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Photo Captures Marine Escaping Afghan Blast That Killed His Comrades
FOX News ^ | July 15, 2009

Posted on 07/16/2009 1:36:56 PM PDT by Eddings

The moment a U.S. Marine ran to safety as an explosion killed two of his comrades in Afghanistan was caught on camera.

The Improvised Explosive Device (IED) killed two members of the U.S. 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade instantly on Monday, shredding their armor and throwing their bodies into a canal.

But Sergeant Anthony Zabala, 31, had a lucky escape.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; afp; ied; marine

1 posted on 07/16/2009 1:36:57 PM PDT by Eddings
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To: Eddings

Where are the endless newspaper articles reporting the weekly and monthly body counts. Now that Bush isn’t in charge, why did this become non-news?


2 posted on 07/16/2009 1:39:51 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: the_Watchman

Where did the homeless go?


3 posted on 07/16/2009 1:42:32 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 177 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: null and void

When does Gitmo close?


4 posted on 07/16/2009 1:44:27 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Pretending the Admin Moderator doesn't exist will result in suspension.)
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To: the_Watchman

5 posted on 07/16/2009 1:44:30 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: Eddings

6 posted on 07/16/2009 1:44:48 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: the_Watchman

Couldn’t tarnish the image of the girlie-boyOTUS. Any news of troops being hurt is not allowed.

GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS! In the meantime, BO has judgement day to look forward to.


7 posted on 07/16/2009 1:45:26 PM PDT by albie
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To: Islander7

Yeah, well mine’s bigger than yours. 8^)


8 posted on 07/16/2009 1:45:31 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: the_Watchman

AP used to report every death and list the total body count for the war. The seemed to have stopped doing that. I wonder why?


9 posted on 07/16/2009 1:46:16 PM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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To: KSCITYBOY

It’s a “good” war now.


10 posted on 07/16/2009 1:50:05 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: Eddings

Just saw that photo and I got chills all over. God bless our troops.....our grandchildren will sleep well because of them. Thomas Jefferson said something to the effect that “the tree of liberty is nurtured by the blood of patriots and tyrants”......and our troops are truly great patriots!!


11 posted on 07/16/2009 2:04:53 PM PDT by kenmcg (THE)
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