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U.S. Troops Abducted (TERRORIST GROUP LINKED TO AL QAEDA SAYS IT HAS KIDNAPPED THE TWO SOLDIERS!)
SKY News ^ | 6/19/06

Posted on 06/19/2006 5:40:20 AM PDT by areafiftyone

Updated: 13:36, Monday June 19, 2006

A terrorist group linked to al Qaeda says it has kidnapped two US soldiers in Iraq.

In a statement posted on the internet, it said the pair were snatched near Yusufiya.

 

 

American and Iraqi forces have been searching for two soldiers who went missing after an attack on a checkpoint near Yusufiya on Friday.

One solider was killed in the attack.

More follows ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alqaedairaq; iraq; kidnapping; menchaca; mia; michaelmooresteam; oif; pow; thomastucker; triangleofdeath; warcrime
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To: xzins

Oops. Too late. :)


41 posted on 06/19/2006 7:56:44 AM PDT by ohioWfan (PROUD Mom of an Iraqi Liberation VET! THANKS, son!!!!)
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To: xzins; ohioWfan

Thank you!


42 posted on 06/19/2006 7:58:16 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: SE Mom

The soldiers have probably been killed. The recon in force is to root out more of the enemy. If the soldiers turn up that would be a bonus.


45 posted on 06/19/2006 8:05:44 AM PDT by RightWhale (Off touch and out of base)
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To: Peach
Praying for our brave troops .. Dear Lord, please place Your hedge of protection around them, guide the search parties to them.


47 posted on 06/19/2006 8:08:45 AM PDT by STARWISE (They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: 4butnomorethan30characters

The element of luck cannot be in the plan. It can come out later, when it is all over, but it is not a military virtue.


48 posted on 06/19/2006 8:11:42 AM PDT by RightWhale (Off touch and out of base)
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To: areafiftyone
Prayers for the 2 missing soldiers and the one that was slain. God be with them and their families and help their brothers in arms return them safely.
50 posted on 06/19/2006 8:14:08 AM PDT by A Texan (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: 4butnomorethan30characters

If a patrol goes missing it is bad procedure to send another patrol. Do something else.


51 posted on 06/19/2006 8:15:57 AM PDT by RightWhale (Off touch and out of base)
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To: RightWhale

While it's likely you're right- it's impossible to know what's in the minds of these madmen...

prayers for them and their families continue..


53 posted on 06/19/2006 8:18:10 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: areafiftyone

Hmm. Only saw the other one in Breaking News. Mods must have taken that one out and put yours in. Didn't check the time stamps. Just assumed yours was later as it was put in BN after the other. Sorry.


54 posted on 06/19/2006 8:18:12 AM PDT by CedarDave (Democratic Iraq mission: Cut, run, surrender led by Rats Murtha, Kennedy, Kerry.)
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To: CedarDave

That's okay - I very rarely post in breaking news. I prefer letting the mods to move my story to breaking news if they wish to that way I know for sure if they consider it breaking news.


55 posted on 06/19/2006 8:20:23 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicans Are Like Diapers - Both Need To Be Changed Often And For the Same Reason!)
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To: SE Mom

Since these things cannot be known, principles of modern military operation have to be used. Some do not understand the Fog of War: you cannot know the very thing you would most need to know.


56 posted on 06/19/2006 8:20:49 AM PDT by RightWhale (Off touch and out of base)
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To: 4butnomorethan30characters

Ask a military question.


57 posted on 06/19/2006 8:21:27 AM PDT by RightWhale (Off touch and out of base)
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To: shalom aleichem
"Way to go hatemongering MSM."

It doesn't matter if it happened in a city of 5 million people where 4,000,999 of them are searching for the missing: the mass media will always home in on the ONE puke who sympathizes (at the least) with the enemy.

58 posted on 06/19/2006 8:22:51 AM PDT by cake_crumb (One presidential visit to Baghdad is worth 1000 pathetic declarations of defeat from the left)
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To: 4butnomorethan30characters

You want hard news. There isn't any.


60 posted on 06/19/2006 8:27:55 AM PDT by RightWhale (Off touch and out of base)
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