Saturday, November 19, 2005
Cut off in Najaf
Good footage from a Blackwater security team here.
Interesting background from an anonymous and third-hand source (I cannot vouch for its provenance but maybe a reader can somewhere):
I'm not too sure I'd want to be filmed while I was killing, but that's just a personal thing. To each his own.
This video capturing the exhilaration of ground troops as the Muj they were fighting get waxed in an air strike is heartwarming fun for the whole family, too.
Splash, out
Jason
Interesting background from an anonymous and third-hand source (I cannot vouch for its provenance but maybe a reader can somewhere):
''The 5-man Blackwater crew that was assinged to CPA Najaf were coming under heavy small arms and mortar fire, the city was being taken over by insurgents. The police stations and hospitals were taken over as well, after a day of fighting off hundreds of insurgents the city had been completely overrun, with the CPA in the heart of the city and no way out.
The Team called up to Baghdad and reported the situation, they said they needed immediate extract which Gen Sanchez also denied due to the fact the city had been overrun and there were no US troops there, only contractors.
Well, Ambassador Bremer was pissed at Sanchez and I remember being on office watch during the massive arguments! Ambassador Bremer and our Baghdad TM Leader got together and Bremer said ''I don't want another Bridge hanging! Get those boys out of there by any means nessassary!'' so 12 of us -- 6 pilots and 6 gunners loaded as much as we could in 3 MD530 little birds and headed 70 miles south. we flew in the first day and blind (no comms, and no intel on the heat) to try a resupply, land find out was was going on and then head back, rearm and get ready to go again. Well that night all hell broke lose and we flew back in. Over 1000 insurgents (reported by the F18 pilots) had taken the city and now wanted the CPA after a day of intense fighting by 11 BW guys, airstrikes, a handfull of Marines and 1 sniper we were able to hold them off. After it DIED down and gunships and SF guys finally started to roll in the battle was soon over and we the CPA was saved.
That's pretty much it in a nut shell...''
I'm not too sure I'd want to be filmed while I was killing, but that's just a personal thing. To each his own.
This video capturing the exhilaration of ground troops as the Muj they were fighting get waxed in an air strike is heartwarming fun for the whole family, too.
Splash, out
Jason
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