Comments on: New Details Emerge in Salomi Hostage Case: John Stanton http://zeroanthropology.net/2010/02/09/new-details-emerge-in-salomi-hostage-case-john-stanton/ Turning and turning in the widening gyre | The falcon cannot hear the falconer | Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold | Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world | The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere | The ceremony of innocence is drowned | The best lack all conviction, while the worst | Are full of passionate intensity. -- W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:46:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Maximilian Forte http://zeroanthropology.net/2010/02/09/new-details-emerge-in-salomi-hostage-case-john-stanton/#comment-9527 Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:47:33 +0000 http://zeroanthropology.net/?p=8411#comment-9527 Many thanks HM, that is an extremely important note, as is your other.

]]> By: HM http://zeroanthropology.net/2010/02/09/new-details-emerge-in-salomi-hostage-case-john-stanton/#comment-9525 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:01:09 +0000 http://zeroanthropology.net/?p=8411#comment-9525 “Do they train their personnel to deal with situations like this? How was Salomi able to leave the base without anyone knowing, especially in a situation where a Status for Forces Agreement stipulates that U.S. forces are to be confined to their bases, except in emergency cases or where Iraqi forces seek their backup? [Note: thanks to Darryl Li, this was not the case: Salomi was on an excused absence: http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13291”

Let me clarify something – He was not on any excused leave when he was kidnapped. He was presumed to be on duty, on base at Camp Liberty where his team was based. They changed him to that status after he was taken, mainly because he is a DoD Employee and such is their protocol.

He left base of his own accord, and while his team leader and senior management on the ground (previous & current) knew about his forays, it is unauthorized and dangerous.

In my years-long deployment experience, no single DoD employee, military person (except maybe some Special Forces-type folks?), or contractor in Iraq leaves base alone. It’s ridiculous and just NOT ALLOWED.

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