[Vision2020] U.S. Troops Risk Lives to Save Woman

[Carl Westberg]

Mr. Harrell, as you continue to sing the praises of everything American 
going on in Iraq, you might pay notice to the news story from the New York 
Times this afternoon.  U.S. Army confirms killing seven women and children 
after firing on their vehicle today. One can argue over how it happened, and 
perhaps the driver of the car was at fault for not stopping.  That matters 
not one whit to someone like Osama Bin Laden, who can, and will, use it to 
fan the flames of terrorist passion.                                         
                                                                             
                     Carl Westberg Jr.






>From: John Harrell <johnbharrell@yahoo.com>
>To: vision2020 <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] U.S. Troops Risk Lives to Save Woman
>Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:15:46 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>U.S. Troops Risk Lives to Save Woman
>
>By CHRIS TOMLINSON .c The Associated Press, 3/31/03
>
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2523840,00.html
>
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>
>HINDIYAH, Iraq (AP) - ``We've got to get her off that bridge,'' he said.
>
>Capt. Chris Carter winced at the risks his men would have to take. Engaged 
>in a
>lightning-fast raid for this Euphrates River town, they were battling for a 
>bridge when -
>through the smoke - they saw the elderly woman. She had tried to race 
>across the bridge
>when the Americans arrived, but was caught in the crossfire.
>
>At first, peering through their rifle scopes, they thought she was dead, 
>like the man
>sprawled in the dust nearby. But then, during breaks in the gunfire that 
>whizzed over her
>head, she sat up and waved for help.
>
>Carter, a 32-year-old Army Ranger, ordered his Bradley armored vehicle to 
>pull
>forward while he and two men ran behind it. They took cover behind the 
>bridge's iron
>beams.
>
>Carter tossed a smoke grenade for more cover and approached the woman, who 
>was
>crying and pointing toward a wound on her hip. She wore the black chador, 
>common
>among older women in the countryside. The blood soaked through the fabric, 
>streaking
>the pavement around her.
>
>Medics placed the woman on a stretcher and into an ambulance; Carter stood 
>by,
>providing cover with his M16A4 rifle. Then she was gone, and Monday's 
>battle for this
>town of 80,000, 50 miles south of Baghdad, raged on.
>
>
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