U.S. says captures 2 over Iraq soldier abductions (U.S. Soldiers)

Reuters ^ | 12/27/07 | Alaa Shahine

[frankjr]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. forces said on Thursday they had killed more than 23 Sunni and Shi'ite fighters in two operations in Iraq and captured two al Qaeda-linked militants suspected of links to the abduction of three U.S. soldiers. ...

U.S. forces said they killed 12 militants in a four-day operation against Sunni Arab fighters north of Baghdad and 11 in an overnight raid against Shi'ite militants in the south.

The two men captured were described as linked to the abduction of three U.S. soldiers in May, which triggered a massive manhunt in palm groves south of Baghdad during the deadliest three-month period of the war for U.S. troops.

Iraq has since become far quieter, but that incident remains a touchstone for U.S. forces. The soldiers went missing after their patrol was ambushed on May 12 in Mahmudiya in the "Triangle of Death," an insurgent stronghold south of Baghdad.

The body of one of them was pulled from the Euphrates River near Baghdad later that month. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack, in which four other U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi translator were killed.

The U.S. military said the two suspects were caught on Monday and Tuesday in Ramadi in the western province of Anbar. One was caught in a house where one of the missing soldiers' weapons had been found.

[big'ol_freeper]

I can’t say what I hope is done to those animals.

[steel_resolve]

Give them to me. I know what needs done to them.

[big'ol_freeper]

I’ll hold them for ya.

[elhombrelibre]

Iraq ping.

[AppyPappy]

I hope we don’t torture them. That would make John McCain mad.

[SoldierMedic]

I didn’t see it mentioned in the article, but one of the soldier’s rifles was found in the house, providing real evidence they were there, or at the minimum somebody captured knows something.

[Mr. Lucky]

Of course, it wouldn’t be right to waterboard either prisoner to determine the fate of the two missing Americans.

[Red Badger]

Hold on now. We can't TORTURE them now can we?.........

[rhombus]

Turn them over to McCain and let him try and get information from them.

[HD1200]

Ask the families of the missing soldiers if the detainees should be waterboarded by the CIA to find out what they know. These detainees are NOT fighting under Geneva Convention rules.

[Piquaboy]

I hope that they all rot in hell along with their 72 homo’s.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Let the whining Liberals in Congress have them. What a joke that would be to watch surrender monkeys, who profess to support the troops, get information out of these scum by pleading and crying with them. After all, Liberals don’t want to hurt anyone, just talk them to death.

[navyguy]

These subhuman animals should be handed over to the families of those they killed.

[bobby.223]

I can. tie these savages to a tree and work ‘em over with a blowtorch, SLOWLY, until done.

[Marine_Uncle]

Hopefully as these clowns spill their guts, more will be captured. Regardless of the eventual outcome. It again is a credit to how well the US/Iraqi forces are working at this point on all forms of intel and counter-intel.
The weeding out process shall continue for a long time, as you can very well surmise. The insurgency may in less then a year be pronounced to be a dead issue in Iraq, and only remaining concerns at how well the centralized Iraqi Federal government performs it's mandates.
But I for one can see bands/pockets of these groups linger and on occasions carry out heinous crimes, because they have no other goal in life.
The ongoing process of eliminating the country of Islamist will take many years, providing the gift handed down to them is carefully maintained.
I sense future outside money and business deals shall properly influence the next Iraqi government elected to take due pains in the total eradication of jihadist from their land.
And this is good. Let them slowly evolve into a partly industrialized nation that can have good influences throughout the mid east instead of being the hindrance they where.

[Publius6961]

BUMP!