Severed fingers of 5 hostages delivered to U.S. officials in Iraq

McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo ^ | 3-12-08 | Hannah Allam

[atomic conspiracy]

BAGHDAD _U.S. authorities in Baghdad have received five severed fingers belonging to four Americans and an Austrian who were taken hostage more than a year ago in Iraq , U.S. officials said Wednesday.

The FBI is investigating the grisly development, and the families of the five kidnapped contractors have been notified, American officials said on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the case publicly.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

That’s not surprising.

[Girlene]

Prayers of comfort for all the men’s families. Prayers for Jonathon Cote of Gainesville, Fla. Joshua Munns of Redding, Calif., Paul Johnson Reuben of Buffalo, Minn., Bert Nussbaumer of Vienna, Austria, Ronald J. Withrow, and John Young of Kansas City. Give them strength and courage as they wait. Prayers that the hostage takers be blinded to these men’s rescue or escape. And finally, prayers of insight to those looking for these men who have been held in captivity for so long. Help them find the clues they need to free these men.

[AmericanInTokyo]

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[AmericanInTokyo]

And a President McCain would REFUSE to have one of these very same frikkin sonsofbitches who was captured, who had valuable information on the hostages, to be waterboarded and have the truth pummeled out of him.

We gotta be politically correct, eh Senator, and have them tried in the US under all our CAIR and ACLU benefits, right there, Senator??

[eaglesnest1]

Amen!

[eaglesnest1]

and Amen!

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I will take, “Significant stories that get pushed off the headlines by a hooker and a governor,” for $5,000 Alex.

[eaglesnest1]

Amen to your prayer, Girlene and all the other prayers written out or prayed privately by all those on Free Republic. We pray in unity and in one accord in Jesus’ name, Amen

[ßuddaßudd]

How long until some of us step down to their level and fight these fanatics the only way they will understand? I'm tired of the US taking the moral high road all the time?
/rant

[metmom]

It’s getting well past time to nuke these sob’s.

We need to quit holding back and exterminate them.

[PhilDragoo]

I called the White House Comment Line (1-202-456-1111) and told the operator the president must destabilize and change the regime in Iran, that he must execute his responsibility now, that Iran is warring against us and peace is impossible as long as its terrorist status remains.

We are in the 70th year since Neville Chamberlain cemented Peace In Our Time with Herr Hitler at Munich--and now we have Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton selling that fabulously successful policy like deja vu all over again.

It is an amazing age--what miracles we can accomplish by ignoring the growing Chinese monster and its useful pit bull Islamic fascism.

Behold an Axis for the New Millenium--embraced at every turn by the Left.

The more things change the more they remain the same.

It is no longer allowed to utter that phrase in French as the Muslim population would burn cars in front of our Embassy in Paris.

[quant5]

Bingo. While we are debating the international legality (how many countries has Islam & AQ directly attacked killing 3,000 people?!?!) of waterbording, our enemies are building nukes to use against us and cutting off heads and fingers (as the Koran instructs). Let’s all just wait for them to nuke Manhatten or D.C. to figure out if we need to wage war for REAL!

War is ugly, immoral, causes widespread misery on all combatants and civilians alike but one party wins and one loses. If you need to use flamethrowers, and BBQ combatants, do it. If you need to insert painful objects while interrogating an enemy combatant, do it. Remember the grisly pictures of BBQ’d Iraqis hanging out of trucks in Gulf War I? I felt bad for those Iraqi combatants, they didn’t have a chance. But they signed on for service in their country under Saddam. They made their life choices and died early and painfully for it. Survival of the fittest works because it’s programmed in our genes. What doesn’t work is social engineering which is vaporware and in total contrast to survival of the fittest.

[quant5]

Nope never saw liberals complaining about American’s being tortured by commie enemies, to them our military men deserved it. Liberals love commies. Their are two fundamental differences between communism and liberalism. Liberals will engage in more active free market trade around the globe. The second difference is liberals will create and manipulate laws to enforce their will on the people, because after all, we are all too stupid to run our own lives. The commies feel the same way but will use force to simply take what they want. Both the same means to an end and that end becomes misery for populations.

[quant5]

You got it. Throw Israel under the bus to Islam so the Arabs still peg oil trades to the dollar and not the Euro. In other news, the Goldman Sachs/Central Banks/Fed collusion drives oil to $200 (that is exactly what GS said a week or two ago). Meanwhile, the country goes bankrupt.

I am going positive now. Positive meaning this country is *ucked right now but positive we will get it all back, but expect this to take a decade, see depression and have world war. See the cycle of the Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, WWII. Those people were just like us and became the Greatest Generation after having to change from excess partiers to die-hard patriots willing to give up all for another neighbor. Human nature is as human nature does. We’ll get there again!

[quant5]

Right, they have to have a Koran and prayer mats in prison or it just isn’t FAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[quant5]

I doubt they are alive. Koran says cut off fingers and heads in the same passage.

[Republic of Texas]

We need to quit holding back and exterminate them.

Unfortunately, most Americans disagree. You, and many here are on the cutting edge of thought. Most would recoil in horror at that thought now. They just don't know the truth about Islam. But the day will come when a majority of Americans agree with your statement. I just hope it won't be too late.

Let's face facts, the only good Muslim, is a dead Muslim.

[TChris]

The FBI is investigating???

WTH does the FBI have to do with hostages taken in Iraq during a war? Have they solved all the serious crimes in the US and are now looking for something to do?

[rockthecasbah]

Animals - kill them all

[quant5]

Hahaha. That’s funny. Actually, this story got me thinking. Eliot Spitzer was a great prosecutor of corruption on Wall St. Then, he becomes a Governor, tows the Dems line and becomes a liberal and then acts like a liberal. I bet he becomes a conservative after this whole affair. I do respect the fact that Spitzer resigned and not wasted the taxpayers money fighting it.