November 12, 2006

Lying Terrorist Watch: "Dead" Marine Recovering in U.S.

The Army of Ansar al Sunnah, a terrorist organization in Iraq, has posted the photo ID of a Marine it claims to have killed. Because the Marine is not on any KIA list, the terrorists are using the ID (pictured below) as evidence that the US military routinely lies to the American public about the real numbers of casualties in Iraq.

Groups like The Islamic State in Iraq (formerly the Mujahidin Shura Council of Iraq), Ansar al Sunna, and other Salaafist terror organizations routinely publish claims that dozens of American troops have been killed for every one on the official list. Sadly, many Arabs, Muslims, and Leftists believe these claims.

The only problem? David Leddy is alive and well. Oorah! Semper Fi.

Bonus video on the way in which the terrorist media influences the American Left. Or is that vice versa?

Marine Corps News:

The 19-year-old Marine from Schaumburg was on foot patrol Sept. 29 when he passed by some graffiti on a wall.

The sergeant who was with Leddy asked him to take a photograph of it.

As the Schaumburg High School graduate did, a homemade bomb buried in the ground 10 feet away suddenly exploded. The young man’s rifle was broken in half, two fingers barely dangling from his left hand. A shark-bite-like gouge was left in his upper left calf.

Suddenly a firefight broke out between the Marines and those responsible for the remote-controlled explosive, delaying Leddy’s immediate removal from the scene.

From a hospital room in Betheseda, Md., his mother, Debbie Leddy, recounts the rest of what her wounded son told her of the incident.

“He thought, ‘If my rifle looks like this, I wonder what my body looks like,’æ” she said.

Though it might have been only a few minutes’ delay before his transport from the scene, the young Marine said it felt like hours. He doesn’t remember losing consciousness, but by the time he was aware of anything, he already had a tourniquet on his leg.

After being stabilized at an Air Force base nearby, Leddy was flown to Balad, Iraq, for further treatment.

Within a day and a half after being wounded, he found himself at an Army hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. And two days later he was in Betheseda, on his father George’s 50th birthday.

Here is Leddy's photo ID that he apparently dropped when he was wounded and is being used by The Army of Ansar al Sunna as evidence that the U.S. lies about casualty numbers.