Courage under fire (Death of 2 Soldiers. Last Throes My Ass)

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/340630p-290838c.html

As its armored Humvees rumbled west along Route Mets in northern Baghdad, the ill-fated convoy sensed something was wrong.

"I remember we all mentioned there were no Iraqi police out. We were like, 'Oh man, that's never a good sign,'" said Daniel Barr, 33, a sergeant with New York's Fighting 69th.

"It was still an hour and a half before curfew. It seemed like the neighborhood knew something."

The soldiers were in the same meat market a week earlier, buying watermelon from a local vendor. But now it was 10:45 p.m., and the darkness was compounded by the start of a nasty sandstorm that would later shut down Baghdad.

Nobody saw the powerful platter charge hidden in a bag and tucked beside a vending stall.


Win Har's body armor saved him the night fellow soldiers Hernando Rios and Anthony Kalladeen were killed.