This is purley speculation, and as it's a film it can't really be deciphered too well, but above someone posts that the Iraqis would have attacked the downed chopper in the night and then kill all of the crash survivors.
A reason why the Iraqi's may elect not to attack in the night is simple, and has two parts.
Night Vision.
Had the Iraqi's began a movment towards the helicopter, and not known that the radio was down, they could have been expecting CAS (Close Air Support) for the downed Huey, probably in the form of the AH-64 Apache, which has all sorts of equipment to make it combat ready for night. Also, many black hawks can be combat loaded and made very effective, and come in on night runs also. While these can be used in the day time (and they were in the film) at night the enemy would not be able to easily escape the CAS, where as in the day they can move quicker and get closer to any safe-havens.
Secondly,
The chopper crew could have had nvgs, and as the effectively blind iraqis would start to stumble towards the chopper in the darkness, they would have been easy pickens for any well trained SAW gunner or anyone with an M-16 and moderate marksman skills.
I think a better question would be why the Iraqis all stood in a general cluster, instead of trying to send units to outflank and destroy.
Of course it's all speculation.
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