Dead US soldier hung on public display

The Age ^ | 4/1/2003 | AFP

[sjersey]

US Marines moved into the southern Iraqi town of Shatrah today to recover the body of a dead comrade which had been hanged in the town square, officers said.

Hundreds of troops were dispatched on the operation after intelligence reports indicated the body of a dead American, who was killed in a firefight last week, had been paraded through the streets and hanged in public.

"We would like to retrieve the body of the marine but it is not our sole purpose," said Lieutenant-Colonel Pete Owen, of the First Marine Expeditionary Force.

Military sources said another part of the operation was to arm local militias to fight against members of the ruling Baath party loyal to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Shatrah is some 40 km north of Nasiriyah, where Iraqi forces have been harassing US supply lines and putting up tough resistance for more than a week.

[ruready4eternity]

HIs spirit lives in these possesed devil humans and they are carrying out his work

[Lauratealeaf]

They do it because they are United States Marines. They are members of the United States Armed Forces. They are professional warriors, not a band of preverted, outlaw, criminal scum.

Believe me, that when the Marines, and Soldiers, and Sailors, and Airmen, of the US Armed forces get "the word", the filthy b^stards who are responsible for all of these crimes, WILL PAY, with blood interest, in FULL.

God Bless America and our Armed Forces.

This bears repeating!

[PhiKapMom]

You are so right! The Marines unlike the Iraqi troops follow a code which speaks volumes for our young men!

Just hope they root out the terrorist that did this and give his friends a shot at them.

[DannyTN]

I don't think we are fighting a PC war. PC would have been to surrender to the Axis of Weasels and go home with our tail between our legs.

We are fighting with honor. We simply will not go in and kill thousands of civilians without knowing whether they back Saddam or not. It's not the PC thing to do, it's the right thing to do.

We will win and God will be with us. And the concern we show for human life in this war is one of the few things that may reach the people of the middle east to wake them up out the Satanic religion that has been imposed on them.

[metesky]

Stop pissing yourself, it's unbecoming.

[mrsmith]

"Officials also said initial reports were wrong: The Marine was not strung up"

Can't hurt this thread to repeat it.

[ruready4eternity]

" these brave young men that are dying for the rights that these protestor pukes are abusing. My heart goes out to his family."

You said it perfectly. May God be with the TROOPS tonite and the Families because thats what they are doing "FREEDOM"

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The Fedayeen are thugs and should be exterminated!

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[mylife]

Well Spoken Danny!

[BlackVeil]

"The Age" is a very respectable Australian paper, similar in style to the New York Times. It is the leading paper in Melbourne. Post 22 has an update on this story, and it seems that the Marine was not hanged.

[ruready4eternity]

Agree!

[txradioguy]

"THe way is to bomb the hellout of Saddam. Get the innocent out of the way if we can , becuase right now, everyone cant be trusted in that region. If I were a soldier right now, with all respect , My adrenelin would be pumping, id be shitting bricks, I may lose my mind and shoot all :incoming enemy" Im sorry. This cannot be won PC way. Bring out the big one, sorry u dissagree"


Ok we already are bombing the hell out of every little rathole we suspect Saddam of hiding in. We have already altered the ROE because of the milita and we paid for it today by killing 7 women and children. We played into Saddam's hands on that one. If you were a soldier and had that "kill 'em all" mentality and you were in my squad, I'd take away your weapon and put you behind a desk. I AM a soldier. I have seen what an enemy without morals or a conscience can do. I think about it everytime I look at the video of friends, DEAD friends I had who died in Somalia. When they got killed, did it make me want to personally put a bullet in Mohammed Aideed's skull? You bet. Did it make me wanna unload my ammo clip into every Somali I saw? HELL NO. Because as a soldier I had and still have discipline! You get the ones who did this and let the innocents carry on. Revenge is a dish served cold. The Marines will "get some" for this heinous act. But they'll get the ones who did it. Not everyone who comes into sight.

[whadizit]

Oh, God! We should be grateful that that did not happen. What a f---ing mess that would have been. This is bad enough.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Thank you.

[neutrino]

There are other threads on this board that discuss dead iraqis. Having read about what the scum have done to our brave young service men and women, I feel no mercy for any iraqi - none whatsoever.

[F.J. Mitchell]

By what name would you have us address those demons? Maybe ruthless, blood thirsty, scum bags, deserving of total contempt and death.

You don't have to be one to know one, or be like them to put them out of the misery of their suffering victims, before they spread their brutality to every peace loving human being on earth.

[ApesForEvolution]

Sigh. The steely resolve compounds. There won't be any murderous rag heads left to prosecute for war crimes when we're through.

[Extremist]

Innocent Iraqis = OXYMORON!!!

Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out!!!

[potlatch]

This is such sad news, I don't know what to say.

[aruanan]

By what name would you have us address those demons? Maybe ruthless, blood thirsty, scum bags, deserving of total contempt and death.

Don't read very well, do you?