<font color=brown> How's this? Does this article have enough substance for you?
And what the hell happened to Pfc. Maupin? Probably he's dead too; for a war that didn't need to be fought. He had his whole life in front of him.....and its probably all gone now. Sickening......just sickening!
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Group Threatens Missing Marine
2 Americans Killed In Incidents in Iraq
By Doug Struck
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, June 28, 2004; Page A01
BAGHDAD, June 27 -- The Arab satellite TV network al-Jazeera aired a videotape Sunday from a group threatening to kill a U.S. Marine it claimed to have captured by luring him from his post, and two Americans and four Iraqi boys were among those killed across the country in a succession of attacks.
A Defense Department employee was killed when rifle shots were fired at a cargo plane taking off from Baghdad's main airport, and a U.S. soldier was killed in a rocket attack on a base on the outskirts of the city. The Iraqi boys were killed when they were hit by mortar shells that apparently missed their target.
Late Sunday, al-Jazeera broadcast a video showing a blindfolded man in military fatigues as well as photos that appeared to identify him as Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun. In a statement, the U.S. military said that Hassoun, a member of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, had been missing from his unit since June 21, but it could not confirm that he had been taken hostage. Al-Jazeera said a group calling itself Islamic Response claimed that it had captured the Marine. Unlike videos of two previous hostages who were beheaded, the broadcast tape had no audio.
Earlier Sunday, another Arab satellite television network, al-Arabiya, broadcast a video of a Pakistani hostage whom kidnappers identified as a driver for the U.S. military. A group led by Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian who has asserted responsibility for much of the recent violence in Iraq, announced Saturday that three Turkish workers were also being held.
On Sunday, Turkey rejected demands to withdraw its citizens from Iraq, which the kidnappers wanted. Turkey has no troops in Iraq, but Turkish contractors and employees work in the country. The kidnappers, believed to be part of the same group that beheaded a South Korean and an American, said they would kill the hostages if the Turkish workers were not withdrawn by Tuesday night.
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