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Andrea Lorenzo-Iuaces
From: Michael S. Blake, Sr. CFP [mblake@strategix.org]
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Lt. Col. Charles H. Buehring lived in Tuscawilla...
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BREAKING NEWS: EXCLUSIVE
Iraq hotel attack victim from Winter Springs
By Gary Taylor
Sentinel Staff Writer
October 27,2003,2:52 PM EST
Lt. Col. Charles H. Buehring of Winter Springs was killed Sunday in Baghdad when insurgents
used a homemade launcher to fire eight to 10 rockets at the heavily fortified AI Rashid Hotel,
an Army official confirmed Monday.
Buehring, 40, who was in his room at the time of the attack, became one of the highest ranking
casualties of the war in Iraq. Fifteen people were injured in the attack. U,S, Deputy Defense
Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, who also was staying at the hotel, escaped unharmed.
Buehring had served in the Army for 20 years and spent most of his career assigned to Fort
Bragg, N.C. He recently was sent to Army headquarters for the Central Command in Baghdad,
said Lt. Col. Stanley Heath of the Army's Public Affairs office.
Family members could not be reached for immediate comment.
In Baghdad, workers and guests frantically fled the hotel Sunday morning in pajamas, shorts
and T-shirts. They told of a chaotic scene of water pipes bursting as rockets hit at about 6 a,m.
on three floors. Balconies were sheared off two rooms and windows were blown out in the
hotel.
U.S. Special Forces troops rushed into the hotel as residents screamed for medics.
American soldiers carried bloodied victims out in stretchers, while other victims walked out
dazed, using towels and T-shirts to bandage wounds caused by flying debris.
Most of the hotel guests were asleep at the time of the attack and many rushed barefoot
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across broken glass. The hotel's main staircase was strewn with glass that shattered during
the attack, soldiers reported.
"As you were walking up the stairway, all you'd see is bloody footprints," said Spc. John Larkin
of Jacksonville, a National Guardsman who assisted with first aid.
Four or five medics struggled to keep a soldier alive who lost a limb from the blast, Larkin said.
Buehring died in his room. Seven U.S, civilians were injured along with four American military
personnel and four foreigners, the U.S-Ied coalition said.
Wire services were used in this report.
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