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Marine Patrol Saves Child from IED
DefendAmerica.mil ^ | 5/10/2004 | CJTF7 Staff

Posted on 05/10/2004 4:53:44 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity

CAMP TAQQADUM, Iraq - A Marine patrol near Husaybah took note of a child playing with an unusual object May 5. The object looked like it could be part of an improvised explosive device. The Marines quickly moved the child away to a safe distance and secured the area. Marines found the object to be an anti-personnel mine rigged as an IED buried in the ground. The patrol coordinated for an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team to dispose of the mine. It was detonated in-place later in the day. Unit officials said the Marines' "excellent attention to detail" prevented the loss of lives and equipment

Release #040509a


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: explosive; ied; iraqichildren; munition
Here's a bit of good news...
1 posted on 05/10/2004 4:53:46 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Do you suppose this will make the Evening News tonight?
2 posted on 05/10/2004 4:55:48 PM PDT by Spok (They call me old Hugh, but I doubt I'm 80.)
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To: Spok
Pro-troops news is viewed as a boon to Bush and is therefore unnewsworthy to the networks.
3 posted on 05/10/2004 5:01:18 PM PDT by Crazieman
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To: Spok
Sure. They'll report that they saved the kid so that the could be beaten and raped at Abu Gharib later.
4 posted on 05/10/2004 5:02:19 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (All the good taglines are taken...)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Thats only one but its one of the unnoticed many good stories. One that sticks out in my mind is the soldier who saved an old woman trapped on a bridge.
5 posted on 05/10/2004 5:03:10 PM PDT by cripplecreek (John Kerry, the Eddie Haskell candidate.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Good work Marines.
6 posted on 05/10/2004 5:03:51 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: Spok
Do you suppose this will make the Evening News tonight?

No.. But that kid's uncle or brother or cousin will go out tonight and maybe kill a couple of American Soldiers..
The soldier's deaths will be mentioned.. in passing, just as a statistic..

The Jihadist cares not if you save his son or not, other than you just saved someone that they can raise to kill you..

7 posted on 05/10/2004 5:14:40 PM PDT by Drammach (The Wolves are at the Door... Hey, Kids! Your lunch is here!)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Is one of the Muslim holy days called IED or EID or something?
8 posted on 05/10/2004 5:25:45 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (it's coming and if you don't get off the tracks it will run you down)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
...When Ted Turner gets layed, CNN will proclaim, Hey, it's all going to work out, here's sports...
9 posted on 05/10/2004 6:02:21 PM PDT by gargoyle
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Doesn't say whether it was a female or male child.

If the Marines saved the life of a little Muslim girl, then God help them and Allah help her; the Muslims get absolutely P*SSED when one of their girls survives an honor killing. It was her duty to lead the Marines to die form the IED, and she failed her duty to Allah and her family.

< /sarcasm >

SFS

10 posted on 05/10/2004 6:47:14 PM PDT by Steel and Fire and Stone (SFS)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
That's beautiful. One of the many stories of heroism and compassion that comes out of Iraq and Afghanistan. I remember reading about another soldier, though, who gave his life to save a child who was innocently playing with an explosive device. He pushed the child away and fell on it. May God bless him for his sacrifice.

From what I have seen in my travels to places where there are large Muslim populations though, they do love their children. I would imagine that seeing your child's life saved by a foreign soldier, even a supposed 'hated infidel', would still merit gratefulness and thanks. I believe this can be confirmed by those who know these places better than I. It's only in the Palestinian refugee camps' ingrained culture of martyrdom that they involve children in suicide brigades. Normally childrens' lives are valued much higher than this in the Islamic tradition, from what I have heard.
11 posted on 05/10/2004 8:53:46 PM PDT by plushaye
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To: Allegra
ping
12 posted on 05/10/2004 8:55:41 PM PDT by thackney (Life is Fragile, Handle with Prayer)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Good job Marines....this should be the talking point on the evening news casts....but it will be "over looked".
13 posted on 05/10/2004 8:57:43 PM PDT by Blue Scourge (Off I go into the Wild Blue Yonder...)
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To: All
... Arab street enfuriated
14 posted on 05/10/2004 9:02:35 PM PDT by rbmillerjr
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Ping!
15 posted on 05/10/2004 9:08:34 PM PDT by 2111USMC (the few, the proud, The Marines!)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity; 2111USMC
Ping!

Thank you for posting CENTCOM news, Excuse_My_Bellicosity.

Thanks for the ping, 2111USMC. I'd re-ping the crew on this one, but think I'll continue hiding news in other threads. (^:

16 posted on 05/11/2004 4:37:04 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
They will not ask that question. That way they can report that "the Marine public affairs officer DID NOT DENY that the child was taken to Abu Ghraib prison and beaten and raped."
17 posted on 05/11/2004 4:59:35 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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