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Iraqi "resistance" "captures" two GIsâ ID cards
A previously unknown Iraqi group obtained two U.S. soldiersâ identification cards and claimed to be holding them captive, but Pentagon officials said the soldiers were safe and had never been missing. A statement left with the two cards at a Lebanese Broadcast Corp. office on Friday claimed the Americans were captured in attacks near Baghdad. The station broadcast close-ups of the two cards, prompting the Pentagon to investigate. "The report is not true. Both soldiers are accounted for," said Spc. Anthony Reinoso, an Army spokesman in Iraq. One of the soldiers, Andrew C. Peters of Indiana, Pa., lost his Pennsylvania driverâs license when he was injured in a land mine explosion on Aug. 1, officials said. Peters, 37, was in surgery Friday at Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas, said Col. David Ellis, the hospitalâs acting commander. "He is doing very well," Ellis said."We captured his driverâs license. If he donât have that he canât drive or buy booze, so he might as well be captured. That counts." The other card bore the name of Capt. Katherine V. Rose of the 142nd Corps Support Battalion, based at Fort Polk, La. The battalion is currently deployed in Iraq. Rose also is safe, military officials said. The identification for Rose was not an official military ID and appeared to be a business card. "We filched it from the little fishbowl full of business cards at the Bob Evans in Tikrit. That counts as a âcaptureâ too!" Pentagon officials said the military was investigating the incident to determine how the previously unknown group, calling itself Al-Madina al-Munawara "We wanna liberate Iraq from liberty." It threatened attacks against U.S. troops and soldiers sent to Iraq from other countries. Posted by: Mike 2003-08-22 |
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