Но у них все проще. Янки слишком долго готовились.
Главари и основные боевики смылись, в прикрышке остались местные фанаты.
Fallujah’s empty promise
True to guerrilla form, the insurgents faded away
Iraq’s insurgents, with weeks to react as U.S. forces gathered and postured about what was about to happen in Fallujah, decided against turning it into al-Alamo. They saw the folly of taking on the Americans on their own terms, and they did what intelligent, determined guerrilla movements have always done in the face of overwhelming force: They faded away and lived to fight and kill and maim another day.
