Posted on 10/24/2004 2:08:34 AM PDT by Former Military Chick
The bodies of 49 Iraqi army soldiers have been found near the town of Baquba, north-east of Baghdad, according to police. The bodies were laid out in four rows with about 12 bodies in each row, Gen Walid Al-Assawi, commander of the Diyala provincial police, has said.
"After inspection, we found out that they were shot after being ordered to lie down on the earth," he said.
Thirty-seven bodies were found on Saturday, and another 12 on Sunday.
Pre or post Saddam Iraqi Soldiers?
Post Saddam...
Executed by Saddaams holdouts and their terrorist allies, I guess?
How sad.
These regions where the baathist holdouts and their terrorist allies, need to be 'pacified' big time. I don't know that we can wait that much longer to flatten resistance in regions like fallujah and sadr city.
It's not a quagmire. It DOES need to be finished.
These 49 apparently were willing to die for their family's freedom. It's past time to make the freedom haters die for their belief system. And not just one or two at a time.
Frankly when I read it I was mortified. We are doing so much to help those in Iraq have a better life and the insurgents (and other evil) just keep on killing and causing havic, it is terrible.
Some of these men just graduated from training by our military so they could defend their country and now they are dead. I pray for those who died and their families.
I have not found anything to say it was pre war. In other words it seems it is the newly taught soldiers. It is breaking we can post more as it becomes available.
Thanks for keeping me on my toes.
"I have not found anything to say it was pre war. In other words it seems it is the newly taught soldiers."
Reports are definitely sketchy. But, one source says the soldiers were rounded up as they left their station for leave, then were lined up on the ground to be executed.
Trust the BBC to report this with a smirk. It would be nice to hear the good things the Iraqi's have going for them...the very reason why these murderous creeps are desperately killing Arabs/Iraqi's. A dying snake is still dangerous.
Hopefully we will lose patience shortly after Nov. 2.
Watch to see how Kerry and the slimey Dems. treat this story today!
Very, very bad.
The Islamofascists know that if GW Bush i re-elected, they will eventually be hunted down and made to face justice.
Their panic-driven and desperate actions remind me of Bill Clinton launching cruise missiles when Monica testified to the Grand Jury and when the House voted on Impeachment.
These monsters make the SS look like Mother Teresa, and will not tell us anything (not with American methods and the MSM and ACLU worried about "their" rights) or be "rehabilitated", so why bother?
Perhaps if we allowed the Iraqi National Guard or the Kurds to do the questioning, away from prying eyes...?
According to Edwards and Kerry, only American's are taking casualties.
This is a sad event. However the MSM & Liberals can only carry this so far because they are not US troops. There was a report that a US diplomat was killed today. Now this they will try to spin for the next 10 days or so.
How many "insurgents" does it take to capture, control and systematically execute 49 armed men?
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