Posted on 09/11/2003 1:56:57 PM PDT by PatrioticCowboy
Masked Guerrillas Battle U.S. Soldiers in Iraq
Thu September 11, 2003 02:17 PM ET
KHALDIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Masked guerrillas attacked U.S. soldiers repairing a broken-down truck on Thursday, prompting a firefight that left buildings burning in a town in Saddam Hussein's former heartland, witnesses said.
The U.S. military could not immediately give details of the incident, which took place in the so-called "Sunni Triangle," and it was unclear if anyone was hurt.
The attackers fired two rocket-propelled grenades at soldiers working on the truck in the afternoon, after which two U.S. tanks arrived and fired at nearby buildings in Khaldiya, about 45 miles west of Baghdad in a Sunni Muslim area where anti-U.S. resistance has been strongest.
There was also heavy machine-gun fire on both sides, the witnesses said.
"This is a warning to any army which wants to come and take over our country," one local man shouted as flames blazed from the vehicles and a building behind him. "Any troops coming here, we will attack them like we attack Americans."
U.S. troops occupying Iraq are attacked 15 times a day on average and have lost nearly 70 soldiers in combat since major hostilities were declared over on May 1 after the toppling of Saddam Hussein.
Saddam's heartland was in the Sunni Muslim areas to the north and west of Baghdad.
After the incident in Khaldiya, a crowd of Iraqis gathered chanting: "We sacrifice our blood and soul for you Saddam."
Can anyone confirm?
Once again, look at the M.O..
They went after an exposed truck convoy. Not an armored vehicle to be had. They did not go after dismounted infantry. I don't want to think of what the Iraqis looked like after the infantry got done with them.
There is a reason the Marines suffered no KIA after May 1.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Well *I'd* sure feel obliged.
They noted that the Army strategy of putting Command HQs out in the boondocks, accessable only by rough roads was instrumental, in their opinion, to the casualties they were taking. Many of the KIAs and woundings the Army has suffered has been attacks on Convoys, slowed by rough road and reliably predictable to enemies given the remote location of the Command centers and the singular roadway access to them.
Agree with what? Would you like to share that with us or is this a on-on-one chat line? Almost everone includes a prvious response from the sender, and then responds to the sender so that we can "connect the dots" without have to wend our way through possible 200 messages. Make sense to you?
My thoughts exactly. If I were a major running this gig, I'd say to my guys, if you see a guy wearing a mask, he's fair game for a three bullet burst .223 lead injection.... Then move on. Sweep the streets until these nut-case Islamic (religion of peace) assholes dry up or shoot themselves in the head and get laid in hell. </end rant> But "I did good" as Stainman would say.
I am not really skilled with html.
It's not that tough. I don't know HTML either compared to most of FReepers.
About all I know is that you can do a copy, then when you hit reply just type carat symbol the letter "I" carat symbol then paste. That will italicize what you copied. Then you can reply to that sentence/paragraph/whatever you pasted, then... turn off the italisize by typing carat symbol the "/" symbol, the letter "I" and then the close carat symbol. I'm still ttrying to figure out how to get pictures of my 1964 AC Cobra pictures on Free Republic.
Hmmmmm??? Maybe we should ask for a few ROK combat brigades for Iraq...they could work on there hunting scumbag skills.
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