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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I'm sure Amnesty International is right on this.
How many FReepers are going to take these out to their next local Amnesty International meeting and insist on the typical letter-writing campaign against these atrocities?
Prayers for the families.
This is a great question. One I wish would be asked of the lefties on the cable shows. I would put it like this:
Do you believe that the Geneva Convention can be violated by people that have no link to the signatories?
Were the Geneva Conventions violated when our soldiers were tortured, killed and left in the street?
It's as if we're the only Country that has the ability to violate them.
The Fox reporter when she broke the story, seemed to have a hard time trying to describe the story.
It seems the barbaric (terrorists, insurgents, freedom fighters), whatever the Dems and a few RINO's refer to them as, have not heard of those Geneva Conventions. Pathetic.
May those brave soldiers Rest In Peace.
Play nice with the Izlamomuzziethugs and see where it gets you McCain, Graham, Warner, et al. You are incompetent boobs at best and treasonous quislings on closer reflection. I wish one of you pukes would write or contact me as I would love to tell you exactly what I think.
Someone should strap McCain, Graham and Warner in a seat and make them watch it over and over again....maybe it would finally sink in that the GC's do not apply to monsters!
would it make any difference?
EXCELLENT SUGGESTION! McCain and Graham THINK they are President and Vice President now for some dumb reason. They think THEY should tell President Bush what he IS or IS NOT allowed to do!
"America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people." Pres. George Bush
Don't worry. McCain will do everything possible to protect the rights of these poor misunderstood Muslims.
The murders of these soldiers rests on the shoulders of the "news" forcasting, leftwing maggots in our so-called media, Fatass Cut 'n' Run Murtha, Red Ted Kennedy and Dumbass Johnny McCain. Like the poster above said, where are the dumbass Geneva Convention "rights" for these two young soldiers? Well, "Senator" McCain? You lowlife scumbag! The Geneva Convention is a joke and it always has been. The Geneva Hague Convention rules are ONLY MEANT to handcuff the U.S. military. Nothing more.
Can anyone translate the Arabic script on the bottom in the orange field?
I know...she was having a hard time of reading the news alert...
I am curious to see the video because I have been baffled as to how American Soldiers managed to get captured when they are in an armored HMMWV that should have a machine gun mounted on it and, by published accounts, they were taken alive. Either some sloppy reporting, some unusually skilled terrorists, or something is not being told.
"I want McCain, Graham and their little cabal to view these videos over and over again."
Absolutely!
I haven't heard of any other soldiers missing. It must be them.
Good thing they didn't scare them with dogs...
Yes..Fox is reporting that DOD suspects it's the two GI's from the 101st....
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