DeeKnow’s Grotto

Here's what the marine squad Kevin Sites is with were up to while I was out having a pleasant dinner with my whanau on my birthday Wednesday night...

Our humvees pass by a body of a man in the center of the street. There is hole through his left eyes socket where a Marine sniper round passed cleanly through.....The Marines I'm embedded with are nearly ebullient. This looks to be a cakewalk... This levity continues until the Marines turn the corner onto a main street... a real RPG round explodes ...One Marines' face is burned by the powder and hot gas -- another has caught shrapnel in the leg,...The Marines are outraged. They turn their M-16's on the building to the west... A gunner sitting in the armored turret of a humvee fires 40-millimeter grenades non-stop into the building -- until the gun jams.

Looks like the action is nearing an end in whats left of Falluja, on the news this morning an official claimed the city was under complete control. Maj.-Gen. Richard Natonski, in an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday, described the ground war as a "flawless execution of the plan we drew up. We are actually ahead of schedule.'

Sounds like project management 101

10:13:50 PM