The Embeds Are Back, as Deadly Assault on Fallujah Looms

E&P ^ | November 05, 2004 | Joe Strupp and Erin Olson

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well, I don't think the fact that we are going to attack is any big secret :-)

But WHEN, that's another story. We don't want to be spreading reports. The fog of war must do its job.

[CAluvdubya]

Lest we not forget the NBC embed (I've already forgotten his name) the blew the whistle on the NYT/CBS ammo story. Shut them up quick.

[FlyVet]

This makes me think back to the fighting a few days before the first Fallujah pullback. Some reporter had asked a Marine officer if this was the Marines going after them full force.

"Ohhhhh, no. We're just playing patty-cake with them right now."

[aShepard]

.....Bennett said Spinner had been assigned to Baghdad, but moved her location to prepare for the attack.

The Boston Globe also added an embed, placing reporter Anne, Barnard......

Great! So now in addition to looking after their own six, in house to house combat, our MEN have to worry whether a female inbed has fouled the wire on her microphone.

Please, just let our guys clean out the nest of cockroaches

[Florida native]

Yeah, put them right up front.

We can always use more body armor.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The Internet and modern search engines make it easy for troublemakers to discover schemes for making trouble. I doubt they need FR to tell them how. Though they may listen FR in order to try to discern troop movements.

[HiTech RedNeck]

[Though they may listen FR in order to try to discern troop movements.]

Or as you suggest, war stories suggesting just how the Marines are likely to attack.

I know. We'll suffocate the town with feather pillows. That's the ticket.

[El Gato]

That is why you lead with heavy armor.

Only if supported by infantry. They can be mech infantry, but the tanks need the support. It's not called a "Combined Arms" team for nothing.

What you really lead with is artillery and tac air. Maybe the odd AC-130 or even and HC-130 with a MOAB or Daisy Cutter, if the terrain and enemy dispositions make that useful.

[SuziQ]

They've left with the other crowds.

I doubt that seriously. The Marines have been checking the folks who are leaving, and that started longer ago than just this week. They've been in the Fallujah area for quite a while, probably gathering intelligence from local folks who are disgusted at the foreigners in their town.

[SuziQ]

I heard on the media that some terrorist had left -- Some way to win a war -

Why is it you expect the worst from our soldiers? I believe they will do us proud, as they have done since they set boots on the ground in Iraq. I'm frankly sick of people tearing them down on the basis of MEDIA reports. HELLO? Since when has the MSM been interested in reporting anything GOOD about the military.

I don't, and I'm certain YOU don't know what's going on militarily or politically in Iraq, so why not let the folks who DO know what they're doing, DO IT without cynicism from the peanut gallery!

[Arizona Carolyn]

I think they should send in the C-130 gunships first to strafe the roads and blowup any buried land mines.