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.
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Thank you, and they also have families. I can't imagine how this adds to their pain.
Southack...there is a screen grab of a jihadist holding a severed head...and off in the distance you can see two phone towers....along a river....at least the death site can be ID'ed.
They could gleam some intel from this video..
This may sound cold....but...pain is good...we need the masses to see our enemy for what it truly is....animals.
Nor will I SE Mom, but we will never forget!
You are correct. When the scum first made an announcement about the soldiers, there was no mention of it being revenge for anything. They would not have left out that pseudo-justification, except for the fact that the MSM hadn't invented it for them yet.
And note how the MSM dumbs-down the definition of "vengeance," since these two soldiers weren't the ones accused of anything.
While we're at it, I'll bet the accusations of rape by the other soldier are false. They sound like an embroidered tale told by a child—or like Moslem PR.
Watching one beheading on the Michael Savage website was enough for me for a lifetime. I too, will not watch this. My thoughts are with these soldier's families. We are human and our blood boils in reponse to this news but THEY ARE cockroaches and therefore nothing in their skeleton raises their blood one degree.
I can't do it Dog, I just can't...
Nor me mystery. You cannot erase what your eyes have seen.
I don't believe they did it as claimed for their "sister". They did it for the sport and because they are what they are.
May these two young men forever rest with God.
No, it doesn't sound cold, but if that were my son I wouldn't want his mutiliated corpse on the internet so every voyeur with a computer could check it out. It would feel like the ultimate violation. That's why I won't look at it. These animals don't allow dignity even in death.
I know...
This maybe proof at the time of the attack, these two soldiers were killed. The bodies were taken then mutilated...otherwise, we'd have video's of the alive soldiers being mutilated...which we don't.
I and their families, I'm sure, pray you are right....
their "god'" is a pig, an son of a whore.
Makes me sooooooooooooooooo pissed to see these brave men treated this way, and to hear that other son of a whore Murtha as much as saying the deserved it.
may the Mooslims all rot in hell....
It's not my thinking...it's the military's thinking.
Yes. I continue to pray for the families and friends of Pfc Tucker and Pfc Menchaca...
MUSSAB AL-KHAIRALLA IN BAGHDAD
Key quote:
"We give the good news ... to the Islamic nation that we have carried God's verdict by slaughtering the two captured crusaders. With God Almighty's blessing, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir carried out the verdict of the Islamic court for the soldiers' killing." - MUJAHIDEEN SHURA COUNCIL STATEMENT
Story in full: TWO United States soldiers missing in Iraq for three days after being kidnapped at a checkpoint have been found dead, their bodies showing signs of "barbaric" torture, it was announced yesterday.
An internet statement by al-Qaeda in Iraq claimed its new leader, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, had personally "slit the throats" of, or beheaded, Thomas Lowell Tucker, 25, and Kristian Menchaca, 23, both privates.
The US military launched a major search involving 8,000 troops after vowing not to leave the soldiers "out there".
But yesterday, Major-General William Caldwell, a US military spokesman, said: "Coalition forces have recovered what we believe are the remains of the soldiers." He said a joint US- Iraqi force found the bodies on Monday night dumped at an electrical plant, but their recovery was delayed by having to defuse bombs planted nearby.
Major-General Abdul Aziz Mohammed, an Iraqi defence ministry official, said the bodies showed signs of "barbaric torture", but did not elaborate.
An internet statement from the Mujahideen Shura Council, which groups seven insurgent organisations, including al-Qaeda, in Iraq, said: "We give the good news ... to the Islamic nation that we have carried God's verdict by slaughtering the two captured crusaders. With God Almighty's blessing, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir carried out the verdict of the Islamic court for the soldiers' killing."
The use of the word "slaughter" suggested the soldiers had been beheaded by Muhajir. The Arabic word nahr is used for the slaughtering of sheep by cutting the throat and has been used to refer to beheadings.
If true, it would be the first act of violence by Muhajir, an Egyptian, since he was named as al-Qaeda in Iraq's leader on 12 June. He succeeded Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in a US airstrike on 7 June. Attributing the killings to Muhajir might be an attempt to build up the image of the new leader.
A spokesman for the Tucker family said yesterday that they were expecting the worst.
Pte Tucker's relatives declined to comment, but released the text of a phone message he recently left, telling his mother to be proud of him. "I'm defending my country," Pte Tucker said. "Tell Sis and my nephews hello for me. I'm OK. I'm on my way."
A member of the US army's casualty assistance office met Pte Menchaca's mother, Maria Vasquez, yesterday and said it could take two or three days for DNA tests to be completed.
Her niece, Felipa Gomez, said the family had been watching television news reports of the Iraqi military announcement. "She's hanging in there" and still holding on to hope that her son would somehow make it back alive, Ms Gomez said.
Sgt Jesus Rolnmedina, who spoke to her, said the bodies "had a lot of trauma".
Pte Menchaca's uncle, Ken MacKenzie, lashed out at the US government, saying it did not do enough to bring the men home safe. "Because the US government did not have a plan in place, my nephew has paid for it with his life," he said.
Mr MacKenzie said the government should have offered a $100 million (£54 million) reward and offered to exchange Mujahideen detainees for the soldiers' lives. It had seized enough money from Saddam Hussein to afford it, he said.
The US soldiers went missing at dusk on Friday after an ambush at a checkpoint in Yusufiya, a town south of Baghdad some Iraqis call the "Triangle of Death", which is an al-Qaeda stronghold. Another soldier was killed.
The deaths dealt a blow to the US military after it killed Zarqawi on 7 June near Baquba, north-east of Baghdad. However, the US authorities yesterday said it had killed another leading al-Qaeda in Iraq figure.
A man described as the group's "religious emir" was killed in an airstrike on Monday, hours before the two soldiers went missing and in the area where their bodies were found.
Sheik Mansour al-Mashhadani, an Iraqi aged between 35 and 37, and two foreign fighters, including a cell leader identified as Abu Tariq, were killed as they were trying to escape in a vehicle near Youssifiyah.
Gen Caldwell said that Mashhadani played a key religious and recruiting role in the organisation and was tied to the senior leadership, including Muhajir.
He "reportedly served as a right-hand man of Zarqawi's, and also served as a liaison between al-Qaeda in Iraq and the various tribes in the Youssifiyah area," Gen Caldwell said.
Citing intelligence sources, the general also said Mashhadani was responsible for shooting down a coalition aircraft in the spring.
The US military captured Mashhadani in July 2004, but they let him go because he was not deemed to be an important terrorism figure at the time.
Gen Caldwell said Mashhadani joined al-Qaeda in Iraq after his release in autumn 2004. He displayed photos said to show Mashhadani with a moustache before his death and with a battered face and one eye closed after he was killed.
Another picture identified him as a masked figure sitting with Zarqawi.
A document seized from an al-Qaeda hideout and released byMouwafak al-Rubaie, a national security adviser, last week that portrayed the insurgency in Iraq as being in "bleak" shape was also directly linked to Mashhadani, Gen Caldwell said.
Indeed, again I stated this several times before. On June 20th the savages made public claims they executed the soldiers but made NO mention of it being revenge.
A week ago or so, the L.A. times was the first to come out publicly wondering if there was a link between the rape/murders and the mutilations of these two soldiers. I was furious, as I knew that this gave the savages an opening (as well as their anti war MSM bed fellows). Now they can say, oh, yea, we did it as revenge for the rape after all.
Sick
I hope this is what you're saying!
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