U.S. military receives remains of last soldier missing in Iraq

[Democrat18]

Last edited Sun Feb 26, 2012, 03:10 PM - Edit history (2)

BEIRUT — The U.S. military has recovered the remains of the last U.S. service member missing in Iraq, ending a nearly six-year ordeal involving shadowy militants and a tragic love story, his family said Sunday.

At about 1 a.m. Sunday, a U.S. officer knocked on the door of the family home in Ann Arbor, Mich., with news that Army Staff Sgt. Ahmed Altaie was confirmed dead, though he had no details yet on how or when he died, said Entifadh Qanbar, Altaie's uncle and a close aide to Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi. Altaie was the last soldier unaccounted for in Iraq.

Altaei's brother, Hathal Altaei, speaking by phone from his parents' home, said the military had confirmed his brother's identity through a DNA test.

"The officer came eight hours ago and told us," Hathal Altaie said. "We've been waiting for five years, suffering, not knowing if he's alive or dead. This was not the news we wanted, of course, but it's better than staying like that, without ever knowing what happened to him."

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Ahmed Altaie, a proud young Muslim-American. Fuck you, Pam Geller, you stupid, hatemongerong c#%t!

[bvar22]

1. This is good news.

Unfortunately, thousands Iraqi civilians will never be able to "find" their missing loved ones.
Many thousands were blown to pieces, millions were displaced, uncounted families broken up and dislocated,
entire villages wiped from the face of the earth.
Not a single one of these people had anything to do with the attack on the WTC.
They were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time when the USA Got its WAR On!

I grieve for the dead at the WTC,
and the American soldiers who died or were wounded in vain in Iraq,
but I have a deep and overriding shame for what we did to the innocent people of Iraq,
and are continuing to do to innocent peoples around the World,
including inside our own borders.

[webDude]

2. Ditto, and research how we treated the POW's after Vietnam. It was insane. Of course, ...

...not to mention what became of the natives.

[Censor-Ready]

3. So, where's the antiwar thread?

Obama's been in office for three years, and we have more war and war spending to show for it. Is anyone discussing this on DU?

I'm glad the Altaie family got the remains of their son, but there's a lot more to the story.