Video on Islamic militant Web site appears to show beheading of American

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[highlandbreeze]

Why Gen. Taguba?

[gilliam]

when does this press hype on the prison 'abuse' turn into aiding and abedding?

[2banana]

It also looks like he has been seriously tortured, possibly had his genitals burned off.

But he was not humiliated...

[The South Texan]

Relgion of peace, comapsssion and humane treatment of prisoners alert.

[eastforker]

Anyone know what website this was on?

[Diddle E. Squat]

Thank you General Taguba.

You are a fool.

[KellyAdmirer]

It doesn't even have to be humiliation, just hurting someone's feelings is worse for a liberal than having an American's head cut off.

[livius]

Go to the website in Post #23.

The you'll really say kill 'em all, and I think a heck of a lot of people will agree with you.

[Osage Orange]

You are too kind....just give them the K+

FRegards,

[ampat]

Let CBS show it, and then force the democratic senate armed services committee members to watch it.

[Mr. Mojo]

Indeed it is...

[EGPWS]

So where is their f%ckin' apology, huh?

They d@mn well better apologize, with restitution to the family, lest they suffer the wrath of "dirty American panties".

[BushisTheMan]

General Taguba was pissed his father was not honored. He has an axe to grind. He is a friend of Shinseki, whom the DemoRATs love. He is not a friend of Rummy.

Who's the fool?

[Nexus]

CAIRO, Egypt - A video posted Tuesday on an Islamic militant Web site appeared to show a group affiliated with al-Qaida beheading an American in Iraq (news - web sites), saying the death was revenge for the prisoner-abuse scandal.

The video showed five men wearing headscarves and black ski masks, standing over a bound man in an orange jumpsuit who identified himself as an American from Philadelphia.

After reading a statement, the men were seen pulling the man to his side and cutting off his head with a large knife. They then held the head out before the camera.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040511/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_american_beheaded_1

[dfwgator]

Or we'll give them the "comfy chair" and the "soft pillows"

[God luvs America]

I thought that was a picture of Michael Moore(on) and his new weight loss diet???

[Frank_Discussion]

What EXACTLY do you think Taguba did? Do you think he was the leaker of the info?

[Red Badger]

I reviewed the video of Daniel Pearl's murder yesterday just to remind myself what the war on terrorism was all about.....now, this........Both should be shown on PRIME TIME TV until the war is won. These animals are not fit to breathe free air............

[BushisTheMan]

Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:12 a.m. EDT
'Embittered' Gen. Taguba Had Grudge Against Army, Rumsfeld

The military investigator who set off a firestorm of controversy with his damaging report accusing U.S. MPs of abusing detainees at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison is said to be "bitter" over what he regarded as the Army's mistreatment of his own father after World War II.

Maj. Gen. Antonio M. Taguba, author of the now notorious Taguba Report, also recently served under former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, a critic of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who challenged Rumsfeld's early estimates of the number of troops needed to win the Iraq war.

"General Taguba went out of his way in 2001 to call attention to what he described as the injustice the Army had accorded his father after a two-decade career that began in the Battle of Bataan in 1942, where he fought alongside American forces," the New York Times reports in Tuesday editions.

His father, Staff Sgt. Tomas Taguba, left the Army "without so much as a retirement ceremony to thank him for those 20 years of hard work and faithful service," the son complained at a 2001 Veterans Day ceremony.

The Times said Gen. Taguba spoke with "evident bitterness" as he detailed the injustice done by the military to his father, who was among 10,000 Filipinos who were essentially drafted into American service after the outbreak of World War II.

Noting that Secretary Rumsfeld had "derided" Gen. Shinseki's recommendations, the Times said that Taguba's initial investigation into the abuse at Abu Ghraib was supposed to be limited to the conduct of a single military police brigade. However, "Taguba used it to deliver a much broader indictment" that cast suspicion on higher-ups, the paper said.

While some of Taguba's lesser charges of abuse at Abu Ghraib were backed by photographs and confessions by some MPs, he relied solely on the allegations of detained Iraqis suspected of terrorism to deliver his most damaging allegations, which included accusations of inmate beatings and GIs committing sodomy with a broomstick.

In his report Taguba admitted that these charges were supported only by "statements provided by the following detainees, which under the circumstances I find credible based on the clarity of their statements and supporting evidence provided by other witnesses."

He then listed the accusers and witnesses, all of whom were suspected Iraqi terrorists who had been singled out for intensive interrogation.

[RetiredArmy]

Don't hold your breath my friend!