Web Site Claims GI Captured in Iraq

My Way News ^ | February 1, 2005 | ROBERT H. REID

[Peach]

[Peach]

Ping

[Dog]

Post the photo....and the larger the better.

[JuliaAnne]

I am praying that this is just not true :(

[Peach]

dog - the photo is showing up for me. Is it just showing up as a red box for you or something? Cause I'm looking right at this young man.

[Dog]

I need you all to look at this photo and tell me if you think the vest is what is being issued and worn in Iraq.

Also does the M-16 shown look small?

[Peach]

Does anyone know how to make the photo larger? Dog has a question about something regarding this photo which is on Drudge's web site.

[nuconvert]

Heard any more?

[BladeLWS]

Ok, somethings I'd like to point out... first, that vest, and those boots, they aren't military issue, if they are I've never seen em. Next, the mag in the M4 isn't issued I believe, it looks like a mag you would buy for civilian use.

[BlackRain]

Is this a hoax?
The 'captured soldier' suspiciously looks like a doll for sale on the internet.


military analyst James Marks states -
Marks, a retired Army general, said he has several questions about the photograph's authenticity. A flak jacket the man is wearing in the picture has an unfamiliar kind of piping or trim along its edges, Marks said. The man's open-legged pants, as opposed to gathered hems, seem odd, he said. Marks also questioned what appeared to be camouflage paint on the man's face. "We have not used camo paint with conventional forces serving in Iraq," Marks said.

[Ex-Dem]

It looks like an M-4, not a M-16. The vest though, looks odd. Doesn't look like anything I've seen on one of our soldiers. If this video is authentic, then they might have strapped explosives to him.

[Dog]

Post the photo and make it large.

[prairiebreeze]

Why leave the kneepads on the guy? In fact, do the troops generaly wear those? I hadn't noticed them before.

[Dog]

Holy crap.

[Peach]

It does look exactly like the doll for sale on the 'net.

[Kennesaw]

WOW!

[Peach]

I should have said...the clothes/uniform look like what's on sale on the 'net.

[lonevoice]

The other thread about this has a statement from the Pentagon saying this story isn't true and that we have no personnel missing.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1333518/posts

[1LongTimeLurker]

The 'captured soldier' suspiciously looks like a doll for sale on the internet.

Did you ever consider becoming an investigative journalist? You just broke this story wide open.

[mlbford2]

Could this be a "Buckhead" moment?

[Dog]

I knew it......

[AppyPappy]

The M-16 is clearly a toy.

[Jimmyclyde]

John Adam ?

That is the fakest name since Phil McCrackin

[Peach]

That would be GREAT news.

[Gator101]

This doesn't look quite right but I am not sure. I would tend to think that they would remove things like the combat vest and kneepads if this was legit. Every other time we have seen captured soldiers they appear stripped down to fatigues or undershirt if I remember correctly.

[Peach]

Good eye, dog!!!!

[prion]

Oh my gosh! I think you're right!! Note how the AK pointed at him is apparently being held entirely off-camera by the stock. Wouldn't that be hard to do unless it was, like, a toy?

I sure hope so. First, of course, because it means they haven't got another soldier. And second because...are they reduced to this?!

[BlackRain]

Our media will swallow anything.

You be the judge.



Versus

[general_re]

My God, they've taken Ken hostage! Poor Barbie!

Seriously, my man - very, very excellent find :^)

[reegs]

They've resorted to capturing and holding dolls for hostage!!! LOL

[txrangerette]

Also here:

Iraq Group Says Holds U.S. Soldier
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1333518/posts?page=61,3

[Taylor814]

That was my first thought. more coming on-board to this view?

[Ex-Dem]

Wow...from look at that, I'm convinced that the video is a hoax. Good job on that find.

Also, now that I look more carefully at the screen capture of the video, notice how that black flag in the background has unusually large wrinkles/creases, which kind of hints at the real scale.

[Dog]

It is the vest....that did it for me.

[isthisnickcool]

Doll in front of a cinderblock with toy gun at his head.

[mlbford2]

Someone send this to Drugde. I'm not sure how.

[steveo]

Got that right! The gun is even included in the set... kneepads at the bottom of the box. Waiting to see how this plays in the media...

[reegs]

The paint job on the face seemed odd from the get go... like his face has too much red in it....

[KevinDavis]

Fake...

[BlackRain]

I can't take any credit for the find. These guys deserve the credit -

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=37038&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=32

[Gator101]

hee hee ....how embarrassing for AP.

[Bigh4u2]

I may be wrong, but it appears there is no magazine clip in the gun.

[Dog]

Look at the nose ....then look at the dolls nose....look the same to me.

[Junior_G]

You're totally right. From the outset I thought the hostage looked like some sort of dummy.

[freeplancer]

I think we will be reading your name in the papers and hearing it on tv. I think you struck gold.

[Publius Scipio]

Outstanding work, sir!

My sides are killing me over here. I'd have to say this "growing" insurgency seems to be scraping bottom. First they use retarded suicide bombers now they're threatening to behead GI Joe.

[KevinDavis]

I have the pictures next to each other.. It is a fake story. Looks like AP was duped..

[freeplancer]

Not only that, but look how porous the wall looks.

[Ex-Dem]

I agree. If they had used the other toy vest that came in the box (the green forest cammie one), then it would looked less suspect.