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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Yes, today's MSM writers do torture the language...
MSM headline writer: terrorists insurgents really rather naughty men.
Right, I first thought it was Iraqi military. Stupid Slimes.
These creeps would have called Hitler's SS "Extraordinary Guardsmen." The search for the perfect non-judgemental euphemism just goes on and on.
Thanks for the ping.
Has anyone heard precisely what these chemicals were?
It's ok. Only fatwas issued against using sheep as booby traps.
It sounds like the chemicals in this building qualify as low-level chemical weapons, but are not WMD because they lack the extremely high lethality of WMD (such as nerve gas).
"Socialist democrats do not care. People who want freedom deserve this type of treatment in their twisted opinion."
"People who want freedom"---which includes us.
Chemical dirty bombs... there's a new tactic.
It should have read, "Iraqi Terrorists Use Torture"
I think they already know.
Keith Olberman and Chrissy Matthews will never report this, never.
Disgusting, horrifying, but, not surprising.
That won't happen...naughty is a morality judgement.
"Iraq Fighters"?
Typical MSM obfuscation and disinformation.
"But according to Cindy Sheehadi and Michael Moorehummad these people are freedom fighters."
Hey, they're fighting freedom, aren't they?
(Joey Tribiani mode OFF)
Thanks for the link to the Winter Solder site.
It's mind boggleing that John Kerry was very close to the Oval Office.
And Cindy's Freedom Fighters. Wonder how much of Code Pinko's money went to this vermin.
It's their country.
Their culture
Their laws
Who are we to say that their methods lack Political Correctness and deny them a little Payback?
Jack.
thanks for reminding me about that fat pigs statement. I hope you remind us about that specific quote on every thread like this!!
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