Pre or post Saddam Iraqi Soldiers?
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.
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.
Watch to see how Kerry and the slimey Dems. treat this story today!
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...?
How many "insurgents" does it take to capture, control and systematically execute 49 armed men?
I bet they will still be standing in line to volunteer, they have after being repeatedly bombed as they sign up to free their country.
By The Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The bodies of about 50 Iraqi soldiers were found on a remote road in eastern Iraq, apparently the victims of an ambush as they were heading home on leave, Iraqi authorities said Sunday. Also, a State Department security officer was killed during a mortar or rocket attack at a U.S. base near the Baghdad airport
Interior Ministry spokesman Adnan Abdul-Rahman said the Iraqi soldiers were believed to have been killed about sundown Saturday on a road about 95 miles east of Baghdad near the Iranian border.
There were conflicting reports on the exact number of dead, whether they were members of the Iraqi army or the Iraqi National Guard and whether they were all killed execution-style.
Iraqi government spokeswoman Maha Malik quoted witnesses as saying insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at about two vehicles carrying the unarmed troops.
Gen. Walid al-Azzawi, commander of the Diyala provincial police, said the bodies were laid out in four rows each, with 12 bodies in each row.
"After inspection, we found out that they were shot after being ordered to lay down on the earth," he said.
Al-Azzawi said he believed the soldiers had been training at the Kirkush military camp northeast of Baghdad.
An Associated Press reporter on the scene reported seeing the burned frames of two minibuses. Blood stains were visible on the ground, along with human remains. Witnesses said the attackers stole some buses. Police said they had found 51 bodies from the attack place.
More at Yahoo News
Ohhh. Very sad.
It is really very hard for some of us to trust the IDF leadership.
It is a major (domestic political) strategic error to fail to bring the hammer down in hopes of winning a few sucker moms.
If Fallujah was in ruins and bodies piled high in the streets of Baghdad, Bush would be up 15 points.
"People want to follow the strong horse"-a dead guy from Afghanistan.
I don't understand why the families and friends of the slain "good" Iraqis don't get mad enough to turn the terrorist pigs in and bring a semblance of security to their country.
Remember Malmédy.
Prayers for each and every one of these brave men and their families.
this is just too sad... that bunch of folks, trying to have a good life, trying to have a good job, and psychos continue to kill them, for NO OTHER REASON, than to murder and pillage... its just so maddening to me...