The set up a meeting with some of the local elders or tribal leaders to try to discuss this. this is a group that was known to be sympathetic to isis but they are trying to push in, so that's not just using military force but also trying to do diplomacy. they are specially trained to do this. what happened is they going to do this and the supports that they were set up for an ambush, they tried to delay them when they were having this meeting so that when they left on a little bit of a delay from when they were supposed to depart, they got hit, and it makes a particularly vulnerable in this ar...