Posted on 01/22/2015 12:51:44 PM PST by rickyrikardo
In "American Sniper," the wildly successful yet controversial film thattells the story of Chris Kyle, said to be the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history, the titular marksman has a clear foe: A mysterious insurgent dubbed "Mustafa," believed to be a former Syrian Olympian.
While the film portrays Mustafa as a mighty rival to Kyle, in the autobiographical book upon which the film is based, Mustafa earns just one paragraph.“From the reports we heard, Mustafa was an Olympics marksman who was using his skills against Americans and Iraqi police and soldiers," Kyle wrote. "Several videos had been made and posted, boasting of his ability. I never saw him, but other snipers later killed an Iraqi sniper we think was him.”
It's not clear who Mustafa was or if he ever existed, but there were similar legends of Iraqi insurgent snipers. Probably the most famous was that of "Juba," a sniper with the Sunni insurgent group Islamic Army in Iraq, whose exploits were touted in several videos released between 2005 and 2007. Some attributed scores, even hundreds, of kills to the sniper, and accounts from the time suggest that he got deep under U.S. troops' skins.
"He's good," Spec. Travis Burress, a sniper based in Camp Rustamiyah near Baghdad, told the Guardian in 2005. "Every time we dismount, I'm sure everyone has got him in the back of their minds. He's a serious threat to us."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
After the legend spread to American troops, it’s likely the insurgent side simply strung together a diverse compendium of kills and then attributed them all to “Juba”...
The MSM and the left need their own sniper hero.
RE: Iraqi Sniper: The legendary insurgent who claimed to have killed scores of American troops
Time for Michael Moore to make his movie....
Would be perfect off Moore. The Muslim snipers proudly targeted female Americans at every opportunity.
While snipers in Baghdad did have Friday afternoon wine and cheese get togethers for networking, social mingling and technical interchanges; these were not all that well attended, especially from the Al Qaeda crowd. Therefore, it’s unlikely that Kyle and his opposite numbers ever met or that they could have ever known that they were shooting at one another.
It’s a movie, people.
I’m not sure what the issue is here. Mustafa, Juba...? Who gives a rip? Is this another attempt to discredit the accuracy of the movie?
Fact, there was/were enemy snipers who were killing our people and allies, and posting the kills. This is in the movie.
Of course it is. You have some metrosexual twit who writes for the Washington Post bloviating about a subject of which he is profoundly ignorant. All he knows is the political spin that the Left wants to put on this and he gleefully goes to work.
I stopped nitpicking war movies a long time ago because much of the so called inaccuracy is done for dramatic effect or for cinematic reasons. It's a movie. John Mirus explained this too me and I have enjoyed the entertainment aspects much more since I was enlightened.
Yup, just like the Iranians have a drone superior to any of ours, the fight for Baghdad was the “Mother of All Battles,” etc., etc.
It’s part of the muslim mindset: Reality does not matter, but you have to portray yourself as superior. Of course, that falls apart when reality intrudes. This leads to rage. Tis the nature of a “shame” (dishonor) based culture such as found in most of the Middle East. (The West is a guilt based culture.)
I’m surprised that Muzzie snipers aren’t operating in this country yet.Look at the chaos those two wannabees caused in DC.
Here’s their hero. I watched this last night, very sad.
At least the soldier didn’t desert like Bergdahl, seemed to be a good kid caught in a horrible situation:
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/kill-team/film.html
“The Kill Team goes behind closed doors to tell the harrowing story of Specialist Adam Winfield, a 21-year-old infantryman in Afghanistan who — with the help of his father Chris — attempted to alert the military to heinous war crimes being committed by his platoon. Tragically, his father’s pleas for help went unheeded. Once Adam’s fellow soldiers got wind of what he’d done, they threatened to silence him — permanently.
“Forced to choose between his conscience and his own survival, Spc. Winfield found himself drawn into a moral abyss, faced with a split-second decision that would change his life forever. With extraordinary access to the key individuals involved in the case including Adam, his parents, his no-nonsense defense attorney, and his startlingly forthright compatriots, The Kill Team is an intimate look at the personal stories often lost inside larger coverage of what became the longest war in U.S. history.”
I just saw the movie. I have also read the book. I think the movie pretty much stuck to the script but there was some added drama, which is to be expected.
Bingo!
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