The ambushed & missing soldiers were in the same town that Abeer & her family were murdered by GI's

[me b zola]

From maddezmom's LBN post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2843276

5 GIs dead, 3 missing after Iraq attack

BAGHDAD - An attack on a unit of U.S.-led forces patrolling outside the Iraqi capital before dawn left five soldiers dead and three missing, the military said.

The attack on the patrol of seven U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter soldier occurred near Mahmoudiya, in a Sunni insurgent stronghold about 20 miles south of Baghdad, the military said.

Troops were searching for the three missing soldiers, the military said

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq

Mahmoudiya is the same town that Abeer and her family were masacured @ the hands of US soldiers.

Here is a link to the story as Barrett808 posted it in LBN last June (I'm having difficulty with the Yahoo links):
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2364723

U.S. troops accused of killing Iraq family
By RYAN LENZ, Associated Press Writer

BEIJI, Iraq - Five U.S. Army soldiers are being investigated for allegedly raping a young woman, then killing her and three members of her family in Iraq, the U.S. military said Friday.

The soldiers also allegedly burned the body of the woman they are accused of raping.

Maj. Gen. James D. Thurman, commander of coalition troops in Baghdad, had ordered a criminal investigation into the alleged killing of a family of four in Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad, the U.S. command said. It did not elaborate.

"The entire investigation will encompass everything that could have happened that evening. We're not releasing any specifics of an ongoing investigation," said military spokesman Maj. Todd Breasseale.

"There is no indication what led soldiers to this home. The investigation just cracked open. We're just beginning to dig into the details."

(more)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060630/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_soldiers_investigated

[rusty_parts2001]

1. Interesting connection. Thanks for remembering that info.

[Jacobin]

2. Oh man

We need to leave asap. Its going from wrong to awful to ghastly

[me b zola]

5. gastly indeed

I couldn't find a link, but remember the last ambush that happened not far from there? It sounds like the same scenerio, they killed several and took three alive. Those three were tortured and mutilated. Many of us believe that was blowback from the murder of Abeer and her family.

I agree with you, we need to leave.

[karlrschneider]

3. Uh-oh...

:-(

[Error]

4. This is also where they ambushed the soldiers at the checkpoint

and cut their dicks off.

remember that incident? It was reported as mutilation.

Clearly both retaliatory for the rape / murder

[me b zola]

6. Yep, they were shoved in their mouths

Most of us believed that it was retaliation, as I believe this is too. But the corporate media at the time quickly buried and links between the two incidents.

[Secular Agent Man]

7. An eye for an eye. n/t

[me b zola]

8. .

[me b zola]

9. From the first Yahoo link

On June 16, 2006, two American soldiers — Pfc. Kristian Menchaca of Houston and Pfc. Thomas Tucker of Madras, Ore. — went missing after their Humvee was ambushed at a checkpoint near Youssifiyah, north of Mahmoudiya.

Their bodies were found days later, tied together with a bomb between one of the victim's legs. But the remains were not recovered until the next morning, after an Iraqi civilian warned that bombs had been planted in the area.

A third soldier, David J. Babineau, 25, of Springfield, Massachusetts, was found dead at the scene of the attack.

Five U.S. soldiers also have been charged in the rape of a 14-year-old Mahmoudiya girl and the killing of her and her entire family, and three have pleaded guilty in the March 12, 2006, attack, which was initially blamed on insurgents.