An embedded reporter from the Richmond-Times Dispatch described...

An embedded reporter from the Richmond-Times Dispatch described the scene of carnage at the base as soldiers sat down for lunch and were suddenly hammered in a rocket attack. "The force of the explosions knocked soldiers off their feet and out of their seats. A fireball enveloped the top of the tent, and shrapnel sprayed into the men," journalist Jeremy Redmon reported.

"Amid the screaming and thick smoke that followed, quick-thinking soldiers turned their lunch tables upside down, placed the wounded on them and gently carried them into the parking lot. ‘Medic! Medic!. soldiers shouted."



This is so much more terrible than if it was Iraqis sitting down to lunch when a US bomb fell on them unexpected.