Trained to Kill, Not to Do Hard Math
Mysteries Shroud Fate Of Samarra's CausalitiesSectionAgence France-Presse (AFP) also cast doubts on the U.S. death count, describing the whole matter as a mystery that could border on solving a mathematics equation, which is further deepened by a report of U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Ryan Gonsalves.
According to Gonsalves, a total of 60 fighters, divided into two groups, attacked two military convoys in the town. Another four fighters in a BMW attacked a separate engineering convoy.
If the U.S. troops killed 46, as it was announced in earlier reports, and captured 11 of them, only three of the survivors would have been left to pick up the corpses, which is impossible, pure and simple.
On the figures given by U.S. Brigadier General Mark Kimmit, the calculus becomes even hazier -- with 54 killed, 22 wounded and one captured, 13 fighters remain unaccounted for.
* Ray, 12/04/2003 12:51:16 PM
