The_Combatant.pdf

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1. Anyhow, there was this hill,
6. Owned by one of the richest men in Syria
8. And extremely close to the jihadists’ position.
9. Our side put everything into protecting it:
10. Hezbollah
11. The Syrian army
12. Even the Iranians.
13. At one point there was a 24 hours ceasefire.
15. I was on guard duty that night with four guys.
17. We wanted to have a smoke
19. But at night on an army base...
21. Lighting a cigarette can get you killed.
26. A sniper could see the ember and shoot.
28. No sooner had we taken our first drag
29. Then we heard this sound. *tuuuuuuuum bam*
32. The explosion threw us meters apart.
36. A fierce attack began.
41. I wanted to get up but I couldn’t
45. I started shouting
47. “We need a medic; we’re wounded!”
56. They told us, “We can’t send anybody because we’re under a major assault...”
65. “… Stop your own bleeding.”
69. I couldn’t believe it; no medic.
71. Oh how sweet those movies were -
72. And the Adrenaline rush we all wanted
74. But now we were in a zombie movie,
76. With 600 of them closing in on us.
85. I yelled into the walkie talkie
87. “Hit them with missiles!”
89. “Hit them with bombs!”
95. “Hit them with God Almighty!!”
104. Four hours later, help finally came.