What is Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin doing now?

[G_j]

Doesn't he still have some sort of authoritative position in the "war on terror"? Its not mentioned in this article.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0820-02.htm

Published on Friday, August 20, 2004 by the Associated Press

Probe Examines General's Remarks on Terror
by Robert Burns

WASHINGTON - A Pentagon investigation has concluded that a senior military intelligence officer violated regulations by failing to make clear he was not speaking in an official capacity when he made church speeches casting the war on terrorism in religious terms, a senior defense official said Thursday.

In most instances the officer, Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, was wearing his Army uniform.


The probe by the Defense Department's deputy inspector general also found that Boykin, the deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, violated Pentagon rules by failing to obtain advance clearance for his remarks, which gained wide publicity last fall.

In one appearance, Boykin told a religious group in Oregon that Islamic extremists hate the United States "because we're a Christian nation, because our foundation and our roots are Judeo-Christians. ... And the enemy is a guy named Satan," according to news reports last fall.


..more..

[Vickers]

1. Gee, and he also illegally took money from those religious groups

From the linked story:

"The Post also reported that the investigation concluded that Boykin violated a regulation by failing to report reimbursement of travel costs from one of the sponsoring religious groups."

Nice.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. He is commanding in Iraq and Afghanistan!

Google his name and "Taskforce 121"! He is over collecting intel in the prisons in Iraq! General Miller's boss I think!

[G_j]

4. I thought I had heard that, So he is still a commander in the "holy war"

now isn't that comforting. :scared:

[Hubert Flottz]

3. The Man-Hunters of Task Force 121

The U.S. military has created a highly secret operation of "hunter-killers" called Task Force 121--assigned to kill the leaders of Iraqi's resistance.

Journalist Seymour Hersh ( New Yorker , Dec. 15) reports this Task Force 121 is a rapid- deployment assassination operation built out of elite Special Operations forces from the Army, Navy and Air Force. The death squads have CIA officers officially "attached," and come with a large accompanying "conventional force" to seal off areas while the killing goes down. Operations are already reported in Iraq and Syria.

The unit is patterned on similar Israeli units that hunt down and assassinate leaders of Palestinian resistance. It is also inspired by the notorious "Operation Phoenix" where CIA death squads murdered and tortured tens of thousands of people to "neutralize the infrastructure" of South Vietnam's National Liberation Front.

Hersh writes: "According to American and Israeli military and intelligence officials, Israeli commandos and intelligence units have been working closely with their American counterparts at the Special Forces training base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and in Israel to help them prepare for operations in Iraq. Israeli commandos are expected to serve as ad-hoc advisers--again, in secret--when full-field operations begin." The U.S. high command denies Israeli involvement and an Israeli official told Hersh: "Both governments have decided at the highest level that it is in their interest to keep a low profile on U.S.-Israeli cooperation." MORE...

http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/82461/index.php

[Hubert Flottz]

5. Some Iraqis Held Outside Control of Top General

The New York Times
May 17, 2004
DOUGLAS JEHL

WASHINGTON, May 16 — About 100 high-ranking Iraqi prisoners held for months at a time in spartan conditions on the outskirts of Baghdad International Airport are being detained under a special chain of command, under conditions not subject to approval by the top American commander in Iraq, according to military officials.
The unusual lines of authority in the detainees' handling are part of a tangled network of authority over prisoners in Iraq, in which the military police, military intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, various military commanders and the Pentagon itself have all played a role. Congressional investigators who are looking into the scandal over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners say those arrangements have made it difficult to determine where the final authority lies.

At least as of February, many of the 100 or so prisoners categorized by American officials as "high value detainees" because of the special intelligence they are believed to possess, had been held since June 2003 for nearly 23 hours a day in strict solitary confinement in small concrete cells without sunlight, according to a report by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

While not tantamount to the sexual humiliation and other abuses inflicted on Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison, the conditions have been described by the Red Cross as a violation of the Geneva Conventions, the international treaty that the Bush administration has said it regards as "fully applicable" to all prisoners held by the United States in Iraq. ***** More on "taskforce 121".......

http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/iraq/1860.html

Another GREAT website here!

http://www.havenworks.com/military/archive/2003/

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Kick!

:kick: Boykin out of the Army, he's Evil!

[G_j]

7. nice research

I knew I'd find some answers here.