Posted on 06/20/2006 5:40:45 PM PDT by kellynla
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The U.S. military recovered the bodies Tuesday of two missing soldiers from an area it said was rigged with explosives. An Iraqi official said the Americans were tortured and killed in a "barbaric" way.
An insurgent group claimed the new leader of al-Qaida in Iraq executed the men personally, but it offered no evidence. The U.S. military did not confirm whether the soldiers died from wounds suffered in an attack Friday or were kidnapped and later killed.
The discovery of the bodies dealt a new setback to U.S. efforts to seize the momentum against al-Qaida in Iraq after killing its leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in a June 7 airstrike. Violence was unabated Tuesday, with at least 18 people killed in attacks nationwide, including a suicide bombing of a home for the elderly in the southern city of Basra.
Coalition forces spotted the American soldiers' bodies late Monday, three days after the men disappeared following an attack on their checkpoint south of the capital, the military said. But troops delayed retrieving the remains until an explosives team cleared the area after an Iraqi civilian warned them to be alert for explosive devices.
"Coalition forces had to carefully maneuver their way through numerous improvised explosive devices leading up to and around the site," the military said in a statement. "Insurgents attempting to inflict additional casualties had placed IEDs around the bodies."
Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said the bodies were found together in the vicinity of an electrical plant, which would be just a few miles from where the initial attack took place near the town of Youssifiyah in the volatile Sunni Triangle south of Baghdad.
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Release the "Pendleton Eight!"
Semper Fi, Kelly
Yeah, I imagine it's going to be like the setback dealt to American forces in the Ardennes in late 1944, when they discovered the massacre at Malmedy.
There's going to be fewer prisoners for a while...
Bull Friggin' s&it this is a set back !!!
This only makes our devil dogs that much meaner - if they too are let off the leash (as are the Pendleton 8)
I hope this means we can really kick butt now!
BTW - Lock up that wacko Murtha!
"Fight like Vietnam, end like Vietnam"...
Time to take the gloves off, and devastate large areas of the Sunni Triangle of Death....
Let the death be THEIRS...
Deliver death to the cult of death on a large enough scale to satisfy their appetite.....
Semper Fi
Laura Ingraham was just on Oreilley -- she said she went to Amnesty International's web site just before coming on the air. NOT A SINGLE WORD FROM THEM ABOUT THESE HORRENDOUS MURDERS OF OUR TROOPS. I also note, that the UN hasn't made a statement condeming the terrorists, in fact, I doubt anyone in the DNC or democrat party has either. Other than to blame the Bush administration for the torturous murders. I'm beyond disgusted.
I have never, ever even heard of an enemy like this one.
Exactly. The troops can't even defend themselves.
That is Bravo Sierra.
The troops are incredible!
I hate the press.
ping
New American Policy:
SSS.
Or maybe SMSS.
Murtha be damned, Specter be damned, PMSNBCCNNCBSABC be damned.
Gloves OFF.
Why do they need DNA testing?
their faces are not recognizeable.
M is for mutilate. Pig skin, panties, headless.
Its time to go Roman on them.
It's past time for the ROE to be changed and for SOG's to be given free reign to hunt and kill every last jihadist bastard they can find.
At the risk of being redundant, I am posting my response to a similar thread. We should be instructed by the lessons of history. Rudyard Kipling knew those lessons well. Hear his words:
The Grave of the Hundred Head
There's a widow in sleepy Chester
Who weeps for her only son;
There's a grave on the Pabeng River,
A grave that the Burmans shun;
And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri
Who tells how the work was done.
A Snider squibbed in the jungle,
Somebody laughed and fled,
And the men of the First Shikaris
Picked up their Subaltern dead,
With a big blue mark in his forehead
And the back blown out of his head.
Subadar Prag Tewarri,
Jemadar Hira Lal,
Took command of the party,
Twenty rifles in all,
Marched them down to the river
As the day was beginning to fall.
They buried the boy by the river,
A blanket over his face --
They wept for their dead Lieutenant,
The men of an alien race --
They made a samadh in his honor,
A mark for his resting-place.
For they swore by the Holy Water,
They swore by the salt they ate,
That the soul of Lieutenant Eshmitt Sahib
Should go to his God in state,
With fifty file of Burmans
To open him Heaven's gate.
The men of the First Shikaris
Marched till the break of day,
Till they came to the rebel village,
The village of Pabengmay --
A jingal covered the clearing,
Calthrops hampered the way.
Subadar Prag Tewarri,
Bidding them load with ball,
Halted a dozen rifles
Under the village wall;
Sent out a flanking-party
With Jemadar Hira Lal.
The men of the First Shikaris
Shouted and smote and slew,
Turning the grinning jingal
On to the howling crew.
The Jemadar's flanking-party
Butchered the folk who flew.
Long was the morn of slaughter,
Long was the list of slain,
Five score heads were taken,
Five score heads and twain;
And the men of the First Shickaris
Went back to their grave again,
Each man bearing a basket
Red as his palms that day,
Red as the blazing village --
The village of Pabengmay,
And the "drip-drip-drip" from the baskets
Reddened the grass by the way.
They made a pile of their trophies
High as a tall man's chin,
Head upon head distorted,
Set in a sightless grin,
Anger and pain and terror
Stamped on the smoke-scorched skin.
Subadar Prag Tewarri
Put the head of the Boh
On the top of the mound of triumph,
The head of his son below --
With the sword and the peacock-banner
That the world might behold and know.
Thus the samadh was perfect,
Thus was the lesson plain
Of the wrath of the First Shikaris --
The price of a white man slain;
And the men of the First Shikaris
Went back into camp again.
Then a silence came to the river,
A hush fell over the shore,
And Bohs that were brave departed,
And Sniders squibbed no more;
For the Burmans said
That a white man's head
Must be paid for with heads five-score.
There's a widow in sleepy Chester
Who weeps for her only son;
There's a grave on the Pabeng River,
A grave that the Burmans shun;
And there's Subadar Prag Tewarri
Who tells how the work was done.
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