Coward Afghan men hide behind children to take on female Marines

For female Marines, tea comes with bullets in Afghanistan

By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: October 2, 2010

They expected tea, not firefights. But the female Marines and their patrol were shot at one day, a burst of Kalashnikov rifle fire from a nearby compound. The group hit the ground, crawled into a ditch and aimed its guns across the fields of cotton and corn. In their sights they saw the source of the blast: an Afghan man who had shot aimlessly from behind a mud wall, shielded by a half-dozen children.

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