The video accompanying the story is worth taking the time to watch. A BBC reporter embedded with Kurdish forces in a Jalula is caught in a skirmish. They all take refuge in an abandoned building. At some point the BBC reporter is heard beseeching someone via phone to contact a senior commander and ask him to send reinforcements.
They should call it the "Benghazi manoevre".
i recall some years back when Peter Jennings (he was the ABC newsreader for anyone that may have forgotten him) was on some reporter forum and talked about how as an embedded reporter in a war zone, he wasn’t sure that if he had some advance knowledge about an impending attack on them, if he would tell the soldiers he was with, (yeah the same ones safeguarding his reporting from the frontline)
i remember being disgusted by him,