Post by Keith Heitmann on Feb 22, 2005 23:53:44 GMT -5
I just watched tonight's segment of Frontline on PBS which aired a 90 min segment called "A Company of Soldiers". The program documents a month of operations with Dog company of the 8th Cavalry in south Bagdhad during November 2004.
During their stay with the unit one of the men they had ridden along with that day was killed in a ambush later that night.
During one patrol they were ambushed by a IED which blew up under the Hummer in front of the one carrying the camera. Luckily no one was killed in the explosion.
They dragged in the local Suni Shiek and confronted him with the fact that these ambushes were coming from his area. The put the pressure on and got the Shiek to finally admit he knew the names and addresses of those that took part in the attack. Of course, he played dumb at first.
Finally having had enough, the commander of the company mounts an operation to designed to drive out the insurgents by means of superior firepower. The operation produced a cache of weapons found near a Suni mosque by the Iraqi National Guard and a dozen arrests of men that tested positive for handling explosives and 15 suspected insurgents.
It would be nice if there were more programs like this on t.v. instead of sound bytes of "news" we get at dinner time.
During their stay with the unit one of the men they had ridden along with that day was killed in a ambush later that night.
During one patrol they were ambushed by a IED which blew up under the Hummer in front of the one carrying the camera. Luckily no one was killed in the explosion.
They dragged in the local Suni Shiek and confronted him with the fact that these ambushes were coming from his area. The put the pressure on and got the Shiek to finally admit he knew the names and addresses of those that took part in the attack. Of course, he played dumb at first.
Finally having had enough, the commander of the company mounts an operation to designed to drive out the insurgents by means of superior firepower. The operation produced a cache of weapons found near a Suni mosque by the Iraqi National Guard and a dozen arrests of men that tested positive for handling explosives and 15 suspected insurgents.
It would be nice if there were more programs like this on t.v. instead of sound bytes of "news" we get at dinner time.