Reply #24: Interesting lines from the yahoo article [View All]

[spinbaby]

An Associated Press reporter who arrived on the scene saw four U.S. tanks surrounding the smoldering truck as helicopters hovered above.

Taking fire from unknown positions, U.S forces were firing with no obvious targets, in an apparent effort to protect themselves until reinforcements arrived, a witness said.

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I'm running across more and more articles that suggest that convoys are now routinely being guarded by tanks now. In this case, they don't actually say, but certainly impy, that the convoy was traveling with FOUR tanks.

Rmember how, in early Iraq coverage, we'd see footage of soldiers in markets and driving hummers around town? And then there was an announcement that the humvees would now travel in at least groups of three. Now we seem to have convoys guarded by tanks.