You won't see this on CNN.

[Major Maxillary]

NSFW

Bunch of insurgents plan an ambush, and are ambushed by the very US forces they wanted to ambush.


http://militaryspot.com/videos/video287.htm


Don't care much for the captions, though.

[General Brock]

Looks like a collection of real and staged scenes to me. For one, why do most of the live attackers all look like masked white guys (untanned mercenaries?), for two, why did the attackers lose their masks when they died?, for three, don't most Iraqis prefer sandals over running shoes like on CNN? For four; why are they planning and driving out in broad daylight looking like Hollywood terrorists and Apache/Predator missile bait? For five, they just happen to buy it with their handicam rolling?

I can't comment on their voices, as I am unfamiliar with how the accents and language should sound. I assume the smooth editing was done by the distributers of the video.

[Darth Wong]

Warning: I've been notified by PM (and confirmed myself) that there's some pretty despicable material elsewhere on that site.

[Jadeite]

Looks like a collection of real and staged scenes to me.

Why? Because the insurgents lose, and everyone knows they're some sort of OMGL33t professional fighting force?

For one, why do most of the live attackers all look like masked white guys (untanned mercenaries?)

Not every Arab or Persian is brown you know. A lot could pass pretty convincingly as Caucasians.

for two, why did the attackers lose their masks when they died?

Watching it again, only a few of them have no mask in the ending "yeah, we kickass" part with the shitty music. Chances are they were taken off by the people photographing the dead bodies, its not like those ski masks are glued on after all.

for three, don't most Iraqis prefer sandals over running shoes like on CNN?

Because conducting an attack in sandals is a shitty idea? Also, they have what looks like a PKM and a couple RPGs, along with their other weapons, chances are they can afford some actual shoes.

For four; why are they planning and driving out in broad daylight looking like Hollywood terrorists and Apache/Predator missile bait?

Because chances are they have little education and barely any military experience? Its not like every insurgent has some sort of genetic memory of how to conduct assaults and ambushes you know. Christ, this is like asking "why do people do stupid things?" Because stupid people do stupid things, and if professional military officers can create monumental fuckups (Pickett's charge at Gettysburg for example, or the entirety of fucking World War I), what do you expect from people who probably haven't had military training and honestly think God is on their side?

Most US losses in Iraq are to ambushes, snipers, and roadside bombs. Whenever they fight us in a conventional battle, they lose hard. This is nothing new.

For five, they just happen to buy it with their handicam rolling?

I doubt they expected to die. Also, if I was the cameraman, I certainly wouldn't think, "Well, I'm going to make a run for it, I'll make sure to turn the camera off first before I do that, so it doesn't film my death." I'd think "oh fuck oh fuck oh fu----"

I can't comment on their voices, as I am unfamiliar with how the accents and language should sound. I assume the smooth editing was done by the distributers of the video.

Most likely. Who wants to watch them wave around AKs and do their little Allah dance for minutes on end?

[Jadeite]

Edit: Nevermind, I'm used to N&P's "No edit" policy. Thanks Darth Garden Gnome.

[Darth Garden Gnome]

Ghetto edit: Damn, could a mod fix the url tag to quote? I have no idea how I managed to miss that typo.

The edit option is available in the Off-Topic Forum, you can go fix it anytime you want.

[Major Maxillary]

Looks like a collection of real and staged scenes to me. For one, why do most of the live attackers all look like masked white guys (untanned mercenaries?), for two, why did the attackers lose their masks when they died?, for three, don't most Iraqis prefer sandals over running shoes like on CNN? For four; why are they planning and driving out in broad daylight looking like Hollywood terrorists and Apache/Predator missile bait? For five, they just happen to buy it with their handicam rolling?

The exact country this happened in isn't specified, and a good sized portion of the insurgents fighting coalition forces are, in fact, from outside Iraq. many are from Chechnya.

The US troopers took the balaclavas off when they policed up the weapons and took the pictures, obviousley.

I've seen all kinds of footwear in the pictures the other guys in my battery brought back from the sandbox. Iraqi military in sneakers, kids in oversized converse sneakers, old men in sandals, one guy in dusty loafers.

My guess would be they were chechens who preferred shoes to sandals, and weren't very bright.

Not every terrorist/insurgent/rebel/guerrilla cell we encounter is going to be Cobra material.

[Spyder]

Warning: I've been notified by PM (and confirmed myself) that there's some pretty despicable material elsewhere on that site.

Footage of Iraqis being killed to arouse the armchair generals. Yes we're seeing human beings being killed but that's ok, they're the enemy so it is indeed a thing to be happy and proud of.

[Teebs]

Warning: I've been notified by PM (and confirmed myself) that there's some pretty despicable material elsewhere on that site.

Footage of Iraqis being killed to arouse the armchair generals. Yes we're seeing human beings being killed but that's ok, they're the enemy so it is indeed a thing to be happy and proud of.

If it was rabbits or dogs there would be outrage. So long as they were cute dogs...

It's a messed-up world we live in.

[darthbob88]

Warning: I've been notified by PM (and confirmed myself) that there's some pretty despicable material elsewhere on that site.

Footage of Iraqis being killed to arouse the armchair generals. Yes we're seeing human beings being killed but that's ok, they're the enemy so it is indeed a thing to be happy and proud of.

If it was rabbits or dogs there would be outrage. So long as they were cute dogs...

It's a messed-up world we live in.

Gotta love a world where animals have more rights than people. Buncha damn leftists.

(I am aware that this is exaggeration, and that the people have a good reason for losing their rights. Shush.)

[MKSheppard]

Yes we're seeing human beings being killed but that's ok, they're the enemy so it is indeed a thing to be happy and proud of.

Indeed.

You can see a huge list

Linka here

See, Body Armor does work!

[Major Maxillary]

Yes we're seeing human beings being killed but that's ok, they're the enemy so it is indeed a thing to be happy and proud of.

Indeed.

You can see a huge list

See, Body Armor does work!

The funniest part is that they don't even rejoice when they kill a coalition soldier, they're content just to be a thorn in our side. like tossing rocks or blowing the treads off tanks. they think they score some great victory when they actually just piss us off more.

Right after that video, the soldier charged the sniper team that shot him.

Wounded both and took them prisoner.

[Big Orange]

For one, why do most of the live attackers all look like masked white guys (untanned mercenaries?)

Not every Arab or Persian is brown you know. A lot could pass pretty convincingly as Caucasians.

I imagine that's because the Middle East is historically linked with Russia through Georgia and I imagine in ancient times you had tribes from the North who adopted Semitic culture but looked fairly Nordic. And most Semites seem to be essentially Caucasian anyway (I imagine you could get a group of Southern French, Southern Italians or Greeks in a room with another group of Israelis, Lebanese or Syrians, and they would perhaps be virtually indistinguishable from each other).

[Rye]

]Gotta love a world where animals have more rights than people. Buncha damn leftists.

Eh? You think "militaryspot" reeks of extremist left wing ideals? Lollercoaster. And you tell me animals have more rights than humans when people start wearing human leather imported from chinese human farms.

[fgalkin]

For one, why do most of the live attackers all look like masked white guys (untanned mercenaries?)

Not every Arab or Persian is brown you know. A lot could pass pretty convincingly as Caucasians.

I imagine that's because the Middle East is historically linked with Russia through Georgia and I imagine in ancient times you had tribes from the North who adopted Semitic culture but looked fairly Nordic. And most Semites seem to be essentially Caucasian anyway (I imagine you could get a group of Southern French, Southern Italians or Greeks in a room with another group of Israelis, Lebanese or Syrians, and they would perhaps be virtually indistinguishable from each other).

Define "historically linked"

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

[Enforcer Talen]

Yes we're seeing human beings being killed but that's ok, they're the enemy so it is indeed a thing to be happy and proud of.

Indeed.

You can see a huge list

See, Body Armor does work!

The funniest part is that they don't even rejoice when they kill a coalition soldier, they're content just to be a thorn in our side. like tossing rocks or blowing the treads off tanks. they think they score some great victory when they actually just piss us off more.

Right after that video, the soldier charged the sniper team that shot him.

Wounded both and took them prisoner.

Um, Ive seen dozens of mudj videos where they celebrate killing coalition forces. Not like they are that different from us.

[darthbob88]

Gotta love a world where animals have more rights than people. Buncha damn leftists.

Eh? You think "militaryspot" reeks of extremist left wing ideals? Lollercoaster. And you tell me animals have more rights than humans when people start wearing human leather imported from chinese human farms.

Not in the slightest; it seems to be heavily conservative. However, the person I was replying to noted that A) Killing brown folk like this is a Good Thing, admirable, and acceptable, while B) Killing cute little rabbits and puppies is less admirable. Teebs, and I, commented on the absurdity of the idea that it's better to kill brown folk than to kill cute critters. I further noted in teeny text that I was aware that this was an exaggeration. However, you are correct, and I concede the point.

[Big Orange]

Define "historically linked"

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Well it makes sense if Judaism, Christianity and Islam passed through there in the last 2000 years. And Josef Stalin essentially looked like a depigmented Iraqi.

[Stofsk]

Define "historically linked"

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Well it makes sense if Judaism, Christianity and Islam passed through there in the last 2000 years. And Josef Stalin essentially looked like a depigmented Iraqi.

[Big Orange]

I'm talking about the gradual migration of people over time from the Middle East into Eastern Europe.

[Ritterin Sophia]

Define "historically linked"

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Well it makes sense if Judaism, Christianity and Islam passed through there in the last 2000 years. And Josef Stalin essentially looked like a depigmented Iraqi.

I always thought Hussein and Stalin looked alike!

[Medic]

The exact country this happened in isn't specified, and a good sized portion of the insurgents fighting coalition forces are, in fact, from outside Iraq. many are from Chechnya.

Um, to quote Stofsk:

Based on fucking what!? The one story in N&P I remember quantified the insurgency and the number of foreign fighters was under 10,000 (the entire size IIRC was around 300,000).

Is it the new NIE that states this? Where do you get that fact from?

edit: Fucking Fox News doesn't agree with you.

National Intelligence Estimate Cites Internal Fighting as Chief Source of Violence in Iraq

Furthermore, from the PDF of said NIE:

Iraq’s neighbors influence, and are influenced by, events within Iraq, but the
involvement of these outside actors is not likely to be a major driver of violence or
the prospects for stability because of the self-sustaining character of Iraq’s internal
sectarian dynamics. Nonetheless, Iranian lethal support for select groups of Iraqi Shia
militants clearly intensifies the conflict in Iraq. Syria continues to provide safehaven for
expatriate Iraqi Bathists and to take less than adequate measures to stop the flow of
foreign jihadists into Iraq.

I couldn't even find "Chechen" or "Chechnya" in that new NIE.

[General Brock]

Looks like a collection of real and staged scenes to me.

Why? Because the insurgents lose, and everyone knows they're some sort of OMGL33t professional fighting force?

For one, why do most of the live attackers all look like masked white guys (untanned mercenaries?)

Not every Arab or Persian is brown you know. A lot could pass pretty convincingly as Caucasians.

for two, why did the attackers lose their masks when they died?

Watching it again, only a few of them have no mask in the ending "yeah, we kickass" part with the shitty music. Chances are they were taken off by the people photographing the dead bodies, its not like those ski masks are glued on after all.

for three, don't most Iraqis prefer sandals over running shoes like on CNN?

Because conducting an attack in sandals is a shitty idea? Also, they have what looks like a PKM and a couple RPGs, along with their other weapons, chances are they can afford some actual shoes.

For four; why are they planning and driving out in broad daylight looking like Hollywood terrorists and Apache/Predator missile bait?

Because chances are they have little education and barely any military experience? Its not like every insurgent has some sort of genetic memory of how to conduct assaults and ambushes you know. Christ, this is like asking "why do people do stupid things?" Because stupid people do stupid things, and if professional military officers can create monumental fuckups (Pickett's charge at Gettysburg for example, or the entirety of fucking World War I), what do you expect from people who probably haven't had military training and honestly think God is on their side?

Most US losses in Iraq are to ambushes, snipers, and roadside bombs. Whenever they fight us in a conventional battle, they lose hard. This is nothing new.

For five, they just happen to buy it with their handicam rolling?

I doubt they expected to die. Also, if I was the cameraman, I certainly wouldn't think, "Well, I'm going to make a run for it, I'll make sure to turn the camera off first before I do that, so it doesn't film my death." I'd think "oh fuck oh fuck oh fu----"

I can't comment on their voices, as I am unfamiliar with how the accents and language should sound. I assume the smooth editing was done by the distributers of the video.

Most likely. Who wants to watch them wave around AKs and do their little Allah dance for minutes on end?

The dancing is usually a lot more enthusiastic too. The Feyadeen Saddam put on better shows.

No, insurgents lose on a regular basis. Usually to an airstrike. Most of the bodies looked real enough; whether or not they are the same guys in the truck is another matter.

The only brown guy in the video was unmasked and didn't look like an Iraqi Arab either; more like Morrocan or other North African mercenary. If these guys are for real, they are definitely not Russian-trained Rep Guard vets, which are the ones to worry about.

If they can afford shoes, they could afford real combat boots as well. Only western mercenaries pretending to be insurgents could be that sloppy in dress. There have been videos of captured fighters from Falluja and elsewhere in the news; their attire seems a lot less... hokey. For the most part they seem like regular guys till their hands are tested for powder residues.

It seems like a remarkable stroke of good luck that these bozos actually planned right then and their to carry out an ambush, and got wasted not more than an hour or two after playing with their toy cars, if the daylight is any indicator. With the handicam somehow running right at the point of ambush even though they have a limited battery and memory. Planning an ambush usually involves more advance planning even for amateur gang-bangers. Filming would only involve only the highlights. Getting away would almost certainly require wearing civilian dress.

There is really not enough to convince anyone who has been following the war that these are real insurgents wasted in a real ambush. True, many militias in Iraq go about masked. These guys stand out like a neon sign flashing 'rank amateur B-movie extras'.

[General Brock]

Looks like a collection of real and staged scenes to me. For one, why do most of the live attackers all look like masked white guys (untanned mercenaries?), for two, why did the attackers lose their masks when they died?, for three, don't most Iraqis prefer sandals over running shoes like on CNN? For four; why are they planning and driving out in broad daylight looking like Hollywood terrorists and Apache/Predator missile bait? For five, they just happen to buy it with their handicam rolling?

The exact country this happened in isn't specified, and a good sized portion of the insurgents fighting coalition forces are, in fact, from outside Iraq. many are from Chechnya.

The US troopers took the balaclavas off when they policed up the weapons and took the pictures, obviousley.

I've seen all kinds of footwear in the pictures the other guys in my battery brought back from the sandbox. Iraqi military in sneakers, kids in oversized converse sneakers, old men in sandals, one guy in dusty loafers.

My guess would be they were chechens who preferred shoes to sandals, and weren't very bright.

Not every terrorist/insurgent/rebel/guerrilla cell we encounter is going to be Cobra material.

There is no way Chechens in Iraq, who would have surely have faced off against the Russians, are going to bungle an ambush. Military screwups usually involve ignorant brass. Individual units on their own fare much better with no-one to gainsay their common sense and experience. There has been steady and consistent reporting that most Resistance activity is local and indigenous.

These people are not to be underestimated, and a video like this does not give anyone having to face them, especially if for the first time, a realistic sense of what they may be up against. The reason one respects an enemy, is so not to be caught stupid with him.