Main and Central - Baquba ‘Gainst the Wall
So this platoon’s advance was held up for a day while they waited for artillery or an airstrike to clear the houses for them. The next day, finally, an M1 tank appeared and blew the houses with its main gun.
The insurgents/Sunnis/Mahdi Army death squads/resistance/ militants/Ba’athist dead enders are going to make the Americans destroy as much of Baquba as they can.
Nothing makes a people more loyal to a resistance than having their homes destroyed by a foreign occupier. It’s funny; I learned this back in the Viet Nam era. I don’t think many of our military leaders were around, then.
Go read.
Du.
Indexed under: Baqubah, Diyala, Follow Up, Jaish al-Mahdi, Mahdi, Mahdi Army, Militia