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Fox News: Bodies of 2 Missing GIs Found
Fox News | 20 Jun 06 | Brian Kilmeade

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; islam; menchaca; mia; michaelmoore; noquarter; oif; pfckristianmenchaca; pfcthomastucker; pow; religionofpeace; soldiers; thomastucker
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To: xzins
From an AP report issued a few minutes ago:

Meanwhile, an al-Qaida-linked group said Monday it was holding captive two U.S. privates, one from Texas and the other from Oregon, and taunted the U.S. military for failing to find the soldiers despite a search involving more than 8,000 Iraqi and American troops.

The Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization for a variety of insurgent factions led by al-Qaida in Iraq, offered no video, identification cards or other evidence to prove that they have the Americans. The group had vowed to seek revenge for the June 7 killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, in a U.S. airstrike.

The council also said it was responsible for the June 3 kidnapping of four Russian Embassy workers. The two separate postings could not be authenticated, but they appeared on a Web site known for publishing messages from insurgent groups in Iraq.

It was the Iraqi Defense Ministry that released the information that the soldiers bodies had been found.

It is my belief that the news agencies knew who the men where because of the publicity about their disappearance.

This might be something that the US and Iraq work on: the release of information about US Military personnel by the Iraqi Government.

The media is the US should be sensitive to the release of information. But they might have presumed that the families had been notified...

Sounds like the families may not have been notified...

81 posted on 06/20/2006 4:17:09 AM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: SE Mom

God rest their souls.


82 posted on 06/20/2006 4:17:40 AM PDT by Peach (Iraq/AlQaeda relationship http://markeichenlaub.blogspot.com/2006/06/strategic-relationship-between.)
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To: mware

so our search efforts caused the death? not the fact they were in enemy hands, hands that are known to murder, not catch and release!...

Which reporter said it?


83 posted on 06/20/2006 4:18:14 AM PDT by EBH (We're too PC to understand WAR has been declared upon us and the enemy is within.)
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To: EBH

The Fox reporter in Baghdad. I did not get his name.


84 posted on 06/20/2006 4:19:04 AM PDT by mware (Americans in armchairs doing the job of the media.)
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To: Pistolshot

Time for the U.S. to take the gloves off and get this damn thing done....the Democrats be dammned.....we've been fighting a PC war....now it's time to end it.


85 posted on 06/20/2006 4:19:17 AM PDT by auto power
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To: xzins
There are almost no words......except God bless them and their families
86 posted on 06/20/2006 4:20:08 AM PDT by Brit1 ( Not by Strength by Guile.)
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To: patriciaruth

Sad news bump....


87 posted on 06/20/2006 4:20:10 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: xzins
It will affect their ALERT reflex. They will alert sooner and kill faster because they know that it's a pure "kill or be killed" environment.

It explains the Haditha event, IMO.

How can the lamestreams media and the left accuse our soldiers of commiting atrocities when they face certain death if neutralized?

88 posted on 06/20/2006 4:20:42 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: xzins
There are almost no words......except God bless them and their families
89 posted on 06/20/2006 4:21:28 AM PDT by Brit1 ( Not by Strength by Guile.)
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To: All
A forensic team should try to gather evidence that could be turned over to the Iraqi government.

It might be possible to identify the culprits via DNA and fingerprints.

This might mean the culprits would eventually be brought to justice.

Of course, the bleeding hearts at CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, LA Times, WaPo, and NY Slimes will probably claim such a forensic team gathering evidence would be an improper invasion into the rights of the insurgents, as media likes to refer to them...

90 posted on 06/20/2006 4:21:39 AM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: xzins

Rest in peace, brave warriors. A grateful nation will never forget, and may God comfort your grieving loved ones.


91 posted on 06/20/2006 4:21:51 AM PDT by Coop (Jack Murtha - Semper Treasonous)
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To: GRRRRR
Will the Demonrats be outraged at the treatment of American Prisoners?

Of course they won't. Neither will the UN be outraged, nor the much pandered to 'Arab Street'. No one in the press will call for investigations and the President will be criticized and blamed for the whole ordeal.
92 posted on 06/20/2006 4:22:11 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: xzins

Prisoners, whom it seems in some cases, will even get a chance to repatriate and become productive members of their respective societies.


93 posted on 06/20/2006 4:25:07 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team# 36120), KW:Folding)
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To: topher
Sounds like the families may not have been notified...

I agree. It's a possibility.

My guess based on experience is that they notified the families officially of the MIA status through whatever Casualty Area Command that was responsible for their area.

They would have maintained contact.

The rules permit them to send notification teams if they even suspect that the media might get something and callously broadcast it.

I'm hoping that the 101st had been given an internal heads up and got on the phone immediately.

There's always the possibility that they kept a notification team close given the likelihood that the deaths would have to be reported.

After all, the islamo-fascists take no POWs. Our guys would gladly have gone to Hotel Gitmo instead of having their lives snuffed out.

94 posted on 06/20/2006 4:26:00 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It. Supporting our Troops Means Praying for them to Win!)
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To: xzins
Our troops know that there is no such thing as POW status that will be granted them in this war.

That's not exactly news. The last time we got that was from the Germans. It's not like the North Koreans, Vietnamese, Iraqis, or the Taliban was going to play be the rules.

I'll still take my chances spending nine months in someone's gimp locker, looking for rescue or a chance to escape, than an automatic execution.

95 posted on 06/20/2006 4:26:42 AM PDT by Steel Wolf (- Islam will never survive being laughed at. -)
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To: DCPatriot
Why in the hell doens't each and every American soldier have a GPS chip inside their body?

Or at least in their clothing or dog tags or weapons. Somewhere there could be a homing device, set to a specific frequency.

96 posted on 06/20/2006 4:27:02 AM PDT by colorcountry ( Run with scissors???? I can barely jog my memory)
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To: topher
Forensic team? DNA and fingerprints?

This is a WAR...not a weekly television series like CSI.

97 posted on 06/20/2006 4:28:36 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: DCPatriot

Absolutely.

Haditha is definitely connected to this.

Our guys are in an environment where any mistake equals death. There is no POW status given to them by the enemy.

And the United States keeps hundreds of prisoners. Gives them food, medical care, clothing, prayer rugs, Red Cross visits, etc.


98 posted on 06/20/2006 4:29:22 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It. Supporting our Troops Means Praying for them to Win!)
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To: colorcountry; Steel Wolf

Steelwolf correctly pointed out that a GPS chip in all US military would ensure that no prisoners would ever be taken.


99 posted on 06/20/2006 4:29:57 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
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To: DCPatriot

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13432770/

Link to first MSM story (at least that I have seen).


100 posted on 06/20/2006 4:30:03 AM PDT by BJungNan
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