Soldier recounts attack following Iraq meeting
By Steve Mraz, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Saturday, July 12, 2008
LANDSTUHL, Germany — Pfc. Derraivius Strawder remembers having a lot of anger, a lot of rage.
Those were his emotions around noon on June 23 when a former Iraqi council member leveled an AK-47 and unexpectedly opened fire on U.S. soldiers as they left a meeting in Salman Pak, Iraq.
"I heard the first shots," Strawder said Thursday while recovering at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. "I was about to turn, and then my legs went out from under me."
The Iraqi shot Strawder in the left calf and right thigh following a council meeting with local leaders.
The gunman sprayed AK-47 rounds at Strawder and fellow Baumholder soldiers with the 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment as the soldiers made their way toward their vehicles.
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