As for your thoughts on ambushing the same unit: I disagree. Units have assigned area of operations. I would suggest targeting the same unit would be relatively easy.

Regardless, in no way am I interested in disrespecting anyone and after reading your thought, I contend my article maintains that premise. I am simply presenting sides and facts that are already out there as noted by my notations.

There is a debate as to the motivation behind both of these attacks. Some say it’s as simple as well executed insurgent operations. However others, including al-Qaeda in Iraq, say both ambushes were in retaliation for the rape and murder of a young Iraqi girl and her family in 2006, three months before the first ambush, also west of al Mahmudiyah.”

This is wrong and disrespectful to the American Soldiers who were killed in these attacks.

Its wrong because none of the neighbors of the family that was murdered knew that Americans were responsible, they thought the family had angered the terrorists somehow and had been killed as a result. The notion that the terrorists were able to ascertain which specific unit was responsible for her rape and killing before anyone else knew, and then find out exactly where that same unit would later be in order to plan and carry out the terrorist attack, is highly improbable. Finally, the fact that Al Qaeda announced their terrorist attack was some form of retribution for her rape and murder AFTER the western media broke the story of the rape, makes it seem as if they weren’t aware of it in the first place and were trying to take advantage of the situation. Check the media reports from last year, all of this info is readily available.

Oh, and it is disrespectful in my opinion because suggesting the attacks were a result of a supposed American war crime is more or less justifying the terrorist attacks you detail in this article.