“He Hugged Him and the Explosives Tore Apart Both Bodies”
Another Iraqi, facing death by suicide bomber, chooses martyrdom in a bid to save the lives of others:
AN IRAQI police officer was the hero of a suicide bomb attack in a crowded market street when his brave action perhaps saved dozens of lives in the southern city of Hillah. Even so the death toll was put at 60.
Mohammed Raad and his friends, Ali and Abdullah Sami, had just left a nearby gym when the first explosion ripped through the market overturning carts and blowing out shop windows.
Over the chaos, Mr Raad clearly heard a police officer shout “suicide bomber”.
He saw the officer run towards a man who had opened his jacket to reveal a belt of explosives. With a last heroic gesture, the policeman threw his arms around the bomber, shielding others with his own body from the force of the second blast, according to Mr Raad and other witnesses. “He hugged him and the explosives tore apart both bodies,” Mr Raad said.
Here’s an earlier post on someone else who did that.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:35 pm on Sunday, February 4, 2007
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February 5th, 2007 at 1:35 am
Quick Nibbles– 2007.02.05
I’m too tired to do ‘em justice. Just read ‘em. “He Hugged Him and the Explosives Tore Apart Both Bodies”
February 5th, 2007 at 1:36 am
Bill’s Nibbles — 2007.02.05
Some Bill’s Bites posts, some things I excerpted and linked but I’m sending you to the original post. I may rearrange the order of the links within this post as I add new things that I think belong above the