June 04, 2007

The a-Furqan media, a propaganda outlet for the al-Qaeda front a group The Islamic State of Iraq, has released a video that claims to contain the ID cards and personal effects of of Spc. Alex R. Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Mass., and Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Mich.
Via Laura Mansfield: The Islamic State of Iraq Monday has released a video of the military identification cards of two missing American soldiers. There was no indication in the video whether the two soldiers are dead or alive, and there were no demands set for their release.The amount of time that has passed of the presentation reflects the pressure the search for the missing men has put on al-Qaeda. Jihadi supporters have been screaming for a snuff film of these men, I'm glad to report they are sorely disappointed.The video included a still image of the photo identifications of Spc. Alex R. Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Mass., and Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Mich.
Above the photos, written in Arabic, was the message, "Bush is the reason for the loss of your prisoners."
ABC’s The Blotter has a short segment of the video here. Laura has a complete copy available for download here.
Update, Laura has completed intial analysis of the video. No proof is given that these men are alive or dead. She says,
"In short, there is no credible indication from this video of the fate of these two soldiers other than the claims of a jihadist group.History has shown us that these groups can and do lie.
Update II: Save Laura's bandwidth, Video added below the fold.
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You all need to control all the emotional and quit reacting the way terrorists want and expect you to react. Do NOT give them the satisfaction. The entire Iraq fiasco is being played according to Bin Laden's script - AND WE ALLOW IT TO CONTINUE!!!
Read Raimondo and get some perspective on what is really going on and how we need to focus on America first for once.
Posted by: Bo at June 04, 2007 10:53 AM (Ywo+X)
A site called "antiwar" is not exactly a conservative site, now is it? It's a wack-job fringe website, with moral idiots like you who promote it.
You and Ron Paul can go **** yourselves and leave the hard work up to our troops.
Posted by: Richard Romano at June 04, 2007 11:35 AM (iD1fP)
Asside from the profanities, the difference between people like you and me is rather straight forward: you still blindly believe this thing is "winnable" whereas I see the war as essencially lost and everything now is playing into jihadist hands.
Maybe for some people like you there are no lost causes, but for people like me who live in the real world, if you do not make adjustments you end up with a situation not unlike what General Paulus and the German 6th army faced in Stalingrad :-(
ps: since when do you have to be "pro-war" to be conservative? Did you establish this criteria? It is patently false.
Posted by: Bo at June 04, 2007 11:53 AM (Ywo+X)
Black woman on crack mows down over 40 people in DC with her car.
Black bank robbers in Chicago kill teller, wound two.
Black students in Atlanta celebrate graduation by killing two in shootout during ceremony.
Black gunmen kill three in New Orleans. No apparent reason.
We had better keep a close eye on those brown people and those KKK'rs. Friggin idiots.
Posted by: greyrooster at June 04, 2007 12:10 PM (+N3be)
Posted by: Jay at June 04, 2007 12:43 PM (D3AjK)
Posted by: Howie at June 04, 2007 12:47 PM (YHZAl)
Posted by: Howie at June 04, 2007 12:57 PM (YHZAl)
Posted: 12:50 PM Jun 4, 2007
Last Updated: 12:50 PM Jun 4, 2007
June 4, 2007
According to a militant video released on Monday, three soldiers who went missing last month have been killed.
The
video offered no proof, only a close up of identification cards of two
of the soldiers who were allegedly ambushed by insurgents. A voice on
the tape blamed the soldiers' deaths on the American Army and its
leaders.
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The
body of one of the missing soldiers was later found in Iraq's Euphrates
River, but the other two remain missing. Family and friends of the
missing men were made aware of the video and its claims over the
weekend.
Posted by: Sharm at June 04, 2007 01:22 PM (q51o4)
Posted by: Sharm at June 04, 2007 01:23 PM (q51o4)
Posted by: Sharm at June 04, 2007 01:26 PM (q51o4)
Blah, blah, blah...yap, yap, yap. Have you paid close attention to those idiots who support the risible Ron Paul?
You moron, open your eyes!
Posted by: Richard Romano at June 04, 2007 03:22 PM (iD1fP)
Posted by: George Ramos at June 04, 2007 03:41 PM (TmLg9)
Posted by: George Ramos at June 04, 2007 03:42 PM (TmLg9)
Posted by: Bo at June 04, 2007 03:42 PM (Ywo+X)
It is often the noise machine coming from the Left that rewrites history, for example in regards to Japan: "We didn't need to drop a Nuclear bomb on Japan to end the War" You're right. We needed to drop TWO Nuclear bombs on Japan and threaten to drop a third to end the War.
It gets a little old to hear the same meme in regards to Iraq now.
Posted by: davec at June 04, 2007 04:36 PM (kcDpP)
Posted by: CRT at June 04, 2007 05:47 PM (ZLtkq)
I do believe that our military needs to be taught to fight it out. Being taken prisoner only makes their suffering worse.
Posted by: greyrooster at June 04, 2007 06:35 PM (1h1Tb)
Posted by: Howie at June 05, 2007 02:37 PM (YHZAl)
I don't believe it means anything of the sort: The ISI were able to shoot an American Soldier and drag his body to the Euphrates with no problem just last week. I think the ISI have released this video hoping that it will make the U.S Military call off the search with them claiming that the soldiers were killed. If they photographed the cards they could also photograph or film the bodies. I don't think the final chapter to this incident has unfolded at all.
Posted by: davec at June 05, 2007 02:44 PM (kcDpP)
Posted by: George Ramos at June 05, 2007 06:24 PM (TmLg9)
Posted by: davec at June 05, 2007 07:05 PM (kcDpP)
I hope Davec is right.
Posted by: Howie at June 05, 2007 10:05 PM (YHZAl)
Posted by: Sharm at June 05, 2007 10:19 PM (q51o4)
Posted by: Sharm at June 05, 2007 10:21 PM (q51o4)
Dumbass.
Posted by: George Ramos at June 07, 2007 11:02 AM (TmLg9)
That is the problem with people like you: "Forget about him"
The NSA satellite data of the crash site says he survived. The CIA have interviewed at least two Iraqi nationals that were imprisoned with Speicher. Saddam Hussein gave a pile of Iranian flesh, and a pre-Gulf War issue flight suit when asked to prove that he was deceased. The DoD adjusted his status from K.I.A to M.I.A in 2001 and paid his Widow retroactively his wages, even though she was remarried? seeing a pattern here?
People like you is what doomed Speicher to dying in an Iraqi prison.
"The ISI has no reason to lie about the two soldiers being dead."
Well other than the pressure of having whole Brigades of soldiers searching their AO for them, and raiding their safe houses as they're found I guess not, terrorists are always trustworthy on their word.
Posted by: davec at June 07, 2007 03:37 PM (kcDpP)
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