"To ensure the safety of Friday's escort mission, they had to get a bulletproof vehicle. Leave alone the fact that there was only one car left now; even if the Opel travel car hadn't been damaged, these two vehicles without any bulletproof capability were simply wishful thinking to get Angel through the 200 kilometers of western highway to Krasa Town.
This time, an ISF security squad with a platoon and four Humvee armored vehicles was responsible for assisting. The ISF is an elite force of the Illigo Interim Government, armed and trained personally by the US Army, different from the ICDC's tribal armed rabble. The ISF is composed of former regular army personnel who defected from Sadam's government to join the coalition, and therefore, comparatively stronger in combat.
Their equipment is better than ICDC's; the US Army has allocated a large number of second-hand Humvees for their transportation.