Military tried, unsuccessfully, to cover-up the abduction of four soldiers....

[Tinksrival]

Was it because it was right before the SOTU? Did the chimp stifle this frightening story?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070126/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_sneak_attack

4 troops abducted, killed in Iraq attack

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - In perhaps the boldest and most sophisticated attack in four years of warfare, gunmen speaking English, wearing U.S. military uniforms and carrying American weapons abducted four U.S. soldiers last week at the provincial headquarters in the Shiite holy city of Karbala and then shot them to death.

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The new account contradicted a U.S. military statement on Jan. 20, the day of the raid on an Iraqi governor's office, that five soldiers were killed "repelling" the attack.

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The whole story is incredible. To hell in a hand basket! :cry:

[JohnnyLib2]

1. This needs to be highlighted and aired, just like

the Abu prison fiasco.

[NNN0LHI]

2. Might as well wait until the real story comes out now

Because I don't think we have heard it yet.

Don

[speedoo]

3. My God. This is very, very bad.

This was planned and executed with precision. A total security breakdown that has "inside job" written all over it.

What a distaster.

[Tinksrival]

4. More from link.....

The security breakdown and the dramatic kidnapping and murder of four soldiers leaked out just as President Bush faces stiffening congressional opposition over his plan to flood Baghdad and surrounding regions with 21,500 more American troops. Two of Congress's most vocal war critics, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) and Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record), were in the Iraqi capital as the news broke.

In a statement issued late Friday, the military said two of the soldiers were handcuffed together in the back seat of an SUV near the southern Iraqi town of Mahawil. A third dead soldier was on the ground nearby. The fourth soldier died on the way to the hospital.

The brazen assault, 50 miles south of Baghdad, was conducted by nine to 12 gunmen posing as an American security team, the military confirmed. The attackers traveled in black GMC Suburban vehicles (the type used by U.S. government convoys), had American weapons, wore new U.S. military combat fatigues, and spoke English, according to two senior U.S. military officials as well as Iraqi officials.

[WinkyDink]

8. How easy is it to get all this U.S. stuff?

[jayschool]

5. I'm related to one of the victims,

and I was just discussing this news with a friend. His question: Exactly why would the U.S. Army withhold the truth? The first stories of this contained contradictory reports: the U.S. saying all Americans (including my cousin) had been accounted for, while Iraqi sources saying some had been kidnapped. The U.S. quotes weren't exactly lies ("they're all accounted for"), but they weren't telling the whole truth.

Other than the pathological need to tell lies, what could be the motive behind the U.S. withholding or distorting information. I know damned well that my aunt and uncle want to know exactly what happened to my cousin, 1st Lt. Jacob Fritz.

Side note: While I'm looking forward to being with family at Jake's funeral Wednesday, it appears we're going to have to withstand an attack from the "God Hates Fags" Baptists from Wichita. Here's to the Harley-riding Patriot Guard who have pledged to be there to serve as a barrier.

[JohnnyLib2]

6. Sympathy and best wishes to the family.

All I can think of is to ignore that hate group as if they were cockroaches .

[Botany]

7. Much love and support to the families and friends of Jake.

Please post or P.M. if there is a fund I can give to.

Jake :patriot:

[Hubert Flottz]

9. "motive behind the U.S. withholding or distorting information"

I'm very sorry for your family's loss.

As for the motive to keep it quiet...maybe it's because part of Bush's New Plan, is to post our soldiers in smaller easier to attack groups, instead of in larger groups on American controlled bases like before. I'd thought as soon as I heard about the new plan to imbed small American units in with groups of Iraqis, that it was going to make getting at our troops easier for the bad guys. I don't know if they'd already started sending our troops out to the police stations like the plan called for or not.