Staff Sergeant Raymond Plouhar, 30, killed by a roadside bomb in Anbar province, Iraq. Photograph: US Marine Corps/AP

Staff Sergeant Raymond Plouhar RIP....

The US Marine recruiter pictured in Fahrenheit 9/11 trying to persuade young men from the economically bleak town of Flint, Michigan, to enlist has been killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, the Pentagon said.

Staff Sergeant Raymond Plouhar, 30, died on Monday of wounds suffered while on duty in Anbar province. He had barely a month left of his tour of duty in Iraq, where he was in charge of detecting and detonating makeshift bombs.

What he was shown doing in F-9/11 was low-down. But his death is still a waste of a young life. And it's probably the last thing he ever thought would happen when he agreed to be in Moore's film.

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