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| Bodies of G.I.'s Show Signs of Torture, Iraqi General Says |
| 2006-06-21 |
| The American military said today that it had found the remains of what appears to be the two American soldiers captured by insurgents last week in an ambush south of the capital, and a senior Iraqi military official said the two men had been "brutally tortured." An American military official in Baghdad, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that both bodies showed evidence of "severe trauma" and that they could not be conclusively identified. Insurgents had planted "numerous" bombs along the road leading to the bodies, and around the bodies themselves, the official said, slowing the retrieval of the Americans by 12 hours. Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, the American military spokesman, said "the remains" of what are believed to be the two Americans were found near a power plant in the vicinity of Yusefiya, about three miles from the site were they had been captured by insurgents. General Caldwell declined to speak in detail about the physical condition of those who had been found, but said that the cause of death could not be determined. He said the remains of the men would be sent to the United States for DNA testing to determine definitively their identities. That seemed to suggest that the two Americans had been wounded or mutilated beyond recognition. "We couldn't identify them," the American military official in Baghdad said. Maj. Gen. Abdul Azziz Mohammed Jassim, the chief of operations of the Ministry of Defense, said that he had seen an official report and that he could confirm the two Americans had been "killed in a very brutal way and tortured." "There were traces of torture on their bodies, very clear traces," General Jassim said. "It was a brutal torture. The torture was something unnatural." The general said that he was unable to provide any more details. The American military official said it took American soldiers more than 12 hours to recover the bodies because bombs had been planted on the road leading up to the bodies and all around them. All of the bombs, which the official described as "numerous," had to be defused. One of the bombs exploded when it was struck by an American vehicle, the official said. "They were intentionally targeting the recover force," the American official said. Rest at link. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #18 RE: Dick Durban. There's always time for a post-partum abortion with this useless piece of #^@$&%#&. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-06-21 15:37 |
| #17 When these bastards arrive in their own particular corner of Hell, they are going to find that their propaganda was right and Satan is Jewish and that their suffering and humiliation will be for all eternity. I am in favor of drowning al Q members in pig offal. |
| Posted by: RWV 2006-06-21 20:29 |
| #16 "The torture was something unnatural." "Unnatural"? What the hell does that mean??? Sometimes-- like right now-- I think this war may not be over until Arabic is spoken only in Hell... |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2006-06-21 17:45 |
| #15 Moonbats blaming this all on Abu Ghraib/Gitmo in 5....4....3.... |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2006-06-21 17:26 |
| #14 We need to understand that to win, we need the attitude, and we need to be vicious, decisive, and overwhelming. Also, the president needs to lead, especially in deed. The MSM hands the public defeatest blather 24/7, but I do not hear much about this barbarity issue from the President or the Secretary of Defense. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul in Nikolaevsk, Alaska 2006-06-21 16:50 |
| #13 That would offend the pigs. Pig poop now..... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-06-21 16:31 |
| #12 How bout loading Israeli bullets, dipped in pig blood? Just sayin'... |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-06-21 16:04 |
| #11 Yep, nothing new, move on, be careful and kill first. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-06-21 15:48 |
| #10 Time to load israeli bullets and make it known. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2006-06-21 15:39 |
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| Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-06-21 15:37 |
| #8 P*n*s Durbin from Illinois, otherwise known as Dick "The Turban", was flatuating again. Heard what he said on Laura Ingraham a couple of hours ago. The only withdrwal that should of happened was by his father, 9 months before Dick was born, but alas, that is water under the bridge, isn't it? |
| Posted by: Tell D Truth 2006-06-21 12:47 |
| #7 Captive incidents like this make me fear that US Army uniforms, weapons and kit will be worn by clean shaven bad guys to infiltrate restricted areas and cause havoc. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-06-21 12:46 |
| #6 Yep, the VC/NVA we're no picnic either in that respect. The only difference is that now we give combatants out of uniform Geneva conventions they don't rate. We could summarily execute them but then that complicates intel gathering efforts (hajji thinks he's gonna get whacked so he fights to the death or clams up because either way it don't matter - he's dead). I tend to like one of Rommel's maxims (paraphrased): to the surrendering soldier - give them all courtesies due a respected opponent, to the guerilla - no quarter. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-06-21 12:40 |
| #5 We've been through this before.American Indians used to scalp and desecrate the bodies of our soldiers. The Japanese frequently tortured and mutilated our troops. We then got fairly cruel with the Indians. As for Japanese, we stopped taking prisoners. Ever. |
| Posted by: SOP35/Rat 2006-06-21 11:40 |
| #4 If I had my way we would have dumped the entire lot at Gitmo, in a similar state, on the doorsteps of AI a long time ago. |
| Posted by: Cleamble Ebbomose9105 2006-06-21 10:11 |
| #3 Indeed...non-stop news coverage is beginning to overwhelm me. |
| Posted by: kelly 2006-06-21 10:10 |
| #2 No doubt Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch will be expressing their outrage over this. Waiting patiently.... |
| Posted by: SteveS 2006-06-21 09:56 |
| #1 If we're going to have a clash of civilizations, doesn't there need to be someone civilized on the other side? |
| Posted by: Cherong Glish7834 2006-06-21 09:41 |