March 29, 2003
WHERE ARE THE POWs - IN TV STUDIOS:
U.S. POWs held by Saddam's inner circle (Washington Times, 3/29/2003)
Seven American prisoners of war have been taken from southern Iraq to Baghdad and are under the direct control of people close to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Bush administration officials said yesterday.One Pentagon official said the expectation is that Saddam's regime will use the captives to score propaganda points by putting them on Iraqi television or forcing them to do an interview with the Arab-language Al Jazeera television network, based in Qatar.
OR SHALLOW GRAVES:
Victims of Success (Jed Babbin, National Review Online, 3/29/2003)
Reports earlier today of Marines finding the bodies of four of their comrades in shallow graves near An Nasiriyah may confirm [Iraqi brutality] yet again. It is unlikely that the Iraqis would bury enemy dead unless they have something to hide. These may be more murdered POWs. We must never forgive, or forget, Iraqi war crimes.
Marines Find Remains of 4 Soldiers Lost in Iraq Ambush
(New York Times, 3/29/2003)
The bodies of four American soldiers were found by Marines on Friday in a shallow grave in the battle-worn town of Nasiriyah, near the Euphrates River.U.S. Military officials said they believe the four were executed by Iraqi paramilitary forces after being seized in an ambush on Sunday....
On Friday, a Marine unit found the four bodies in a freshly dug grave near a house in the northeast corner of the town of al-Jazeera. An Army official said the four bodies were clothed in U.S. military uniforms.
Finding the POWs has become one of the top tasks for Delta Force and other special forces. Godspeed, fellas. Posted by Paul Jaminet at March 29, 2003 12:57 PM
What is the tolerance level for this sh*t?
At some point we're just not going to take any prisoners. Even if the command doesn't come down from Gen. Wallace, the troopers will deal vengence on those that torture, kill and desecrate our own.
From Bataan to Malmedy, when the enemy has shown bestiality to those troops that fall into their hands they have learned what it means be dealt the death hand of righteous vengence. And this time, it will be the roar of the American public itself that will demand the totality of "kill or be killed," international opinion be damned.
Burying battlefield dead should not be regarded as unusual.
The many murders committed by the Koreans
in the early weeks of the Korean war were
generally covered up, more or less, hidden in a
mineshaft or something.
I'm not discounting the likelihood of 4 murders,
just saying the fact the bodies were buried
doesn't tell us anything.