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To: xzins
Some reports have said the two soldiers were beheaded.

Torture (Islamic Group Claims Responsibility!)
  Posted by areafiftyone
On 06/20/2006 8:26:39 AM CDT · 1 reply · 70+ views


Yahooooo via AP ^ | 6/19/06
BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi military official said Tuesday that the bodies of two missing U.S. soldiers showed signs of torture, and that men appeared to have been killed "in a barbaric way." Also, the umbrella group for Iraqi insurgents claimed responsibility for the soldiers' deaths. "We give the good news ... to the Islamic nation that we have carried God's verdict by slaughtering the two captured crusaders," said a statement in the name of the Mujahedeen Shura Council, which groups five insurgent organizations including al-Qaida in Iraq. At a news briefing, U.S. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell declined to identify...

305 posted on 06/20/2006 6:32:29 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy; Freee-dame

Spokesmen for the Red Cross, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UN Committee on something or other, etc will all be issuing statements of condemnation of the treatment of captured American forces .... soon?


311 posted on 06/20/2006 6:40:54 AM PDT by maica (Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle --Abraham Lincoln)
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To: TomGuy
in a barbaric way

What does this mean-headless?

389 posted on 06/20/2006 8:06:24 AM PDT by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc. 10:2)
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