Captured Video Shows Iraqi Insurgents Firing Sophisticated Iranian-Made Rockets at U.S. Positions

[Red Lion]

AP

Insurgents fire rockets at Forward Operating Base Hammer in Iraq.
Insurgents fire rockets at Forward Operating Base Hammer in Iraq.
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Dramatic video produced by Iraqi insurgents and captured in a raid earlier this week by U.S. troops clearly shows a battery of sophisticated Iranian-made rocket launchers firing on American positions east of Baghdad, Pentagon officials said Wednesday.
The video, captured during a raid on Monday by the 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment in northeast Nahrawan, shows insurgents setting up and carrying out an attack on Sunday, as well as an attack on July 11 that killed one soldier and wounded 15 others, officials said. The raid last month appeared to involve 34 launchers firing 107 mm Iranian-made rockets.
The video provides clear visual evidence of the extent to which Iraqi insurgents are equipped to launch deadly rockets on coalition forces, the Pentagon said.
The release of the video comes as officials charge Iran with supplying high-tech bombs used in 99 roadside bomb attacks in Iraq last month.
The powerful weapons, known as explosively formed penetrators or EFPs, accounted for a third of combat deaths suffered by coalition forces, the New York Times reported Wednesday.




http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292513,00.html

[bawanajim]

I'm not believing this B.S. until I know where Oliver Stone has been for the last couple of months.

[Charlie P]

Insurgents wearing baseball caps and Polo shirts?

[Red Lion]

ORIGINAL: Charlie P

Insurgents wearing baseball caps and Polo shirts?

You find that unusual or to mean something? How about Iraqis liking rock and roll, Michael Jackson, eating pork, having porn and having booze? Its true.

[Red Lion]

So this meanslittle to nothingto others? Kinda tweaks me to know that Iran is in part responsible forkilling our soldiers! [:@] Time to let Delta, the green berets, seals, rangers and some of those nice black aircraft of ours go into Iran and start a little refresher course!

[falcon]

"Time to let Delta, the green berets, seals, rangers and some of those nice black aircraft of ours go into Iran and start a little refresher course!"

Unfortunately, that will never happen.The white house and the state department do not want specialoperations forces to be employedas counter-insurgency fighters as they should be. When you have folks out there in small teams willy-nilly killingbad guys you lose the ability to micro-manage them.

The US military does nottrust special operation forces either. General Abramskicked Special Forces out of VietNam:Seems like they killed too many NVA and Viet Cong spies. Too bad that little has changed since then. This is what they thought of Abrams:

http://www.don-valentine.com/1st%20Group%20and%20MACVSOG.htm

"[General Abram's was a Class A, Certified S.O.B. The SF enlisted men never forgot what he did and they never forgave that sorry bastard. Not long afterwards, when he was lying in the hospital hacking and coughing and spiting out pieces of his lung while dying of lung cancer and barely able to breathe, he received a gift in the mail...a box of the most expensive hand rolled cigars money could buy with a card that read, "with the heartfelt wishes of the officers and men of the 5th Special Forces Group." Wish I could have been a fly on the wall of his room when they delivered it. It still brings tears to my eyes just thinking about it.You just gotta love guys like that.]"