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Report: Video Posted of U.S. Soldiers' Bodies Being Burned
AP via Washington Post ^ | 09/23.06 | OMAR SINAN

Posted on 09/23/2006 12:10:10 PM PDT by mware

Edited on 09/23/2006 1:04:25 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- An al-Qaida-linked group posted a Web video Saturday purporting to show the bodies of two American soldiers being dragged behind a truck, then set on fire in apparent retaliation for the rape-slaying of a young Iraqi woman by U.S. troops from the same unit.

The Mujahedeen Shura Council -- an umbrella organization of insurgent groups, including al-Qaida in Iraq -- posted another video in June showing the soldiers' mutilated bodies, and claiming it killed them. It was not clear whether the video posted Saturday was a continuation of that footage, or why it was released.

It was impossible to identify the bodies, but the footage was believed to be of Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, and Pfc. Thomas Tucker, 25, who went missing after being attacked by insurgents on June 16 at a checkpoint south of Baghdad. Their remains were found three days later, and the U.S. military said they had been mutilated.

The video showed masked men dragging the corpses, first by hand, then behind a truck, beheading one of them and then setting them on fire. Below the graphic footage is a subtitle: "The two soldiers belong to the same brigade of the soldier who raped our sister in Mahmoudiya."

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Where was the Geneva Convention for them???
1 posted on 09/23/2006 12:10:11 PM PDT by mware
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To: mware

Oh, how I detest these monsters.........prayers for these soldiers families, they are gonna need them.


2 posted on 09/23/2006 12:11:24 PM PDT by mystery-ak (My Son, My Soldier, My Hero..............)
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To: mware

May God's grace be on the families.


3 posted on 09/23/2006 12:12:17 PM PDT by what's up
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To: mystery-ak

Fox is claiming the video is on the internet.


4 posted on 09/23/2006 12:12:54 PM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the job of the media.)
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To: mware
Warning (link includes graphic photos at bottom):
New Tucker and Menchaca Video: Bodies Desecrated by Terrorists (Jawa Report)
5 posted on 09/23/2006 12:13:00 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
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To: mware

Bastards.

I want McCain, Graham and their little cabal to view these videos over and over again.


6 posted on 09/23/2006 12:13:17 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet-prayers for the kidnapped Israeli Soldiers)
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To: mware
Do we know where this happened?
7 posted on 09/23/2006 12:13:38 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: mware

Someone needs to make sure McCain, Warner, Graham and Collins see these pictures.


8 posted on 09/23/2006 12:13:46 PM PDT by McGavin999 (McCain-Warner-Graham-Collins bought and paid for by Al Qaeda)
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To: mware

I will not watch the video...I just can't.


9 posted on 09/23/2006 12:14:16 PM PDT by mystery-ak (My Son, My Soldier, My Hero..............)
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To: conservative in nyc

Thanks for the link conservative. The report had not been posted yet so I posted what I know for now. Hopefully more info will be coming in later.


10 posted on 09/23/2006 12:14:18 PM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the job of the media.)
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To: what's up

I'd call the people who did this bastards, but that would be an insult to run-of-the-mill bastards. They are truly evil.


11 posted on 09/23/2006 12:14:36 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
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To: mware
Prayers for those soldiers & their families.
12 posted on 09/23/2006 12:14:45 PM PDT by tiredoflaundry ( The kinder we are to terrorists, the harsher we are to their potential victims.)
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To: SE Mom

Maybe we should e-mail the link...not that they would watch it....


13 posted on 09/23/2006 12:15:05 PM PDT by mystery-ak (My Son, My Soldier, My Hero..............)
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To: mystery-ak

Me either mystery. I dont need to see it the picture of what was done to them. The words were graphic enough for me.


14 posted on 09/23/2006 12:15:29 PM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the job of the media.)
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To: mware

When did this happen?


15 posted on 09/23/2006 12:15:49 PM PDT by goodnesswins (I think the real problem is islamo-bombia! (Rummyfan))
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To: mystery-ak

Me neither.


16 posted on 09/23/2006 12:16:16 PM PDT by Shimmer128 (My beloved is mine and I am his. Song of Solomon 1:16)
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To: mware

I am so happy to know that the USA's better treatment of captured terrorists will stop this sort of thing from happening again. Thank you Mr. McCain! /scarcasm off


17 posted on 09/23/2006 12:16:31 PM PDT by i_dont_chat (I have the right to offend. You can take offense or not.)
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To: mware

If true, I have a feeling that this just may violate that 'oh so sacred' Common Article 3 that John McInsane needs shoved up his a$$ -- and sideways.


18 posted on 09/23/2006 12:17:15 PM PDT by Condor51 ("Alot" is NOT a word and doesn't mean "many". It is 'a lot', two separate words.)
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To: mware

Sure makes a mockery of all the high brow twits in the senate who pontificate about torture. They give me the creeps more than these uncivilized terrorists do.


19 posted on 09/23/2006 12:17:21 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Churchillspirit
They believe it to be the bodies for the two troopers from the 101st (I think) murdered months ago.

Fox did say that their deaths were in retaliation for some offense against a young woman.

20 posted on 09/23/2006 12:17:21 PM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the job of the media.)
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