[GrandEagle]

Seventy or so Baathists
killing at least 12 and wounding at least 20
Yep sure sounds fishy. If true you are surely correct; something went wrong. Possibly their first strike was lucky.

[BushMeister]

Well, they have gone back and forth between "70 attackers" and "waves of attackers", so we don't know the truth yet. And 70 men armed with AKs/RPGs is still a major problem.