0553hrs CDT, Fox & Friends says the deaths are confirmed.
Posted on 06/20/2006 3:36:36 AM PDT by xzins
Moderator: Just Announced Fox News. They said it was coming from Reuters via the Iraqi Defense Ministry
God bless the affected families. Prayers out.
Reuters will slant, spin, fold, spindle and mutilate the news, but they wouldn't simply invent it. That's too obvious, whereas it's easy to cover your tracks when you're simply biased. I'm sure the 2nd source they're looking for is the U.S. military to confirm or deny what the Iraqi defense minister is reporting.
Very sad Jim, very sad.
Giod Bless them.
Reuters wouldn't.
Has the US given official confirmation, anyone heard?
I am watching Fox News, no secondary confirmation. Fox is waiting for their bureau in Iraq to get a second source.
Oh No! Rest in peace, soldiers. Prayers for their loved ones.
You raise a great point, and I'm betting that there was no regard for the notification of families if it was simply up to Reuters.
There was some hint that this came via the Iraq Defense Ministry. If so, maybe they gave our guys enough of a heads up to isolate the families first before they heard it on the TV/Radio.
Also, it's possible, since the 101st was conducting the search, that the 101st either found them or was there when they were found.
I've done death notifications at Ft Campbell before. They are extremely efficient. They'd have the word out to the Area Casualty Commands in the locations of these families very quickly.
Wait for the MSM to report that if we had withdrawn our troops in accordance with their posturing and editorials, this wouldn't have happened.
My brother was in the 101st during the Reagan years.
Thanks.
It's very sad that they were killed, but it's much better than having them being held hostage by al-Qaeda, paraded in front of a video camera before being beheaded. At least this search didn't last too long. Hopefully it was a search, and not a case of money (or other valuables) changing hands.
FOXNEWS has just confirmed the deaths. 6:52AM
I don't think the families have been notificed.
WOuld not the families have known that they were MIA or captured prior to the death notification?
I thought I heard some indication yesterday that these 2 MIGHT have been injured in the explosion that killed their 3rd fellow soldier.
Fox News seemed to indicate that these 2, however, had "been killed." They emphasized that.
Fox News Baghdad has confirmed the deaths....Just Now on the News.
They said that the US Military is withholding confirmation.
This worries me: it might mean that they're still in the process of notifying the families.
Very sad.
Lord God, we pray you be with the notification teams going to these families. Give them the strength, insight and wisdom to compassionately deliver terrible news. We pray that your Holy Spirit comfort these families and friends. In Christ's name we pray. Amen.
I hate to say this but, I got a bad feeling that they may have taped their deaths.
0553hrs CDT, Fox & Friends says the deaths are confirmed.
Yes they would have been officially notified by a notification team.
Now, another team will notify about the deaths.
Pray they weren't the stars in a Al Qaeda snuff video..
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