Yesterday anti-US-forces in Iraq reported the attack in Mosul killing some 24 and wounding some 60 within a US base was done by a suicide bomber.
The news until this morning reported about a rocket or mortar attack. Now ABCnews says suicide bomber.
Citing unnamed sources, ABC reported that investigators at the U.S. base in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul found remnants of a torso and a suicide vest – probably a backpack – meant to carry explosives.
Meanwhile the revenge has started:
U.S. forces sealed off entire districts of the Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, blocking bridges and raiding homes in a hunt for suspects after an attack that killed 18 Americans and four other people.
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Witnesses said U.S. forces, backed by Iraqi National Guards, sealed off neighborhoods in western and southeastern Mosul and raided homes. "They’re looking in the areas that are known hotspots," one resident in the west of the city said.
William Lind sees Fallujah as a Little Stalingrad:
Operationally, Fallujah, like Stalingrad, proved to be a trap. It led us to concentrate so many of our few combat troops in one place that the insurgency was able to make major gains in other, more important places. It again drew a glaring contrast between how America fights – by pouring in firepower – and the stated aim of the American invasion of Iraq, liberating the Iraqi people. You cannot liberate people by destroying their homes, their jobs and their cities. If operational art is the art of linking tactical actions to strategic goals, American generals have once again shown the world that they have no operational skill – a situation that is typical of a Second Generation military.
Will Mosul now become a bigger Stalingrad?