The gunmen showered the checkpoint with accurate and devastating heavy and light weapons fire from several directions whilst simultaneously cutting off emergency services. A bomb that had been planted on the road beforehand wounded the driver and a nurse of an ambulance in an attack very similar to the one initiated earlier against the Iraqi Army.
By way of conclusion, much remains to be seen of just how much farther Sunni insurgents and the ISI can take matters in Iraq. Many will be watching to see just how much a of an ISI capability hike we might see on the back of the Abu Ghraib jailbreak, which will surely be a welcome bolster for this revived Sunni led insurgency. Regardless of how much effort - in the short to medium term - foreign training teams make to develop and enhance the capacity of Iraq’s security forces it remains clear that currently outside Baghdad the ISF ability to cope with developed simultaneous attacks is limited, but more importantly their ability to properly secure key facilities is particularly limited and it is this that the ISI will continue to exploit time and again.
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