Two U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraqi City of Mosul [Throats Cut]

Reuters ^ | Sun November 23, 2003 05:18 AM ET | Reuters Staff

[MEG33]

Or Yemem or Saudi Arabia,or Syria,Sigh.They are all sending jihadists.Iran is the coutry most likely to harbor top Al Queda,though.

[deanjames]

ok, seems like they were wrong...

sorry for the long post

"MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) - Three US soldiers were killed in northern Iraq (news - web sites), including two in the heart of the city of Mosul and one near the flashpoint town of Baqubah, military spokesmen said.


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But the military said that the two who died in Mosul had been shot, denying reports that their throats had been slit.


"Two soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division Air Assault were killed just past noon (0900 GMT) today in west Mosul (the main part of the city)," said unit spokesman Specialist Joshua Hutcheson.


They were "shot while en route from one compound to another in the city," he said, adding that an investigation was under way.


Witnesses said they saw gunmen open fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles on a three-vehicle convoy in the central Ras Jada district of the city.


"The last car was hit and crashed into a wall," said Atallah Karim Omar who runs a grocery by the scene.


Both Omar and another witness, baker Raed Amer Zaffar, said the other two vehicles had continued on their way, allowing the assailants to approach the stricken soldiers and remove their helmets and flak jackets.


They said the attackers then slit the soldiers' throats, but that was vigorously denied by the US spokesman.


The witnesses disagreed whether there were three or four assilants.


An AFP correspondent said several dozen US soldiers had established a cordon 300 metres (yards) from the crash site, preventing access to the scene.


Further south a US soldier was killed and two wounded when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device of the type favoured by Iraqi insurgents, a spokesman said.


"They were in a convoy and they were attacked" in Baqubah at 10:40 am (0740 GMT), said Colonel Bill MacDonald, spokesman for the 4th Infantry Division which patrols north-central Iraq.


"The wounded are in a stable condition," he said at the division's base in ousted president Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s hometown of Tikrit.


The attack came a day after US troops seized a former lieutenant general in Saddam's army in a raid in the town, MacDonald revealed.


The Mosul attack came hours after gunmen killed Iraqi police Colonel Abdel Salam Qanbar, charged with the security of oil installations in the city, as he left a mosque, police General Khaled Fathi Jassim told AFP.


Qanbar was appointed to his post by Mosul police chief Mohammed Barhawi in coordination with the US-led coalition. "

[wizardoz]

Very true. But Iran is the bridge between two spots we already hold. Win Iran and we have a contiguous block.

[Indie]

Win Iran and we have a contiguous block...

Let's give them a few years to cool off first though.

[MarMema]

The woman who cuts my hair is from Mosul, having moved here just a few years ago. It is a nasty place and she has long feared for her family still there.

The chechens like to cut throats of dead soldiers and especially badly injured soldiers. My thinking is that these soldiers were nearly dead from another cause and their throats were cut while they were unable to defend themselves at all, or they were already dead and their throats were cut after death.

This whole islamic thing of cutting throats/beheading comes from some old custom, in chechnya at least, of souls after death being unable to hold up their heads to come after you. It has since become a barbarian way to demoralize the enemy for true barbarians like the islamic terrorists.

There was video on the chechen sites of them cutting the throats of dead or nearly dead Russian soldiers. After they blew up the vehicle they were riding in with a mine of some kind and remote control. Of course the chechens are more disgusting than most humans in general, but I don't think it is far-fetched for them to be helping out in Mosul, or for their ideas to have spread among their fellow scum.

May God bless the souls of our soldiers.

[blackie]

Paryers for our fallen heros ~ Bump!

[little jeremiah]

I'm wondering if their throats were cut after death? Otherwise how could the evil ones have gotten that close? Or they were known, as you mentioned.

Either way, absolutely cruel and horrible.

(BTW, they should get the women out of there. On another thread, a woman whose husband is over there says the women in the military huddle in corners and cry. Let the women have their own WACS and WAVES like they used to. Having women around in danger is demoralizing at best.)

[Stallone]

Stupid PC Politics and Democratic Rats!

For once and for all, America, kick the Islamofascist asses to tomorrow and be done with it.

NEVER NEGOTIATE WITH EVIL - KILL IT.

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[Archangelsk]

Same way it happened in Somalia.

[MEG33]

I don't doubt their capacity to do so nor their wish to do so.I was at first of the impression the attack was purely one with a knife.The throat cutting is also meant to horrify and I am sure if they could shoot and also cut throats,they would do so.

I have never watched the Pearl video because the Somalia video has stuck in my mind.I believe in evil and man's ability to behave like mad dogs.

[SAMWolf]

Even they fear something. It's just a matter of finding out what.Tell them that from now on ouor buklkets will have a coating of pig fat and all dead terrorists will be wrapped in pig skin and buried in a pit of pig offal.

[wizardoz]

Yeah, see, I'm fine with doing that. ;^)

[GHCubana]

On another thread, a woman whose husband is over there says the women in the military huddle in corners and cry.

I doubt that includes all women. If I was a woman in the military in Iraq and I find out one of my buddies had his throat slit by one of those filthy ragheads I would not get mad or cry, I would get EVEN.

I am also very happy to share with you that my son decided on his own free will to join the US Navy and is waiting to go to bootcamp in January 04. The public school system did not turn my son into a sissy liberal commie wimp. I am proud of him but I am also proud of myself for teaching him
the value of FREEDOM.

Alex is jogging 15 miles 3 times a week to get ready for bootcamp. I hope they feed him right and give him the training he needs because he is not big and buff like the soldiers I see in pictures but he is smart and healthy and ready to kick some ass.
GOD BLESS OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN THE MILITARY

[pctech]

Man it's about time to nuke that entire god-forsaken country. That'll be the only way to get rid of these murderers once and for all!

[cgk]

Prayers for the families of these two. How horrible.

As for this: The attack brought to 184 the number of U.S. soldiers who have been killed in action since Washington declared major combat in Iraq over on May 1.

I am SO tired of this dart in the media, I get even angrier when I read these stories and that is the closing line. These brave soldiers deserve a little respect for the sacrifice they are making in fighting for the WORLD'S freedoms. Labeling them this way - as an after the fact casualty - is highly grotesque.

[Husker24]

Even they fear something. It's just a matter of finding out what

How about being slowly dipped into a vat of boiling pork grease.

[wizardoz]

LOL! As much satisfaction as it would give me, no, I don't think we should replace paper-shredders with boiling grease.

[linn37]

exactly,kill em now and argue about whether it was right or wrong later.