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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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 Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 4:45 pm Post subject: This is really horrible - this Iraqi guy documents his kills |
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This article is really chilling. Conflict in the 21st century eh? Urgh.
Conflict in Iraq: The sniper who shoots on video
Juba, an insurgent marksman in Baghdad, claims to have killed 37 US soldiers - and tapes of his alleged hits are a vital weapon in the propaganda war. Report by Patrick Cockburn and Jerome Taylor
American soldiers stand around in a busy Baghdad street unaware that they are being closely watched. A gunner stands in the turret of a US armoured vehicle guarding the men on foot. The sniper team watching the US troops from several hundred yards away is waiting for a clear shot. There is the sniper himself and a spotter who is also operating a video camera. For a few moments they are frustrated by the number of Iraqis milling around, obscuring the soldiers.
"People are around them," warns the spotter. "Want me to find another place?"
"No, no. Give me a moment," says the man with the gun. There is a pause and then the crash of a shot and the gunner in the vehicle is hit and slumps forward. "Allahu Akbar - God is Great," says the sniper.
So far so familiar. But what is setting the modern Iraqi apart from his predecessors in other conflicts is that having made his kill, he takes time to make a diary entry, and then later, if reports are to believed, logs it on his personal blog - a site visited by more than 33,000 people to date.
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Paddycakes
Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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| If the situation was reversed, and Iraq invaded America, you'd see Americans doing the same thing. However, Americans wouldn't be calling themselves "insurgents" or "terrorists" though, they'd be calling them selves herros, or freedom fighters or resistance fighters. It all depends on your perspective. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Paddycakes wrote: |
| If the situation was reversed, and Iraq invaded America, you'd see Americans doing the same thing. However, Americans wouldn't be calling themselves "insurgents" or "terrorists" though, they'd be calling them selves herros, or freedom fighters or resistance fighters. It all depends on your perspective. |
This is quite true. Americans are still very proud of their guerrilla tactics in their war of independence. But it's no less horrible to picture it - poor young soldiers being picked off and made into trophies.  Poor lads.
And from the same article:
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| America has its own sniper subculture. Its youth are fed on a diet of films that hero worship the warrior engaged in single combat. The Amazon.com store carries dozens of books about the history of sniping, the craft and techniques, how-to guides for sniping and worshipful paeans to sniper heroism. |
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:36 am Post subject: |
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Occupation s@cks. There is no infantry mission in Iraq. There is no Cavalry mission in Iraq. There is no Military mission in Iraq.
There is no Mission in Iraq.
It's all politics and it all Iraqi.
Once we captured Saddam and his two rat b@stard kids it was over.
Get out, if the Iraqi establishment supports international terrorism in any way shape or form (such as when they harbored Abu Nidal) then we return remove the head and leave. When we attack we suffer less casualties. It only takes a few days to topple a "Strong Man Dictator".
Never Occupy.
A democracy can't sustain prolonged support for an occupation.
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