Chapter 30
1200, 9 November 2004
Al Hareery School
Fallujah, Iraq
Inside the Al Hareery School, the Iraqis finished eating the last of the MREs and sat around listening to the battlefield sounds. Laith Hadeed didn’t post a lookout and no one inside saw the Marines approaching from the north.
During the night, the Battalion Intelligence Officer had analyzed situation reports from the first day and determined that insurgents had fortified every mosque and school in Fallujah as strongholds. Therefore, the Intelligence Officer identified the Al Hareery School as a Kilo Company objective, and he prepared a pre-planned attack for the school, which included use of the STA team for protecting the infantry from enemy snipers. Kilo Company paused two blocks from the Al Hareery School, and the c
