Re: US hypocrisy is overwhelming
- From: "Frank Arthur" <Art@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:57:07 -0400
Iraqi: Soldiers Killed in 'Barbaric Way'
Published: 6/20/06, 4:05 PM EDT
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. forces on Tuesday recovered the bodies of two
American soldiers reported captured by insurgents last week. An Iraqi
defense ministry official said the men were tortured and "killed in a
barbaric way." Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for killing the
soldiers, and said the successor to terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had
"slaughtered" them.
The claim was made in a Web statement that could not be authenticated. The
language in the statement suggested the men were beheaded.
U.S. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said the remains were believed to be those
of Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston, and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25, of
Madras, Ore.
He said U.S. troops - part of a search involving some 8,000 American and
Iraqi forces - found the bodies late Monday near Youssifiyah, where they
disappeared Friday.
Troops did not recover the bodies until Tuesday because they had to wait
until daylight to cordon off the area for an ordnance team for fear it was
booby-trapped, Caldwell said.
The checkpoint attacked Friday was in the Sunni Arab region known as the
"Triangle of Death" because of frequent ambushes there of U.S. soldiers and
Iraqi troops. Caldwell said troops encountered a lot of roadside bombs and
other explosives during the three-day search, including in the area where
the bodies were found.
The cause of death was "undeterminable at this point," and the two bodies
will be taken back to the United States for DNA tests to confirm the
identities, Caldwell said.
The two soldiers disappeared after an insurgent attack Friday at a
checkpoint by a Euphrates River canal, 12 miles south of Baghdad. Spc. David
J. Babineau, 25, of Springfield, Mass., was killed. The three men were
assigned to the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 101st
Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Ky.
The director of the Iraqi defense ministry's operation room, Maj. Gen.
Abdul-Aziz Mohammed, said the bodies showed signs of having been tortured.
"With great regret, they were killed in a barbaric way," he said.
The claim of responsibility was made in the name of the Mujahedeen Shura
Council, an umbrella organization of five insurgent groups led by al-Qaida
in Iraq. The group posted an Internet statement Monday claiming it was
holding the American soldiers captive.
"We give the good news ... to the Islamic nation that we have carried God's
verdict by slaughtering the two captured crusaders," said the claim, which
appeared on an Islamic militant Web site where insurgent groups regularly
post statements and videos.
"With God Almighty's blessing, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer carried out the verdict
of the Islamic court" calling for the soldiers' slaying, the statement said.
The statement said the soldiers were "slaughtered," suggesting that
al-Muhajer beheaded them. The Arabic word used in the statement, "nahr," is
used for the slaughtering of sheep by cutting the throat and has been used
in past statements to refer to beheadings.
The U.S. military has identified al-Muhajer as an Egyptian associate of
al-Zarqawi also known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri.
The killings would be the first acts of violence attributed to al-Muhajer
since he was named al-Qaida in Iraq's new leader in a June 12 Web message by
the group. Al-Zarqawi was killed in a U.S. airstrike on June 7.
Al-Zarqawi made al-Qaida in Iraq notorious for hostage beheadings and was
believed to have killed two American captives himself - Nicholas Berg in
April 2004 and Eugene Armstrong in September 2004.
Caldwell said that Iraqi and American troops involved in the search for the
missing soldiers killed three suspected insurgents and detained 34 in
fighting that wounded seven U.S. servicemen.
Also, just hours before the two soldiers went missing Friday, a U.S.
airstrike killed a key al-Qaida in Iraq leader described as the group's
"religious emir," he said.
Mansour Suleiman Mansour Khalifi al-Mashhadani, or Sheik Mansour, was killed
with two foreign fighters in the same area where the soldiers' bodies were
found, the U.S. spokesman said. The three were trying to flee in a vehicle.
Al-Mashhadani was "a key leader of Al Qaida in Iraq, with excellent
religious, military and leadership credentials" and tied to the senior
leadership, including al-Zarqawi and his alleged replacement, Caldwell said.
U.S. forces captured Mansour in July 2004 because of his ties to the
militant groups Ansar al-Islam and Ansar al-Sunna, but the military let him
go because he was not deemed an important terror figure at the time.
A witness to the attack Friday told The Associated Press on Sunday that
insurgents swarmed the checkpoint, killing the driver of a Humvee before
taking two of his comrades captive.
Ahmed Khalaf Falah, a farmer, said three Humvees at the checkpoint came
under fire from many directions. Two Humvees went after the assailants but
the third was ambushed.
He said seven masked gunmen, one carrying a heavy machine gun, killed the
driver and took the two other U.S. soldiers captive. His account could not
be verified independently.
Kidnappings of U.S. service members have been rare since the 2003 U.S.-led
invasion of Iraq, despite the presence of about 130,000 forces.
The last U.S. soldier to be captured was Sgt. Keith M. Maupin of Batavia,
Ohio, who was taken on April 9, 2004 after insurgents ambushed his fuel
convoy. Two months later, a tape on Al-Jazeera purported to show a captive
U.S. soldier shot, but the Army ruled it was inconclusive and remains listed
as missing.
Caldwell said that in addition to the two soldiers, a dozen Americans -
including Maupin and 11 private citizens - are missing in Iraq. In addition,
Capt. Michael Speicher, a Navy pilot, remains listed as missing in Iraq
since the 1991 Persian Gulf War, he said.
"Lazarus Cain" <rspeaking@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Terrorozing all Iraqi citizens, US claims it is fighting a war against
terrorists wh are in fact insurgents resisting the force imposed by
foreign occupational forces who nvaded their land under false
pretenses. Promising things would be so peachy once freed from local
rule, common Iraqis find that life under US occupation is worse than
life under Sadam.
Because Iran is sympathetic to the Iraqis insurgency, US threatens IRan
concerning its nuclear power program, consistently lying that it is a
nuclear weapons program.
Bush is a proven liar again and again whenit comes to justifying his
aggressive foreign policy/
Military contractors and their associated congressmen are reaping the
benefits of uncompetitive contracts as the US spends 100's of billions
on its own nuclear weapons program. Indeed there is no ability to
separate the US military from the US nuclear weapons program snce the
two are so intertwined and inseparable.
Self righteous Bush, the American dictator accuses the Norht Korean
dictator of going too far, as the North Koreans simply discuss testing
ballistic misile to keep the US at bay.
North Korea has no Religious objection to nuclear weapons as is the
claimof the Iranian religiousl leaders who are at least smart enough to
acknowledge that nucler weapons is wrong in principle.
Feeling invulnerable because of the immense power curretnly enjoyed the
self righteous US cries when it receives what it doles out to other
nations wholesale.
I am so ashamed to be an American.
It is easier just to see myself as a common man living in an oppressive
and evil regime as I disasscoiate myself from any and all politicians,
while I realize my vote is meaningless as is my voice.
Consequently there is small wonder why I have absolute contempt for
many US laws.
TheUS is nothing like wht my school teachers taught me it is supposed
to be. I suppose this is just the standard brainwashing any nation will
inculacte its school children with.
The Television news media is equally bad.
Unbiased reporting, my ass. The US news should not be discussing Iran's
nuclear power program as a nuclear weapons program if it has no
evidence, but it does blatantly call the Iranian nuclear program a
nuclear weapons program and by so doing it misinforms millions of
voters which is what the Bush administration loves to do.
I suppose Bush seeing he can't start a war with Iran, responds by
acelersting tensions with North Korea.
I really don;t give a crap about a test missile launch. The US has done
such launches hundreds of times. Certainly isn;t worth getting up in a
row about.
Again the US is reminded that it is Mr Bush who is the main and chief
instigator of foreign conflicts and it is Mr Bush who is the King of
Terror at the current moment and no one else.
In addition, why should I grieve for two soldiers whose job it is to
kill, and not feel remorse for civilian women and children who are
still dying daily under the orders of MrBush.
Mr Bush revleled for several days as they flashed the image of a dead
IRaqi insurgent who is labelled a terroist, now he is shocked when he
is given similar treatment.
I am reminded of legendary Nazi reprosals against civilians when a
Nazi soldier was killed by a resistance fighter. Althoug some of the
details are different, there are more similarities than differences
between ancient Nazi tactics and curretn US tactics in Iraq.
In any case nothing in the news is that surpsing and one can even say
you could have seen it coming by appplying simple cause and effect
thinking...somethingI think MrBush does not understand so well.
I am interested in seeing what happens when North Korea does test fire
the missile. I, myself, would do it just to spite the American
dictator.
The US needs to scale down its own nuclear weapons program 99% before
it begins to tell other nations not to have a nuclear tipped missile
for self defense. It seems to be the only language US seems to
partially understand. It is a shame, but true.
I like the remark read the other day about Republicans.
"I'll quit telling the truth when Republican administration quits
lying."
Yet tellinng th truth seem to be the only weapon I have against
Republican lies, but it is easy for them to quash the truth with
lies.It is official Bush policy.
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