A teenage Iraqi interpreter, code name "Roy," served with areconnaisance platoon in Iraq in 2007. (Blake Hall)
As U.S. Troops Leave Iraq, An Officer Honors The Memory Of A Young Interpreter -- Washington Post
I met Roy in early 2007. I was the leader of a reconnaissance platoon of scouts and snipers in Iraq and was just back from a two-week leave in the United States. Roy was our new interpreter.
That night, my platoon was sent out on a raid. Our target was an al-Qaeda suicide-attack coordinator. Scanning the intelligence report, I learned that previous attempts to capture him had ended with his bodyguards detonating suicide vests and killing 16 Iraqi police officers. An image of my lead scout team entering a house in southern Baghdad and vanishing in a ball of fire flashed through my mind.
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