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Friday, May 13, 2005

Lima Company...

Every member of Marine squad killed or wounded
(Lima Company)
Ellen Knickmeyer,
Washington Post
May 12, 2005


HABAN, IRAQ -- The explosion enveloped the armored vehicle in flames, sending orange balls of fire bubbling above the trees along the Euphrates River near the Syrian border.

Marines in surrounding vehicles threw open their hatches and took off running across the plowed fields, toward the blackening metal of the destroyed vehicle. Shouting, they pulled to safety those they could, as the flames ignited the bullets, mortar rounds, flares and grenades inside, rocketing them into the sky and across pastures.

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