Outrageous and puts all other surrendering forces in dire peril - may not even be given the chance to surrender. Note the bolded last para (mine)
Who's fault that? - the Iraqis.
I'm sure the usual tripe on H/C will endorse this as a way to wage war.
March 23 -- U.S. Army Lt. Gen. John Abizaid briefs NBC, MSNBC AND NEWS SERVICES
March 23 — U.S. and British forces encountered strong resistance from Iraqi forces in taking the southern Iraq city of Nasiriyah, resulting in numerous deaths, injuries and the apparent capture of several U.S. troops in the “sharpest engagement of the war thus far,” a U.S. military official said Sunday.
IT WAS “the toughest day of resistance that we’ve had thus far,” said Army Lt. Gen. John Abizaid at a Sunday press conference at Central Command headquarters in Doha, Qatar, as a heavy air raid crashed on Baghdad. He insisted the U.S. advance was still on track, however, and would soon reach the capital.
Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks said about 10 Marines were killed in a faked surrender by Iraqi forces outside of Nasiriyah. The Marines came under fire while preparing to accept what appeared to be surrendering Iraqis.
“We of course will be much more cautious in the way we view the battlefield as a result of some of these incidents,” said Abizaid.
