Iraq Update: This Could Be Troubling

Ever since Zarqawi was killed, I've been reading around foreign sites, most notably from the Middle East. The new leader, whether it is Abu Ayyoub Al-Masri, or not, has been promising something rather horrible. My first thought was a possible kidnapping of a US serviceman with a gruesome video to follow.

I hope I'm wrong - but this can't be good, no matter how you view it. Al-Masri is said to be rather ruthless and al-Qaeda seems to look to the past when formulating strategy. Events in Mogadishu under Clinton represent their last great military success.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A soldier in the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq was killed and two others were missing after an attack on a checkpoint southwest of Baghdad on Friday, the U.S. military said. The attacked took place around 8 p.m. near the town of Yusufiyah, about 12 miles southwest of Baghdad.

"After hearing small arms fire and explosions in the vicinity of the checkpoint, a quick reaction force responded to the scene," a military statement said. "Coalition forces have initiated a search operation to locate and determine the status of the soldiers."

The statement didn't provide any other information.

A spokesman for the U.S. Central Command in Baghdad, asked whether the missing soldiers could have possibly been abducted, told The Associated Press by telephone that the military didn't know.

Pentagon officials told the AP that they had no additional information other than what was in the statement.

Comments

[Magnolia]

This absolutely has me terrified. What they have done before will seem almost minor,if they indeed,have our soldiers.

[Sharlest]

Events in Mogadishu were their last military success? I'm no fan of Clinton, yet still think that you know nothing about what happened in Mogadishu. I wouldn't call what happened a "success", and also can tell you that Al Qaeda's actual role in the firefight was overrated. I was in Somalia (admittedly not during the "Blackhawk Down" incident) and have seen Intel that I doubt you have, so don't EVEN try to win this from your armchair.

[annie]

I hope and pray they find these men alive.

What foul, evil people these enemy are.

Hard to believe these left wing liberals are always trying to get people to believe they are some kind of freedom fighters!!

From Saddam (with his mincing machines, torture and rape rooms) on down, they are MONSTERS!!

[Dan]

Events in Mogadishu were their last military success?

Try putting down your sooper secret intel and picking up a newspaper. Who's in control of Mogadishu today?

[prying1]

I pray too that this story is one of those that was released with no facts behind it. - All kinds of scenarios can go threough ones mind with news like this. - I pray the living God watches over them.

I pray too the the bombs explode in the terrorists hands as they are preparing them for use.

[Sad]

I do not even want to think about what will happen to those two missing soldiers. In the case of US SOLDIER MATT MAUPIN, he is still missing from over two years ago. If they do not find these two we may never know. I hate to even think about it.

[annie]

Sad

Thank you for reminding us about Matt Maupin.

It's a pity he is not some pretty young woman gone missing, then he would be in the public eye all the time, with everyone going all out to get him back, just like they did for that journalist not long ago, who happened to be in Iraq with her anti US views!!

She was released, but we did not hear much about the Iraqi women prisoners who were also released, which was what her terrorist kidnappers wanted, and had requested for her release.

Of course, according to the authorities, they were going to release those Iraqi women anyway!! What a coincidence!!

I hope as much concern is shown for these missing young men, and they are not just relegated to 'yesterday's news' in a few weeks time.

May I add, that the same could be said of others that have gone missing in previous wars, like Vietnam, and Korea, with accounts of some of them being seen still alive in places like North Korea, Vietnam, Russia and China, since these wars ended.

However, the friends and relatives of these men have had no serious response from the US authorities in trying to get them back, and some of the people that the media (both pro Democrat and Republican) hold up as being great men, are given a different take, when listening and reading the views of the people who are trying to get information and help for the MIAs.

Let's face it, how embarassing it would be to certain people if some of these men, who were written off years ago, showed up now, still alive.

And what would they have to say if they knew that they had been given up on by their own Government so quickly!!

[annie]

For those interested, one of the links to MIA information is

www.homestead.com/remembervietnam/powleftbehind.html