Friday, April 13, 2007
Here's a report from the Telegraph on the same operation Michael Yon reported about. I've just extracted an interesting snip to demonstrate what armies with humanitarian values have to deal with...from Baghdad to Jenin: 20 Shia gunmen die in British Basra fightback
...Initially there was no response as the troops began searching homes where they recovered some small arms. But then the atmosphere changed.
"It was all going very well but then there was a sense something bad was about to happen as we noticed children starting to speak into their mobile phones and point at us," the commander said. "At this stage it became clear that the militia was massing for some kind of attack."...
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