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POW Maupin Executed?

Posted on 06/28/2004 3:34:15 PM PDT by VanZant

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1 posted on 06/28/2004 3:34:15 PM PDT by VanZant
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To: VanZant

He was dead minutes after they made the video.


2 posted on 06/28/2004 3:35:21 PM PDT by COEXERJ145
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To: VanZant

I just read it on another thread. I'm very unhappy, too.


3 posted on 06/28/2004 3:35:47 PM PDT by EggsAckley (.....ISLAM .... THE KUDZU OF THE WORLD......)
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Didn't they say a Middle East television station is showing tape????


4 posted on 06/28/2004 3:37:52 PM PDT by JLS
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Al Jazerra is airing the video they said.


5 posted on 06/28/2004 3:41:56 PM PDT by Dog (In Memory of Pat Tillman ---- ---- ---- American Hero.)
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To: VanZant

The barbarians,both here and abroad,will blame Bush and the press will go along with it.

It's our own citizens that bothers me the most.Don't they care at all about this country?


6 posted on 06/28/2004 3:44:11 PM PDT by Mears
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I think they are saying that Al Jazeera HAS the video, but has not shown it. Al-J seems to have realized that all these executions of Westerners are not endearing their beloved "militants" to the west.

From what I am reading it does appear that Maupin has been killed. The Army has seen a video of a blindfolded man who "looks like him" being shot in the head in a darkened room. No confirmation, but...doesn't look good.

Prayers for his family in their darkest hours.


7 posted on 06/28/2004 3:47:11 PM PDT by johnfrink
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Excuted my ass...he was murdered! Your title sucks troll.


8 posted on 06/28/2004 3:49:00 PM PDT by I got the rope
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We free countries and populations from evil dictators, they kill people with dull knives in cowardly ways - I just wonder why some folks around the world cannot see the differences when they are so clearly illustrated.


9 posted on 06/28/2004 3:49:34 PM PDT by The Louiswu (I am a - 40-something White, Republican and proud of it!)
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This is the third unconfirmed report I've heard today. Seems to me for the sake of the family & the good of us all they would want concrete, verified proof before reporting this. I'm still optimistically holding out hope that he is alive.
10 posted on 06/28/2004 3:53:22 PM PDT by AZamericonnie (Any compromise between good and evil only hurts the good and helps the evil)
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Its a sad day here in Cincinnati where he is from.

(Batavia is one of the suburbs here.)


11 posted on 06/28/2004 3:59:33 PM PDT by dinok
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Soulless fiends will surely rot in hell.


12 posted on 06/28/2004 3:59:36 PM PDT by tkathy (nihilism: absolute destructiveness toward the world at large and oneself)
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To: Mears

Obviously I blame the terrorists, but the media also has some culpability in this.


The terrorists desperately want to influence the American election. They knew killing Maupin on Independence Day in Iraq would be shrewd. The American media has made endangered every soldier's life in Iraq by covering this in the most pessimistic, morale sapping way possible.


13 posted on 06/28/2004 4:01:37 PM PDT by VanZant
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Eaaaaasy Ropeman! Don't EXECUTE the messenger. We're all Americans here.


14 posted on 06/28/2004 4:05:33 PM PDT by He'sComingBack! (God Bless our Troops & Pres. Reagan)
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Why is Al Jazeera still on the air ?


15 posted on 06/28/2004 4:05:49 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (STAGMIRE !)
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I think they made a mistake, murdering a Marine. I don't think the Marines will take kindly to that.


16 posted on 06/28/2004 4:11:26 PM PDT by punster
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I think that could be chalked up on the short list of "Very Bad Ideas". Add it to the beheading of that Korean fellow, which will not endear them to the ROK Special Forces soldiers coming in-country soon, and it seems the terrorists are setting a trend for pissing off all the wrong people.


17 posted on 06/28/2004 4:16:24 PM PDT by NC Native ("Bombing begins in five minutes"... Ronald W. Reagan)
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From CNN:

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The Arabic-language television network Al-Jazeera reported Monday that it had received a statement and a videotape from a group of militants who claimed to have killed U.S. Army Pfc. Matt Maupin.

Maupin was captured April 9 when his convoy was ambushed outside Baghdad. President Bush met with Maupin's family June 21.

Two senior Pentagon officials told CNN there was no way to tell the identity of the victim apparently seen on the videotape.

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Story

18 posted on 06/28/2004 4:26:46 PM PDT by Jalapeno
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It's our own citizens that bothers me the most.Don't they care at all about this country?

I think the tactics used by these animals are very easy to understand. They will continue to bomb, capture and behead Americans, Westerners, foreigners, etc. until people get sick of seeing it and hearing about it. This will cause those same people to vent there disgust on Bush, Blair et al thus removing these leaders (particularly Bush) from office, i.e. out of power, shamed and defeated. The animals win. After all, it worked in Spain. They believe this will work because Arab and Western media outlets will eagerly air the reports and videos of the captured and the killings.

It remains to be seen if this tactic will really work. So far, I don't know. We'll know by November, though.

19 posted on 06/28/2004 4:31:20 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr (The Arab Street is in need of a major sweeping.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
Why is Al Jazeera still on the air ?

That's the $64k dollar question. They're worse than CNN ever thought about being and being such Jihads-on-the-spot it seems they're not just breaking the news but *making* the news. Does it surprise anyone they have this tape to add to their ever growing collection of beheadings?

20 posted on 06/28/2004 4:36:23 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn
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