Iraqi man sacrifices himself to intercept suicide bomber

[SIZE=2]A buddy of mine who is serving right now in the service sent me this and ive never gotten around to posting it..but it shows that Iraq citizens are people too..they are just as tired of all this terrorist bullshit as we are..My buddy has told me he has made many Iraqi friends. Im on his side. Fight the war on terrorism..but understand..its a war on a clan or group of bad people..not a war on Iraq.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=2]heres the link and the artice is below[/SIZE]
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[B][SIZE=2]Stars and Stripes,
Mideast edition, Wednesday, August 22, 2007 


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An Iraqi man attending a “concerned citizens” meeting is being credited with saving the lives of four U.S. soldiers and several Iraqi civilians by stopping a suicide bomber.
According to U.S. military officials, the incident happened over the weekend in the town of Arafia, near Baghdad, where soldiers from the 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment were meeting with a citizens group at a group member’s home.
“I was about 12 feet away when the bomber came around the corner,” Staff Sgt. Sean Kane was quoted as saying in a U.S. military news release. “I was about to engage when he jumped in front of us and intercepted the bomber as he ran toward us. As he pushed him away, the bomb went off.”
The man who intercepted the bomber was killed. Neither his name nor other details about him were released.
“I have no doubt the bomber was trying to kill American soldiers. It was very calculated the way the bomber tried to do it. If he hadn’t intercepted [the bomber], there is no telling how bad it could have been,” Kane said.
“He could have run behind us or away from us, but he made the decision to sacrifice himself to protect everyone.”
According to U.S. officials, the man’s father was also part of the citizens group.
Later that night, officials said, the group tipped Iraqi police about an alleged al-Qaida in Iraq cell. The police conducted a raid that ended with four arrests.
The citizens group is among initiatives by U.S. units across Iraq to bring sometimes-armed groups of civilians into the fight against both Sunni and Shiite militant groups.

I can't wait for the liberal spin on this story but i'm positive it'll get buried under many other stories of how we are hated and how we are the devil or hitler incarnate around the world as liberals would have you believe..... normal people doing extraordinary things.... true definition of hero.

[quote=SikNLow;94051]I can't wait for the liberal spin on this story but i'm positive it'll get buried under many other stories of how we are hated and how we are the devil or hitler incarnate around the world as liberals would have you believe..... normal people doing extraordinary things.... true definition of hero.[/quote]
 
Don't believe the fox news hype. Us democrats hate terrorism just as much as you. We just think that the way we are currently attempting to stop / erradicate terrorism has been horribly mismanaged by our pretender in cheif.

should be moved to off topic.

[quote=yakuzaSoarer;94058]Don't believe the fox news hype. Us democrats hate terrorism just as much as you. We just think that the way we are currently attempting to stop / erradicate terrorism has been horribly mismanaged by our pretender in cheif.[/quote]
 
that pretender in chief is nothing more than a puppet of Congress and all the special interest groups alike that are making more money off this war than anything else..... every Democrat I know is always bringing up Halliburton like it's there salvation as proof of wrong doing..... guess what... it all is the same thing, there are Democrat senators and ex-presidents in Halliburton, as well as other Organizations that feed off the war machine. We need to stop the internnal bickering in this country and focus on the real matter at hand...the world is using terrorist muslims as a front to attack americans. When you have non-muslims from other coutries just strapping themselves with explosives and carrying some type of muslim literature to make it "seem" like it's a muslim extremist attack....that's beyond scary, since now we need to figure out who what why and where all over again. we are in deeper ish than we thought on this one but the american public just doesn't realize it yet.....since we're not being told by anyone not even the Dems and especially not the Reps. God save us all.:pat:

people are people.
 
america is a world class tyrant.

[QUOTE]normal people doing extraordinary things.... true definition of hero.[/QUOTE]

EXACTLY [I]that[/I] is a hero...

[quote=yakuzaSoarer;94058]Don't believe the fox news hype. Us democrats hate terrorism just as much as you. We just think that the way we are currently attempting to stop / erradicate terrorism has been horribly mismanaged by our pretender in cheif.[/quote]
 
When I asked friends who served in Iraq, They said FOX news was the most accurate.

[quote=DEE;94554]When I asked friends who served in Iraq, They said FOX news was the most accurate.[/quote]
 
 
same here, and the attacks on Rush need to stop, I don't agree with everything he says but he did nothing wrong and said nothing wrong, talk about skewing the issues to cover up mistakes made.:pat:

is this thread about heroism anymore?

[quote=|crash|™;95447]is this thread about heroism anymore?[/quote]
 
 
yeah hahahahaha it's actually done i guess close maybe?

Yea i would suggest a close. Just thought i would show you guys the hearts that some Iraqi citizens have.

[quote=urmyhero4now;95486]Yea i would suggest a close. Just thought i would show you guys the hearts that some Iraqi citizens have.[/quote]
 
and I knew this from the beginning. glad you shared that story with us. makes me feel like there's some hope for our world after all.
 
and I will not close this thread.  I will leave that up to TLontheDL.

[quote=yakuzaSoarer;94058]Don't believe the fox news hype. Us democrats hate terrorism just as much as you. We just think that the way we are currently attempting to stop / erradicate terrorism has been horribly mismanaged by our pretender in cheif.[/quote]
and how do you suppose we handle it