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Injured Army reservist recalls suicide bomber's eyes

Jan-16-2005 » Filed Under: TF Olympia

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By Maria C. Johnson, Staff Writer News & Record

What Connie Spinks remembers about the suicide bomber is his eyes.

She was riding in a convoy of three armored Humvees heading home to Camp Freedom in northern Iraq when she saw a small pickup drive from between two homes, coming straight for them.

The truck, maroon with a white design on the side, reminded her of a Toyota pickup that her father once owned back home in Asheboro. The driver was the only occupant. He had thick, curly hair, caramel-colored skin, a broad nose, chunky cheeks and a mustache.

Army Spc. Spinks, in the gun turret of the middle Humvee, yelled in Arabic for the driver to stop. For a moment, their eyes met.

She expected to see defiance. Maybe hate.

She saw nothing. He looked as if he were doing an everyday job.

She took her trigger finger off her tripod-mounted machine gun and motioned, palm down in the Iraqi way, for him to stop.

He accelerated. It was too late.

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