The War in october 1973

[maverick1977]

Great documentary...

 

[maverick1977]

Great documentary...

an iraqi surprise to protect syria? didnt know anything like that in history books.

 

[Hamza913]

an iraqi surprise to protect syria? didnt know anything like that in history books.

This one Syrian guy I knew would tell me how his father in Damascus used to see the Iraqi soldiers bring back the heads of Israelis they had killed. Those guys didn't muck about.

 

[The SC]

an iraqi surprise to protect syria? didnt know anything like that in history books.

Yes a huge surprise.. the Iraqi brigades drove 1000 km unnoticed and surprised the Usraelis who thought Damascus was a given..

 

[Solomon2]

This one Syrian guy I knew would tell me how his father in Damascus used to see the Iraqi soldiers bring back the heads of Israelis they had killed. Those guys didn't muck about.

Never heard of Iraqis doing so, but I suppose some may have been involved in such mutilations:

Syrian Butchery of Israeli Soldiers
SEE ORIGINAL DAILY BULLETIN FROM THIS DATE

Shortly after expelling the Syrians from the Golan Heights in October 1973, Israel recovered the bodies of Israeli soldiers who, judging by the condition in which they were found, had all been murdered and mutilated after being taken alive. The American Zionist Federation this week distributed a passage, in English and Arabic, from the official gazette of the Syrian government, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya, dated July 11, 1974, which has been overlooked until now which reveals the manner in which some of these Israeli soldiers were murdered by their Syrian captors.

In the course of a debate in the Syrian National Assembly in December 1973, the Minister of Defense, Mustafa T’las cited the following incident as an example of “supreme valorized

“There is the outstanding case of a recruit from Aleppo who murdered 28 Jewish (Israeli) soldiers all by himself, slaughtering them like sheep. All of his comrades in arms witnessed this. He butchered three of them with an axe and decapitated them. In other words, instead of using a gun to kill them he took a hatchet to chop their heads off. He struggled face to face with one of them and, throwing down his axe, managed to break his neck and devour his flesh in front of his comrades. This is a special case. Need I single it out to award him the Medal of the Republic? I will grant this medal to any soldier who succeeds in killing 28 Jews and I will cover him with appreciation and honor for his bravery.”

The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.

 

[Hamza913]

Never heard of Iraqis doing so, but I suppose some may have been involved in such mutilations

The Syrians really spearheaded these kind of things. They would get Israeli soldiers and electrocute them, shoot them while blindfolded, peel off their nails, mutilate their genitals, burn cigarettes onto them, and they'd often do this in front of other Israeli soldiers too. They'd also often leave a few of these tortured souls alive, just so they could tell the rest of the IDF how terribly the Syrian military treated them. Oh, and they liked to often deny capturing soldiers just so they could have fun with them even more.

And of course, you mentioned the infamous case where a Syrian soldier literally ate an Israeli POW.

 

[Solomon2]

...they liked to often deny capturing soldiers just so they could have fun with them even more.

IIRC in Kissinger's memoir Years of Upheaval the Asad regime supplied an exact number of Israeli POWs early in the negotiations, so I think you may be confusing this conflict with a different one.

 

[Hamza913]

IIRC in Kissinger's memoir Years of Upheaval the Asad regime supplied an exact number of Israeli POWs early in the negotiations, so I think you may be confusing this conflict with a different one.

No, they would literally downplay how many soldiers they captured just so they could torture them some more.