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Executed while trying to surrender - fox

Posted on 03/26/2003 4:37:21 AM PST by InvisibleChurch

reports on fox are that marines were executed by iraqis while trying to surrender - all for now


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iraqifreedom; nasiriya; pows; surrender; warcrimes
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Thanks for your report -- you are doing a great job in reporting! Enjoy reading everything you have been posting.
21 posted on 03/26/2003 7:02:42 AM PST by PhiKapMom (Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US)
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To: Hatteras
They were maintenence troops not frontline grunts.
They do not have the firepower or the numbers to fight off more than a token force. (Comparable size force.)

Maintenence troops are usually lightly armed and unarmored.
They don't hav eth eoption of hunkering down inside a tank or APC, they usually have tank recovery vehicles (unarmored) 5ton trucks, Dueces, Humvees, or modified amphib vehicles that also are less suited for force on force fighting. It comes down to this: Maintenence troops are supposed to be to the rear where it's 'safe' where the enemy isn't supposed to be.
22 posted on 03/26/2003 7:04:54 AM PST by Darksheare (Nox aeternus en pax.)
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To: CatoRenasci
Every Iraqi member of the unit (if it can be determined) that killed our POWs should be executed as war criminals "to encourage the others" as the French used to say.

They'd better do it before Amnesty International can rush in to defend them. Give it a week and the murderers will be made an international cause celeb complete with profiles of each by the BBC.

23 posted on 03/26/2003 7:12:13 AM PST by skeeter (Fac ut vivas)
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To: InvisibleChurch
FReepers and FNC viewers have known for days that they were executed!!! Why is the NYT and other media treating this like breaking news?
24 posted on 03/26/2003 7:15:05 AM PST by hispanarepublicana (successful, educated unauthentic latina--in Patrick Leahy's eyes, at least)
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To: Hatteras
I believe when you're a bunch of engineers who took a wrong turn and find yourself overwhelmed with the enemy "surrendering" is a viable option. I'll not criticize them for it.
25 posted on 03/26/2003 7:23:04 AM PST by theDentist (So..... This is Virginia..... where are all the virgins?)
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To: InvisibleChurch
I'd like confirmation, not specualtion, that those were Marines. I believe they're talking about soldiers from the 507th.
26 posted on 03/26/2003 7:37:23 AM PST by SMEDLEYBUTLER
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To: InvisibleChurch
Fight till you die with these people.
27 posted on 03/26/2003 7:51:05 AM PST by lavaroise
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Yes, it is graphic. But thank you for giving this information to us.

Please keep up the good work! God bless our troops, and you and others doing this work for us.

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28 posted on 03/26/2003 7:56:10 AM PST by Geezerette (... but young at heart!)
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To: InvisibleChurch
executed by iraqis while trying to surrender

Note to troops: Never surrender. To die in battle beats getting killed surrendering.

30 posted on 03/26/2003 9:48:45 AM PST by packrat01
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To: InvisibleChurch
Reuters will be so delighted.
31 posted on 03/26/2003 10:52:46 AM PST by Eala
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To: jimbo123
One might suspect Couric and Jennings would consider the punishment appropriate for disobeying the U.N.
32 posted on 03/26/2003 11:34:34 AM PST by zerosix
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