20 May 2008

In the deep Shi'ite now

According to the New York Times, "Iraqi troops pushed deep into Sadr City Tuesday as the Iraqi government sought to establish control over the densely populated Shia enclave in the Iraqi capital... There was no significant resistance and no American ground forces were involved in the operation."
"...how to regain control of the rest of Sadr City from the militias, who continued to lob rockets and mortars from the area."

Rico says what ever happened to the much-vaunted counterbattery radar we were supposed to have, where you could drop a round on the firing position by their second or third shell? (Maybe the fucks aren't firing three times...) "Our bases have something called Counter Battery Radar (CBR), and when a mortar or rocket is launched, the computers on the CBR can calculate the POO before the bomb lands. The enemy knows this, and they know we can fire counter-battery cannon or mortars, or that we might have jets and helicopters just moments away, or forces on the ground nearby. Lately, Iraqi police have joined the list of options for killing mortar teams. It’s increasingly dangerous to be a terrorist here. And so the enemy plays a game of fire and flee, hauling the mortars around town, setting up the tubes (or rockets), firing a few shots, and moving out quickly."

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