Talk:Battle of Najaf (2004)

message: one thing for sure, the BLACKWATER USA  was in the center of this battle, defending the coalition authoritys building in the najaf and preventing it being over run by the mahdi army, they were infact for couple of days with salvadorean and few other soldiers (prolly less than 10 actual soldiers) the only coalition assets in the town and there is no mention of them?
There is plenty of discussions, articles, and rather good video coverage about this in the internet, the videos comming straight from the BLACKWATER USA gunmen. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.248.159.240 (talk) 01:03, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I dont have much of the details but 

message: Yes, they were there.  No, they were never the only coalition assets in the town at any time during the battle. As for your numbers on the El Salvadorians, there was an entire battalion of them there. They may have defended areas with Blackwater but neither one of them were actually invovled with the assault on the Mahdi Militia.
I remember, I was there.
Ricmatt 17:02, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  As for Blackwater... 

message: Where are these numbers coming from on the Militia strength and casualties? No source whatsoever for them. I can tell you first hand they are inaccurate.
Ricmatt 17:07, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ricmat,  Since you seem to know what your talking about is there any website, thatyou know of where I can verify the troop strength.  I have checked several and I cannot find any that say specific numbers other than mentioning the 11th MEU or other units that participated.  I know about how many are in the 11th MEU but I doubt that they all participated at the battle at the same time.--Kumioko 00:35, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Also... 

message: Perhaps something else was meant by "the MEU encircled the complex and began a siege," but it reads like the Marines took the Imam Ali Mosque, which of course, they didn't.  The Iraqis forces took it back, for obvious political reasons.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wormdograt (talk • contribs) 05:35, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iraqis seiged the Imam Ali, not the Marines 

message: I am going to delete the last paragraph, which purports to describe the decline and disappearance of the Mahdi army and the Sadrist tendency. My reasons are as follows:
1) It is unsourced.
2) The language displays clear bias.
3) It is inaccurate: the Mahdi army and the Sadrists obviously continue to play a significant role in Iraq.
4) It doesn't belong in the Battle of Najaf article, even if it was sourced, unbiased and accurate. jackbrown (talk) 00:54, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major POV problems and inaccuracies in the last paragraph (Mahdi Army Decline) 

message: the dismounted infantry from 1-5 cav fought in this battle. i should know i was there. I secured the m9ilitia as they left the mosque and laid there weapons down. My men and i out of 1-5 cav 1st cav div fought through the cemetary and all the way up to the mosque to about 100 yards from it. I watched sustani drive in. So this information that you have on this battle is crazy incorrect. The picture at the top of this article is one of the trucks in my plt which was 3rd plt 1-5 cav 1st cav div.very bad write up and absolutely inacurate.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.113.8.138 (talk) 11:24, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  the army dismounts  

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message: From the content of this article, one would have no reason to know 2-7 was even there. Alpha Company was the most forward deployed company in the U.S. Army, 2 blocks east of the Imam Ali Mosque. 184.19.96.106 (talk) 00:41, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  2-7 Cavalry was at the vanguard.