This is amazing. The f'ing journalist will not even allow the word 'terrorist' in a direct quote of a Marine captain.
USMC BUMP
"Instead, Marines have found that small groups of unarmed men, claiming to have stayed behind to prevent looting of their house, could in fact be sleeper cells, waiting for orders to link up with pre-positioned weapons and attack.One example Wednesday was a group of four men, found in their house by the LAR Raider Platoon during a search. They said they had recently been caught by the mujahedeen, or holy warriors of the resistance, and been tortured.
Later that day and several blocks away, Raider Scouts searching other buildings found four more men. They also said they stayed behind to guard their houses and that they had been tortured.
But further questioning found that there were no signs of torture -- militants in Fallujah typically kill suspected traitors -- and that the men's claimed identities did not hold up to investigation. "It was well rehearsed," said Lt. Michael Aubry, from Arlington Heights, Ill. "The first time didn't look suspicious, but the second time ... it did." "
Why don't they use the captured "insurgents" to drive the convoys through dangerous routes?
Hey, check out the byline. I thought he was kind of busy elsewhere.