Archive for August 18th, 2007

So the other day we are out on some raids.  We were specifically looking for some name brand bad guys, but ended up getting some others too.  We had the IA with us, as usual.  They have full independent authority here, and they use it.  It turns out that recently the President of Iraq decreed that the property of any bad guys apprehended would be destroyed.  I think this made the IA Commander’s day.  After the first set of raids were done, and all the evidence was collected, it was the IA’s turn to get in some target practice.  We heard over the radio that the IA had whipped out some RPGs.  Next thing I know there was an enormous BOOM! and the sound of a rocket hitting its target.  The IA has RPG’ed Bad guys house!  It made quite the racket, especially in the close quarters of an Iraqi town. All the people on the street ducked and started running.  I guess they figured the war had come to their neighborhood, but it was just the IA “denying the enemy safe haven.”