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Marines on exercise attacked by gunnies — one dead...
A U.S. Marine was killed and another was wounded Tuesday when they were attacked by small arms fire — apparently by civilians — during war games in Kuwait.If they have guns and they shoot at you, they're not civilians... The Marines were involved in a live-fire exercise at the time of the attack, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Dave Lapan said. The two attackers were shot dead by U.S. forces. The shooting occurred on Failaka Island off Kuwait's coast, Kuwaiti Ministry of Defense spokesman Brig. Ahmed al-Rahmani said. The island is about 30 miles east of Kuwait City and about the same distance from the southernmost tip of Iraq. I believe Iraq has also laid claim to Failaka in the past. One of the Marines' operations in Gulf War I was tossing them off... Lapan said the slain Marine died during surgery at the Camp Doha Armed Forces Hospital. The wounded Marine's condition was not immediately known. Their names were withheld until relatives were told of the attack. Al-Rahmani could not provide any information about the two dead assailants. Everyone will be really interested in who they were... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-10-08 |
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