![]() Three insurgents on a water tower are reported killed. response is swift and devastating - mortars and heavy-calibre machine guns are fired from the base and an A-10 “Warthog” plane passes overhead spitting shells from its Gatling gun. ![]() “It just irritates the hell out of them that we’re here.” “We always know we’re in the right place when this happens,” said Colonel Wayne Grigsby, who leads the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, part of Lynch’s 3rd Infantry Division, which is responsible for security in the provinces south of Baghdad. Lynch - and the Reuters team - hastened towards safe cover. Insurgents with AK47s opened fire on the Black Hawks, and as they landed in a swirl of sand, more mortar blasts rent the air. base southeast of Baghdad had been under sporadic attack all morning from insurgents firing mortar bombs from hideouts in the palm groves and ruined buildings nearby.Īs Lynch arrived with Reuters journalists in two Black Hawk helicopters, another wave of attacks began. To match feature IRAQ/LYNCH REUTERS/Erik de Castro (IRAQ) military can hit back with vastly superior firepower. ![]() It's a typical confrontation in the Iraq war - insurgents with low-tech weaponry emerging from hiding to launch pinprick attacks, and then trying to slip back into the shadows before the U.S. military camp southeast of Baghdad, November 6, 2007. military officer Major-General Rick Lynch (C) during a visit to the Combat Outpost Cahill, a small U.S. ![]()
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