Iraqi Surgeon: “Thank You, American Military.”
From CBS News(not a “right wing” news source):
Rescued From Baghdad’s Deadliest Street
Lara Logan Goes Along As A Famous Surgeon Is Rescued From Baghdad’s Haifa Street
BAGHDAD, Jan. 15, 2007
logan, doctorDr. Quraish Fajir al-Kasir, left, after he and his family is rescued in Baghdad on Jan. 13, 2007. (CBS)“Thank you American military, thank you people, thank you very much.”
Dr. Quraish Fajir al-Kasir
(CBS) When the Crazyhorse troops of the 4th Squadron, 9th Cavalry were given the mission to rescue Dr. Quraish Fajir al-Kasir, they were expecting the worst. The target house was on Haifa Street, where they were attacked just last week, before intense fighting erupted here between Sunni gunmen and Iraqi forces.Friday night, al-Kasir, one of the terrified residents, told CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan he was trapped.
“You can’t leave?” Logan asked him in a telephone interview.
“No,” he said. “It’s difficult to go. They will kill you because any moving object will be shot.”
Al-Kasir is a famous Iraqi surgeon, once the guest of President Bush at the White House, now hiding with his family in a dark bathroom for eight days, shivering from cold and hunger:
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This one is guaranteed to make lefties’ heads explode. From CBS News, no less.
