Iraqi captors killed Salem soldier Walters, Army says

KGW, Portland Oregon ^ | May 27, 2004 | ABE ESTIMADA, kgw.com Staff

[fortress]

“When you take into consideration what’s been going on at (Abu Ghraib) prison in Iraq, it’s totally ridiculous that we should stress and make so much emphasis on something of that nature when they’re doing these terrible things to our own soldiers,” Norman Walters said.

Enough said and you are so right Mr Walters

[Nam Vet]

I heartedly second your emotions!

Nam Vet

[LayoutGuru2]

Fortress, I heard this on the radio on the way home from work tonight. Thanks for posting this. Bump!!!

[Lijahsbubbe]

Empty gun magazines were found near where Walters was captured, suggesting he fired until ammunition ran out. Before his capture, he was shot in the leg and stabbed three times in the abdomen with a bayonet

The fight that this brave man put up, and the pain and brutality he endured. Truly a hero.

[Squantos]

To Sgt. Donald Walters , surviving family and friends go my prayers.......

[jaykay]

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/8779066.htm?1c - More than a year after the March 23, 2003, ambush, the military released new details to the family of Sgt. Donald Walters of Salem, Ore.

The Pentagon investigated his death after his mother filed Freedom of Information requests, believing the Army had not given her son credit for actions first attributed to Lynch, such as fighting until his ammunition had run out.

Walters "was held separately from his fellow soldiers and killed while in custody," according to a news release from the National Guard.

"He was executed - shot twice in the back," Guard spokesman Maj. Arnold Strong said in a telephone interview Thursday. "An Iraqi ambulance driver witnessed six fedayeen rebels standing outside a building guarding him while he was still alive. That same witness evacuated his dead body to a hospital."

Defense investigators confirmed the account by matching Walters' DNA to blood splatter on the wall where he was executed, Strong said. He died from two gunshot wounds to the back, fired from more than 20 feet away, according to Strong's account of the investigation findings.


CNN - Pentagon officials announced the details Thursday. Walters' status was changed by the military earlier this month from Killed in Action to POW - Murdered.

His family was notified of the change this week, military officials said.

The investigation is one of several military investigations into possible war crimes committed by Iraqis or other anti-American fighters during major combat actions.

Ten ongoing criminal investigations are connected to other soldiers killed in the 507th ambush. Walters' investigation is the first to be near completion.

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A wounded POW executed.
Shot in the back.
ScamNasty Int. Anything? - "An American? Not interested."
ICRC ANything? - "We're busy investigating panty on head war crimes"
Al Jazeera. Anything? - "We regret that we were unable to broadcast the great event."

[jaykay]

"An Iraqi ambulance driver witnessed six fedayeen rebels standing outside a building guarding him while he was still alive. That same witness evacuated his dead body to a hospital."

I thought this rang a bell!

That same day, March 28, an ambulance was sent by the hospital to pick up an American POW. Abdul Hadi was driving this time, and he says the American was a young man with a buzz cut and reddish hair. The American was only lightly injured, if at all, and was held naked and handcuffed by the Saddam Fedayeen. The Fedayeen refused to give up the American, and they chased Abdul Hadi away. That afternoon, the same American was brought to the hospital as a corpse, the doctors say, with multiple gunshot wounds, after having been executed by the Fedayeen. He was buried in the hospital compound, and his was one of the bodies recovered by the Americans on the morning of April 1. - From the NY Times June 20, 2003 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/20/opinion/20KRIS.html?ex=1057636800&en=99bc3aa64dc502ab&ei=5070

[little jeremiah]

Reading this makes me even more outraged and angry at the jihadis, AND the leftist media which is their whore.

[jaykay]

Reading this makes me even more outraged and angry at the jihadis, AND the leftist media which is their whore.

I wonder how the leftist media can serve as the PR staff of the enemy when their heads will be among the first on the chopping block if the jihadis win. It would be gratifying to see them get their reward for a job well done except for the fact that we would have to suffer their reward as well.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Woe be any media slime or other scum who in my presence starts a rant about Americans mistreating prisoners. They will think a verbal volcano has erupted onto the arses.

[Imal]

This is nothing. At least they didn't put panties on his head.

[TimPatriot]

taken to another building by up to half a dozen Fedayeen rebels then shot twice in the back

Rebels? The Fedayeen could not be rebels at that point, this was the invasion period, they were run by one of Sadaam's demonic sons. The Sadaam regime was still the government. Another example of media bias or, at best, moronic reporting.

[Maigrey]

“This was an act of barbarism, an act of evil and inhumanity that cannot be justified even in war. I know that civilized people around the world will recoil when they learn of this atrocity.”

No they won't, because it won't be published, because the media doesn't care. It doesn't fit their agenda.

[SLB]

The major media links will never report this. And you can bet your bottom dollar that John Kerry will NEVER mention it. This does not suit the liberal agenda.

[Moose4]

I know that civilized people around the world will recoil when they learn of this atrocity.

From your mouth to God's ear...but I doubt it. We can't have anything that would move Abu Ghraib prisoner pr0n off the front page.

}:-)4

[Joe Brower]

There you go, SLB. As the suicidal hate-America leftmedia continues to dance around their self-made Abu Graib idol, they deliberately spike much worse events on the part of the enemy. Why? Well, they have a variety of reasons, or more accurately, excuses.

Most of all, the leftmedia wants it's people back in control, from the White House on down. They will lie, cheat, steal and kill -- whatever they deem they can get away with -- in order to accomplish this end. They don't care how many lives, American, Iraqi or otherwise, are wasted. Tyrants don't give a damn about that, and let's make no mistake, they are tyrants.

Come the Day, CW2 will make the French Revolution look like a dress-rehearsal.

[wallcrawlr]

There out to be some sort of FreeRepublic medal we could bestow on some of these brave soldiers of exceptional qualities. Some way Fr could forever recognize their service/sacrifice to our country.

[exit82]

Another example of Saddam's barbarism, which will not be noted by the media.

Then again, another person executed a prisoner of war, who was wounded.

His name was John Kerry.

It is time for Sgt. Walters to recieve the Congressional Medal of Honor. And to retrieve the politically correct Silver Star given to Jessica Lynch, who never fired her weapon.

[Flint]

"according to the Geneva Convention.”

I will be so happy when I no longer hear that phrase associated with this war. When are people going to start understanding that it has nothing to do with what is going on in Iraq or any other part of that world.