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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"Iraq Fighters Use Torture"
Shocked, I am! Shocked!
IMO if a chemical attack would come it would be from IRAN...especially if we conduct a reenactment of Israel taking out their soon-to-be-online nuclear reactor.
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Zarqawi loves chemical weapons, hell he is one of al-Qaeda's formost chemical weapons experts. So, no I think the guy most likely to use chemical weapons, is the guy that doesn't fear a nuke coming his way if he uses them.
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Buddhist wheel of life. Commonly found on Buddhist temples, esp. in America.
'"Um... it could just be tear gas... that's hardly a WMD.:
So where did they get barrels of tear gas? The oil for tear gas program? Seriously, these were undoubtedly industrial chemicals chosen and perhaps mixed or intended to be combined via explosion to make something nasty. Teargas?
Geez, when will the MSM wake up and realize that these people want to kill ALL of us!
I love the Sheehadi and Moorehummad! HA!
F*** Islam! It's a quasi-governmental death cult.
The real question is:
" Did they use women's panties for hats ??? "
If not, well, no harm done. Right?
Where is the outcry from the left??? won't happen.
HYPOCRITES!!!
Since this is from the Washington Post I'm suspicious about anything and everything in it. However, if true I wonder if Col. H.R. McMaster woke up after a long sleep or if someone just told him he needs some press coverage to boost him toward a star. Anything here anyone who pays attention on a daily basis didn't know?
Iraqi Fighters imply people fighting for Iraq. This articles about anti-Iraqi fighters.
I thought it was Netscape...
thanks for the post.
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It was aired live on CSPAN, it's true.
Sadr did the same thing back last August.
Zarqawi has been doing this since day one.
When I read the headline, I thought the same thing. I'm sure it's just an innocent mistake on the part of the reporter in choosing such a misleading headline. < /sarc level 1 >
I really dont know if its intentionally misleading or if theyre just so confused in trying to avoid the word terrorists (and now insurgents) that they cant write a clear sentence.
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