Pharmacist tells parents of attack
Posted on 01/01/2003 1:20:14 PM PST by MeekOneGOP
Pharmacist tells parents of attack
01/01/2003
LEVELLAND, Texas - The parents of a Texas man wounded in an attack in Yemen said he thought he would die during a shooting spree that killed three missionaries.
Don Caswell, 49, was the only survivor in Monday's attack at the Southern Baptist hospital where he worked as a pharmacist. He was released Tuesday from a Yemeni hospital after treatment for abdomen wounds, a U.S. diplomat said on condition of anonymity.
D.C. and Mary Caswell said their son on Tuesday told them by phone details of the attack and of his miraculous escape.
His parents said Caswell he was shot three times in the abdomen by a gunman identified by Yemeni officials as 30-year-old Abed Abdul Razak Kamel.
Caswell told his parents he heard gunshots and came to the door of the pharmacy to investigate. Then he came face to face with the attacker, who looked at Caswell and started shooting, his parents said.
He was hit twice in the abdomen and started backing into the pharmacy, but the gunman came in and shot him once more, Mary Caswell told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
The gunman then pointed the weapon and appeared to pull the trigger twice more. Mary Caswell said her son heard two clicks and thought "this was it."
However, the gun didn't fire and guards took the suspect into custody. The shooter never said a word to Caswell during the attack, his mother said.
The doctor who performed emergency surgery was amazed that all three bullets missed major organs, Mary Caswell said.
His parents have not received word on when he might return to the United States.
"He's very emotional and upset about the others" killed in Monday's attack, Mary Caswell said.
The International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention identified the dead as purchasing agent Kathleen A. Gariety, 53, of Wauwatosa, Wis.; Dr. Martha C. Myers, 57, of Montgomery, Ala.; and hospital director William E. Koehn, 60, a Kansas native who moved to Yemen in 1975.
How many MILLION more Christians will have to die...
Before our stupid Allah-licking government will admit that there is no such thing as a good Muslim. They will all have to be converted, or killed, if there is to be a peaceful world.
..adding your son to my prayer list, John. :o)
It'll happen but we won't live long enough to see it.
ANANOVA.com: "'BIN LADEN TAPES FOUND IN HOME' OF MURDER SUSPECT" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Audio tapes of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden have reportedly been found at the house of a Yemeni who allegedly shot dead three American missionaries. Yemeni officials believe Abed Abdul Razak Kamel and his alleged collaborator, Ali al-Jarallah, are members of a terrorist cell connected with al-Qaida. Both men are in police custody.") (010503)
ALBAWABA.com - The Middle East Gateway: "REPORT: YEMENI KILLER OF U.S. DOCTORS MET AL QAEDA MEMBERS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Yemeni gunman who killed three U.S. missionaries earlier this week has confessed to meeting al Qaeda members, including a suicide bomber who attacked the USS Cole, a state-owned Yemeni magazine reported on Thursday. The September 26 weekly said Abed Abdel Razzak Kamel told police he joined Yemen's Islamic Jihad group in 1997 after he met the man who three years later participated in the attack that killed 17 U.S. sailors on board the U.S. destroyer in Aden port.") (010203)
***CNS NEWS.com: "THREE AMERICAN CHRISTIANS KILLED, ONE WOUNDED IN YEMEN ATTACK" by Julie Stahl (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A security guard overpowered the assailant and authorities arrested the lone gunman identified as Abed Abdul-Razzaq al-Kamil, 32, by the Yemen News Agency, Saba. The gunman was quoted as having told police that he had shot the four, all representatives of the Southern Baptist International Mission Board, to "cleanse his religion and get closer to Allah." An unnamed Yemeni official was quoted by wire reports as saying that the gunman had confessed to belonging to Yemen's Islamic Jihad organization and said he killed the Americans because "they were preaching Christianity in a Muslim country."") (123002)
YEMEN TIMES.com: "U.S. MILITARY COOPERATION DISCUSSED" (December 24, 2002 - January 5, 2003)
BBC News: "TWO DEAD IN YEMEN IN AL-QAEDA CLASH" (122102)
YAHOO! News - Article Search: "YEMEN"
U.S. EMBASSY (Yemen)
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