Tuesday, November 09, 2004
Fallujah
Wretchard (The Belmont Club) is following the battle in detail, updating his posts regularly. If you don't read anything else on Fallujah, read Wretchard. Recounting an exchange in which American forward observers were able to draw fire down on a building with insurgents from more than a mile away:
Read the whole thing, and take a look at this slideshow from The New York Times.
CWCID: Brainshavings.
This engagement is all the more chilling because it probably happened at night. Five enemy soldiers died simply because they could not comprehend how destruction could flow from an observer a mile away networked to mortars that could fire for effect without ranging. All over Fallujah virtual teams of snipers and fire-control observers are jockeying for lines of sight to deal death to the enemy. For many jihadis that one peek over a sill could be their last.
Read the whole thing, and take a look at this slideshow from The New York Times.
CWCID: Brainshavings.
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