Who's Sorry Now?
Turns out these insurgents had the wrong cell phone number, dialed an Army intrepreter, and basically spilled the beans on attack plans. Ah, the new age of cell phone communications...ya never know who you're really talking to. (Only thing PAA is not sure about is the line about being "psyched by the prospect of killing the person on the other end of the phone....) Check it out here:
One misplaced cell phone and one savvy interpreter equaled one dead insurgent, several pieces of intelligence and a whole lot of captured weapons. On a routine patrol, U.S. troops with 1st Battalion, 68th Armor came upon a house in the midst of dense greenery and at the end of a dusty country road.If that weren’t enough, the insurgent kept calling the interpreter back to ask what the Americans were doing.
The interpreter kept the act going. “He’s basically acting like, you know, he’s watching us ... making sure everything is fine,” Nicodemus said. The U.S. troops knew the insurgents were coming back and decided to lie in wait for them. Many troops said they were psyched by the prospect of killing the person on the other end of the phone. “I love this [expletive],” said Sgt. Nicholas Hake-Jordan, 23, of Springfield, Ore.
