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Nice victory by US troops in Samarra yesterday. I wonder if it was a setup. I find it very interesting that the Baathists chose this particular convoy to attack. Why would you go up against an Abrams tank and Bradley fighting vehicles with AK47's and RPG's? For one it was carrying a ton of new money. If I were the commander I would have been tempted to let leak that the convoy was coming, it's route, and what it was carrying. Then I would have been ready to hammer anyone that thought this was going to be an easy picking. It appears that's exactly what they did.
You gotta wonder about the IQ of the attackers. It's one thing to plan an attack, but then when you see what you're up against, why would you go forward with it. The M1A2 fires a round nearly five inches in diameter and can take out any tank. The Bradley's fire a 25mm cannon which is a round about one inch in diameter and can penetrate nearly anything, except the amour on the Abrams. If it was me and I saw what was coming down the road, I think I would have decided it was time for a career change.
A recent article on the web indicates that each attack is treated by the military like an accident report. They have a huge database of every single attack. How it occurred, what casualties there were, and all the details. Since the whole military is on their own internet, every commander has access to this database. I wonder if that information went into planning a trap yesterday? We will probably never know.