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Thursday, May 24, 2007 Anzack <http://robertlindsay.blogspot.com/2007/05/anzack-was-tortured-before-being- killed.html> Was Tortured Before Being Killed According to a report on March 24, Iraqis reported seeing the body of Joseph Anzack, Jr., a US solider missing since he was taken <http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/05/body-of-missing-us-soldier-found- in.html> POW by terrorists on May 12 <http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=13906> in Karagol, Iraq, in a partial US uniform floating in the Euphrates River in the Shia town of Musayyib (map here <http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IZ/6/Al_Musayyib.html> ), 40 miles south of Baghdad, on May 23. The New York Times says that Musayyib is in <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/25/world/middleeast/25iraq.html?_r=1&oref=sl ogin> an Al Qaeda stronghold. That's not really true, but the Sunni areas north and northwest of town are. The sighting was first made by a pushcart <http://bluestarchronicles.com/2007/05/23/boby-of-abducted-soldier-believed- to-be-found/> vendor on his way to a <http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-ex-soldier24may25,0,425333 9.story?coll=la-home-center> market at 11 AM Iraq time. Local shoppers at the market then crowded around to see the body and called the police. The body was trapped in reeds and flotsam and had come to rest next to a pylon in the river. Two policeman and a local civilian dived into the water, and with the help of men with a boat who were experienced in fishing out bodies (many bodies are found in the river there these days) fished the body out and turned it over to Americans at a nearby hospital. <http://bp0.blogger.com/_h5L0bq0pIhY/RlZsZL9k-5I/AAAAAAAAACs/ppR7Vy3dWhA/s16 00-h/Iraqis+pull+Anzack%27s+body+from+Euphrates.jpg> Iraqis try to pull the body of Joseph Anzack, Jr. out of the Euphrates River at 11 AM, May 23, after shoppers in a local market saw it floating by. Photo from here <http://checkpointbaghdad.talk.newsweek.com/default.asp?item=608207> . Three Humvees full of US soldiers came to pick up the body. The Iraqis said it had gunshot wounds to the head and whip marks on its <http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/24/africa/iraq.php> back. Local police said Anzack had been shot in the head and in the torso. Locals added that he had been shot in the side of <http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=46157> the abdomen. US officials did <http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-iraq_janegamay24,1,78877 32.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed> not confirm the wounds to the lower body, saying only that there were wounds to the head, face and neck. Anzack was shirtless and clad in only trousers <http://iraqsolidaritycampaign.blogspot.com/2007/05/missing-u.html> and boots when found in the river. It also implies that his captors tortured him by removing his shirt and whipping him. They probably did this while he was still alive, since the whole purpose of whipping is to inflict pain, and there is no point to whipping a dead body. Dead bodies are often mutilated, but seldom if ever whipped. US forces reported that Anzack had been in the water for at least two days, that in addition to his bullet wounds, he possibly had marks from "blows" on his chest and arms. These may be the whip marks that the other man spoke of. Reports quoted a US officer, Iraqi troops and locals as saying that two other US <http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/187976.php> soldiers' bodies were also seen in the river. However, later on, those reports were said to be false. Two US soldiers have been killed in the search for the missing soldiers, one by gunfire on May 18 and another by a land mine in a field on May 19. That explosion also wounded 4 other soldiers. Spc. Alex R. Jimenez and Pvt. Byron W. Fouty remain missing. 900 Iraqis have been detained in the search, which is drawing a lot of troops away from Baghdad, a city which is supposed to be undergoing a "surge". Strangely, Anzack was rumored to have been killed earlier in the month. Many of his friends left condolences on his MySpace page, but then it turned out that he was actually alive. Officers arranged for him to call his father in Torrance, California to prove that he was still alive. An excellent roundup of the recent news coverage is found at the Tenille <http://neilz.wordpress.com/2007/05/24/body-of-us-soldier-found/> blog. <http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7461/439/1600/MAPTriangle2.jpg> Musayyib is located below the tag saying "US Soldiers Captured Here", where the highway crosses the Euphrates, right on the bottom edge of the map, below Jurf as Sakhr. Musayyib is where the Sunni zone meets the Shia zone. The town is mostly Shia, but the areas to the north such as Jurf as Sakhr, Latifiyah, Mahmudiyah Yusufiyah and Rushdi Mullah are Sunni and are very dangerous. Iskandariyah is mixed or mostly Shia, but it's also very dangerous. Copyright Oakhurst Technology 2006. All rights reserved. Whipping has a very long tradition in Islam. Mohammad said that the penalty for fornication and consumption of alcohol was 100 lashes with a whip. This punishment is not used too much in most Muslim countries today, but it is used extensively in Saudi Arabia, the nation that prides itself on showcasing to the world what the real, pure, true, unvarnished Islam is. Lashes, often in 100 counts, are frequently meted out there for a variety of crimes. Iran also uses flogging, especially <http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/05/after-iranian-police-raid-party-g ay-men.html> for gay men. Shia Islam seems to have a particular problem with gay men - much more than Sunni Islam generally does. The lunatic Takfiri terrorists of the "Iraqi resistance" have been conducting public whippings of local Iraqis for some time. The victims were accused of violating Islamic Law as laid down by the terrorists. Typical offenses were dressing in Western clothing, having a Western haircut, listening to music and drinking alcohol. They would arrest the transgressors and parade them through the streets while whipping them as an example. This was generally done by Sunni Islamists, especially in Anbar Province. Some notable incidents occurred in Fallujah before the US took over the town. Nowadays the terrorists are even more insane than ever, and they don't seem to be whipping people much; instead they are mostly just killing transgressors. Typical crimes are barbers who shave men's beards and give Western-style haircuts, sellers of ice (there was no ice in Mohammad's time), those who have goatees (no goatees back then either), sellers of Falafels (supposedly an "Israeli" invention Outside of the Muslim World, whippings are seldom used. Singapore is an exception. Singapore uses whipping as a punishment for a variety of crimes. A young man, an American citizen, was caught in Singapore a few years back after going on a vandalism spree. His sentence was 100 lashes with a whip. US conservatives, as one, rallied around the sentence as a tough on crime motif, while US liberals were generally appalled. What is fascinating is that the same US conservatives who rant and rave about the barbarism of Islam were the very same ones whopping and cheering about the lashing sentence to the US punk. Go figure...I guess it's ok to be barbaric when being "tough on crime" as long as one is not a Muslim? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. 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