Comments on: No Press in Samarra Assault?

By: James

James — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:31:24 +0000

ES: that’s a very interesting possibility. If it was largely Iraqi units involved, they would get experience in participating in a big operation with heavy US air support, the sort of operation the Pentagon is on record as saying they want to transition to. They wouldn’t want them to work out their problems against a hard target, so they chose a soft one. You don’t have your shakedown cruise in a hurricane. It would certainly explain a lot.

By: a reader

a reader — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 04:39:55 +0000

Info on Fox is that it was an Iraqi operation — they picked up tips on the Samarra merecenaries, planned the mission, and called in coalition for resources. If so, then that would be the true story, not the early headlines and “Breaking News!” alerts.
Police uniforms and ID were found among the weapons too — we still don’t know who was killed, by whom, and why, after the attack on the mosque of the final imams. Reporters should be doing a better job.

By: Edward Smith

Edward Smith — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 02:15:19 +0000

I think this is a dry run. I was there all last year in aviation and we would sometimes take units out on missions with no planned enemy. In the US we ‘certify’ our units by sending them to training centers before we deploy them to combat. This is the Iraqi equivalent.

By: dj elliott

dj elliott — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 20:14:05 +0000

1. This is the 4th joint US-Iraqi AAslt op in the last 6mo.
2. AAslt is what the 101 does. This is normal ops.
3. Original press releases from Centcom and subordinates was no different in details or amount than previous reports.
4. My best guess is that it was a slow news day and the MSM needed a lead. So they hyped an operation after having ignored the previous ones. And now that it is becoming apparent that they are overhyping it, they will start the blame game.

By: Byron Skinner

Byron Skinner — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:07:03 +0000

Good Morning Folks,
This seems to be one of the dumber things that Central Command has done in a while. No Civilian Media means for suce that this operation (Samarra) will be looked at and scrutinized very closly by the Media.
It makes me wonder if the DoD sometimes creates there own problems knowingly, maybe we have a cover up of a cover up in the making here. It’s time for my conspiracy oriented pals to come to the surface.
The question being here, what are the Bushies trying to hid with the “Samarra Assault”?
ALLONS,
Byron Skinner

By: Darin Bain

Darin Bain — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:02:14 +0000

I just can’t see where we ever needed civilian photographers on the battlefield. I have nothing against them, but so many of them over sensationalize their stories to get noteriety and end up hurting the mission at hand. I really don’t think it does anyone any good to have them there. Good luck on the mission men.