"Bodies of Missing U.S. Soldiers Recovered"

GreenPartyVoter

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Tue Jun-20-06 10:29 AM
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"Bodies of Missing U.S. Soldiers Recovered"

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The bodies of two U.S. soldiers reported captured last week have been recovered, and an Iraqi defense ministry official said Tuesday the men were "killed in a barbaric way." The U.S. military said the remains were believed to be those of Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston, and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25, of Madras, Ore.

Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said U.S. forces - part of a search involving some 8,000 American and Iraqi troops - found the bodies late Monday near Youssifiyah, where they disappeared Friday. The bodies were recovered early Tuesday.

Caldwell said the cause of death was "undeterminable at this point," and that the bodies would be taken back to the United States for DNA tests to confirm the identities.

Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for killing the soldiers, and said the successor to slain terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had "slaughtered" them, according to a Web statement that could not be authenticated. The language in the statement suggested the men had been beheaded.

http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20060620/D8IC0VH00.html?PG=home&SEC=news

I am so sorry for these young men and their families. :cry:

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benburch

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Tue Jun-20-06 10:31 AM
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1. Why do they need to do DNA tests?

Were they THAT disfigured????

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htuttle

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Tue Jun-20-06 10:34 AM
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2. A different article mentioned that the choice of words...

...in the statement released by those who claimed to kill them indicated that they were probably beheaded.

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benburch

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Tue Jun-20-06 10:38 AM
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5. Fuck.

I suspected that this would be the way Al Zaraqwi's successor would introduce himself.

Wish I had been wrong.

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VolcanoJen

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Tue Jun-20-06 11:29 AM
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10. Here's the article... in their statement, they used the word "nahr"...

... which in the past has referred to beheadings.

Website: New al Qaida leader killed 2 US soldiers - Jerusalem Post

Website: New al Qaida leader killed 2 US soldiers - Jerusalem Post

The statement said the two soldiers were "slaughtered" suggesting they had been beheaded by Abu Hamza al-Muhajer. 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.

This war is barbaric. Bring them home now!!

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WiseButAngrySara

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Tue Jun-20-06 10:34 AM
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3. I just heard about this! So sad. "killed in a barbaric way" and

"undeterminable" cause of death seem to be contradictory statements.

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gator_in_Ontario

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Tue Jun-20-06 10:36 AM
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4. My heart to their families

My heart to the families of whatever Iraqi families...I am sorry. I did NOT vote for the asswipe

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kentuck

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Tue Jun-20-06 10:43 AM
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6. What the families must be going thru at this time?

It's very, very sad.

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GreenPartyVoter

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Tue Jun-20-06 10:44 AM
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7. And it wouldn't have happened had we pulled out before now.

(Or better yet, never gone in in the first place.)

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npincus

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Tue Jun-20-06 11:17 AM
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8. so true.

http://www.antiwar.com/jamail/?articleid=8939

By far and away the survey that comes closest to the true number of dead in Iraq to date was the one conducted for The Lancet. Yet even Les Roberts, the lead author of that report and one of the world's top epidemiologists with the Center for International Emergency Disaster and Refugee Studies at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said this February that there might be as many as 300,000 Iraqi civilian deaths generated by the U.S. invasion and occupation. So as not to skew the results, it is important to note that the survey did not include areas where major combat had occurred such as Fallujah, Najaf, and Sadr City � home to roughly 3 million Iraqis.

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dogday

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Tue Jun-20-06 11:26 AM
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9. My deepest heartfelt sympathies to the families

of these brave soldiers...Kristian Menchaca, 23, comes from Houston , and I will personally express my condolences as the Mother of a soldier myself, I can only imagine the pain the family is feeling....

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Tue Jun-20-06 11:31 AM
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11. I suppose the video will be out soon.

With freepers watching it like pornography.

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