everythingsxen
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Thu Nov-04-04 08:15 PM
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Militants used grenade attacks to lure Black Watch into deadly trap |
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Edited on Thu Nov-04-04 08:19 PM by everythingsxen
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=579657*SNIP* A senior Black Watch officer described the new area of responsibility as being the Iraqi equivalent of "Berkshire or Surrey with guns" - a region inhabited by former loyalists of Saddam Hussein who became wealthy and powerful under Saddam's regime. "This is an area of bright, well-educated people," he said before news of yesterday's deaths. "They can lay on deliberate, well thought-out attacks.Yipee....
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Cerridwen
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Thu Nov-04-04 08:21 PM
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1. I find the final citation extremely interesting |
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This pooled dispatch from Richard Lloyd Parry of The Times was compiled under Ministry of Defence restrictions
Emphasis mine.
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Thu Nov-04-04 08:24 PM
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even under M o D restrictions, listen to how fucked that situation is.
These are not two-bit desert rats or "crazed terra-ists"; these people are fucking serious.
Intellegent, well-trained, highly strategic people - in the city they have lived in for years.
How much ass could you kick of an invading army in your neighborhood?
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Thu Nov-04-04 08:27 PM
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5. we are bringing them our form of democracy |
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freedom of the press, as long as it fits the agenda
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Thu Nov-04-04 08:21 PM
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2. a bit more from the article |
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The attack was carried out with deadly thoroughness, and took planning that illustrated the depth of the militants' information. The soldiers from the Black Watch had ventured on to the east bank of the Euphrates, outside their original area of operation. But somehow the insurgents knew they were coming, and were waiting.
In the early hours of the morning two Warrior armoured cars were attacked with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns. But this appeared to have been purely intended to draw in other potential victims; the militants did not press home their attack.
The troops in the Warrior called for help and more soldiers arrived, setting up a vehicle checkpoint, on the northern road to Baghdad, and seemingly under the belief that the worst of it was over. The soldiers were now on foot, unprotected by armoured vehicles.
Then the final move was executed. A car packed with explosives drove up to the checkpoint. As one of the soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter leant inside the window, the car exploded. Three soldiers and the interpreter were killed. It had hardly been a secret in Baghdad and Fallujah that the insurgents had been carrying out detailed surveillance of the area where the British battle group was to deploy. This is after all a place where militants do traffic duty on roads guiding locals away from the places where they had planted bombs.
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Thu Nov-04-04 08:25 PM
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4. And the US is going to "finish the job" |
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