The got into the compound. But how the heck did they get out? They shot their way out?
Prayers for these men and thier families.
I've been wondering the same thing. I wonder what this is all about?
None of this makes sense to me yet.
According to fragmentary news reports, gleaned from things I have seen in the press and what other posters have seen in their press, it appears that they abandoned the uniforms and the vehicles and simply disappeared into Karbala (a Shiite area) after killing the soldiers. Before they left the compound with the kidnapped soldiers, they blew up the US Humvees that were there so that they could not be pursued. I haven't read how many people were actually stationed at the post; I assume the fifth person killed (only 4 are mentioned as having been kidnapped) was killed at the post. Maybe there wasn't anyone left to follow the kidnappers, or maybe after the vehicles were destroyed, whoever was left alive there couldn't do so.
Another report mentioned that the convoy of raiders "raised suspicions" at an Iraqi police post they went through after the raid, but it doesn't indicate if the kidnapped soldiers were still in the vehicles, if the Iraqis actually did anything about these "suspicions," or any details. I realize we certainly can't expect to get a detailed description of stuff, some of which may rightfully be being kept secret at the moment, so we're probably all just speculating on woefully incomplete information. But it is a truly puzzling and disturbing event.
Almost forgot - another poster pointed out that this was how Hezbollah, the Iranian controlled faction, kidnapped those Israeli soldiers at the Lebanese border last summer. In that case, however, they held them as hostages.