Posted on 09/23/2006 12:10:10 PM PDT by mware
Edited on 09/23/2006 1:04:25 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- An al-Qaida-linked group posted a Web video Saturday purporting to show the bodies of two American soldiers being dragged behind a truck, then set on fire in apparent retaliation for the rape-slaying of a young Iraqi woman by U.S. troops from the same unit.
The Mujahedeen Shura Council -- an umbrella organization of insurgent groups, including al-Qaida in Iraq -- posted another video in June showing the soldiers' mutilated bodies, and claiming it killed them. It was not clear whether the video posted Saturday was a continuation of that footage, or why it was released.
It was impossible to identify the bodies, but the footage was believed to be of Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, and Pfc. Thomas Tucker, 25, who went missing after being attacked by insurgents on June 16 at a checkpoint south of Baghdad. Their remains were found three days later, and the U.S. military said they had been mutilated.
The video showed masked men dragging the corpses, first by hand, then behind a truck, beheading one of them and then setting them on fire. Below the graphic footage is a subtitle: "The two soldiers belong to the same brigade of the soldier who raped our sister in Mahmoudiya."
The video must be gruesome...if IRC they had to identify them through DNA...
Many said they found it strange that a video had not been released showing the terrorist handwork.
IIRC their small force separated to chase down some terrorists....a big no no which I hope has been corrected with ROE since this happened...
That's correct...Afterward, they figured it was a set up by the terrorists.
And cries from UN stooges, Mullah's rioting on Muslim streets over this which gives "Islam a bad name", condematation by MSM, etc etc. But I agree with Mcpain, don't tortue these animals or keep them in prison with no coloring books and doughnuts. Just shoot them dead.
Do you know which? I did a search and found umpteen gazillion threads - would take a while to sift through the hundreds of comments in each.
I've heard some things but I don't know if they are speculation, offical reporting, classified, or unclassified.
They don't care--they're only interested in furthering their careers, especially McCain. They stopped caring about the people they supposedly represent a long, long time ago.
AND OUR CHICKENSHIT "GENERALS" ARE WORRIED ABOUT CIVILIAN CASUALITIES AT A TALIBAN FUNERAL! When are we going to take the damned gloves off in this war?
Kill every jihadi in gitmo - bury them in pig shite..
Ax, I don't know where the video is on the internet, They seemed very sure of the video I think they said a middle eastern website. Fox cited an AP story for the information. I will keep listening.
No, I meant the threads discussing how they were captured. I see a ton of threads about the incident, but most comments amount to "animals!" and "prayers" etc.
Well, I know that Fox Radio on the weekends is populated by Hate-Bush Marxists, or some kind of little left-wing CNN wannabes.
They all have that sort of gasping, contemptuous pronounciation of Christine Amanpour and the rest of the CNN leftists.
I can't listen to Fox radio on Saturdays and Sundays.
It's like the journalism students all got out of their Noam Chomsky class.
chicken poop generals better hope the dems don't retake(stop sharing) power or they will be serving as police protection for gay weddings and doing global job re-training for taliban.
*Tears*
Prayers for the families.
Me either, m-ak.
No, you want them to get their minds right. What we have so far is a failure to communicate.
Hdqrs. Military Division of the Mississippi, In the field, Rome, Ga., October 29, 1864.
Brigadier-General Watkins, Calhoun, Ga.:
Cannot you send over about Fairmount and Adairsville, burn about ten or twelve houses of known secessionists, kill a few at random, and let them know it will be repeated every time a train is fired on from Reseca to Kingston?
W. T. Sherman,
Major-General Commanding
Maybe it was not gentlemanly fighting, but General Sherman meant that soldiers of the US Army were not going to be fired upon by guerrillas, freedom fighters, insurgents or whatever they called themselves. The soldiers in the field need a Sherman-like concern for their welfare with no concern about the tears of the boo hoo brigade of the left. They'd find something else to cry about anyway.
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