Reply #31: Iraqi Resistance downs four US helicopters on Saturday. [View All]

[jmcgowanjm]

Iraqi Resistance fighters brought down a total of four
American aggressor helicopters on Saturday. The first
was shot down in al-Jawlan neighborhood. The second
was downed by a rocket-propelled grenade in ad-Dughaythi.
The third was shot down on the road to ar-Ramadi. The
fourth and last helicopter of the day was shot down
in as-Saqlawiyah. The correspondent of Mafkarat al-
Islam (www.islammemo.cc) in al-Fallujah reported
that as-Saqlawiyah was the site of two helicopter
downings on Friday as well.

One scary factiod someone said is that a 10 year old with
an RPG hit a tank. Well, here's something CENTCOM
won't tell you. The minute you get into a city, a tank is
almost useless. Not completely, almost. Especially a
behemoth like the M-1 Abrams, turned into a mobile
pillbox. Anyone with guts and an RPG can try to knock
it out

US Marines are sitting outside Fallujah, using a cease-
fire to reenforce their two outnumbered battalions, and
hoping that some Iraqis can decide to stop killing each
other and them. Despite all the big talk of "surrender or
die" US forces are essentially stuck a mile inside the city
and unable to move father without calling in the big guns
and air support.

The commanders tell the reporters one story, their unit movements say another.

We're facing elite Republican Guard-Professional
Russian trained commandos. And we've already bought off
andsent out of country their nominal "leaders."

In no war game you could play, in no Lessons Learned,
do you bring up another unit if your attack is going well.
You do that when your other units are getting hammered.

And yet,the US, stretched to the limit,wants to open more
fronts-Karbala-Najaf. When the pilgrimage is over we're
going in- With what AC130 gunships? Tanks
and helos are being neutralized.

We're the bad guys folks and we're going to get our asses
kicked because of it.