Actually, they were Republican Guard units, who loomed up out of a sandstorm and went face to face with a convoy that was tasked with building a path of passage forward. From the description of one journalist the visibility was only 20 yards, and the pickups were as hampered by the sandstorm as the US vehicles, but they undertook an attack anyway and were decimated int he process. Sorry if that sounds brutal. The convoy spent twenty-four hours fending off various assaults. A brutal day.

A