Spanish Civil Guard seroulsy wounded in Iraq

[MARINO]

Spanish paramilitary policeman seriously wounded in Iraq
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MADRID (AFP) - A major in the paramilitary Spanish civil guard was shot in the forehead and very seriously wounded in an "anti-terrorist operation" in southern Iraq (news - web sites).

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Major Gonzalo Perez Garcia, chief of security for the Spanish-Latin American Plus Ultra brigade, and an Iraqi police officer were shot during a raid on a house at Hamsa, near Diwaniyah, about 200 kilometres (125 miles) southeast of Baghdad.


The defence ministry said in a statement that Garcia and two Iraqi policemen gave chase to gunmen who drove up to "the home of the leader of a terrorist group" while they were searching it, and were hit as the gunmen fled.


Garcia was flown by helicopter to Dogwood American hospital in Baghdad, where he was treated by neuro-surgeons, the statement said Thursday.


Spain, one of the strongest diplomatic supporters of the US-British invasion of Iraq, has since deployed 1,250 troops in central and southern regions as part of a Polish-led international contingent.


Ten Spanish soldiers have died since August 20 last year, nine in attacks and one in an accident. Eight of the dead were military intelligence officers

[Trident-za]

I hope the guy survives! A wound to to the forehead sounds bad.

[MARINO]

:( mi father colonel of spanish army who si actully in Irak (in Bagdhad in the provisional iraki governement) had visited him today he told me that its impossible to do something for him he had his head totally destroyed we can say that he is clinicly dead
RIP
Lo demandó el honor y obedecieron,
lo requirió el deber y lo acataron;
con su sangre la empresa rubricaron
con su esfuerzo la Patria redimieron.

Fueron grandes y fuertes, porque fueron
fieles al juramento que empeñaron.
Por eso como valientes lucharon,
por eso como mártires murieron.

Inmolarse por Dios fue su destino,
salvar a España su pasión eterna,
servir en el Ejército su vocación y sino.

No quisieron querer a otra Bandera,
no pudieron andar otro camino,
no supieron morir de otra manera.

For all coalition force but specially for Spanish heroes all along history, ans specially in Iraq.

[Trident-za]

Sad news.

[Loco]

http://www.cadenaser.com/csermedia/cadenaser/media/200401/22/espana/20040122csrcsrnac_1_I_LCO.jpg
Comandante de la Guardia Civil Gonzalo Pérez García, hope he survives.

[Lobo]

I think some remarks are needed about the Spaniards killed in Irak. Despite 10 Spaniards members of our armed forces have died in Irak, this is the first time somebody is wound or killed in action in the Spanish designated area of responsability.

Among those who died...

8 of them were members of the Spanish armed forces serving under the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (Spanish CIA). 1 was killed in his house in Baghad and the other 7 in a "random" ambush south of Baghdad. Both cases far away from the Area of Responsability of Plus Ultra Brigade.

A Spanish Navy officer working as Civil-Military co-operation link officer was killed in the terrorist attack to UN compound in Baghdad.

One Army NCO was killed in an "accidental weapon discharge".

[scoone]

To a Hero
We may not know how fared your soul before
Occasion came to try it by this test.
Perchance, it used on lofty wings to soar;
Again, it may have dwelt in lowly nest.

We do not know if bygone knightly strain
Impelled you then, or blood of humble clod
Defied the dread adventure to attain
The cross of honor or the peace of God.

We see but this, that when the moment came
You raised on high, then drained, the solemn cup --
The grail of death; that, touched by valor's flame,
The kindled spirit burned the body up.

La guardia muere pero no se rinde.