Posted on 05/12/2006 6:10:05 AM PDT by wreckedangle
On a mild spring evening in northern Iraq, Staff Sgt. Martin K. Richburg sat in a flatbed truck parked outside the Internet cafe on base and called his wife back in Baltimore.
As Richburg, 44, spoke on his cell phone, he saw an Iraqi civilian place a blue bag atop the cafe's air conditioner and take off running. Richburg drew his 9 mm pistol, chased down the man and prodded the truth from him: The bag contained a bomb.
Richburg cleared the cafe where soldiers checked their e-mail, and a few minutes later a blast destroyed the building.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Nice work, Sgt. Richburg.
Any bets the troop gets court martialed for torturing the perp? If any leftists see this the charge will be very loudly and angrily made.
Great story! Thanks for posting.
Good post!
Turbin Durbin and shmuckie shumer demand an investigation. These atrocities cannot be allowed to continue. It's worse than the Gestapo.This poor victim must have been frightened terribly by the heavily armed soldier. Why has there not been a court martial over this? It's Bush's fault.
This is a great story about a great soldier, but be advised that this story appeared in Stars and Stripes more than a week ago. My guess is the Baltimore Sun picked up on it from there and is now reporting it as new.
If not for the Stars and Stripes on the internet, we'd have very little access to positive stories coming out of Iraq.
Rappers, starlets, pampered rockstars and spoiled scions of Beltway political dynasties no longer impress me. The whiners and wailers, the PETA morons and the ACLU idiots are all the "heroes" that they want to sell me. They are lower-case heroes, manufactured sound-byte by sound-byte, cranked out phot-op by photo-op to sell me lies and steal my soul a bite at a time.
Here is a Hero, upper-case. Here is a man, nothing more than a man, who has risen to the level of hero by instinctively doing the valliant thing, the right thing, the noble thing, because it is the right thing to do. He gut reacted for the greater good. It was not scripted for him by a screenwriter, set-up by a publicity agent, or shot in Dolby Digital Panavision.
I will have no more of "heroes". I will not be sold a lie. I will celebrate real Heroes who are better than what the liars in the Media can build for me.
Thank God for soldiers like Staff Sgt. Martin K. Richburg.
Well Done, Sgt Richburg! You are a hero indeed!
WAY TO GO!!!
Amen! Great commentary. If you're not a writer, you should be.
Good job...
He should have sent the terrorist back to retrieve the bag...
On base, Richburg is surrounded by soldiers half his age. He said he passes time by playing cards with his buddies, running two to three miles a day and watching a lot of movies. He listens to jazz artists such as George Duke and George Benson. And he prays in the morning, at night, and on the phone with his wife.
Olethia Richburg said she is counting the days until her husband returns. His unit is set to depart Iraq in the summer, maybe July, she said. When they talk by phone, the conversations are optimistic.
"The one thing I constantly remind him of is there are more soldiers coming home than are not," she said.
A man far from home, doing his job, saving the World.
But did he give the suspect his Miranda rights before 'prodding' him?
I think they received some intel. from that pig.
WWJBD?
That. :-)
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