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...knew immediately that I had been shot. I first prayed. I said a prayer that God would not let me die." CAROLINE SEAWELL, a survivor of the Washington-area sniper shootings, in testimony at the trial of suspect John Allen Muhammad...
...Black Hawk helicopter was downed, apparently by a rocket-propelled grenade, near Tikrit on Friday, mirroring the felling of a Chinook helicopter near Fallujah at the start of the week that killed 16. Poland suffered its first combat loss in Iraq when an army major was hit by a sniper near Karbala. In a blow to American hopes of sharing more of the peacekeeping...
...five rocket-propelled grenades at Grenz and his men. The Pakistanis are supposed to be helping the Americans. It's something the Americans will puzzle over later, when the fighting stops. "There were about 20 muzzle fires on the northern ridge," Captain Craig Mullaney later recalls. One was a sniper, who, from a distance of 600 yds., hits Private First Class Evan O'Neill, 19, twice precisely below his flak jacket, shearing a main artery. A third shot hits O'Neill as his buddies are dragging him behind a tree. Braving machine-gun and rocket fire, medic Christopher Couchot administers...
...Captain Worthan can locate the enemy on the north, east and south sides of the ridge, just inside the border. U.S. spotters target at least 30 al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters. Worthan, while dodging sniper fire behind a boulder, orders up the full wrath of several Apache attack helicopters and an A-10 Warthog gunship. "The whole ridge was ripped up," Worthan later recalls. "It was like time stopped." The Americans estimate that more than 20 al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters were killed...
...back." PETER GREENSPUN, defense attorney for accused sniper John Allen Muhammad, who rehired his lawyers after two days of acting as his own attorney at his murder trial...