Suicide Bombers In The Area

Another Ueventfull night at the South Towers.  We got to work yesterday to find out that there were Suicide bombers in our area.  We were told to say vigilant.  Everyone was on the alert.   I work at  A tower that overlooks the “greeters” or the  Gate.   The  Gate has A lot of traffic. ALL convoys and Military personnal come through these gates.  The South towers are the most active as we get most of the Action.  Morter Rounds seem to hit on the southside. 

 The south gate is outside the wire.  When I say outside the wire, it means they are outside the base. Inside the wire means iniside the base.   If anything happens to them, (the Marines standing Guard at the gate) they are basically on their own.  All we can do is provide firepower from the towers.   I was at  the tower (I cant say the number for security reasons) and was observing any suspicious cars coming off the highway.  We had reports that in front of another tower, Iraqis were digging holes..for unknown reasons.  

They caught An Iraqi not too long ago inside our base, pacing his steps from the Chowhall (cafeteria) to the local PX(store).  The reason they do that is beacause, they can relay that information to terrorist outside and thats how they know where to send the morters. Degrees, distances etc.   Spies on the inside relay this info. and in return terrorist position their morter rounds to hit particular parts of the base.  They are very smart and are only getting smarter.  Yes we do have spies so, thats why we are carefull what we say and how we say it.  How else do you think we get hit with mortors and how they know the exact locations to specific targets inside the wire. 

Nothing happed though.  Yesterday was very quite.  They have A huge sign near where I stay. 

It reads “Complacency Kills” 

We tend to get complacent when nothing happens for A while. When you least expect it ,thats when they strike.

Thats why they tell us Always stay vigilant………