Posted on 05/29/2004 1:36:20 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:42:14 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
SALEM, Ore. -- A soldier caught up in the same ambush as former POW Jessica Lynch was not killed in action but captured by Iraqi fighters and then executed, officials said.
"He was executed -- shot twice in the back," Maj. Arnold Strong, a National Guard spokesman, said in a telephone interview. "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."
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Silly question, I know. They are not interested in those issues when it concerns an American.
Those are the same people who found it unbelievable that Iraqis would rape prisoners like Jessica Lynch.
God Bless our service men and women!
Does an intrepid FReeper know the number of Allied military and civilian men and women who have been murdered by Iraqi thugs after being captured?
Not to mention FRiendly Iraqis who have been murdered by "suicide" bombers and the like.
No. You see, there's no atrocity here, they let him keep his clothes on before they shot him and there were no women involved so details of his murder don't resemble the sort of porn the networks are always banking on for ratings.
Balderdash. This SOLDIER fought as long as he had anything to fight with, unlike the vast majority of his sorry-ass unit, including his incompetent Commander. IF he were captured, which I doubt, he would have taken the first opportunity to escape, as was his duty.
Two in the back from 20+ feet sounds like either the end of his lone stand when a bad guy got behind him or an unsuccessful escape attempt.
This soldier makes me proud as a blue-striped bantam rooster that my Army DOES still produce SOLDIERS.
The killing is being investigated as a war crime
But it won't get the press that Abu Ghraib is getting because it happened to an American soldier.
I'm just predicting the left's response.
Your right. I've been saying the same thing forever. Diplomacy was over on September 11th.
I think you're right. That's a most probable scenario, based on released information.
I though that too, but these lines from the story don't support it.
"Before his capture, Sgt. Walters was shot in the leg and stabbed three times in the abdomen with a bayonet, Maj. Strong said, citing the report. It was not clear whether the bayonet wounds would have killed Sgt. Walters. He was held separately from the other soldiers, but was seen being led into the building and his body was brought out".
Amazing, isn't it? Thanks for all the great items you post!
War crime? This is clearly much less severe than taking some naked pictures...
War crime? This is clearly much less severe than taking some naked pictures...
Sadly that is how it will be viewed by the Michael Moore's of the world.
Bump for somthing that won't be much in the news.
Bump for something that won't be much in the news.
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