From: Bill Lucy 

From SFTT.ORG (David Hackworth's site):

Hack:


CLASSIFICATION: UNCLASSIFIED


“Wedding Party” Details


Just reviewed a classified brief on the supposed wedding - no way it was.
Here are some unclass details I can provide (brief had lots of pictures to
back up the details):


* Weddings traditionally held on Thursdays in Iraq to take advantage of
Friday as a day of rest - raid took place on Tuesday night.


* Only permanent dwelling at the site held large stocks of food,
bedding, medical supplies (lots of these - was the wedding going to be a
cage match of some sort or were the caterers just bad cooks?), ammunition
and weapons, as well as an apparent document forging set up. Meat was still
frozen solid - not prepared for a wedding feast and there were no stocks of
dishes, plates, etc.


* Contrary to media reports, no “Nuptial Tent” was found and a 1KM area
around the site was searched - any further away than that would be just too
far for the catering staff to walk carrying all those huge platters of food
- against union rules.


* No evidence of any means of support for the house (like sheep farming
which is most common in that area). All evidence pointed to a smuggler way
station - fit perfectly the description of several others found in the
past.


* “Wedding guests” (deceased of course) were almost all men of military
age, only a couple of women, no elders at all and only one child (wounded) noted.


* All dressed as city dwellers, not Bedouins who would hold a wedding at
such a location. All of the deceased were sterilized, as in none had any
form of ID on them at all. Only IDs found were in a nice neat stack inside
the house - and then quite a few less of those than there were people at
the site.


* Weapons were varied and included RPGs (they really suck when you fire
them up in the air for celebration), there were also military binoculars
(when they separate the men and women they have to look at each other with
binos I guess), and IED making material (party favors?).


* Lots of clothing prepackaged in pants and shirt sets (guerranimals for
guerrillas).


* There were also no gifts, no decorations, no food set out or left
over, and the good bit of money recovered was all in the pockets of the
“guests” (maybe they were just cheap guests).


I strongly suspect that after their Foreign Fighter way station got
whacked, they tried to set it up to look like what happened in Afghanistan
when a wedding was actually hit due to celebratory firing being taken for
ground fire by orbiting aircraft. I also would not put it past the scumbags
to sweep a local village for appropriately aged “guests” to kill and
display for the TV cameras. Our BDA assessment was made by people on the
site just after the schwacking and they took their time to count and
exploit the site [for intelligence data]. This is just speculation on my
part.


Bottom line assessment: Good hit - no wedding. These were foreign fighters
that had just crossed into Iraq and got an early trip to Paradise and the
martyrdom hall of fame.


Thought it was important to get this word out as much as possible as you
won’t see any of this on CNN.


Take care,


[Name deleted]

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