|
The June 2006 abduction of two U.S. soldiers in Iraq occurred in 2006 when military forces of the U.S. and a dozen more countries conducted military operations in Iraq to “bring order to parts of that country that remain dangerous” for occupying military forces. On 16 June 2006, a U.S. checkpoint near Baghdad was attacked. One of the three American soldiers manning the checkpoint was killed, and the two others, Menchaca and Tucker, were abducted. Those two were recovered three days later, according to an Iraqi spokesman “killed in a very brutal way and tortured”. The Mujahedeen Shura Council—an organization of six groups, including Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn (‘al-Qaida in Iraq’), and forerunner of Islamic State of Iraq and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)—claimed to have "slaughtered" the two abducted soldiers in revenge for the raping of an Iraqi girl and the killing of her family by soldiers of the same U.S. brigade. == Background == The United States with United Kingdom, Australia and Poland had in March 2003 invaded Iraq to rid Iraq from its Ba'ath Party government led by Saddam Hussein, and, when that was accomplished, in May 2003 decided to stay on in Iraq to “bring order to parts of that country that remain dangerous”.〔 A U.S. platoon’s unit of the 101st Airborne Division, that had recently lost 10 troops, including some leaders, killed in action, and was under investigation concerning the unit who in June 2006 was charged with guarding a mobile bridge over a canal,〔 (page 1); (idem, ''Washington Post'', 17 May 2007 (page 2) ).〕 at a traffic checkpoint south of Baghdad, at a crossing at the Eufrates River, on a road near Yusufiyah,〔 in a notoriously dangerous region called the ‘Triangle of Death’.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「June 2006 abduction of U.S. soldiers in Iraq」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|