Posted on 05/16/2005 3:27:50 AM PDT by kingattax
ARABI, Iraq -- Cpl. Alexander Kalouf snapped an ammunition clip into his M-16 assault rifle and strapped grenades to his chest in the crowded hold of an armored vehicle, bursting into excited snatches of songs with other Marines as they headed into hoped-for battle.
Two seats away, Cpl. Jason Dominguez shouted as he led the fighters in prayer.
"This is your chance to rid the world of these evil bastards," he began, struggling to be heard over the rumble of the Amtrac armored vehicle's engine and the roar of the exhaust.
"We ask the Lord God to help us and Jesus to protect us," Dominguez, in black sunglasses, camouflage and body armor, yelled hoarsely as huddled Marines clenched their hands and bowed their heads over the muzzles of their rifles.
Dominguez prayed for victory. He tacked on for the close: "We hope you can bring us all back alive and in one piece. Someday, when we're 50-year-old men, we'll be sitting together and telling stories about the good times."
The Marines were in the middle of Operation Matador, an assault designed to flush out and capture or kill foreign fighters who had come to Iraq to join the insurgency against the U.S. military and the Iraqi government that it supports. Severing the insurgents' network north of the Euphrates River, commanders said, would cut off the supply of guerrillas, guns and money that was moving from Syria into northwestern Iraq and being passed along for attacks in Baghdad and other cities.
Rummana residents gather around an armored vehicle destroyed by a roadside bomb during the Marine offensive. Photo Credit: Photos By Bilal Hussein -- Associated Press
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I can almost feel the Washington Compost's mourning the potential death of the Islamist our Marines are hunting...
Not surprised the only picture posted, is of a destroyed Marine vehicle...
F' the Post..
Semper Fi
"F' the Post..
Semper Fi"
PING!
ditto!!!!
"Cpl. Alexander Kalouf snapped an ammunition clip.."Ellen you ignorant slut, it's a magazine.
And I'll ask again (rhetorical), why is it that every article now written with a firearm in it is written by some ignorant DITZ. Is it a freaking union rule now or something? Stick to recipes or fashion "Ellen".
Earth to Ellen Nickmeyer, it's not a friggin' clip, it's a magazine. One more reaons to get your war news from SOF.
LOL, you beat me.
Ellen has probably been told it's a magazine...she just assumes her readers are so stupid they'll think Marines wrap copies of "People" around their guns. It's something they teach in J-school: readers only comprehend at an 8th-grade level, so don't use big words or ideas ~ they may not "get it" because they're just not as smart as you.
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