Cowperson
08-11-2004, 10:53 AM
Regardless of your politics, this is an interesting Washington Post account of the fight in Najaf for one of the world's largest cemetaries and the tactics employed by the militia of Mucky Al Sadr.
Bats flapped out of crypts, startling soldiers creeping through the cemetery with guns up. Graves opened beneath their combat boots. And an old enemy displayed a new professionalism, darting in clearly practiced moves between tombstone and mausoleum to stalk the Americans from above ground and below.
"Most of the time," Guzman said, "it was like jungle warfare, only without the jungle."
Also, the USA is making the connection that the departure for Britain of head cleric al-Sistani, who hadn't left his house in Najaf for six years,l is a de facto green light to wipe out al-Sadr.
Cemetary (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5665188/)
And some officers question tactics being employed in Iraq:
Doing the right thing the right way? (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5662745/)
Cowperson
Bats flapped out of crypts, startling soldiers creeping through the cemetery with guns up. Graves opened beneath their combat boots. And an old enemy displayed a new professionalism, darting in clearly practiced moves between tombstone and mausoleum to stalk the Americans from above ground and below.
"Most of the time," Guzman said, "it was like jungle warfare, only without the jungle."
Also, the USA is making the connection that the departure for Britain of head cleric al-Sistani, who hadn't left his house in Najaf for six years,l is a de facto green light to wipe out al-Sadr.
Cemetary (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5665188/)
And some officers question tactics being employed in Iraq:
Doing the right thing the right way? (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5662745/)
Cowperson