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POW fatally shot in the back, Army says
Washington Times ^ | 5/29/04 | Andrew Kramer, AP

Posted on 05/29/2004 1:36:20 AM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 07/12/2004 3:42:14 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

SALEM, Ore. -- A soldier caught up in the same ambush as former POW Jessica Lynch was not killed in action but captured by Iraqi fighters and then executed, officials said.

"He was executed -- shot twice in the back," Maj. Arnold Strong, a National Guard spokesman, said in a telephone interview. "An Iraqi ambulance driver witnessed six Fedayeen rebels standing outside a building guarding him while he was still alive. That same witness evacuated his dead body to a hospital."


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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 507th; donaldwalters; iraq; wacrimes; warimes
Where's the outcry from all those people who are soo concerned with the Geneva convention and the treatment of POWs?

Silly question, I know. They are not interested in those issues when it concerns an American.

1 posted on 05/29/2004 1:36:20 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
God bless the man. May we keep him and the others in our hearts this Memorial Weekend.

So, does this mean that for the next month we will be bombarded by pictures of Sargent Walters on our TVs and detailed descriptions of mistreatment of POWs by Fedayeen?

Come on CNNABCNBCCBSMSNBCFOX, where is the outrage?
2 posted on 05/29/2004 1:45:33 AM PDT by InABunkerUnderSF
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To: kattracks

Those are the same people who found it unbelievable that Iraqis would rape prisoners like Jessica Lynch.


3 posted on 05/29/2004 1:49:02 AM PDT by weegee (NO BLOOD FOR RATINGS. CNN ignored torture & murder in Saddam's Iraq to keep their Baghdad Bureau.)
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To: kattracks

God Bless our service men and women!

Does an intrepid FReeper know the number of Allied military and civilian men and women who have been murdered by Iraqi thugs after being captured?

Not to mention FRiendly Iraqis who have been murdered by "suicide" bombers and the like.


4 posted on 05/29/2004 4:37:17 AM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF
"So, does this mean that for the next month we will be bombarded by pictures of Sargent Walters on our TVs and detailed descriptions of mistreatment of POWs by Fedayeen?"

No. You see, there's no atrocity here, they let him keep his clothes on before they shot him and there were no women involved so details of his murder don't resemble the sort of porn the networks are always banking on for ratings.

5 posted on 05/29/2004 5:14:01 AM PDT by muir_redwoods
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To: kattracks
"Executed" with two in the back from 20+ feet away??

Balderdash. This SOLDIER fought as long as he had anything to fight with, unlike the vast majority of his sorry-ass unit, including his incompetent Commander. IF he were captured, which I doubt, he would have taken the first opportunity to escape, as was his duty.

Two in the back from 20+ feet sounds like either the end of his lone stand when a bad guy got behind him or an unsuccessful escape attempt.

This soldier makes me proud as a blue-striped bantam rooster that my Army DOES still produce SOLDIERS.

6 posted on 05/29/2004 5:19:02 AM PDT by UncleJeff
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The killing is being investigated as a war crime

But it won't get the press that Abu Ghraib is getting because it happened to an American soldier.


7 posted on 05/29/2004 5:27:40 AM PDT by LoudRepublicangirl (loudrepublicangirl)
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The leftists will say that the American soldier who was executed was an "invader," and we have to understand the Iraqis' righteous rage that the nasty Americans removed the beloved Iraqi president, who received 99.999% of the popular vote, while GWB received less than half the popular vote, so Iraq under Saddam was more democratic than America under GWB, and GWB was jealous of this and also wanted Iraq's oil...and here's more pictures of Americans abusing Iraqi soldiers.

I'm just predicting the left's response.

8 posted on 05/29/2004 6:05:36 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (Lurking since 1997!)
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To: kattracks

Your right. I've been saying the same thing forever. Diplomacy was over on September 11th.


9 posted on 05/29/2004 6:47:49 AM PDT by JOE43270 (JOE43270)
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To: UncleJeff
Two in the back from 20+ feet sounds like either the end of his lone stand when a bad guy got behind him or an unsuccessful escape attempt.

I think you're right. That's a most probable scenario, based on released information.

10 posted on 05/29/2004 6:49:22 AM PDT by Eagle9
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To: Eagle9

I though that too, but these lines from the story don't support it.

"Before his capture, Sgt. Walters was shot in the leg and stabbed three times in the abdomen with a bayonet, Maj. Strong said, citing the report. It was not clear whether the bayonet wounds would have killed Sgt. Walters. He was held separately from the other soldiers, but was seen being led into the building and his body was brought out".


11 posted on 05/29/2004 7:12:00 AM PDT by Idlewise
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To: kattracks
They are not interested in those issues when it concerns an American.

Amazing, isn't it? Thanks for all the great items you post!

12 posted on 05/29/2004 7:26:28 AM PDT by neutrino (Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: LoudRepublicangirl

War crime? This is clearly much less severe than taking some naked pictures...


13 posted on 05/29/2004 8:09:38 AM PDT by HRoarke (F. John Kerry)
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War crime? This is clearly much less severe than taking some naked pictures...



Sadly that is how it will be viewed by the Michael Moore's of the world.


14 posted on 05/29/2004 12:55:50 PM PDT by LoudRepublicangirl (loudrepublicangirl)
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To: Wilhelm Tell
I'm just predicting the left's response.


You're prediction is probably 100% accurate.
15 posted on 05/29/2004 12:56:52 PM PDT by LoudRepublicangirl (loudrepublicangirl)
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To: kattracks

Bump for somthing that won't be much in the news.


16 posted on 05/29/2004 7:47:37 PM PDT by jonatron (Defund NPR)
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To: kattracks

Bump for something that won't be much in the news.


17 posted on 05/29/2004 7:47:43 PM PDT by jonatron (Defund NPR)
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