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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You got that right! Just emulating their "prophet".
Um... it could just be tear gas... that's hardly a WMD.
AP calls them "extremist fighters" and "insurgents". How about sub-human, scumbag terrorists?
Inside joke between me and WPtG, sorry. No sarcasm tag needed between us.
Islamic rites.
Sheer evil depravity doesn't count -- it's only when the US can be accused that the MSM will care.....
The more they do stuff like this the worse they are making it when the Shiites and Kurds take over. Sunni's in Iraq will become extinct.
ummmm, Zarqawi just tried to destroy a major Sunni city with chemical weapons.
and this statement of condemnation just out from the U.N., International Red Cross, Amnesty International, A.N.S.W.E.R., MoveOn.org, George Soros, Cindy Sheehan ---- ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Oh c'mon now. Michael Moore says they are the equals to our minutemen.
Islam is as Muhammad did. These demons are simply emulating the life of Muhammad as their Koran demands of them.
These are Cindy Sheehan's "Freedom Fighters."
Because that's exactly what they are! Kudos for this guy saying it like it is.
Do you think the Washington ComPOST would allude to the possibility that these were hidden WMD? I doubt it.
The plan was actually ingenious, wait until US and Iraqi forces strom a major Sunni city and detonate chemical weapons that kill thousands of Sunnis in Tal Afar, which would enrage the entire Sunni community of Iraq and the entire Arab world in general against the US like nothing we have ever seen. Thank God for failed plans.
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