Tuesday, June 22, 2004
Another Theory on the Four Dead in Ramadi
From a reader:
That would explain things.
It would also explain why the military doesn't want to be too public about the circumstances surrounding their deaths.
The entire US exit strategy revolves around these joint patrols and gradually handing off the security mission to the Iraqi security forces.
If word gets out that IP are murdering troops on joint patrols, then it gets pretty hairy getting other troops to go out there.
If those troops were, indeed murdered by IPs, though, (and I'm not willing to say that they were), that's going to spread like wildfire through the ranks. Because their platoon mates know where they were, and the battalion staff knows where they were, and the E-3's to E-6's working in the Battalion TOC know where they were, and they're not going to shut up.
Splash, out
Jason
I haven't seen an update yet on how the Marine patrol was killed in Ramadi the other day, but your questions on it seemed solid. My guess is they were part of a joint patrol with IP or other Iraqi unit, and that unit was 'bad' and turned on the Marines suddenly and murdered them.
That would explain things.
It would also explain why the military doesn't want to be too public about the circumstances surrounding their deaths.
The entire US exit strategy revolves around these joint patrols and gradually handing off the security mission to the Iraqi security forces.
If word gets out that IP are murdering troops on joint patrols, then it gets pretty hairy getting other troops to go out there.
If those troops were, indeed murdered by IPs, though, (and I'm not willing to say that they were), that's going to spread like wildfire through the ranks. Because their platoon mates know where they were, and the battalion staff knows where they were, and the E-3's to E-6's working in the Battalion TOC know where they were, and they're not going to shut up.
Splash, out
Jason
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