Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25, of Madras, OR and Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston, TX, Spc. David J. Babineau, 25, of Springfield, Mass.
Posted on 07/10/2006 5:54:36 PM PDT by Alouette
THE Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda has put on the internet a video showing the mutilated bodies of two US soldiers kidnapped in June and executed to "avenge" an Iraqi woman raped near Mahmudiyah south of Baghdad.
"Here is a film on the remains of the bodies of the two American soldiers kidnapped near Yussufiyah (south of Baghdad). We are showing it to avenge our sister who was raped by a soldier belonging to the same division as these two soldiers," said a preamble by the Mujahedeen Al-Shura Council, an al-Qaeda dominated alliance of armed Sunni groups in Iraq.
When guerillas learned of the rape, "they repressed their sighs to avoid news of the affair spreading but they swore to avenge their sister", the council said on its usual website.
"Praise God, they captured two soldiers from the same division as this vile crusader. Here are the remains ... to rejoice the hearts of the faithful," the statement said.
The nearly five-minute film shows the horribly mutilated bodies of the two soldiers, who had had their throats cut.
(Excerpt) Read more at couriermail.news.com.au ...
I stopped reading here. Whose mouths do you presume to put such rubbish into?
Sunni.
Sura 8:12Remember thy Lord inspired the angels (with the message): "I am with you: give firmness to the Believers: I will instil terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off them."
I can't view it either, but I wondered the same thing. They always seem anxious to publish these things. Maybe they were afraid to do it right after because they knew how angry the troops were over this. I guess they don't realize our troops are still angry.
Good point.
And some people wonder why I'm not enamored of mohammedanism!
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Filed under: Terrorism by Chad Evans at 1:07 pm EDT Evan Kohlmann of The Counterterrorism Blog notes that the actual media wing for Al Qaida in Iraq and the Mujahideen Shura Council never claimed that the believed new leader of Al Qaida in Iraq, al-Masri, personally killed two U.S. soldiers.
This evening, the Al-Fajr Media Center issued a new statement concerning an erroneous communique published in Western media outlets and attributed to Al-Qaida concerning the brutal killing of two U.S. soldiers south of Baghdad. In its message, Al-Fajr angrily charged, “It should be noted that some of these news agencies–even though they know that the Al-Fajr Media Center is the exclusive publishing outlet for the Mujahideen Shura Council, Ansar al-Sunnah, and the As-Sahab [Foundation]” have printed stories about unauthenticated messages published by members of various forums “without any regard to the professional informational system” that was put in place by Al-Fajr. However, according to the latter, the failure of Western media agencies to follow that system simply “demonstrates the extent of the defeat of the crusader forces and their allies.”
The implication here is that the purported Internet communique suggesting that the newly designated commander of Al-Qaida in Iraq Abu Hamza al-Muhajir personally beheaded two U.S. soldiers taken captive in Al-Yousifiyah–most notably published online on the debatably accurate Tajdeed.org.uk forum and *NOT* carried by any of Al-Fajr Media Center’s preferred online distribution outlets–was a total hoax.
It’s a bit surprising to me that the reports cites by numerous press agencies come from a posting at Tajdeed. Tajdeed is not just “debatably accurate” as Kohlman states, it’s too often inaccurate to consider anything other than third-hand information at best. It is also the same message board that was hosted in England and taken down following July 7. The site is back up and hosted elsehwere, but the Al-Fajr Media Center has accused the owner of Tajdeed of sharing information with British intelligence. That claim though is based on a lack of knowledge of facts because there have numerous reports indicating MI-5 was closely monitoring that site to find jihadis within England.
God rest our poor dead Soldiers souls -- and protect their Brothers in Arms from islamanazism's bloody barbarian bastards.
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And from the islamonazi's allies in the MSM.
You were interested before as to what happened to these soldiers. Be prepared its not pretty
Perhaps they were on the run and hiding out from:
8,000 U.S. and Iraqi soldiers, dubbed Operation Fallen Eagle. The remains were not recovered until the next morning, after an Iraqi civilian warned that bombs had been planted in the area.
The military said six roadside bombs had to be dismantled, and explosives experts then found the bodies were booby-trapped with a bomb between one of the soldier's legs.
"The engineers successfully cleared the IED (improvised explosive device) and the surrounding area to allow recovery of the remains," a military statement said.
A U.S. military officer said last week that one and possibly both soldiers had been tortured and beheaded. Thurman would not discuss the condition of the bodies, except to say they had been "brutalized."
The remains were sent to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for DNA testing and the identities were confirmed.
Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed it killed the two men, saying the successor to slain leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had "slaughtered" them, according to a Web statement that could not be authenticated. The claim was made in the name of the Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of insurgent groups.
The bodies were found next to a road near a power plant near the village of Mufaraji, northwest of Youssifiyah, 12 miles south of Baghdad, the military said. The region is commonly called the Triangle of Death because of the frequent ambushes of U.S. and Iraqi troops.
Thurman said he did not want to speculate on the motive for the attack, but added: "I believe that al-Qaida is associated with a majority of attacks ... in and around the area where we found the soldiers."
Two al-Qaida in Iraq terrorists, including a senior lieutenant, were killed in the search and 36 were detained, including two who admitted they were al-Qaida members and were captured in the vicinity of the bodies, the military statement said.
The military had said earlier that one U.S. soldier was killed and 12 were wounded during the search. The latest statement, however, said no troops were killed in the operation. Thurman said more than 300 documents, CDs, videotapes and a global positioning system were seized during the search. He said he had not seen any videos of the killings of the soldiers.
Key evidence was found on the second day of the search in a truck discovered at the power plant and near a canal along the entrance of the complex indicating the soldiers had been there, Thurman said. He also said tips from detained Iraqis and residents helped guide the search. http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:PYIzHuXCSjEJ:seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107AP_Iraq_Missing_Soldiers.html%3Fsource%3Dmypi+8000+soldiers+iraq&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=11
We need to pray for our brave fighting men, whose reputation should not suffer because of the actions of a few bad eggs. Of course, the MSM will be all over this for months just as they were with Abu Ghraib.
Thank you Main Stream Media, their blood is on your hands.
The bodies were found in the Yusufiya area, said U.S. military spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, adding he believed the soldiers were mortally wounded, then moved.
It was unclear whether he meant the wounds were suffered in the initial attack on a checkpoint or afterward. "Where we found them was not based on their own movements," Caldwell said.
Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25, of Madras, OR and Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston, TX, Spc. David J. Babineau, 25, of Springfield, Mass.
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