#5 From Powerline...
The number of terrorists involved and the follow-on small arms attacks make it clear that the overall goal was to use suicide vehicle bombs to breach the security perimeter, then take over the hotel and hold the international guests as hostages. Instead, they failed to achieve those objectives and the attackers were killed.
If their intent was the make the journalists hostages, why does that not bother me? I mean they're insurgents fighting the good war as far as the journalists are concern. I'm sure the elite MSM would howl mainly because of the insurance costs that have kept so many of their top notch writers parked around the bar in the hotel. However, the thought of 'demands' being issued from the hotel by terrorists insurgents upon the threat of death to their best allies is just so amusing. |
Suicide bombers blasted through the concrete walls surrounding the Palestine Hotel in central Baghdad yesterday in an apparent effort to take over the hotel and grab foreign and Arab journalists as hostages, the Iraqi national security adviser said. At least 20 passers-by were killed, but only about seven people inside the hotel â home to a number of foreign and Arab journalists and foreign contract workers â were wounded. No one inside the hotel was badly hurt. Iraqâs national security adviser, Mouwafak Al-Rubaie, said the attack â which appeared well planned â was a âvery clearâ effort to take over the hotel and grab foreign and Arab journalists as hostages. Security still photos showed a clear attempt to attack the hotel.