Posted on 06/19/2006 5:40:49 AM PDT by Quilla
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A group linked to Iraq's al-Qaida said on Monday it had abducted two American soldiers near Yusufiya, according to a statement posted on the Internet.
Earlier, the U.S. military said seven American troops have been wounded, three insurgents have been killed and 34 detained during an intensive search for the soldiers.
Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, a spokesman for U.S. forces in Iraq, said fighter jets, unmanned aerial vehicles and dive teams had been deployed to find the two men. The men went missing Friday during an attack on their checkpoint in the volatile Sunni area south of Baghdad that left one of their comrades dead.
We have surged intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms and employed planes, boats, helicopters and UAVs to ensure the most thorough search possible on the ground, in the air and in the water, Caldwell said in a statement issued Monday.
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They might not have been conscious or coherent when they were taken...so, lacked the ability to fight.
I agree...the animals that took these guys will meet the "hard steel" of justice.
>>We all know what will be done to these kids and it will be on the internet.
They're men, unless they're women. They might also escape or be rescued. Prayers certainly help and we all pray for their safety, but they are not helpless kids, they are US soldiers. Whoever has them, as my grandmother used to say, is holding a wolf by the ears.
Thank you. :o)
we can only hope and pray you are right.Let's do that pray I mean.
Thank you , we can all use a prayer like that everyday.
Right now, today as long as they aid and abet the enemy the press is just as bad as they are. Where ever these soldiers are I know one thing a lot of people including the troops are with them. They are not alone. Heck, free republic is right a long side of them. We stand beside all our kids over there. We love them all .
Right now, today as long as they aid and abet the enemy the press is just as bad as they are. Where ever these soldiers are I know one thing a lot of people including the troops are with them. They are not alone. Heck, free republic is right a long side of them. We stand beside all our kids over there. We love them all .
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