Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The June 2006 abduction of U.S. soldiers in Iraq occurred when Iraqi insurgents attacked a United States Army checkpoint near Yusufiyah, Iraq, twelve miles south of Baghdad, within the Triangle of Death. On 16 June 2006, insurgents killed Specialist David J. Babineau and captured Private First Class Kristian Menchaca and Private First Class Thomas L. Tucker. An unsuccessful search operation was conducted by 8,000 American and Iraqi soldiers in an attempt to recover Menchaca and Tucker. On 19 June, a few miles from where they were initially captured, the corpses of Menchaca and Tucker were found, booby trapped with an improvised explosive device, and according to a senior Iraqi military official, the soldiers' corpses showed clear signs of having been tortured significantly before eventually being executed. The soldiers were members of 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Kentucky.. }
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- June_2006_abduction_of_U.S._soldiers_in_Iraq abstract "The June 2006 abduction of U.S. soldiers in Iraq occurred when Iraqi insurgents attacked a United States Army checkpoint near Yusufiyah, Iraq, twelve miles south of Baghdad, within the Triangle of Death. On 16 June 2006, insurgents killed Specialist David J. Babineau and captured Private First Class Kristian Menchaca and Private First Class Thomas L. Tucker. An unsuccessful search operation was conducted by 8,000 American and Iraqi soldiers in an attempt to recover Menchaca and Tucker. On 19 June, a few miles from where they were initially captured, the corpses of Menchaca and Tucker were found, booby trapped with an improvised explosive device, and according to a senior Iraqi military official, the soldiers' corpses showed clear signs of having been tortured significantly before eventually being executed. The soldiers were members of 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Kentucky.".