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11-06-06, 07:48 PM
November 06, 2006
Marines in Fallujah confiscate toy guns
By John Hoellwarth
Staff writer
The insurgency in Iraq is arming children in Fallujah with fake plastic firearms, according to a release posted to Regimental Combat Team 5’s Web site on Sunday.
“Intelligence has informed us that al Qaeda is handing out realistic toy weapons to the children of Fallujah in hopes that a U.S. service member might mistakenly shoot an Iraqi child,” Sgt. Tylor A. Belshe of the battalion’s civil affairs detachment said in the release.
Civil affairs leathernecks assigned to 1st Battalion, 24th Marines, were visiting an all-girls school in the city “when a young boy ran down the street with what appeared to be a real handgun,” the release said.
Marines stopped the boy, discovered his weapon was a toy, then traded him a soccer ball for it, according to the release.
The release included a photograph of nearly two dozen plastic weapons purportedly confiscated from children in Fallujah.
Ellie
Marines in Fallujah confiscate toy guns
By John Hoellwarth
Staff writer
The insurgency in Iraq is arming children in Fallujah with fake plastic firearms, according to a release posted to Regimental Combat Team 5’s Web site on Sunday.
“Intelligence has informed us that al Qaeda is handing out realistic toy weapons to the children of Fallujah in hopes that a U.S. service member might mistakenly shoot an Iraqi child,” Sgt. Tylor A. Belshe of the battalion’s civil affairs detachment said in the release.
Civil affairs leathernecks assigned to 1st Battalion, 24th Marines, were visiting an all-girls school in the city “when a young boy ran down the street with what appeared to be a real handgun,” the release said.
Marines stopped the boy, discovered his weapon was a toy, then traded him a soccer ball for it, according to the release.
The release included a photograph of nearly two dozen plastic weapons purportedly confiscated from children in Fallujah.
Ellie