What exactly are US soldiers doing in Iraq?

Question

In a dispatch posted at 5:53pm Makkah time Thursday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that US forces kidnapped a six-year-old elementary school girl, Maryam 'Abdallah, as she came out of her school in al-Habbaniyah, 90km west of Baghdad, on Thursday. Reports from al-Habbaniyah indicated that Maryam is the daughter of Shaykh 'Abdallah al-Mar'awi, a Resistance commander, and the abduction was apparently with the aim of pressuring the girl’s father to surrender.

The correspondent for Mafkarat al-Islam reported the girls uncle as saying that US troops abducted the girl in order to pressure her father into giving himself up, after they had failed to capture or kill him.

The uncle told Mafkarat al-Islam that Maryam’s mother had a heart attack and was rushed to the al-Fallujah General Hospital in an ambulance after people brought her her daughter’s school bag and one of her daughter’s sandals following the kidnapping.

Maryam, a first grade student was abducted by US troops as she left her school. The American soldiers put her in a Humvee and killed four youths who tried to free the little girl from their clutches.

Answer 1

Wow, that sounds like a real news report.

Trust me, if that really happened, it would be on CNN. They LOVE news that makes the US look bad.

I love it how people believe everything they read on the internet.

Answer 2

From Wikipedia -

Mafkarat al islam

'Mafkarat al Islam' or 'Islamic memo' is a newspaper operating throughout Iraq and surrounding nations. It aims to provide coverage of mujahideen or "insurgent" activities in their war to protect Islam from the perceived threat imposed by the USA and its coalition. The newspaper's writings are often translated and published on www.jihadunspun.com where they become accessible to all. Both sites have been exposed for false propaganda, and disinformation, by the USA Dept. of State.

Really, do you think that the troops would kidnap a little girl and kill four other student during the attempt? Believe it or not most of the people in the military are decent, upstanding familiy oriented types. Your only source for this is a recognized propaganda newspaper. Its people like you that give the anti-war crowd a bad name. Go back under your bridge Troll.

Answer 3

So you find one story that IS NOT confirmed, and use this as your so called concern as to what the forces are really doing. You like other liberals have a problem with dealing on an honest level. You look for the worst stories that are planted for the ignorant to bite on, than act like you're really wanting to know the truth about something else. I could give you a 100 stroies all on the same line thats been printed and broadcast to the masses in the stone age middle east. Where is your stories about the muslim suicide bombers killing innocent women and children, in Iraq and through the middle east. This is your people killing your people! If your extremest friends finally do what i believe they are going to do, the middle east will become nothing more than a memory! And that will be when they start blowing up each others oil fields! I myself am praying for that scenario.

Answer 4

This question is pretty general, and then you tell us one incident that may or may not have happened. IT'S A WAR, for god sakes! Bad s*** is happening everyday over there, to them and to us. Including seizure and captures, and MURDER! If you want real truths that are happening over there seek out the right sources of information; which means no American originated media reports. American media is the most bias and opinionated. You can either talk to soldiers who have returned, who are willing and able to talk openly and candidly about what they experienced. Or get media reports from places who are not directly involved in the conflict in the Middle East, this is your best bet to find out what's REALLY going on. But if you think it's anything less than hell; don't go seeking it out cause you're not going to like what you hear.

Answer 5

in basic terms like an answer above mine, if we weren't "over there" then the terrorists could be attempting harder to kill civilians over right here. some human beings think of Iraq become approximately oil and that i will see the place human beings get this concept, even nonetheless i do no longer accept as true with it, yet we are certainly no longer in Afghanistan (no longer aphganistan) for oil. Afghanistan does not even have oil.

Answer 6

If this is from an Islamic source I would be wary of taking it at face value. It may very well be that the "US forces" were really insurgents wearing captured US uniforms. This is a common tactic used for propaganda purposes. However, given the choice, the girls would be much better off in the custody of US forces than Islamic terrorists because if they got her she could very well end up dead no matter what.

Answer 7

This is obviously more fake news from the PR arm of Islamic fascism. This is just like the staged funeral processions (my favorite was the one where the corpse falls off the stretcher, stands up and jumps back onto it...), the staged old lady wailing at bombing sites in Lebanon (same lady at several different sites and same picture repeatedly reported as recent Israeli attacks many months apart), and the same child's body being used at different locations and in pictures as being both treated in ambulances and later being hauled out of rubble.

The fact is that they understand the power of propaganda, and the liberals and pacifists just eat it up because it supports their argument.

Answer 8

Our sodiers are fighting to stay alive with raid missions and route clearence every now and then for the most part its just trying to stay alive anything else is a bonus

Answer 9

I have heard worst stories and seen some really bad things unfortunately US media never reports it. I have put some on my blog http://ca.360.yahoo.com/antiwar_girl

but my favorite saying is this:

Thank god for leaders that men dont think. source A. Hitler
and this is exactly what is going on in the states.

Answer 10

Well you can rest assure the child will be given the best of care. I guess the uncle should give it up. Your story sounds very biased and I'm sure is full of untruths and spins.