Thank you-
Do I read this to mean the area where the bodies of our soldiers were found, was rigged with explosives?
Never mind- I just read your next post.
UNBELIEVABLE.
That is what I gathered SE Mom.
BARBARA STARR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Daryn.
Major General William Caldwell conducted an on-camera briefing in Baghdad that concluded just a little while ago. And after that briefing was done, after the cameras turned off, General Caldwell telling reporters that indeed the troops have discovered two bodies. They discovered them last night. They do believe they are the remains of the two missing soldiers that came under attack last Friday night. By all accounts, those two soldiers taken away alive by insurgents in the area.
A desperate search had been on since Friday night. Eight thousand U.S. and Iraqi troops involved in that search. Desperately trying to find Private First Class Kristian Menchaca and Private First Class Thomas Tucker. But now, according to General Caldwell, their remains have been found.
Very difficult news for the families, Daryn. And the news may only get more difficult throughout the day. Sources telling CNN's Cal Perry in Baghdad that IEDs, improvised explosive devices, were found near the area, indicating the area may have been booby trapped by insurgents. Indications that the insurgents very deliberately may have tried to make it extremely difficult for these bodies to be recovered. DNA testing will be carried out, but the military clearly indicating that the two bodies that have been found now, they strongly believe, are the bodies of the two missing Americans.
Daryn.
KAGAN: Barbara Starr at the Pentagon. You're right, Barbara, exactly not the development that we were waiting to hear.