Posted on 06/20/2006 5:40:45 PM PDT by kellynla
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The U.S. military recovered the bodies Tuesday of two missing soldiers from an area it said was rigged with explosives. An Iraqi official said the Americans were tortured and killed in a "barbaric" way.
An insurgent group claimed the new leader of al-Qaida in Iraq executed the men personally, but it offered no evidence. The U.S. military did not confirm whether the soldiers died from wounds suffered in an attack Friday or were kidnapped and later killed.
The discovery of the bodies dealt a new setback to U.S. efforts to seize the momentum against al-Qaida in Iraq after killing its leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in a June 7 airstrike. Violence was unabated Tuesday, with at least 18 people killed in attacks nationwide, including a suicide bombing of a home for the elderly in the southern city of Basra.
Coalition forces spotted the American soldiers' bodies late Monday, three days after the men disappeared following an attack on their checkpoint south of the capital, the military said. But troops delayed retrieving the remains until an explosives team cleared the area after an Iraqi civilian warned them to be alert for explosive devices.
"Coalition forces had to carefully maneuver their way through numerous improvised explosive devices leading up to and around the site," the military said in a statement. "Insurgents attempting to inflict additional casualties had placed IEDs around the bodies."
Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said the bodies were found together in the vicinity of an electrical plant, which would be just a few miles from where the initial attack took place near the town of Youssifiyah in the volatile Sunni Triangle south of Baghdad.
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Islam is not a religion. Islam is a barbaric, murderous network of psychopaths. Science proved some years back that males who tend to violence usually have an extra x chromosome. These psychopathic muslims act like inbreds with an extra x chromosome. Any DNA profiles being run on this barbaric, murderous network of psychopaths?
of course I don't "know" it. that is what is being reported.
That's only a few more than are killed in New Orleans during the same time period.
Talk to any WWII Pacific vet and he will tell you they are exactly like the Japanese. Big on beheading, mutilation, suicide bombings, slaughter of prisoners and civilians, lived in caves and were adherents to a Godless religion.
Guess the terrorists read some history books OR evil barbarism in the heart is the same worldwide. They only dig deep into their souls and corrupt imaginations for the next horror they intend to commit.
The Assyrians were worse...so was the Church.
"Will MSM, the democrats and the peace groups be outraged at the inhumane treatment of our finest?"
H*ll NO! They will do their best to capitalize on it and bash the President.
I was flicking channels tonight and caught a few minutes of LKL on CNN. Larry had the family of one of the troops that was mutilated and tortured. This is the family, whose uncle was blaming all this on Bush this morning. The family said unequivocally that the UNCLE DOES NOT SPEAK FOR THE FAMILY. That they are proud of their son/brother/husband and they do not blame Bush at all for what happened. On the other hand, LKL also had on Jane Harmen. She stated, and I'm paraphrasing here, that the torture and deaths of these two troops can be blamed solely on the policy of the Bush administration. I was beyond apalled. She did not even mention the terrorists who killed them, nope, Jane Harmen, blamed the President of the United States. These democrats are so hateful, and so non-understanding of this terror war, that they CAN NEVER BE ALLOWED TO BE IN CHARGE! They view BUsh as the enemy, not the terrorists. Jane should be kicked out of congress for her statement; I'm beyond disgusted.
The japanese were worse
I disagree. The German engineering of mass genocide far outweighs the misery wrought by the Japanese. I'm not saying the Japs didn't give a go, the Germans were just more 'efficient'.
"This is what you get when you try to fight a "politically correct" war."
This is what you get from a religion of barbarians!
Jane Harmen must have found her "inner-terrorist" and now she's feeding it.
Out of uniform -- That's what Nathan Hale was hanged by the British for! Today, WE give 'em Quorans, and feed 'em until they get fat.
No prisioners.
My grandfather was a Marine in the pacific. He talked about people deserving "Guadalcanal Justice."
Not only that, but a PC war with barbarians. Civilized war?
In your lifetime? So we are no better than them, is that what you're saying? Well if that's the case I suggest we go medieval on them. You wouldn't happen to be from Madison, WI would you. It fits.
You are absolutely correct. That is the reason our soldiers had no compunction against using flame throwers on them as they hid in caves on Pacific Islands.
We need to start executing this war in a similar fashion. It has always been my contention that the President's poll numbers didn't fall BECAUSE of the war, but because of the "politically correct" way we were trying to fight it!!!
Yes, exactly.
Our press are "citizens of the world" and a cutthroat crew of seditious scum.
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