304 U.S. Soldiers Ordered Killed By Pentagon in Iraq
April 6, 2005
www.tehrantimes.com
TEHRAN (MNA) About 304 recalcitrant U.S. soldiers have been killed by the Pentagon’s special team, intelligence sources in Iraq have revealed.
The sources quoted high-ranking U.S. officers as saying that since the U.S. occupation of Iraq in March 2003 more than 304 U.S. military forces have been executed in spurious clashes at the behest of army commanders and with the knowledge of the Pentagon.
The bodies of these soldiers have been sent to their families and announced as forces who have been killed in the fight against terrorists, the Mehr News Agency correspondent in southern Iran has learnt.
The soldiers ordered killed were mainly among those who suffered mental disorders and protested against the massacre of Iraqi civilians and asked who were they fighting for.
Reports say the number of soldiers who have injured or maimed themselves to flee from the scene of war in Iraq are on the rise, and new revelations show that this number has exceeded 2,100 over the past two years.
The U.S. Army medical dispensary announced four months ago that more than 6,000 soldiers serving in Iraq suffer from severe mental problems. The reports have also revealed that some of these soldiers tend to kill innocent Iraqi civilians without any particular reason in order to reduce their mental pains.
That link doesn’t work. I went to the Tehran Times and tried to search for the story, but the connection is extremely slow and the Times’s own search engine failed.
Tehran Times picked it up originally from the Mehr news agency a few weeks ago, their archives are not great, but you can google pentagon 304 iraq and see the echoes, mostly on blogs and indy sites.
It is not a story that would be appealing to US advertisers, I doubt you will see it on the crusadeNets.
If at some point, keeping it out of the western media should prove infeasible, it can easily be spun into soldiers gone mad and endangering the lives of their comrades at arms, leaving their commanding officers only seconds to fire, as tears streamed down their faces…
I was able to find one live link to this:
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m10931&l=i&size=1&hd=0
I just read this long article (originally from March) on Harper’s about army deserters. It’s oddly related, though with perhaps more credibility.
AWOL in America
When desertion is the only option
Thanks for the corrected live link!
Is Uruknet a good source?
are not rewrites of crusadecom briefings, which is what 99% of US “war news” is, their echo of this particular story was also from Mehr.
How dare you ask such a question in my presence?
the deserter’s story is free on-line from Harpers.
oh don’t make me post a link–I found it hours ago–just go to their website.
The AWOL story is very good. Thank you
Hmm–which intelligence sources in Iraq? Iran’s?
If this is true it reminds me of the scene in Catch 22, where a General gives the order to have someone shot, and his subordinate reminds him “You can’t do that sir”, to which he responds “Why not?”
spewing forth from Bu$hCo in our own press. Good to see that some foreign psy-ops outfits are fighting back…
well-Dood O’Billthecat: I disagree. Choosing sides between American or Iranian propaganda is a dismal prospect.
but IMHO this is the only way that Bu$hCo’s propaganda will begin to be seen for what it is by some of our more salvageable citizens… by comparing and contrasting it to the above absurdity.