From: Adam Flinton 

Geo. wrote:

> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:40d7e70c{at}w3.nls.net...
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>>I can only think it's part of the US tech vs PBI (Poor Bloody Infantry)
>>approach i.e. no PBI on the ground no US casualties.
>
>
> No way, isolated area, small compound, perfect target for ground troops.
There
> is more to the story than we are getting.
>

You sound like Mr Cheney.

I always apply the cockup vs conspiracy razor till conspiracy is proved.

The only positive I can vaguely guess at is that it is an attepmt to send a
message saying "don't think fallujah is a safe area for you coz we can
strike from the sky at will".

What I don't understand is that given that COIN is primarily intel driven
& dead men don't talk, how it is that Fallujah (or just outside it)
isn't a prime base for US SF snatch squads (inc snatching people en route
tofrom Fallujah).

i.e. if they didn't have such a squad able to get to the house within a
short period of time, why didn't they?

It's either laziness ("we have an armed predator currently
circling") or incompetance/cockup (e..g no snatch squad local &
ready to go) or indeed both (i.e. the laziness is a part of the cockup
(e.g. reliance upon the predator means we don't need risky snatch squad
ops).


Adam

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