Talk:William G. Boykin

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This article has quite a few problems with it, first and foremost being that parts of it have been wholesale copied from another website (see the Biographic Information and quotes website). I am deleting all that has been copied, because it is an infringement on someone else's work, and second because the website from which it was copied was put together by Michael Savage. I have no like or dislike for Mr. Savage, but I would not trust his researching skills. Some of the information copied over is just plain wrong, like Mr. Boykin was commander of the raid in Mogadishu, Somalia (see Battle_of_Mogadishu. This he was not. He was not the general in command (General Garrison), or the battle commander. If anyone has any other knowledge that would disprove this, please let me know. This bio makes him sound like a specops Tom Clancy character. clindsey 04:56, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Mr. Boykin was indeed in Mogadishu. He was a colonel at the time and did command Delta Force in trying to capture Mohamed Farah Aideed. Have a look here at the Washington Post for details regarding this. krou 10:03, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

I've added the grafs on Boykin's possible cover-up of abuses and on his possible involvement with Israeli counterinsurgency advisers. Given how difficult it is to know about secret ops, it seems to me that citing news articles as such gets the allegations out there while bracketing them as news reports, not gospel. --Andersonblog 21:06, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

I've added in a section on Boykin's connection to Jack Idema. While I realise Jack Idema was widely considered a fantasist, I still think it's necessary to reveal the claims that he made. I did try to make it perfectly clear that he was not widely seen as credible. If anyone thinks this section shouldn't be included, feel free to shout! krou 20:19, 21 March 2006 (UTC)