al-Qaida Says It Has Missing U.S. Troops

Published: 5/13/07, 9:05 AM EDT
By THOMAS WAGNER
BAGHDAD (AP) - Thousands of U.S. soldiers searched Sunday for three Americans who were missing after their patrol came under attack in an explosion that killed four other American soldiers and an Iraqi army translator.

The Islamic State in Iraq, an al-Qaida front group, said it had captured several soldiers in the attack, but offered no proof to back up its claim, posted on an Islamic Web site.

Meanwhile, a suicide truck bomber crashed into the offices of a Kurdish political party, killing at least 32 people, including the police chief, and wounding scores, officials said. It was the second suicide attack in Kurdish areas of the north in four days.

In Baghdad, a parked car exploded near the popular Sadriyah market, killing at least 17 people and wounding 46, police said. The area has been hit by several blasts usually blamed on suspected Sunni insurgents, including a car bombing on April 18 that killed 127 people.

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:cry:

There are few rules in this engagement, and w/Cheney running around telling people that "torture works", unless these are some remakably enlightened captors, the 3 prisoners, wherever they are, are in grave danger...:(

My god. Do the republicon chickenhawks have no concern whatsoever for our American sons and daughters in uniform?

Only a clod who had never served could say such a stupid hateful thing to endanger our sons and daughters in uniform.

torture was "effective". The premise was that 500 could be saved by torturing one guy; it is BS, torture never works...all you ever get is what you want to hear...anything to stop the pain...:(

He did once say that torture works and is a vialble option for interogation...x(

Dickie Five Military Deferments Cheney is not fit to peel potatoes for our troops, much less to lead them in a war based on deliberate lies to maximize republicon crony war profits.

How very, very low...

same as the war, he's not fighting it, so he's for it...he is the epitomy of a stinking Chickenhawk.

I suppose that in WY, he didn't have to think about things like the war, earth, reality...he's some peice of work...:eyes:

Only a deserter safe at home and on the golf links would taunt the enemy to attack our American sons and daughers in Uniform. I thought Bush was not just crazy for inviting them to attack our soldiers, but also criminally deranged.

Now Cheney is practically inviting the Iraqis to torture our American sons and daughters in uniform.

Screw you, Dickie Five Military Deferments Cheney...

IED's, snipers and maniacal warriors...bush is such a coward, he needs at least 2 SS agents when he goes to take a dump...:(

If cheney had any testosterone at all, or bush for that matter, they'd do more than just off and back on a plane in Iraq, they'd walk the streets...I would if I were president, I want a first hand view, not what "yes men" are going to tell me what they think I want to hear...:grr:

of the Bush/Cheney War for Oil. Don't forget, this is in the same area that those soldiers were captured from last year and tortured. This is also the same area where they raped that 14 year old girl Abeer and then killed her and her family. The locals vowed revenge, and said that those first two soldiers killed were only the beginning.

and I hate to say that, but that will only get the blood of the 20 percenters boiling to use nukes

was some kind of intervention...but the people who took them prisoner are not known for their stirling reputation in this type of scenario...:(

http://www.counterpunch.org/cloughley03182006.html

"I wouldn't put a great big smiley face on it, but I would say going very, very well from everything you look at."

General Peter Pace, America's most senior military officer, March 5, 2006.

Sure it is...:eyes:

When are they going to give up this stupidity that "al Qaida in Iraq" has any relationship with al Qaida of bin Laden, et. al.?

It really is a ridiculous lie, and we should have done with it.

Maybe we should start our own propaganda machine and start calling Blackwater an "al-Qaida front group", no?

I already have a plan to send that photo of the dunce doing the devil sign salute beside the queen to some very republicklan newspapers in this christian fundie area that I live in. Let's see how *that* plays out!

Iran now can they?

remember, this was an al-qaida FRONT group. They'll find a way to link it to Iranian Subversives, if that's what they want to do.

The insurgents like to use power tools.

I hope Gonzo and his supporters remember that when somebody finds the bodies.

I hope they remember that the missing US soldiers would not have been tortured with drill bits and sabre saws if they hadn't authorized Abu Ghrahib and Gitmo.

And THIS is why you fucking treat people humanely!

in the combat zone. The captured will be mutilated and then beheaded. They should have the choice to end their lives quickly.

the way our captured soldiers are treated. We opened Pandora's Box with Abu Ghraib.