Combat outpost name sparks controversy

Combat outpost name sparks controversy
By Joe Gould - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Feb 13, 2012 15:55:21 EST
In the wake of controversy over a photo of Marine snipers posing in front of the Nazi-associated SS insignia, the military is facing questions about a base in Afghanistan said to be called, “Combat Outpost Aryan,” a term linked with Nazis and white supremacists.

In a Monday letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation attorney Randal Mathis demanded the outpost to be renamed and the circumstances surrounding its naming be investigated.

“Today’s stunning information concerning the base near Kandahar being named ‘Aryan’ is simply too much to be coincidental,” Mathis said in the letter. “Viewing either as trivially inadvertent would be preposterous.”
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