Well, from all of the previous bombings...it was always jets that came from above...so when this turboprop noise was heard...they all sat there and laughed, right before they died.
As for their comment: "Bring those Americans here to fight hand to hand," one of Sadr's followers said before the latest outbreak of fighting....if your mindset is from the 3rd century, there isn't much to fight for. These dimwits haven't learned nothing in at least 1700 years. But the positive news...they are right there at the temple and have a Imam to pray over them as they die. Can't ask for anything better before you run off with 74 virgins (not).
"What kind of moron would be running around at night when the drone of circling turboprops tells them an AC-130 is in the neighborhood?"
The same sort of moron who sends his children to a school that teaches him nothing but the Koran and how the greatest thing he could possibly do with his life is to die in the name of Allah. This isn't a matter of these losers merely not running on all cylinders....they don't even have any wheels on the car.
We are seeing the death throes of what once, a thousand years ago, could have been called a civilization.