Many US casualties in Nassiriya battle; Footage of POWs, including woman, shown on Iraqi TV

Al Bawaba ^ | 23-03-2003, 16:47

[Lessismore]

On Sunday afternoon, the Qatar-based television al Jazeera broadcast Iraqi TV, showing a videotape of at least 10 US POWs, including one female soldier, and a room with some 15 bodies of US troops. The live broadcast included also a footage of a battle field area in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya with additional corpses of US soldiers as well as struck military equipment.

The videotape has also shown how the Iraqis investigate the American POWs. The prisoners were questioned on air and gave their names, military identification numbers and home towns.

The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Air Force conceded that there were American soldiers missing, but said that there were fewer than 10 troops unaccounted for in southern Iraq.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld warned Sunday it was possible that Iraqi forces had taken U.S. prisoners, saying there were unaccounted soldiers and journalists in the combat zone.

He noted that under the Geneva Conventions governing prisoners of war, "It's illegal to do things to POWs that are humiliating to those prisoners."

Earlier, it was reported that U.S. Marines battled for control of Nassiriya, taking "significant" casualties in a fight to open a route north to Baghdad, military officials said.

Reuters quoted military officials as saying the Marine battalion spearheading the fight had suffered significant casualties in the battle.

A total of 11 U.S. soldiers were captured after taking a wrong turn, and 50 military personnel have been wounded in the massive firefight in Nassiriya, ABCNEWS reported Sunday.

According to the report, 11 soldiers, maintenance workers, had taken a wrong turn outside the city on a mission to carry out repair work. They were traveling in a column of vehicles that came under heavy fire, including from an Iraqi tank. The capture was observed by other forces nearby.

The firefight at Nassiriya blocked an advance by U.S. forces, who had earlier reported securing two key bridgeheads to enable them to cross the Euphrates and strike northwards toward the Iraqi capital.

Reuters said there was heavy U.S. helicopter traffic over the area, and that hundreds of U.S. military trucks and armored personnel carriers had stopped their advance.

Iraqi Information Minister Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf told a news conference in Baghdad that foreign invaders headed to Nassiriya had been "taught a lesson they will never forget." "We have placed them in a quagmire from which they can never emerge except dead," he said. (Albawaba.com)

[Chancellor Palpatine]

However,since she can't defend herself,we will never know,will we?

Good. She earned it.

[Neets]

Oh well look who is back....

Your comments are neither welcome, or appreciated here...especially if you are going to sit there and tell us that just because YOU don't believe we should be at war with Iraq to out the brutal dictator (wonder why those pics of our dead are so ghastly ????? Guess who fostered that kind of treatment towards people dipwad??)is reason enough to not demand our POW's be afforded the full rights and privileges under the GC.

Now go take a walk and follow Askel over to LP where you both belong.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

E-bomb time

I agree now as the war gets down to the nitty gritty and especially after what they did to our captured troops today I think a few MOAB'S need to be deployed to rattle the repub guard and let them know whos boss. then lets turn off the lights in baghdad (actually I guess thats what the e-bomb will do)

[Codie]

The balls in your court.

[Howlin]

You forgot the part where she said the Bushes were murderers.

[Mo1]

I apologize to all who were offended by my rather unlady like remarks

You handled it a lot better then I would have

[Howlin]

i am very happy to see that there is ZERO TOLERANCE for any BREATH of such anti-American sentiment in this most heartbreaking time.

I, for one, am sick of all the Muslim bashing going on on here.

[Codie]

So say you.You won't allow her to defend herself.

[Howlin]

Defend herself from what, being a Bush hater? Hell, she's not even a Bush hater; she spewed more lies about the Bush family than all the liberals in the world.

[Codie]

Reinstate her.I'm more than sure than sure she can speak for herself.

[Howlin]

You're talking to the wrong people. You need to contact Jim; we have nothing to do with her being banned.

[Iwo Jima]

Refresh my memory, Daughter, but was this Askel a big supporter of Larry Klayman and Judicial Watch? I have an unpleasant recollection of running into him/her.

[Codie]

Great!Then you have no problem with her reinstatement?

[Howlin]

Nice try. Not playing.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

What a nice piece of propaganda.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I have every problem in the world with her reinstatement. She's a gadfly, who has unfortunately confused a small coterie (very small) of people that her demented scribblings were somehow the equivalent of deep thought.

They're better off without her, for starters, not to mention anybody else who might end up sucked into the morass of her ramblings.

In other words, there are some people whose ideologies aren't even worth a listen, and are a waste of time from the onset. She is one of those.

[Jesse]

You did not answer several specific accusations against Iraq...and, by the way, I did not even bring into the debate the intelligence evidence the CIA has, or that Colin Powell presented.

Fact is, George Bush senior was targeted by Saddam Hussein in an assassination attempt. Fact is, the terrorist who was involved in the

Fact is, even the UN considered Saddam Hussein a threat vis a vis chemical and biological weapons at the least. Why did the UN keep sending inspectors into Iraq? Would you not agree that the mere possession of chemical and biological weapons by Hussein represents a threat to us?

You beg the question. None of the hijackers, until the moment they took over the jets and flew them into the towers and Pentagon, according to your criteria, demonstrated any credible threat. Means and resolve...Saddam Hussein has used poison gas. He has tried to have an ex president of our country killed. As Mark Steyn does so well, here is more evidence of a credible threat, at least to people who don't try and rest on their laurels as a military vet and spout nonsense as you do.

"It's interesting how much was clarified in the first hours of the war. On Thursday, the Palestine Liberation Front released a statement announcing the identity of the first verified casualty: PLF "1st Lieutenant" Ahmed Walid Raguib al-Baz was killed in Baghdad, "while confronting the treacherous US air bombardment on Iraq".

The PLF is the terrorist group that, among other triumphs, hijacked the Achille Lauro back in the 1980s and pushed Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound American Jew, into the Mediterranean.

What was a PLF terrorist doing attending a war council of Saddam's inner circle in Baghdad? Well, I leave that to all the experts who've assured us that Baghdad has no ties to terror groups.

That was just the first of several myths to fall in the opening shots. If Hans Blix and Jacques Chirac are really interested in continuing with inspections, some of those missiles the Iraqis insisted they no longer have are now available for inspection in the sand on the Kuwaiti side of the border."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/871630/posts

You live in la la land. You keep saying hard evidence, credible threat, but apparently your definition of a threat is a picture of Saddam Hussein doing the deed. That is an impossible standard to meet.

Fortunately, neither you or AlGore is in charge.

[Codie]

Real brave,considering the person who your attack is directed at,can't respond.I'm impressed.

[Neets]

It was a long time coming...she was allowed to get away with much...she was allowed for a very long time to spew here hatred up one side of this forum and down the other.

FINALLY the line had been drawn.

She had to go, and so she did.

If it bothers you that much......I am sure you can find her posting at TOS.

[sinkspur]

Real brave,considering the person who your attack is directed at,can't respond.I'm impressed.

What's your problem? Take up your crusade with Jim Robinson.