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Thread ID: 16541 | Posts: 10 | Started: 2005-02-02
2005-02-02 09:24 | User Profile
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DUBAI (Reuters) - [font=arial][size=-1]A picture of an "abducted" U.S. soldier in Iraq ([url="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/nm/ts_nm/iraq_usa_soldier_dc/14168312/http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&p=%22Iraq%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw"][color=#0000ff]news[/color][/url] - [url="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/nm/ts_nm/iraq_usa_soldier_dc/14168312/http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=web-storylinks&p=Iraq"][color=#0000ff]web sites[/color][/url]) appeared on a Web site on Tuesday, but suspicion grew it was a hoax after a U.S. toy maker said it appeared to show a model soldier made by the company. [/size][/font]
"Our mujahideen ... have managed to capture the American soldier John Adam after killing a number of his colleagues," said the Mujahideen Squadrons in the undated statement on a Web site monitored in Dubai. It threatened to kill him.
But Liam Cusack, marketing coordinator for California-based Dragon Models USA, said the picture appeared to show a special forces operative figure the company had made for collectors.
Defense officials at the Pentagon ([url="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/nm/ts_nm/iraq_usa_soldier_dc/14168312/http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?fr=news-storylinks&p=%22Pentagon%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw"][color=#0000ff]news[/color][/url] - [url="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/nm/ts_nm/iraq_usa_soldier_dc/14168312/http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=web-storylinks&p=Pentagon"][color=#0000ff]web sites[/color][/url]) in Washington said the U.S. military had no indication any of its soldiers were missing in Iraq.
Cusack said the striking similarity between his company's action figure, which was marketed under the name "Cody," and the published picture, were pointed out to him early on Tuesday by an Arizona retailer.
"I worked on the development of that figure so I had seen the look of that head before," Cusack said. "We don't want to be the ones to say that it is (a hoax) for sure. Because if there is a search and rescue, that needs to be done."
Cusack, speaking from his office at City of Industry, California, noted the rifle being pointed at the figure in the photograph posted on the Web site also appeared to be the plastic M4 rifle included with the figure.
The message and photograph were posted on a site run by a group calling itself al-Muntada al-Ansar, which has in recent months restricted access to the site to registered users in an effort to avoid unknown groups posting messages.
The site has been the main channel of communication in recent months for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.
Insurgents in Iraq, including al Qaeda's wing in Iraq, have been waging attacks on U.S.-led forces since they invaded the country in 2003. (Additional reporting by Kevin Krolicki in Los Angeles)
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2005-02-02 10:49 | User Profile
Someone has a twisted sense of humor.
2005-02-02 16:53 | User Profile
The U.S. military says they do not having any soldiers missing. So does this mean that they know definitively that soldier Matt Maupin was killed and his body recovered??!!! As far as the action figure story, well, it appears the Rathergate incident has made ever Bushie think he or she could be a cyber Columbo too.
2005-02-02 18:56 | User Profile
LOL. This is one of the funniest things I have ever heard.
2005-02-02 19:43 | User Profile
Is that pic from the actual video?:lol: It's pretty obvious just from the gear the doll is wearing that it was a hoax. Duambass a-rabs.
2005-02-02 19:44 | User Profile
Jack,
That is an astute observation. Someone should ask Squat McClelland about that.
2005-02-03 04:03 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Jaybird]Is that pic from the actual video?:lol: It's pretty obvious just from the gear the doll is wearing that it was a hoax. Duambass a-rabs.[/QUOTE] It seems strange to me that they would even attempt something like this. It did look completely ridiculous.
2005-02-03 05:50 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Jaybird]Is that pic from the actual video?:lol: It's pretty obvious just from the gear the doll is wearing that it was a hoax. Duambass a-rabs.[/QUOTE]
Can't you see who this "joke" is on? -- little item purchased at any military base store, shows up on Al-Jazeera with a gun pointed at it, announced as "captured GI"? --belly laugh for freedom fighers to "make it real".
2005-02-03 06:19 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Jack Cassidy]The U.S. military says they do not having any soldiers missing. So does this mean that they know definitively that soldier Matt Maupin was killed and his body recovered??!!! As far as the action figure story, well, it appears the Rathergate incident has made ever Bushie think he or she could be a cyber Columbo too.[/QUOTE] That fellow lived about four miles from me...one still sees his name on signs and such, he hasn't been forgotten here by any measure.
We also lost another fellow at the elections, who graduated from my old high school.
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Such a waste.
2005-02-03 06:42 | User Profile
[QUOTE=88mmFlaK]That fellow lived about four miles from me...one still sees his name on signs and such, he hasn't been forgotten here by any measure.
We also lost another fellow at the elections, who graduated from my old high school.
Such a waste.[/QUOTE] I sure as hell haven't forgotten him, and I know most if not all here on OD haven't. It does seem most of this country has. I thought of Maupin recently when I read about the four Marines killed in fighting the same day the Marine chopper crashed. All four were from VA and they were, like Maupin, using the reserves to get through college (one just graduated and was looking to pay off his loans). Maupin was 20 and an Aeronautical Engineering student if memory serves me correctly. One of the Marines killed was a 20-year old Mechanical Engineering student from VA Tech, another a graduate student in theology at Liberty University, one a recent history major graduate, and the last a law enforcement student hoping to become a VA State Trooper.