Sentry of the Century
"Hundreds of American soldiers [in Iraq] owe their lives to the prompt action of a 23-year-old sentry," London's Daily Telegraph reports:
In the faint pre-dawn light Specialist James Ross saw a car, its headlights on, accelerate towards his guard tower at the entrance of the Talaafar military base, near Mosul.
The vehicle had already cleared the first line of defence, barrelling over a coil of barbed wire 80 yards away and was heading straight down a corridor of crash barriers.
"I knew it wasn't one of our guys--it was either me or him," said Spc Ross, who began firing his machine-gun in a last-ditch attempt to stop the car entering the compound, where 300 soldiers were just waking.
Spc Ross, from Kentucky, fired almost 100 rounds before the car, pitted with bullet-holes, came to a stop. A second later, the vehicle blew up.
CBSNews.com reports this under the headline "Iraqi Suicide Attacks Fall Short"--but a Google News search shows that most other news outlets are reporting this as if it were a victory for the enemy.
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