[JMJJR]

"It bruns me up that I can no longer find the article from several years back about activities prior to the actual invasion. I distinctly recall five heavy haul rigs being attacked by our forces from the air. During that attack on these rigs headed for Syria, we killed a couple rooskies who were escorting the cargo. It looked like it could have been a diplomatic blowout, but very quickly and quietly, the story disappeared. I agree with your conclusion; Russia was up to its eyeballs with weapon deliveries to Saddam, and before the war, removal from Saddam.

I remember (thought I was the only one), they were running in the middle of the night, blacked out, we apologized for the transgression.

What WMDs ???

[Michael Barnes]

Thanks for the sanity check. ;)

[UCANSEE2]

IIRC, no one was killed. One of our units spotted the convoy, and started firing after the convoy refused to stop. They stopped, and one of the convoy personnel had ‘diplomatic’ papers. Quickly, Russian diplomats were on the phone to US diplomats, demanding that the US back off. Due to UN convention, we had to back off.

Our men were not allowed to search the vehicles, so all our troops could do was monitor them.

How many convoys were then allowed to proceed without interference, after that incident, was not made public.