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Insurgent Training Exercise Cancelled by Apache Gunships
Published 2 years ago
A squad-sized unit of al-Qaeda in Iraq operatives had their training event cancelled by a pair of Apache gunships that followed them to the outskirts of al-Karmah, Iraq.
Imagine you're an insurgent and your leader says that you're going to grab the technicals and go out and do a mock assault against an abandoned farmhouse on the outskirts of town. Now, imagine you're a five minute flight away from Camp Fallujah when your leader comes to you with that idea. I have no idea what made this group of insurgents think that they were going to have a good time driving their vehicles out to the middle of nowhere to shoot up a farmhouse.
Here's the full DOD report on this video.
Coalition forces killed an estimated 10 to 14 insurgents and captured eight others after they were spotted firing a truck-mounted anti-aircraft gun at a farmhouse northeast of Karmah.
Intelligence reports and surveillance of a known al-Qaida in Iraq meeting spot led troops to discover three trucks, two of which were mounted with anti-aircraft artillery weapons. The vehicles were followed, and after the insurgents started firing the guns at two houses, it was determined that they were practicing for possible future attacks against coalition troops.
