David Eubank runs through gunfire in Mosul to save a child

submitted by marsalis123 on 06/19/17 1

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4614460/David-Eubank-runs-gunfire-Mosul-save-child.html Hair-raising moment a former US Special Forces soldier-turned aid worker runs through gunfire in Mosul to save a child from ISIS. The moment a former US Special Forces operator-turned aid worker rescues a young girl from the line of fire in Mosul has been caught on video. David Eubank, 56, pulled off the daring rescue recently in the embattled northern Iraq city, where allied forces have been on a grinding offensive to re-take the city from ISIS for the past eight months. Eubank, who founded the aid group Free Burma Rangers after retiring from the US Army, led the group along with his wife Karen and their three children ages 11 to 16, into Mosul after hearing horror stories of ISIS's treatment of civilians. 'I believe God sent me here, and I don't think about security… but I always ask myself if I'm doing it out of pride,' he told the Los Angeles Times. The recent rescue captured on video unfolded after Eubank and his team spotted a toddler and a young girl crawling among the bodies of other civilians, who had been viciously mowed down by ISIS fighters while trying to escape the front lines. Under a smoke screen from canisters, Eubank dashed out from behind the cover of a tank while two of his colleagues laid down suppressive fire with machine guns. 'I thought, "If I die doing this, my wife and kids would understand",' Eubank told the Times. Wearing a helmet and ballistic vest, Eubank charged into the kill zone and retrieved the young girl, who had her hair tied with pink ribbons. Eubank returned to find the toddler, but was unsuccessful. Another injured man the team tried to save did not survive. Not long after the rescue, Eubank and his family returned to the US, but he has said he is already thinking of another mission to Iraq.

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