandwhiches?……………………..LOL!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 4:38pmLOL, Except Hebrew National franks are way too good for them, plus they contain no pork. I‘m thinkin’ pork rinds, breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:19amWarriors don’t wimp out and behead an enemy.That’s too easy.Oh no,look up the word ‘dastardly’ in a dictionary. That’s what is in store for Adel al-Gazzar.
And PLEASE enough with the censoring,Blaze.
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:24am>>>>>Adel al-Gazzar <<<<<<<<your day is due.Watch how easy it is.
Report Post »TommyJH54
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:19amSonds like a Democrat, whine, whine, whine!
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:28amPlus,they gripe about a reach around.
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:18amTreat them humanely, and they call you weak. What gets their respect is torture and beheadings.
Report Post »sawbuck
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:24amGive them 3 squares a day….
Of ….“HEBREW”… hot dogs…!
Report Post »randy
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:57amHe also ”gave us cornflakes and yogurt for breakfast when we wanted falafel and broad beans.”
Report Post »Poor babies! Can’t do the time, don’t do the crime!
rodamaa
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:59amNo!
Give them pork and fries, fried in pork lard.
Report Post »AOL_REFUGEE
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:04amThat fat, bearded pig should have been put on a diet of stale bread and warm water.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:11amI remember Army mess halls from my twenty plus years in the service. I don’t recall ever getting exactly what I wanted either. Tough noogies and I am being very nice right now.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:12amIt seems almost as if the were conducting psychological studies of American soldiers while themselves were incarcerated. That kind of reminds of the same reported things Islamic Radicals are doing in prison systems. Perhaps the Islamists are weighing their enemies in the event of an EMP? Oh I’m sorry if I take a position and opinion with having more humility in my self rather than arrogance. I know that doesn’t fly with most people.
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:22amBe lucky I am not in charge of the prison, pork and water twice a day. Period.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:55am@itsjusttim
EMP in our future? I think it will happen because it would be so easy to destroy the western-way-of-life. This admin. has made this country focus on a nymphomaniac that can’t budget to feed her habit. Now a liberal idiot on Cavuto this a,m, just said that Americans need to budget (don’t buy I-Pads etc.) to pay for high gas prices. Can’t wait for Nov 2k12!
Report Post »Free2speakRN
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:10amGet your friends to work it off on their NEW SOCCER FIELD. You know, the one to which Obama stole more of our money, to crash the country.
Report Post »Southerner01
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:13amI’d say we use that soccer field the same way Saddam used his.
Report Post »nostromo
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:08amNo need to get all worked up about this. This is standard Muslim propaganda for the audience of fresh recruits to jihad.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:21amagreed
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:40amexactly.
Report Post »Recceman90
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:55amIf we can’t fight, How did he get captured in the first place?
Report Post »deano24
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:47pmShould’ve sent him back to Egypt & let them handle him.
Report Post »momsense
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:05amMight I suggest that they also get a hefty dose of Arsenic too?
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:18amThe goats can graze on the soccer field….when not otherwise actively engaged.
Report Post »beenaroundyaknow
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:04amHe must have wolfed down the beans and flakes. Our first mistake was even giving them beans, should been bacon bits in yogurt and told them it was roughage. Fat ass piece of human debris.
Report Post »RageAgainstLiberals
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:02amThe Fat SOB looks like he needs to go on a diet ! They Gave Us ‘Cornflakes and Yogurt When We Want Falafel and Broad Beans. Awwwwwwwwww STFU.
Report Post »poorrichard09
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:08amYeah, fatty our “donkeys” got your hero bin laden!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 7:54amThey live in mud huts and squalor and we’re the stupid ones.
Report Post »Biff Marupis
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:13amHow about……. They’re animals.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:17amNo Biff, I like animals.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:39am“… cornflakes and yogurt ….” = better than bread & water
Report Post »” …. would cry and send letters to their mommies and girlfriends…” = yeah. so what? Shows me they love & care for their women. And you & all the men like you have no problem stoning them, beheading them etc.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:26amGONZO, I hear your Bud, we treat our many animals far better than these people treat themselves.
Report Post »rambosharley
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 7:51amLooks like that FATA$$ ate pretty darn well!
Report Post »SaxManiac
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 7:48amFeed ‘em green eggs and ham.
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 1:25pmGood one, Sam I Am
Report Post »riker01
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 7:47amYou go with that you idiot.
Report Post »Dougalug
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 7:41amwho cares what YOU want?
Report Post »Patrick Henry76
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 7:38amWe should have fed him pork tartar.
Report Post »MrMagoo
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 7:32amMy next door neighbor is a native Navajo.I’m a common Irish.Between he and I,Adel al-Gazzar would come under immense PAIN if ever given the chance to do so.I just want him to know that.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 7:30am.
Report Post »I just hope someone Pee’d in your Corn Flakes…………
Gonzo
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:18amWe’re going to need to hear the story about somebody slapping your grandbaby one day Monkey.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:43amand how you stopped yourself from beating the snot out of them
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:51am.
Report Post »The part where he got away with it or the part where he picked him up squeezed him til he threw-up the french fry he ate, then he head butted him in the face then slammed him down on the floor. That story?
Gonzo
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:01amSay what Monkey?
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:25am.
Gonzo
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:18am
We’re going to need to hear the story about somebody slapping your grandbaby one day Monkey.
I hate that story Gonzo. But I tell it everytime I get a chance. The baby took a French Fry off a tray, and the guy went crazy, picked him up squeezed him til he threw-up the fry, head butted him in the face. Punched our daughter when she tried to save her child, he slapped the baby in the head a few times before he slammed him onto the floor. The baby spent 3 days in the hospital.
Then a Texas Judge, (BTW Texas Sucks) gave him 90days cause it was the first time he beat a baby. Then fined me $1000 dollars and put me in jail for 3 days, after he(the Judge) asked if the family had anything to say. I guess he thought I was going to turn and say something to the Child Abuser sitting at the Table, not the one wearing the black robe sitting on the bench……
And MidWestMom all good things come to those who wait……….
Did I mention TEXAS SUCKS?………………
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:58amGeez Monkey, that’s awful. It makes more sense now that I know you weren’t there when it happened. I wonder how many kids and women that trash has beaten since then.
Report Post »MidWestMom
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:05amGood Lord. Did anyone there intervene? I have family & friends in Texas and they would have beat the SOB into a pulp and then stomped his french fries into his face. They don’t tolerate people who harm children or men who hit women. I believe there’s a special place in Hell for people who abuse childen and the elderly. Honestly I’m shocked that he only got a slap on the hand…especially in Texas. I admire your restraint…you’re a better person than I am.
Report Post »Ross
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 10:58amMonkey,
Don’t hate Texas because of one judge. It must have been a Liberal judge. I can see how that would put a bad taste in your mouth, but all of Texas isn’t at fault.
What part of Texas was this? I would think Austin.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:30am.
I can‘t tell ya’ll how much it hurt’s to have something like that happen, and then have a legal system that favors the Child Abuse do nothing…….
And to answer your question Mom, not one person stood up to help could have been because the 20yr old Kid who did it was about 6′ 6″ and over 300lbs.
And Ross it was a republican Judge who let him go…………….
Did mention the Texan who stole $300k from us and is gonna get away with it? The State of Texas likes their Criminals. He get’s to walk FREE, Chase Bank got a $25 Billion Dollar Bailout, and more from AIG who what? Got a Taxpayer Bailout. The Lawyers will get paid, Chase will get the land and the house from hell, and the Builder will walk away a Free Man with our money. And the Best part of the Story We Loose Everything…….
Did I mention TEXAS SUCKS? If I didn’t, TEXAS SUCKS!!!!!!!………
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:45am.
And Please DON”T Vote for Randy Webber he’s running for Ron Paul seat. We have enough usless people in Washington D.C. as it is without putting this moron on the public dole for the rest of his life…..
And State Sen Mike Jackson is another waste of good air, who needs to be voted out of office…..
TEXAS SUCKS………….
Report Post »raderby
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 7:29amFMJ for breakfast jerk weed. You have no idea what you are dealing with when you make war on the US. Someday, you and your narrow ideology will see. And one more thing – every war you tried against Israel proved your armies are really quite rotten. Your ideology makes for great suicide bombers, and lousy soldiers. You will lose, my friend. Might not be next week, or next year, or even in 100 years. But you will lose.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 7:23amVlad Tepes… had the right diet for Muslim Warriors!
Report Post »Proud Stray Dog
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 7:42pmYeah…..but they had sore butts afterwards because of a large pole entering the exit.
Yep……Vlad the Impaler.
Report Post »arfarb55
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 7:20amI would have given you PORK CHOPS!
Report Post »BJAlexandria
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 7:14amBwaahaa – sounds like the American soldiers were outsmarted the others. Sent in the other (dispensable) troops to lessen their losses.
Report Post »Dodsfall
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 8:54amIf only that were true. During the Gulf War, brave Americans shed their blood for these ungrateful slugs while they hid behind our men (and women) until it was safe.
Like with the left, it’s always upside-down world with these guys. Up is down and left is right, and revisionist history makes cowards feel like heroes.
Report Post »loveoursoldiers
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 7:03amThey’re freaking prisoners.. not guests of the USA.. or are they?
Report Post »I‘d say they had a good breakfast when some citizens of our country don’t even have that. What happened to bread and water? Oh, I forgot, that’s just for the enemies of the admin.
blanco5
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 7:25amHopefully, the American soldiers spit or did something even worse into their food to give it that extra “wang”. I would have!
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:43amBLANCO5, “Hollywood Knights!” LOL, saw that the first night that we moved out of the Krome Avenue sites and into the Cutler Ridge Holiday Inn during the Mariel Boat Lift. Robert Wuhl did actually look like a high school teenager back in May ‘80.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 9:45amSorry, we moved out of Key Largo. From here we were bussed out to the Krome Avenue sites for our shifts. Been a while.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 6:56amLooks to me like he got out of Gitmo just in time. What the hell kinda yogurt are eating down there anyhoo?
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 6:51amI remember that wonderful Iraqi Army that ran like little girls….They called themselves the Republican Guard. hahahaha
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 11:06amYea, remember how the press built them up like they were the Waffen SS or something? Iran is the same deal.
Report Post »Captain Crunch
Posted on March 3, 2012 at 12:11pmThe image I will always remember is of the burned/bombed vehicles and dead bodies stretching for miles on the highway. Needs to happen again in Iran.
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