attacked them with small arms and machine gun fire. the soldiers then got back in their trucks and retreated about a mile before they were ambushed begin. the attackers had trapped the the americans in a kill zone where they could envelope them in fire. the two separate ambush sites could explain why sergeant la david's body were found more than a mile from where the other dead and injured troops were evacuated by hospital. so we had early reporting this ambush was a result of a massive intelligence failure. that is being investigated by the military and fbi. these new reports suggest some of the specifics about where that failure might have turned fatal. there is a lot that is hard to get our heads around about the