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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"There's going to be fewer prisoners for a while..."
I sure hope so.
a suicide bombing of a home for the elderly in the southern city of Basra.
Have you ever been in combat?
"...and that encouraged those still fighting to surrender."
We won't see that in this war. This enemy is crazier than a sh*thouse rat.
I'm ready to release The Hounds of Hell...but I was ready to do that three years ago. *SHRUG*
Yea, this enemy is just like the Germans and Japs... NOT!
The AP reporter in question :
By KIM GAMEL. BAGHDAD, Iraq Jun 2, 2006 (AP)— A third set of allegations that US troops have deliberately killed civilians is fueling a furor in Iraq and ...
Furor grows over civilian deaths in Iraq - KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer Fri Jun 2, 3:48 PM ET. BAGHDAD, Iraq - A third set of allegations that US troops have deliberately killed civilians
Pregnant woman, her cousin, dead in coalition shooting
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. forces killed two Iraqi women -- one of them about to give birth -- when the troops shot at a car that failed to stop at an observation ...
5/31/06 by Kim Gamel Associated Press ·
Kim seems to have an agenda.
The Associated Press has a clear anti-US agenda.
Kim is a cog in the machine.
Same here. I thought 9/11 should have been reason enough to release the HOH. I can't believe people from this country will stand against this war. I just can't believe it.
I didn't need to read any further than that to know it was an AP story (or Reuters, or AFP, or Al Jazeera). This reporter is not a friend of the U.S.
...our fathers and grandfathers faced the same sort of evil, and they triumphed.
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They never had to listen to FDR or Churchill call nazism "an ideology of peace." I'm tired of trying to make nice with people who want us dead and our entire way of life obliterated. It's way past time to take the gloves off.
Oh, yes, they certainly do. If anyone had any lingering doubts, today's headline saying Z's replacement got the "credit" for these war atrocities should have made it perfectly clear. Just amazing, they called it "credit."
They were defending their homeland.
Very accurate portrayal.
The liberals have embraced wrongful acts for so long that I don't expect them to side with anything but evil.
I am with you on releasing the "Pendleton Eight".
In my opinion they should never been locked up.
How in the heck do you charge any one with murder in a war? Isn't that the point of the whole exercise?????
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