Marines find bodies of four American soldiers

The New York Times via The Houston Chronicle ^ | March 29, 2003, 12:21AM | Unattributed

[EternalVigilance]

This is our enemy.

[MEG33]

Post 47

[fightinJAG]

Yesterday Fox showed soldiers who entered that hospital where they found the chemical suits.

Inside the "hospital" they also found what appeared to be torture chambers (car batteries with wires on a bloody bedside table, etc.).

The soldiers found a U.S. uniform they thought belonged to one of the female soldiers taken.

The uniform was cut up and covered in blood and the nametag and American flag had been ripped off.

[EternalVigilance]

Yep. I posted the story on this thread. See #97.

[NautiNurse]

bump

[Oldeconomybuyer]

...in the northeast corner of the town of al-Jazeera...

How sad and ironic is this?

[MEG33]

marking for ref.

[RaceBannon]

Iraqi POWs
Clean and Fed


American POWs
shot in the head

Are you listening France?? How about you, Tom Daschle??

[GRRRRR]

God Bless them bump.

G

[MEG33]

This thread on the 4 deaths

[Fury]

Certainly you would think that leadershio in the Iraqi Theatre of Operations is telling military personnel "if you are captured, you will be killed by the enemy".

I hope that at this point, they are telling them that. Fighting to one's death is something I have never directly been faced with, but troops need to be made aware, of some are not, of the atrocities of the Iraqi forces.

[TYVets]

It will be almost two more years before we replace One Term Bob holden (liberal demorat of the worst kind) here in Missouri.... OTB is going!

Keep the faith we will do it,,, both houses of legislature controled by Republicans begining in 2002. first time in a thousand years or so :||

[Larry381]

I heard Oliver North say on Fox News that the Marines he's embedded with have vowed never to be taken, that they will fight to the death.

My uncle, who was in the German Army during WW2 once told me the following story. While fighting in the Soviet Union in 1943 his infantry company came upon 2 of their comrades who had been captured by Communist partisans. Both dead soldiers had been crucified and their bodies horribly mutilated. After seeing this every member of his company vowed never to be taken alive and under no circumstances would they ever surrender. In the beginning the German army in Russia as a matter of course shot any partisans they captured since at that time partisans were not entitled to the protection of the Geneva conventions. Atrocities like these only cause soldiers to fight harder.

[not-an-ostrich]

Article said bodies found wore uniforms. Wouldn't be the bodies of the females if uniforms found in the hospital belonged to Piestewa and Lynch.

[rintense]

Yes, but many- including Amnesty International, think the US taking out Iraqi TV is a far more greater violation of the Geneva Convetnion.

God bless the souls of our fallen soldiers, and God please bring comfort to their grieving families. Amen.

[DooDahhhh]

I should say that that screen name is toast!

[DocJ69]

The young girl from Tuba City, is probaldly, Navajo or Hopi. Most of Navajo's join Marine Corps. I used to live in Winslow. There are some very fine Hopi's and Navajo's.

[Herodotus]

Can anyone who is in a position to know confirm whether women in the military receive uniforms in women's sizing (8, 6, etc.) while men receive them in the usual way (33-34, or just s/m/l).

This could be why the Marines reported identifying the uniforms as those worn by women.

[not-an-ostrich]

Very good question!

[taxed2death]

....so basically, these people lost their lives because they didn't have run-flat inserts in their tires.

That's sick.