Wednesday - May 16, 2007

Missing GI’s Update

They’re not just numbers. They have names ... and families. They also have honor and courage to face death. Their foe has no honor and no courage - other than enough to hide bombs and sneak away in the dark of night. The enemy employs barbaric torture techniques - purely for pleasure and propaganda.

Yesterday, I posted here about the Iraqi prisons beginning to fill up. JUst between you and me there is a viable solution to several problems presented here. There is no need for any more prison cells. The insurgents are not in uniform and not recognizable as a soldier of an opposing force. That makes them ... spies.

According to the rules of warfare, spies may be shot. They have no protection under Geneva Convention rules. So from now on, when an “insurgent” is captured or wounded, he is to be given ten minutes to get right with Allah then stood up against a wall and shot. Then the body is to be covered in pig blood and left for the vultures.

This “insurrection” will cease within five minutes of the first one taken care of and word starts to spread. Is there anyone out there in our government who has the balls to risk the wrath of every bleeding heart Liberal on the planet to just do it? If no, then we’re just wasting our time ... and precious lives.

Missing, Slain GIs Identified As Search Continues in Iraq
BAGHDAD (WASHINGTON POST) - May 15

The Pentagon on Tuesday released the names of seven soldiers from the Army’s 10th Mountain Division who were captured or killed by insurgents in a sophisticated weekend ambush south of Baghdad.

The three soldiers confirmed dead are Sgt. 1st Class James David Connell Jr., 40, of Lake City, Tenn., Pfc. Daniel W. Courneya, 19, of Nashville, Mich., and Pfc. Christopher E. Murphy, 21, of Lynchburg, Va. The Pentagon said they died in the village of Al Taqa “of wounds suffered when their patrol was attacked by enemy forces using automatic fire and explosives.”

Four soldiers were listed as “duty status whereabouts unknown,” a term often used before a soldier is formally listed as missing. Of those four, however, one is known to be dead but was badly burned in the ambush that left the soldiers’ Humvees ablaze, so the military must conduct forensic tests to determine his identity. The four are Sgt. Anthony J. Schober, 23, of Reno, Nev., Spec. Alex R. Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Mass., Pfc. Joseph J. Anzack Jr., 20, of Torrance, Calif., and Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Mich. All the soldiers were assigned to the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, based at Fort Drum, N.Y.

The U.S. military did not identify an Iraqi interpreter who also was killed in the Saturday ambush. A massive hunt involving 4,000 troops is underway for the three missing soldiers, who U.S. military officials believe are in insurgent hands. “All available assets are being brought to bear in search of these missing soldiers,” said Lt. Col. Paul Fitzpatrick, a spokesman for the 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum.

Lt. Col. Christopher C. Garver, a military spokesman in Baghdad, said the soldiers were in two Humvees, in “a stationary position.” When other members of the unit heard an explosion, they “immediately tried to establish contact,” he said. Two patrols dispatched to the scene of the attack themselves encountered roadside bombs.

The soldiers were watching a location where insurgents often place roadside bombs when they came under fire, said Fitzpatrick, who described the ambush as “obviously a deliberate and planned attack,” forcing the U.S. military’s reaction forces to fight their way to the scene.

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Posted by The Skipper     on 05/16/2007 at 10:30 AM   
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