ISIS Sent Four Car Bombs. The Last One Hit Me.
Our convoy had already been targeted by suicide car bombs three times, over a long day spent under fire. So the Iraqi forces had brought up a tank, and its main gun kept scanning the road ahead toward Mosul. But the shouts started coming from behind us instead, and when I turned to look, I […]Bryan Denton writes for The New York Times:
Our convoy had already been targeted by suicide car bombs three times, over a long day spent under fire. So the Iraqi forces had brought up a tank, and its main gun kept scanning the road ahead toward Mosul.
But the shouts started coming from behind us instead, and when I turned to look, I knew right away: Here was Bomb No. 4, seemingly out of nowhere. By the time I saw it, the vehicle was maybe 70 feet away.
We were with a unit of elite Iraqi counterterrorism forces, who on the morning of Oct. 20 were making their first moves in the broader battle to take Mosul back from the Islamic State.
