[section9]

Now that the interservice bitching is over with, does anyone have any idea which maneuver battalions are being used in the Haditha area? After this, command is going to start leaning heavily on the Brigade CO to clean up the Rat's nest quick time.

Losing this many guys in this short a time is pretty bad stuff. What really ticks me off, as much if not more that the IED, is the fact that someone allowed an Iraqi to set up some of our Scout Snipers for ambush. Marine Scout Snipers are not easy to replace. Now we haven't been brought up to speed as to exactly what's going on out there; but Haji wants us to run away from Haditha for a reason, probably because our presence interferes with his line of supply into central Iraq.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Eagle Eye]

No, don't know who is there now.

Haditha has always been a contested area with very little secure area.

Lots of IEDs and booby traps.

Tough area to be sure, tougher still because there are not any alternate routes in that area.

[mikegi]

What really ticks me off, as much if not more that the IED, is the fact that someone allowed an Iraqi to set up some of our Scout Snipers for ambush. Marine Scout Snipers are not easy to replace.

There's a video supposedly showing some of what happened out on ogrish. Standard jerky video, just mute the idiotic chanting. I was going to include a summary of the video but figured some on FR would ream me for doing it. You should watch the videos and see if you can figure out what happened. Couple of questions I had after seeing it: who was driving the white extended cab pickup at the beginning, why only one set of dog tags (I assume these came from the Marine found a mile away), and why only two sniper rifles in the cache on display? I was under the impression that six Marines equals three two-man sniper teams.

[68 grunt]

Story I'm getting is that the snipers, and the 14 the next day were set up by iraqi traitors.