This is a must see video of a rocket attack

[cameron]

www.blackfive.net/main/2005/06/rocket_attack_o.html
BLACKFIVE: Rocket Attack Video - PX in Iraq
Rocket Attack Video - PX in Iraq

Here is some B-roll of security cameras inside a PX during a rocket attack.

A rocket attack hit close to the Camp Liberty PX. Inside surveillance video captures patron reactions from three different camera angles. Video by American Forces Network Iraq.

Notice how the soldiers and civilians react. They are under control and protecting one another. Several soldiers rushed back into the PX, grabbed duct tape, t-shirts, bandages and peroxide to treat the wounded outside.

There's a more polished version of this video, but it's about how the PX was back in business the next day. One soldier was killed about 30 feet away from the PX.

Update: Edited the post to include the description. Here is the polished version with interviews with some of the soldiers and PX employees.

[LorSpi]

Thanks.

[cameron]

Your welcome, that's why I joined to share news and views. When I watched it, I think it re-enforced something intuitive not sure what. My view the Islamo-fascists have already lost Iraq forever was re-enforced by watching it. Perhaps it was seeing the professionalism of our young men under fire, it swelled the emotions and makes it hard for me to analyze. What says your trained eye, anything pop out at you?

[LorSpi]

cameron said:

Your welcome, that's why I joined to share news and views. When I watched it, I think it re-enforced something intuitive not sure what. My view the Islamo-fascists have already lost Iraq forever was re-enforced by watching it. Perhaps it was seeing the professionalism of our young men under fire, it swelled the emotions and makes it hard for me to analyze. What says your trained eye, anything pop out at you?

I know the feeling of pride. I had to opportunity to hear the US ambassador who was head of mission in Kenya the day of the bomb blast there. speak on her experience. This is part of her testimony at the trial

The ambassador was attending a 10 a.m. meeting with the Kenyan minister of trade about an upcoming trade visit by the U.S. secretary of commerce in the Cooperative Bank Building next door when the bombing occurred. Bushnell said she heard what sounded like a construction explosion. Then, as she stepped over to peer out a window, "an enormous explosion" knocked her to the floor unconscious.

When she came to, she said, "I was sitting down with my hands over my head because the ceiling was falling down. She remembered hearing "the rattling of a teacup" and thinking "that the building was going to collapse, that I was going to tumble down all those stories, and that I was going to die. Every cell in my body was just steeled toward waiting for the fall."

Bushnell recalled how she and another U.S. official slowly made their way to a nearby stairwell. "We climbed over the door, which had been blown into the stairwell. ... I saw someone's shoe and a great deal of blood. And then the reality of, the enormity of the blast began to hit," she said.

She also remembered "the almost eerie silence" and the "very hushed procession" as more and more people found the stairway, "until we were a procession of human beings who were smashed together, going down those endless stairs."

"There was no panic, which was amazing, and also something that probably saved a lot of lives," Bushnell said.

Some people were praying, others were singing hymns, the ambassador said. "Down we went ... this huge procession of people, who were bleeding all over one another -- there was blood everywhere, on the banister; I could feel the person behind me bleeding on my hair and down my back," she said.

On the lower floors there was smoke and someone yelling to hurry because there was a fire, Bushnell said, adding, "That was the second time that day that I was fairly confident that I was going to die."

Along the way, she said, some people collapsed and had to be carried down the steps. The terrified survivors also carried down bodies they encountered.

On the street, the first things she saw was glass, twisted pieces of metal, burning vehicles in the embassy parking lot, "the charred remains of what was once a human being," Bushnell said. She also saw "the back of the building completely ripped off, and utter destruction, and I knew that no one was going to take care of me."

Bushnell said that she and two colleagues from the meeting were pushed into a car and rushed from the scene by U.S. security personnel, who feared a possible second attack. She asked to be taken to a hotel to begin working rather than be taken to a hospital, where she might have a lengthy wait in the emergency room.

She told us about details - secretaries who had brought their notepads and immediately began to work with each other locating members of their and other offices until they knew who was there - and where they were. The emergency training put to good use while personal triaged themselves. The immediate establishment of an operations center in the hotel she mentioned. Immediate contact with the Ops Center. By the book.

No about heroics in the Jihad sense but about heroics in the sense you and I respect.

Those bad guys have lost because their goal is to spread terror. And they failed. Not only these those folks fail to panic, but they immediately went to assist others who had been hurt. They took cover in a calm fashion, then organized themselves to assist.

What I saw from the one camera angle - the exit towards the door almost immediately. Not staying low in a secure area but going into the unknown. Calmly. Assuredly. Into the crisis.

The bad guys just don't get it.

[cameron]

That is an emotional story, thanks for posting that little tid bit. You know sometimes I think I understand our enemy's better than I understand anti-war protesters and assorted left wing morons