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Black Watch join speedboat raid to strike at insurgents
The Black Watch, US marines and Iraqi commandos launched a speedboat assault near the infamous "Triangle of Death" yesterday. In the biggest operation of its kind in Iraq, 130 men raced up the Euphrates to raid an area across from the Black Watch's base at Camp Dogwood that was believed to be a stronghold for insurgents. Soldiers from Black Watch's B Company took up defensive positions behind trees as they guarded the launch area. The boats then hurtled north, and Warrior fighting vehicles manned by the Black Watch and the Scimitar light tanks of the Queen's Dragoon Guards patrolled the west bank of the river to protect against mortar attacks and snipers. Within minutes of going ashore in the search area, the US and Iraqi forces found several caches of small arms and documents buried by a senior Saddam Hussein loyalist. They also discovered what appeared to be a partly decomposed human head inside a yellow plastic bag.
Posted by: Seafarious 2004-11-29 |
