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PRIVATE FIRST CLASS THOMAS TUCKER, U.S. soldier, on his deployment to Iraq, in a recent telephone message to his parents. The bodies of Tucker and Private First Class Kristian Menchaca, who had been ambushed and kidnapped by insurgents, were found last week...
...military announced Tuesday that the bodies of Private First Class Thomas Lowell Tucker, 25, of Madras, Oregon, and Private First Class Kristian Menchaca, 23, of Houston, Texas, had been found in an area south of Baghdad. An Iraqi defense ministry official claimed that the appearance of the bodies suggested the captives had been tortured before they were killed...
...that includes Al-Qaeda in Iraq, posted an internet message Tuesday claiming that the group's new leader, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, had personally killed the Americans. Although the group has offered no definitive proof so far that it was responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Tucker and Menchaca, its statement promised that it would soon release a videotape to back its claim...
...Tucker and Menchaca were reported missing after an attack on a U.S. checkpoint in Yusufiyah, south of Baghdad, that killed Specialist David J. Babineau, 25, of Springfield, Massachusetts. The attack came as the U.S. and the Iraqi government had appeared to seize the initiative in recent weeks: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki named ministers to the country's top security posts; al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed by an American air strike; and a series of raids in and around Baghdad preceded the high-profile deployment of tens of thousands of troops in Baghdad...
...fight bitterly against the dictator in student riots and strikes. So concerned was Franco that during the past fortnight his ubiquitous secret police arrested more than a dozen men, mostly young, of good families which earlier supported the Caudillo. Among them were some big names: Millionaire Basque Businessman Antonio Menchaca Careaga, Lawyer Valentin López Aparicio, University Student Ignacio Soleto, nephew of Liberal Leader Dionisio Ridruejo (Franco's propaganda director during the civil war), and Francisco Herrera Oria, widely known liberal Catholic layman and younger brother of the liberal Bishop of Málaga...