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Booby-Trapped Bodies of 2 GIs Recovered(Bodies mutilated)
The Washington Times ^ | Jun 20, 7:46 PM EDT | KIM GAMEL

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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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: iraq; menchaca; thomastucker; war
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To: armydawg1

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?


101 posted on 06/20/2006 6:59:16 PM PDT by abclily
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To: Guenevere

of course I don't "know" it. that is what is being reported.


102 posted on 06/20/2006 7:02:47 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: kellynla
Violence was unabated Tuesday, with at least 18 people killed in attacks nationwide

That's only a few more than are killed in New Orleans during the same time period.

103 posted on 06/20/2006 7:05:41 PM PDT by Theo
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To: bnelson44
"I have never, ever even heard of an enemy like this one."

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.

104 posted on 06/20/2006 7:06:08 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Dig deeper, more ammo.)
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To: Eagles6

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.


105 posted on 06/20/2006 7:09:47 PM PDT by madison10
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To: ncountylee

"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.


106 posted on 06/20/2006 7:11:45 PM PDT by MagnoliaB
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To: madison10

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.


107 posted on 06/20/2006 7:13:45 PM PDT by Laverne
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To: Charlespg
The nazi barbarism was easily equal to the barbarism of the japanese

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'.

108 posted on 06/20/2006 7:14:02 PM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: kellynla

"This is what you get when you try to fight a "politically correct" war."

This is what you get from a religion of barbarians!


109 posted on 06/20/2006 7:14:53 PM PDT by MagnoliaB
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To: Laverne

Jane Harmen must have found her "inner-terrorist" and now she's feeding it.


110 posted on 06/20/2006 7:15:41 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Yorlik803
"Out of uniform and shooting at you, they are Partisans, therefore they can be shot out of hand."

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.

111 posted on 06/20/2006 7:18:45 PM PDT by Sooth2222
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To: Eagles6
You are right. My late father-in-law was a Marine, he was island hopping in WW ll. He told me he saw Americans hung up side down and gutted like cattle by the Japanese. He also told me that they took no prisoners. I have some old black & white photos of him and his buddies during that time. They are all thin but look plenty tough.
112 posted on 06/20/2006 7:19:41 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (Brand New Pennsylvania 12th District Freeper! Go Irey!!!)
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To: kellynla

No prisioners.


113 posted on 06/20/2006 7:26:20 PM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: river rat
We need to take prisoners and take them out of the control of the Iraqi Government. The Iraqis keep releasing THOUSANDS of prisioners, many who our troops have died trying to capture. Or we could allow some Shiite on Sunni prison riots to break out

We have bigger enemies than the insurgents in Iraq, we have a soon to be Nuclear Iran
it time to MOBILIZE THIS COUNTRY asap!!!. Had we done that in 2001 we could have at least 5 million men under arms now.

Instead I look around, and I see thousands and thousands of fit intelligent young men NOT joining the military. Now - the facts are that not everyone volunteered for WW2 either, the majority were drafted, we need to do the same in this supposed war or risk creating a generation that becomes accustomed to and acquiesces to cowardliness.

But in the final analyisis, if we don't fight with all our weaponry and tactics, if we handcuff our troops, like we did in Nam then OF COURSE THEY WON'T ENLIST and .....
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114 posted on 06/20/2006 7:27:10 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ((FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM.))
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To: Eagles6

My grandfather was a Marine in the pacific. He talked about people deserving "Guadalcanal Justice."


115 posted on 06/20/2006 7:27:54 PM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: kellynla
This is what you get when you try to fight a "politically correct" war.

Not only that, but a PC war with barbarians. Civilized war?

116 posted on 06/20/2006 7:32:08 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: madison10
"so was the Church.

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.

117 posted on 06/20/2006 7:35:24 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Dig deeper, more ammo.)
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To: nonliberal
I'll bet! When my father-in-law would talk about the war,I would shut up and listen. He told me some hair raising stories. But the thing he hated most about the war was eating corned beef every day.
118 posted on 06/20/2006 7:36:22 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (Brand New Pennsylvania 12th District Freeper! Go Irey!!!)
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To: OldFriend

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!!!


119 posted on 06/20/2006 7:40:53 PM PDT by singfreedom ("Victory at all costs,.......for without victory there is no survival."--Churchill--that's "Winston")
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To: M1911A1
Like it or not, WWII GIs shot a surrendered Germans who they believed deserved it, and that was that.

Yes, exactly.

Our press are "citizens of the world" and a cutthroat crew of seditious scum.

120 posted on 06/20/2006 7:43:04 PM PDT by an amused spectator (Bush Runner! The Donkey is after you! Bush Runner! When he catches you, you're through!)
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