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Article: OPERATION AMINA
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- January 25, 2008
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The U.S. Marine Corps issued the following official news story:
By Lance Cpl. Shawn Coolman, 1st Marine Division
Three-year-old Amina Al'a Thabit has one chance at life.
On a routine meet-and-greet patrol through the city streets of Haditha, Marines with Company L, 3rd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 5 noticed something wasn't quite right with little Amina.
"The first day we saw he,r we thought she was the cutest girl," said Sgt. Bryan C. Velasquez, 23, a Company L squad leader from Houston. "We just fell in love with her."
Amina has a congenital heart condition, known as Complex Cyanotic Heart Disease that can't be treated with the current facilities in Iraq.
"She ...