Soldiers alone before attack

[ProSense]

Soldiers alone before attack

GIs killed were not visible to the rest of their unit

By The Associated Press

TIKRIT, Iraq (AP)— Two U.S. soldiers who vanished during an insurgent checkpoint attack and were later found slain had been left alone while other vehicles in their patrol inspected traffic, the military said Thursday.

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She said why the three-man team was left would be the focus of an investigation into the checkpoint attack. Army protocols are designed to prevent such attacks.

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Meanwhile, at least 25 people have been executed gangland-style in Iraq’s third-largest city this week, with residents gunned down in ones and twos and bodies found scattered throughout Mosul. Elsewhere, five U.S. troops were killed in operations south and west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Thursday, and police stormed a farm and freed 17 victims of a factory kidnapping.

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Police said they were not sure if the attacks were carried out by the Sunni Arab-led insurgency, common criminals or sectarian death squads. Increasing numbers of Iraqi deaths over the past months have been attributed to revenge killings carried out by Shiite-backed militia organizations or Sunni Arabs who have banded together in retribution.

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[Swede]

1. Well,it's only called the Triangle of Death.

Why worry about 3 soldiers left alone there?

[TomInTib]

2. I am just blown away by this whole thing.

I have experienced a lot of combat.

I cannot understand how this relatively green bunch of guys was simply left to themselves in a nominally defensible situation.

Where were the non-coms?

This just pisses me off.

Heads deserve to roll on this one.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

3. Me too Tom. This is just unfuckingbelievable,

were these guys shitbirds, off doing something bad?

[TomInTib]

5. No, they were simply abandoned.

They were backed up to a confluence of irrigation canals and the other two Hummers went cowboying off after a few decoys.

They never had a chance due to their lack of experience.

This was a huge fuckup.

Two pfc's and two spec's. They tried to shoot it out with the 'bad guys' rather than just gunning the Hummer through the attackers with their .50 blazing.

You simply must have an experienced guy on the scene to make those split-second, life-or-death decisions.

These poor souls just stopped to think (you cannot 'stop' and think in that situation or you are toast) and they made a fatal decision.

There should (and better) be Hell to pay.

[tocqueville]

4. maybe your last remark isn't appropriate on this one... nt

[TomInTib]

6. What do you mean?

These poor FNG's were abandoned.

[Igel]

8. Beheaded, as well.

Heads rolled.

[TomInTib]

9. Oh, man, I didn't mean it like that.

As I am sure you know.

Those poor souls were simply abandoned.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. You mean my last remark? It was a question

and considering what we know of DOD and the truth, possibly relevant.