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Report: Video Posted of U.S. Soldiers' Bodies Being Burned
AP via Washington Post ^ | 09/23.06 | OMAR SINAN

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."

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To: BIGLOOK

Exactly.

Even if they stick their hands up, shoot 'em. They may have a bomb.


61 posted on 09/23/2006 12:46:37 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: mware

"Where was the Geneva Convention for them???"

Good question!

I add, WHERE ARE THE HUMAN RIGHTS PEOPLE ON THIS?

THE ACLU? The over the top, self righteous political representative of ours that think WE TORTURE the ENEMY?

WELL, WHERE ARE THEY?

THOSE *** HYPOCRITES!

THIS pisses me off to NO END!


62 posted on 09/23/2006 12:48:02 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: mware

Terror group posts footage of bodies

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/15593022.htm


"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."

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It's a good thing Congress is passing all that terrorist protection legislature to make sure we treat them with kindness. Just think what the terrorist would have done to our soldiers if we didn't extend Geneva convention rights to terrorists. (/bitter sarcasm)


63 posted on 09/23/2006 12:49:08 PM PDT by FairOpinion (Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
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To: conservative in nyc

Liberal Rats and RINOs in Congress are just as evil when they support giving these terrorist bastards all the benefits of our laws to save their rear ends.


64 posted on 09/23/2006 12:51:34 PM PDT by conservative blonde (Conservative Blonde)
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To: mware

The Geneva Convention only applies to the USA.


65 posted on 09/23/2006 12:53:30 PM PDT by LukeL (Never let the enemy pick the battle site. (Gen. George S. Patton))
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To: mware
"Where was the Geneva Convention for them???"

This is the question everyone should be asking. This is the question that I hope voters will be asking this year, and in 2008. Anyone who answers it wrong should be voted out.

The thing is, the Geneva conventions should never have applied to the kind of fighters like the terrorists. Never. To apply them is just plain stupid--and suicidal for us.

66 posted on 09/23/2006 12:54:46 PM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: conservative in nyc
My LORD!

What ANIMALS they are!

I couldn't bear to see the video of them really TORTURING these American men. If THE PICTURES DON'T shock you and anger you ... you've got no soul. THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/183865.php

These families need to be lifted up in prayer, yet again with this new horror being released.

Did you see this in the writeup?

They blurred part of the picture because they didn't want to show the mans genitals. GEESH! LOOK AT WHAT THEY DID TO THE ENTIRE BODY!

I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSED!
67 posted on 09/23/2006 12:57:12 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: nmh
If THE PICTURES DON'T shock you and anger you ... you've got no soul. THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!

Hard to believe but there will be those who aren't moved. Humanity takes a backseat to ideology with them.

68 posted on 09/23/2006 1:00:31 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: bwteim; mware; mystery-ak

Remember when they recovered these soldier's bodies, they were unrecognizable. Apparently for whatever reason, Al Qaeda has decided this is the time to show what was done to them.


69 posted on 09/23/2006 1:01:23 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet-prayers for the kidnapped Israeli Soldiers)
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To: Condor51

The only thing better would be seeing MCPAIN dragged thru the streets by these monsters.....and leave our troops alone...


70 posted on 09/23/2006 1:02:00 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 (My ? to libs: "Do they ever shut up on your planet?" "Grow your own DOPE: Plant a LIB!")
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To: mware

Where's the UN and media whining about due process and civil rights?


71 posted on 09/23/2006 1:06:59 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("A litany of complaints is not a plan." - GW Bush, referring to DNC's lack of a platform on ANYTHING)
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To: wita

No, you want them to get their minds right. What we have so far is a failure to communicate.



Actually- my thought was..IF they viewed these videos ..it might GET their minds right.

Failure to communicate?


72 posted on 09/23/2006 1:07:03 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet-prayers for the kidnapped Israeli Soldiers)
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To: mware
OUTRAGE BUMP!

May these brave men be in heaven and prayers for the loved ones on this earth mourning them again through these positively EVIL pictures. It's no wonder they couldn't recognize these brave men.

May those that do this find an especially HOT PLACE IN HELL ASAP.
73 posted on 09/23/2006 1:09:40 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: HarleyLady27

Are you serious?

I'm furious with McCain and the rest of them- and I will work hard against him during primary season. I wouldn't wish that treatment on anyone, including McCain, Clinton, Carter etc.

Without starting a flame war- that kind comment does nothing to advance our cause.


74 posted on 09/23/2006 1:10:56 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet-prayers for the kidnapped Israeli Soldiers)
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To: mware
These people want to do this all over America!

Make no mistake: this war is a just one.

75 posted on 09/23/2006 1:12:28 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of "dependence on government"!)
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To: mystery-ak
I don't blame you. I have no desire to see it either.

I did look at the pictures at the link at #5. That was enough. More than enough.

76 posted on 09/23/2006 1:13:28 PM PDT by MozartLover ( My son, my soldier, my hero.....................is coming home in 47 days!!!!!!!)
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To: mware

Someone sent me an email sometime ago with the pictures of the murdered soldiers. One was face down and pretty bloody. The other had been beheaded and the terrorist was holding his head up and his body was face up and his chest was cut open, you could see the ribs, a leg was missing..it was beyond awful. I would think the faces could have been idenitfied. I don't have the link anymore..it was just sickening.

Then today we hear the successor to AlZaqawri (sp) shot execution style a Turkish man who had been captured...it was on FOXNews.

What these terrorists don't realize is that the Allah they worship is Satan in Allah's robes...


77 posted on 09/23/2006 1:15:52 PM PDT by celtic gal
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To: conservative in nyc

these are not the pictures I saw.


78 posted on 09/23/2006 1:17:06 PM PDT by celtic gal
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To: Nathan Zachary
Send these pictures to McCain et al and then ask about the Geneva Conventions to which these terrorists are not signatory.
79 posted on 09/23/2006 1:20:29 PM PDT by celtic gal
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To: celtic gal
There was another video of the soldiers released in July. The pictures on Jawa Report website from July are equally disturbing (and might be what you saw).
80 posted on 09/23/2006 1:22:28 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
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