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Severed fingers of 5 hostages delivered to U.S. officials in Iraq
McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo ^ | 3-12-08 | Hannah Allam

Posted on 03/12/2008 4:02:15 PM PDT by atomic conspiracy

Edited on 03/12/2008 6:13:07 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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.


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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: austria; barbarians; defensecontractors; eyeforaneye; genevaconventions; hostages; iraq; islam; mutilation; prisonerabuse; rop; savages; torture; wakeup; wot
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To: College Repub

That’s not surprising.


101 posted on 03/13/2008 5:27:40 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: atomic conspiracy; freema

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.


102 posted on 03/13/2008 5:49:53 AM PDT by Girlene
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To: atomic conspiracy

bump


103 posted on 03/13/2008 5:49:53 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (The GOP serves a huge cr*p sandwich every 4 years to Conservatives, & sez "shut up!, no choice!")
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To: atomic conspiracy
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??

104 posted on 03/13/2008 5:51:38 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (The GOP serves a huge cr*p sandwich every 4 years to Conservatives, & sez "shut up!, no choice!")
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To: Kitty Mittens

Amen!


105 posted on 03/13/2008 6:04:45 AM PDT by eaglesnest1 (there has always been a price for freedom and we are GRATEFUL to those who sacrifice so much for us)
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To: rimtop56

and Amen!


106 posted on 03/13/2008 6:06:51 AM PDT by eaglesnest1 (there has always been a price for freedom and we are GRATEFUL to those who sacrifice so much for us)
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To: atomic conspiracy

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


107 posted on 03/13/2008 6:07:38 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: Girlene

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


108 posted on 03/13/2008 6:09:01 AM PDT by eaglesnest1 (there has always been a price for freedom and we are GRATEFUL to those who sacrifice so much for us)
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To: atomic conspiracy
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
109 posted on 03/13/2008 7:49:07 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona....)
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To: atomic conspiracy; knighthawk; SJackson; Alouette

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

We need to quit holding back and exterminate them.


110 posted on 03/13/2008 7:51:40 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: devolve; potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; Interesting Times; atomic conspiracy; ...

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.

111 posted on 03/13/2008 8:23:42 AM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: mvpel

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.


112 posted on 03/13/2008 10:05:17 AM PDT by quant5
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To: YOUGOTIT

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.


113 posted on 03/13/2008 10:11:53 AM PDT by quant5
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To: Cecily

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!


114 posted on 03/13/2008 10:23:08 AM PDT by quant5
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

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


115 posted on 03/13/2008 10:28:20 AM PDT by quant5
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To: CitizenM

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


116 posted on 03/13/2008 10:29:55 AM PDT by quant5
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To: metmom
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.

117 posted on 03/13/2008 10:33:45 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: atomic conspiracy
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?

118 posted on 03/13/2008 10:38:55 AM PDT by TChris ("if somebody agrees with me 70% of the time, rather than 100%, that doesn’t make him my enemy." -RR)
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To: atomic conspiracy

Animals - kill them all


119 posted on 03/13/2008 10:41:56 AM PDT by rockthecasbah (He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat.)
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To: AD from SpringBay

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.


120 posted on 03/13/2008 10:48:00 AM PDT by quant5
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