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To: epicure who wrote (114734)9/13/2003 7:55:45 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Respond to of 281500
 
<gunmen in a BMW car had opened fire on the Mayor's office in Fallujah. Two squads of the American-trained and American-paid police force... ...set off in pursuit...
...the Americans were there in the darkness, outside the Jordanian Hospital, to ambush cars on the road. They let the BMW through and then fired at the police cars.">

This is a classic example of guerrilla tactics.

As the Viet Cong retreated from Hue in 1968, they paused at each "pacified" neighborhood and village, long enough to attract American artillery fire. Then, after getting us to destroy our own supporters, and turn neutrals against us, they moved on.

Whoever is doing this in Fallujah, learned from Giap and Mao, who learned from Sun Tzu: turn the enemies strengths against him, confuse him so he defeats himself.



To: epicure who wrote (114734)9/14/2003 5:27:48 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
Just out of curiosity, was Fisk anywhere near the scene of action? he has a history of writing graphic accounts of combat scenes that he did not witness. Bloggers have noted stories with the same dateline from hundreds of miles apart. And he never retracted his accounts of the "Massacre of Jenin".