An American soldier saved many lives from the attack on the Palestine Hotel from TBO:
Video from a surveillance camera at the Palestine Hotel showed the cement truck was fired on by a U.S. soldier from inside the compound. Around the same time, the vehicle also was seen rocking back and forth before it exploded, possibly because it was stuck on barbed wire or had collided with a small concrete barrier in the road.
The military’s statement said one of its soldiers had killed the driver before he could reach the front entrance of the Palestine Hotel, where the journalists are based.
Spc. Darrell Green, a machine gunner, was guarding the complex from an observation post at the Sheraton Hotel when insurgents began their attack, the military said.
As the dust and debris cleared from the first car bombing at the complex wall, Green saw the cement truck enter and drive in about 50 feet, the military said.
"As he shot and killed the driver, preventing the vehicle from going any further, the truck detonated," the statement said.
The truck and its driver were obliterated by the powerful blast, making it impossible to know whether the explosives had been set off by a timer or by the driver before he died….
I wonder how many MSM outlets will pick this up?
