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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.

I am not an expert but that video can be of anything really.. or just plain staged. Then again maybe not.

14 marines killed in the ied attack is just one of those things that will happen sometimes. Enemy gets better, gets lucky scores it somewhat big.

What happened to the two 2 sniper teams is much worse. How were they ambushed? Who gave the intel? These guys would be very secretive about their movements and such, I doubt just some police lieutenant could betray them. Then again why would SNIPER team have an interpreter with them??? If video is authentic that means op planned in advance, a very high profile mission not just some towelheads getting incredibly lucky. Maybe they got careless? hard to believe but possible, used same position too many times?