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Something hasn't smelled right about this one from the start. But when we got
news that local Iraqis admitted to being involved it became even more suspect. One thing
seems clear to me now. Our soldiers were targeted for a hit.
It is increasingly clear that the command in Baghdad is seeking to manage
perception of the
Mahmoudiyah attack by describing it as; “a patrol,” a “convoy,”
“A stationary convoy,” an “ambush,” a “kidnapping,”
etc.Any fool can see that this was a well planned complex attack on an outpost.
The two vehicles had been in position for five hours, they were to be “relieved”
by another “crew” on the outpost in an hour, the enemy attacked
at 0400 (the very best hour for such things) from several directions simultaneously,
over ran the outpost and withdrew before any help showed up. It could not
be more clear that this was an ATTACK not an AMBUSH. You have to be moving
to be ambushed.If you read the news carefully today, you saw, buried away somewhere a minimal
mention of an attack by a 50 man force against an American outpost in the
middle of Baqouba in Diyala Province. Was this also an “ambush?”
This was a significant action because it presages similar action on the main
front in Baghdad.
Larry Johnson said the same thing last week: This
was not an ambush.
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