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Paratrooper Sniper Becomes Hero

(Ha'aretz) Margot Dudkevitch - IDF paratrooper Corporal David Markovitch, who was drafted eight months ago, killed four Hizballah terrorists carrying an anti-tank missile in the village of Ghajar on Israel's northern border on Monday. Markovitch, a trained sniper, aimed at the rocket, which exploded and killed three of the terrorists. He then shot the fourth. (Jerusalem Post) "A comrade said, 'There's a terrorist,' and I fired. It's all a matter of seconds, the entire business lasted about a minute." "I'm not the hero of the day," Markovitch said. "There were four of us there. One spotted and I shot. It's a team, with a commander. We simply ended up at the center of things....This is what we train for."
2005-11-23 00:00:00
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