Body of Kidnapped soldier found in Iraq - Identified

[Breeze54]

Body of soldier found in Iraq, was missing with 2 comrades

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0523iraq-bodies0523-ON.html

Wire services
May. 23, 2007 05:14 PM

TORRANCE, Calif. -

The body of a U.S. soldier found in the Euphrates River in Iraq was identified Wednesday as
a California man who was abducted with two comrades a week and a half ago, a relative said.

Military officials told the family of Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr. of Torrance that a commanding
officer identified the body, but that DNA tests were still pending.

“They told us, We're sorry to inform you the body we found has been identified as Joe,'.”
said the soldier's aunt, Debbie Anzack. “I'm in disbelief.”

Anzack, 20, was one of three soldiers who vanished after their combat team was ambushed May 12
about 20 miles outside of Baghdad. Five others, including an Iraqi, were killed in the ambush,
subsequently claimed by al-Qaida.

Villagers found the body late Wednesday morning where it had snagged on reeds and flotsam under
a highway bridge near Musayyib, a small Shiite town about 40 miles south of Baghdad. Iraqi police
pulled it from the water and turned it over to the Americans at a nearby hospital.

The man's body had bullet wounds to the head and torso, said police and hospital officials.

The dead and missing soldiers were members of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division.

Shell casings at the scene indicated that at least some of the soldiers were able to fight off
the attack before the remaining three - Anzack; Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Mich.;
and Spc. Alex R. Jimenez, 25 of Lawrence, Mass. - apparently were kidnapped.

more........

:(

[karlrschneider]

1. Expecting it doesn't make it any easier.

:cry:

[riderinthestorm]

2. .

:cry: Knew it though, as soon as they announced it this morning that it was one of the three.

I wonder how badly disfigured the body was that it took this long to make an id.

[Maddy McCall]

3. RIP, Pfc. Anzack.

:patriot:

:(

[Kadie]

4. .

My thoughts and prayers go out to his family.

:cry:

[frogcycle]

5. Here is Joseph

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2007/05/199096_comment.php

[Breeze54]

8. So damn young!!!!! Grrrr!! Rumors of more bodies there...

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0523iraq-bodies0523-ON.html

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The Associated Press, quoting an unnamed U.S. military official, reported late Wednesday
that a second body had been found in the area near where the first body was discovered.
American officials contacted by the Chicago Tribune said they had not heard of another body
being found. Earlier in the day, Iraqi police officials had relayed unconfirmed reports that
villagers had seen other bodies in the river.

more....

[Goat or Panic]

6. I had a bad feeling that this

was the Torrance guy. They've been covering his disappearance locally here (LA) for the last few days.

God bless his family.
My thoughts and prayers are with them.

[BeHereNow]

7. My daughter is 20- I can't imagine it, the senseless loss of a child.

God help his parents.
Their pain must be blinding.
God damn the complicit Congress and all the roaches in the WH.
BHN

[Disturbed]

9. It won't make a difference to his family and friends but

he was not "kidnapped". He was captured. Also,Gen Betrayus said that he was captured by a group "sort of allied with al-Qaida. I am sure that the Busholini Regime will capitalize on this soldier's death and state al-Qaida a few hundred times.

[frogcycle]

10. semantics

its a war/its an occupation
captured/kidnapped

"capture" happens in conventional war. This raiding party or whatever it was, although it clearly had military weapons and knew what it was doing, still was a group of paramilitary, or militia, or armed bandits, or whatever, in a civil war, or just plain old anarchy.

"Capture" implies rules of warfare - Geneva Convention - POW - that sort of thing.

Whichever you call it is immaterial anyway.

[BeHereNow]

11. General Betrayus- exactly. I'll go ya one further though-

Dubya to the 'duh'murikkkan people, "The IRANIAN fighters did it."
BHN