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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Ahh, OK. I thought it likely that was what had happened, but I just hadn't seen it yet, which is why I questioned your use of the term.
Ahh, OK. I thought it likely that was what had happened, but I just hadn't seen it yet, which is why I questioned your use of the term.
Forgive me for my ignorance but what is the Pendleton Eight?
The japanese were worse
"I just can't believe it."
There's much about living in these times that I can't believe! I was born too late in history. Our Founding Forefathers are given reasons anew each day for spinning in their graves.
It's a d@mn shame.
If al-Qaida was feeling heat before this atrocity -- their blood should be chilling a bit during the next few months...
"No worse enemy"....isn't false advertising...
ROE are subject to tweaking under certain circumstances....
Hell, it scares ME to think about that -- and they're not even looking for me!
Semper Fi
Why do we take Prisoners anyways? The Conventions say that if the person is Out of uniform and shooting at you, they are Partisans, therefore they can be shot out of hand.
Time to wave the red flag. No quarter asked, no mercy given.
It's time to close all mosques in this country.
It has my vote and they can coat them with lard for good measure.
Seven Marines & one Corpsman are being held in the Camp Pendleton brig WITHOUT BEING CHARGED!
As my grandfather said of the Germans.
There were true believers among the SS and they were all tough fighters. But when it came to sacrificing their lives the vast majority chose surrender.
Where is the national leadership on this? Stone silence!
Where is the outrage from those who whinned and slung snot over panties on the head, loud dogs and naked prisoners on the floor?
Where is the outrage of the world as it has wrung its hands over Gitmo?
Three Americans captured over the past two years, three American POWs executed. Not a word from our own government?
My solution: take ten prisoners from either Gitmo or Abu Graib, let them draw lots, and three are marched in front of a firing squad. Every time an American soldiers is murdered, another of the prisoners we are keeping dies.
These swine only respect force. PC crap wont do it.
And the President, Sec Def and everybody else better find their voices and make this nation heard.
Still waiting for Murtha to comment that these young soldiers were killed "in cold blood", but I'm not holding my breath,
I want something done to these "insurgent" sub-humans -- something so horrible that the world will speak of it in a nervous whisper for thousands of years. Something so terrible that strong men will faint at the mildest hint of what happened.
"Forgive me for my ignorance but what is the Pendleton Eight?"
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005385.htm
Update: The shackles were removed Friday.
Up until that time, when they were removed from their cells they were shackled.(They were in solitary confinement, allowed out of their cells for one hour each day)
and to this date have NOT BEEN CHARGED with any crime!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
What has Bush or his folks said? I can find nothing. Too busy traveling in Austria.
I was fit to be tied when they said this is a "set back"
I thought it was interesting when Laura Ingraham began to speak about International ANSWER...and O'Reilly says...no one knows that organization. WRONG. Lots of Freepers know of that organization. It's the "parent" for lot of the despicable smaller anti American groups. I seem to recall ANSWER being involved during the Bush/Kerry election.
Wish O'Reilly would have let Laura speak more..he kept interrupting her.
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