Posted on 06/11/2005 8:16:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The U.S. military has launched a criminal inquiry into the killings of two Army officers at a base north of Baghdad, the military said Friday.
The soldiers were killed Tuesday evening in what the military first believed was an ''indirect fire'' attack on Forward Operating Base Danger in Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, a military statement said. An indirect fire attack involves enemy artillery or mortar rounds fired from a location some distance away.
''Upon further examination of the scene by explosive ordnance personnel, it was determined the blast pattern was inconsistent with a mortar attack,'' the statement added without elaborating.
The officers, Capt. Phillip T. Esposito and 1st Lt. Louis E. Allen, were assigned to the 42nd Infantry Division, New York Army National Guard. Esposito was company commander and Allen served as a company operations officer.
The statement said the military's Criminal Investigation Division is investigating their deaths as a criminal case.
U.S. military officials contacted by The Associated Press declined to comment further.
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The libs love it. A fragging just like their "good old days".
God Bless our foces killed in it, and unfortunately those to come until we've decided we've had enough.
Then, God help us all.
Our National Guard has been called upon to make more personal sacrifices than ever before in our history.
But it's because of our Reserves and Guard working alongside our regulars that we have not had any terrorists attacks since 9/11.
It's an insult to them when people dismiss their contributions to our defense by saying they would be accomplishing more by doing another assignment in the U.S.
This isn't a thread about illegal immigration and border control, as much as you would like to make it one.
And when is it more appropriate to point out that our Guard is serving a crucial role in the defense of our nation? These two officers did not die in vain. They died protecting American families from terrorists. It's not just luck that terrorists have not been able to launch another attack on our soil since 9/11.
No one is denigrating the RC role in the war, least of all me. Your articulate positions on immigration and border control are well known. This thread has nothing to do with those. It's about two good men who were KIA in Iraq and an ongoing CID investigation into their deaths. Linking the two subjects via inference is bad form IMO and doesn't lend to the topic of this thread.
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