Posted on 09/13/2005 2:52:18 PM PDT by jmc1969
WASHINGTON -- A U.S. Army commander asserted Tuesday that extremist fighters in northern Iraq committed atrocities against civilians, including beheadings, torture and the booby-trapping of a murdered child's body.
"The enemy here did just the most horrible things you can imagine _ in one case murdering a child, placing a booby trap within the child's body and waiting for the parent to come recover the body of their child and exploding it to kill the parents; beheadings and so forth," McMaster said in an interview from Tal Afar with reporters at the Pentagon.
His comments came two days after the al-Qaida leader in Iraq, Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, purportedly accused American forces of using poison gas in the Tal Afar fighting, a charge that U.S. officials have denied. The accusation was made in an audiotape posted on the Internet on Sunday and attributed to al-Zarqawi.
McMaster alluded to that accusation and said he believed the insurgents had planned to detonate chemicals in a building in a residential area and then claim that U.S. forces had employed poison gas against civilians.
"In one of these buildings the enemy had big barrels of chemicals that had explosives implanted in the chemicals, wires running around them. The whole house was rigged for demolition," he said.
When U.S. troops went into the house, "immediately their eyes began burning, their throats began burning. So they withdrew out of the house immediately and then we conducted reconnaissance with some chemical protective gear, with a remote reconnaissance capability, into the house. And we could tell that the thing was rigged with chemicals."
McMaster also said U.S. troops found manuals that described how to make "these kind of chemical dirty bombs and so forth."
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Islam is as Islam does.
Wait until this hits Iraqi TV....Zarq is using dead children as booby traps...uh oh.
Religion of pieces.
Not alot of people here, and we have confirmed presence of chemical weapons in Iraq in this thread.
Meanwhile, back in the United States, Dems will keep the focus on the poor Iraqi terrorists who were made to put underwear on their heads.
Now, THAT'S a war crime!
Socialist democrats do not care. People who want freedom deserve this type of treatment in their twisted opinion.
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!
Once again Michaels Moores minutemen.
Attention Dick Turbin! Are you shedding tears over this? You rat b*st*rd!
I'm waiting for some idiot to post: "Well they do it, why can't we?!"
Or it's twin cousin: "NUKE MECCA!"
Hand to ear, waiting for the sound of the outrage from the MSM. ( crickets chirping )
Z-Man just tried to destroy a major Sunni city in Iraq.
The NY Slimes will be reporting on this any minute now.
Yep, any minute.
Wait until this hits Iraqi TV....Zarq is using dead children as booby traps...uh oh.
But according to Cindy Sheehadi and Michael Moorehummad these people are freedom fighters.
Don't worry -- Amnesty International will be all over this one!
More WMDs in Iraq ping..........
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