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| Strange Terrorist Attack In Bagdad |
| 2005-09-05 |
| At least two Iraqi police officers have been killed and several wounded in a surprise attack by insurgents on the interior ministry building in Baghdad. About 30 gunmen in 10 cars carried out the dawn raid using automatic weapons and rocket propelled grenades. Although Baghdad is a frequent scene of violence, attacks on heavily-guarded government buildings are very rare. The attack lasted about 10 minutes, police said, and about five police officers were reported wounded. The attackers withdrew after the short clash. It was not clear if there were any casualties on their side. The bloodshed came as campaigning got under way for a referendum on a contentious new constitution for Iraq... Done for publicity only? 30 men in 10 cars attack a hardened target for five minutes. That makes little sense. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #9 LOL! Ship Ploughs through the teacher. |
| Posted by: Red Dog 2005-09-05 18:43 |
| #8 Live and learn. Nothing better than a fine lecture. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-09-05 18:20 |
| #7 FO: I say this was a PR assignment,Z-Man letting everyone in the west know he's still got capabilities. You must remember,for the enemy to fight back means America cannot win to lots of Americans and all Europeans. Actually, I would say that this is routine. Their goal isn't to overrun anything - it's to do the most damage they can within a set period of time, before our guys show up, and then get out of dodge. Why so many attackers? Because that's how you minimize friendly casualties - you go in with overwhelming force. This is why we send a few dozen men after one terrorist suspect. It's simple math - if you're an attacker, 60 rifles firing against 12 rifles is better than 12 rifles firing against 12 rifles. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-09-05 18:07 |
| #6 I say this was a PR assignment,Z-Man letting everyone in the west know he's still got capabilities. You must remember,for the enemy to fight back means America cannot win to lots of Americans and all Europeans. |
| Posted by: Flinese Omeang5236 2005-09-05 17:00 |
| #5 Predators don't circle forever. Global Hawks, however, can surveill a location for over 24 hours. And satellites for much longer. It's a question of a) whether that area was under surveillance at the time and b) matching evidence from the ground to the images. It can be needles in a haystack to find, but for very high value targets is done. |
| Posted by: lotp 2005-09-05 13:08 |
| #4 Wonder if the circling Predators are simply tracking them back to their safe houses? We don't have tens of thousands of Predators circling around in the air. Baghdad's a big city with lots of cars. Guerrillas don't put big red X's on their vehicles so surveillance drones can immediately identify them. The reason guerrillas time their attacks is the same reason that bank robbers time their bank jobs - they need to skedaddle before the cavalry rides into town. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-09-05 12:52 |
| #3 Wonder if the circling Predators are simply tracking them back to their safe houses? |
| Posted by: Omitle Sluse2961 2005-09-05 11:08 |
| #2 Beta test of a poor product concept. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-09-05 10:57 |
| #1 Not strange at all. They have a short window of time before quick reaction teams show up. Bank robbers don't hang around waiting for SWAT teams to show up. Smart terrorists don't either. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-09-05 10:47 |