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    Exclamation 2 Missing In Iraq- massive hunt underway

    Massive hunt for U.S. soldiers missing in Iraq

    TWO REPORTED ABDUCTED AS VIOLENCE CONTINUES

    By Jonathan Finer
    Washington Post

    BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. and Iraqi forces conducted a sweeping hunt Saturday for two American soldiers missing after a clash with insurgents in Al-Yusufiyah,south of Baghdad, raiding houses, scanning the scene from aircraft and deploying divers to search waterways.

    One American soldier was killed in the incident, in which insurgents attacked a vehicle checkpoint in the restive Sunni Arab town just before 8 p.m. Friday. The names of the dead and missing soldiers are being withheld until their families can be notified, the military said.

    The New York Times reported that Iraqis said they saw the two soldiers taken prisoner by a group of masked guerrillas.

    ``We are using all available assets, coalition and Iraqi -- ground, air and water -- to locate and determine the duty status of our soldiers,'' Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV said in a televised statement Saturday.

    Before this week, only one U.S. soldier who went missing in Iraq remained unaccounted for. Sgt. Keith ``Matt'' Maupin was abducted April 9, 2004, after his convoy was attacked on Baghdad's airport road. Insurgents later released a video that purported to show Maupin being shot dead, but the military deemed it inconclusive.

    Word of the missing troops came as insurgents in and around Baghdad thwarted a heavy police and army presence by carrying out six attacks that killed at least 35 people, most of them Iraqi police officers and soldiers. In recent days, the capital has seen increased numbers of checkpoints, patrols and raids as part of a new security initiative from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's government.

    The deadliest attack Saturday came in the northern neighborhood of Zayouna, home to many former officers in Saddam Hussein's army, where a suicide car bomber struck a joint Iraqi police and army checkpoint, killing 12 members of the security forces and wounding 22, according to Brig. Gen. Arkan Yahiya of Iraq's Interior Ministry.

    Seven other members of Iraq's security forces were killed when a car bomb blasted a checkpoint near Iraq's National Theater in the southern neighborhood of Karrada, police officials said.

    In the Shiite-majority neighborhood of Al-Kazimiyah northwest of downtown, three nearly simultaneous explosions rocked a crowded market early Saturday morning, killing a father and son and wounding 15 others, according to Ahmad Hussein, a doctor at nearby Kazimiyah Hospital. The blast took place near a prominent Shiite shrine frequented by pilgrims.
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    This has been my biggest fear, personally.

    I pray whoever has these guys aren't trying to exact some revenge for Abu Graib, or anything else for that matter.

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    See I knew that after the BCE killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi all would be well


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    We can not win a Ground War in Iraq PERIOD!!!
    When will people get this thru their thick Skulls?
    They are like Roaches you kill one ten more will come back...
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    Originally posted by frets5150
    We can not win a Ground War in Iraq PERIOD!!!
    Ridiculous.

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    Originally posted by BigBadBrian
    Ridiculous.

    Yes, the thought of defeating an entrenched domestic Iraqi, Sunni-led insurgency with 130,000 US troops is ridiculous...

    Maybe the pro-Iranian Shia death squads will fair better???
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    Group Claims It Kidnapped U.S. Soldiers

    Monday, June 19, 2006

    BAGHDAD, Iraq - An umbrella group that includes al-Qaida in Iraq claimed in a Web statement Monday that it had kidnapped two U.S. soldiers reported missing south of Baghdad. The same group also claimed it had kidnapped four Russian diplomats and killed a fifth.

    There was no immediate confirmation that the statement was credible, although it appeared on a Web site often used by al-Qaida-linked groups.

    U.S. officials have said they were trying to confirm whether the missing soldiers were kidnapped.

    "Your brothers in the military wing of the Mujahedeen Shura Council kidnapped the two American soldiers near Youssifiya," the group said in a statement posted on an Islamic Web site.

    The Web site did not name the soldiers.

    The soldiers were reported missing Friday after insurgents attacked a checkpoint. The Defense Department identified the missing men as Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston, and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker, 25, of Madras, Ore.

    The soldier who was killed was identified as Spc. David J. Babineau, 25, of Springfield, Mass. The three were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Ky.

    The U.S. military said Monday that seven American troops have been wounded, three insurgents have been killed and 34 detained during an intensive search for the soldiers.

    Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, a spokesman for U.S. forces in Iraq, said fighter jets, unmanned aerial vehicles and dive teams had been deployed to find the two men. They went missing Friday during an attack on their checkpoint in the volatile Sunni area south of Baghdad that left one of their comrades dead.

    "We have surged intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms and employed planes, boats, helicopters and UAVs to ensure the most thorough search possible on the ground, in the air and in the water," Caldwell said in a statement issued Monday.

    Caldwell said more than 8,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops were participating in the search.

    "While searching for our soldiers, we have engaged in a number of significant actions against the anti-Iraqi forces," he said, adding that three insurgents had been killed and 34 taken into custody.

    He also said the military had received 63 tips and had launched 12 cordon and search operations, eight air assaults and 280 flight hours were logged.

    "Approximately 12 villages have been cleared in the area, and we continue to engage local citizens for help and information leading to the whereabouts of our soldiers," he said, without elaborating.

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    Originally posted by BigBadBrian
    Ridiculous.

    We're approaching the same timeframe with which it took us to win WWII, and we still haven't secured THE FUCKING ROAD FROM THE AIRPORT TO BAGHDAD.

    You're ridiculous to still cling to the notion we can "win" this militarily.

    fucking moron.

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    The Horror

    by Mike Malloy on June 20, 2006 - 5:10pm.

    The killing of the two US soldiers captured in Iraq last week is being described as “barbaric.” Their bodies were found today after a massive search and reports indicate the deaths had to have been prolonged, torturous, medieval. The two young soldiers so brutally killed were both Army PFCs, both young, both idealistic, both now victims of George Bush’s murderous occupation of Iraq. The horrific nature of the killing of these two young Americans is hideously reflected in the unspeakable deaths of Iraqi civilians massacred in their homes, their beds, their cribs. Each death will beget another, and another, and another. How much more of this can we absorb? How many more times will we hear from the pro-death psychopaths in the Bush Crime Family that we must “stay the course?” How many more young Americans must be killed to slake the blood lust of Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bush? “Bring it on,” the cowardly George W. Bush demanded. Bring it on to others, not him. Not now, not in the 60s when he had his chance to kill or be killed. (Well, it’s “on,” then, George. The slaughter you wanted and demanded is occurring. The butchery you salute will continue. Your cowardice is monumental and obvious and filthy.) Will Democrats in the Senate or the House or somewhere, anywhere, now stand with Murtha and Kucinich and the handful of others who see this occupation, this ongoing killing spree, for what it is – a debauched, demonic form of Bush’s toxic narcissism – and demand the return of US troops from an invasion that never, never should have been ordered? Or will there continue to be “debates” and “resolutions” brought to the floors of both houses of Congress by Republican chicken-hawks who define cowardice, duplicity, hypocrisy, religious fanaticism? Will some sort of reason prevail, as impossible as that seems, that will overcome the insanity of the willful killers who now are in control of the US? Or will the killing, the torture, the butchery continue? We must end this. We simply must.

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    Video of the aftermath of the torture-killing has been posted on the internet...

    Word of warning, extremely graphic and disturbing...

    Here.

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