Pictures/Video of Feb. 14th attack of Police HQ in Fallujah

[StealthMode]

Story here:
http://www.iht.com/articles/129650.html
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/02/14/sprj.irq.fallujah.attack/index.html

Apparently a video was taken of the attack, stating that 2 U.S humvees were speeding away. Does anyone have this video or pictures? If the gunfight lasted so long(30 min +)... why was their no backup by coalition forces?

[mustamato]

why was their no backup by coalition forces?

Well I speculated about this in another thread. But about "50" insurgents
attack the ICDC compound means that they were clearly organized. And
given the result they were probably militarily trained (conscription) all or
most of them as well. Given their military experience they sure as hell
had a security perimeter waiting for the americans to arrive. They might
have had shoulder-launched SAM´s as well.

Simply, the americans probably didn´t want to drive into a ambush, and
they didn´t want their choppers shot down, so they didn´t send a Kiowa
to check out what was happening.

[Upfrontreporting]

Try www.*******.com in their video section they have a clip of the incident. There's also a clip from the attack on general Abizaid and the following gunfight.


regards.

[TALOS]

why was their no backup by coalition forces?

Well I speculated about this in another thread. But about "50" insurgents
attack the ICDC compound means that they were clearly organized. And
given the result they were probably militarily trained (conscription) all or
most of them as well. Given their military experience they sure as hell
had a security perimeter waiting for the americans to arrive. They might
have had shoulder-launched SAM´s as well.

Simply, the americans probably didn´t want to drive into a ambush, and
they didn´t want their choppers shot down, so they didn´t send a Kiowa
to check out what was happening.
I appreciate the "speculation" comment because naturally thats all we can do. It would be nice to have a better description from the people on the ground there, but we will have to wait for that.

[mustamato]

I appreciate the "speculation" comment because naturally thats all we can do. It would be nice to have a better description from the people on the ground there, but we will have to wait for that.

Check the ******* video. I guess I had atleast one thing right with my
speculation. The Warthog drops flares, so they expected that the insurgents
had SAM´s ready to fire.

[George W. Bush]

Nah it's just dropping flares because it looks cool :lol:

[navylt]

why was their no backup by coalition forces?

Well I speculated about this in another thread. But about "50" insurgents
attack the ICDC compound means that they were clearly organized. And
given the result they were probably militarily trained (conscription) all or
most of them as well. Given their military experience they sure as hell
had a security perimeter waiting for the americans to arrive. They might
have had shoulder-launched SAM´s as well.

Simply, the americans probably didn´t want to drive into a ambush, and
they didn´t want their choppers shot down, so they didn´t send a Kiowa
to check out what was happening.
I appreciate the "speculation" comment because naturally thats all we can do. It would be nice to have a better description from the people on the ground there, but we will have to wait for that.

Your specualtion was on about the perceoved training of the insurgents. Our analysis said the same thing. We did have two up-armored humvees drive through two kill zones.I'm sorry I can't give you more than that.