[El Gato]

Four American soldiers were abducted during a sophisticated sneak attack last week in the Shiite holy city of Karbala,

If the people who did this are found to be from the Shiite Holy City of Karbala, then Karbala should become a shitty pile of rubble full of holes. Starting with the Mosque.

However if they turn out to be from elsewhere, then that place should learn what it's like to be under a Linebacker III raid.

[L,TOWM]

In your dreams. We don't do things like that (i.e., actually fight wars) anymore. Too much bad press if we actually take out some one that is'nt pointing a weapon at a GI.

And we all know that the lives of any number of our servicemen don't matter as much as the opinions of Danish housewives, French Students, and UC Berkeley Freshmen, don't we?

[rabscuttle385]

...the arrest of four suspects in the attack and said they had been detained on a tip from a Karbala resident

Not necessarily.

Iraqi officials said the approaching convoy of black GMC Suburbans was waved through an Iraqi checkpoint at the edge of Karbala. The Iraqi soldiers believed it to be American because of the type of vehicles, the distinctive camouflage American uniforms and the fact that they spoke English.

Sounds like the Iraqi security forces screwed up. Maybe some extra training is needed...like perhaps stopping the vehicles to examine identification?