For G.I.’s in Iraq, a Harrowing Day Facing a Trap

nytime ^ | 6/26/07 | MICHAEL R. GORDON

[Flavius]

BAQUBA, Iraq, June 25 — The enemy was a phantom who never showed his face but transformed a neighborhood into a network of houses rigged to explode.

[livius]

Good, graphic reporting.

[EBH]

Absolutely amazing to read!

To think civilians were still living in such a place rigged...? Fear or cooperation on their part?

[reefdiver]

Hard to know how much of this story is the truth, after all it’s the NY Slimes

[Thrownatbirth]

As Lloyd Bridges said, “Not a good day to quit smoking.”

[R.W.Ratikal]

And our troops remain in Iraq to do what?

[SnarlinCubBear]

And our troops remain in Iraq to do what?
:::
To do the jobs Mexicans won’t do.

[Leto]

M Yon says Gordon is doing a good job reporting from the field.

[RedEyeJack]

Micheal Gordon came over about a year ago to cover the Marines in Al Anbar. His HMMWV was number 2 or 3 behind a vehucle that hit a big IED killing a couple of Marines. He did a good job of covering it but when he got back to Al Asad you could see that the war was more “personal” for him. Still a liberal though...

[rightwingextremist1776]

One more reason to pull the troops back 2 clicks and call in an B52 strike. They should flatten the place and concentrate on mopping up after the dust settles.

[nikos1121]

They should flatten the area is right.

[Flavius]

yes i can just see the insurgents waiting for b52 runs

the whole idea is to draw in fire get civilians attacked then call in cnn

works all day long

now our new strategy by the elites thousands of miles away is to have redeployment

pretty soon will be deploying to our own homes