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Fintan
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 Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:06 pm Post subject: Ramadi: 2 Soldiers --- Fallujah: 4 Contractors |
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I talked in a recent audio about the imminent assault on Ramadi.
A slightly scaled down version of the Fallujah mass murder.
Now we just had the killing of two soldiers and their "savage mutilation."
Here's a chilling dose of motivation.
| Quote: | Washington escalates slaughter in Iraq
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/jun2006/iraq-j21.shtml
By Bill Van Auken
21 June 2006
The killing of two American soldiers captured by insurgents at a roadblock south of Baghdad will be seized upon by Washington as justification for an intensified bloodbath against the Iraqi people.
Well before the discovery of the bodies of the young soldiers, reportedly bearing the marks of torture and mutilation, there were already mounting indications that the Bush White House and the Pentagon were implementing a shift in military tactics that spells a dramatic escalation of US violence in the occupied country....
The mass media, which has shown little inclination to highlight the daily death toll of American troops, now totaling over 2,500—much less the far greater toll of Iraqi dead, estimated in the hundreds of thousands—has exhibited keen interest in the fate of the two executed enlisted men, including gruesome details of their deaths. Their aim is to whip up an atmosphere of hatred and revenge against the Iraqi population.
....virtually every US television announcer and every newspaper headline writer has felt a duty to proclaim the “barbaric” and “savage” character of these particular deaths......
The media has granted instant credibility to an Internet posting which claims that the purported new leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq—Abu Hamza al-Muhajir—personally beheaded the American soldiers. This dubious claim is promoted to provide a personification of evil for mass consumption, with the aim of conditioning the American people for the mass killing that is about to be carried out in their name.
Government and media propaganda aside, these killings are a telling indication that more than three years after invading and occupying Iraq, US forces have failed to secure the very ground upon which they stand. The ability of masked gunmen to seize the soldiers, hold them for three days, kill them and dump their bodies, and then mine both the location of the corpses and the road leading to it, without being captured or detected by the thousands of troops searching for them, is evidence that those fighting the US occupation enjoy widespread support and sympathy from within the Iraqi population. |
Or evidence that there is much more to this than meets the eye.
| Quote: | It should be recalled that the bloodbath unleashed upon Fallujah in November 2004 followed the killing and mutilation of four military contractors—hired mercenaries—who were ambushed while driving through the Iraqi city. The city was turned into a free-fire zone and much of it was reduced to rubble by means of high explosive bombs, complimented by napalm and chemical weapons.
Similar atrocities are being prepared against the capital of Anbar Province, Ramadi, which has been placed under US military siege. |
A staged event by Black Ops to set the emotional temperature
back home for the assault to come.....
Ramadi: 2 Soldiers --- Fallujah: 4 Contractors |
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Ormond
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| Quote: | Fintan:
A staged event by Black Ops to set the emotional temperature
back home for the assault to come.....
I talked in a recent audio about the imminent assault on Ramadi.
A slightly scaled down version of the Fallujah mass murder.
Now we just had the killing of two soldiers and their "savage mutilation." |
Fintan, I think that we're observing a series of pre-scheduled, media featured events. to cast a virtual reality covering the real summer war for the folks back home.
MacBeth 'exposure' > Haditha massacre 'scandal' > Zarqawi 'vindication' >
abduction/exectution/mutilation of the two privates = fitting introduction for Zarqawi replacement Abu Hamza al-Muhajir.....
To me it's an unfolding script. I see how it's affectiong friends and acquaintances here in Houston. The effect I see is 'hopes up, hopes down'.
To me, that shows a pattern of Psywar.
But no one I know face to face can see any relationship between these events. The public sees each as isolated, random incidents.
There is one message that both right and left are hearing loud and clear: all hell's about to break loose for the summer. Expect higher body counts all 'round.
I read the right wing blogs as well as the controlled left, for my guage of how wide the polarization of the public is on these matters.
I found a very insightful comment on hyper-right wing Blogs of War.
Among the 'kill the bastards'' rhetoric, one Iraqi veteran had the balls to raise some precise questions concerning the miilitary report on this latest murder story. Pvt's Kristian Menchaca and Thomas Tucker were evidently sent on a 3 vehicle patrol, with no one of higher rank that private, one specialist, on the patrol., A breach of the standard drill for combat patrol.
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Comment by Leonard Johnson 06.21.06 (Iraq War Vet)
Here’s some food for thought that continues to bother me concerning these soldiers killed. First of all, the only hummv that took casualties contained a specialist and two privates. Now anyone who knows anything about the military knows that something is severely wrong with that picture. And the specialist was the driver, so that means that the vehicle commander was a PRIVATE!
Make no mistake, I am an Iraqi veteran with two purple hearts and a year’s worth of experience as a leader, so I know wrong when I see it.
Three vehicles on a combat patrol, one vehicle suffered casualties, no sergeant or officer in the vehicle, responsible for making those life-saving decisions that keep our young soldiers alive in battle.
Where was the mandatory ‘react to ambush’ battle drill that every military leader is fully aware of, within the patrol? These murders could have, and should have, been prevented! Someone in the chain of command failed these three soldiers, and the enemy saw opportunity and took it.
Hopefully questions are being asked.
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From many conversations with Viet Nam vets over the years, I'd say these young privates may have been set up to be easy targets in the high risk, "Triangle of Death".
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UPDATE: July 1st, 2006
Major General James Thurman, commander of U.S.-led forces in the Baghdad area, ordered the probe into the deaths of Privates First Class Kristian Menchaca, 23, Thomas Tucker, 25 and David Babineau, 25.
US army says policy violated in soldiers' deaths
This is exactly what the Iraq vet on Blogs of War had noticed a couple of weeks ago and posted. Enough other soldiers no doubt noticed the breech of protocol also, and now that's officially under investigation.
I can't help wondering whether that post - on an open military blog - prompted the inquiry, but the breech of protocol was definitely something the Military police investigators would have to investigate further.
What's of interest in the case is that they've released that information to the Reuter's reporter
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