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Video: US Army tank takes out Taliban sniper
Patriot Room ^ | February 11, 2009 | Clyde Middleton

Posted on 02/11/2009 8:49:43 PM PST by clyde_m

At about 45 seconds, the sniper ceases to exist.

(Excerpt) Read more at patriotroom.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: afghistan; taliban; tank; warporn

1 posted on 02/11/2009 8:49:43 PM PST by clyde_m
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To: clyde_m

Saucey language at the end


2 posted on 02/11/2009 8:54:00 PM PST by smith288 (Americans suffer from Stockholm Syndrone with the government)
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To: clyde_m

Bit of an overkill. 8<) But its been done before.

(Civil war monument across the street from my house commemorates when a Union rifled cannon on Pine Mountain killed a Confederate General about 3/4 mile away with one shot as he observed the battlefield.)


3 posted on 02/11/2009 8:54:31 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Hey, now.


4 posted on 02/11/2009 8:58:07 PM PST by patton (SPQA - the last, the least and the lost)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Some shots leave you with your mouth open.


5 posted on 02/11/2009 8:59:25 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: clyde_m

It’s real hard to hide from the thermal sights. Even harder to take cover from a 120 mm HEAT round.
this is pretty cool too and along similar lines: http://www.kvoa.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?ClipID1=3430230&h1=Incredible%20home%20invasion%20caught%20on%20camera&vt1=v&at1=News&d1=98134&LaunchPageAdTag=News&activePane=info&rnd=21959373


6 posted on 02/11/2009 9:04:45 PM PST by RC one
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To: clyde_m

Ouch! That had to hurt!

GOOD!


7 posted on 02/11/2009 9:09:25 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: clyde_m

That looks more like from Iraq


8 posted on 02/11/2009 9:10:27 PM PST by valkyry1
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To: OneWingedShark; patton; VRWCmember
Some shots leave you with your mouth open.

(I understand the more than just the general's mouth was left hanging open after the shot went through.)

Typical though when you think about it: We have three separate monuments or historical markers on the Kennesaw and Pine Mountain battlefields commemorating the one Confederate general that was shot - and yet the many thousand more common soldiers who were killed are all washed together into only a few markers.

9 posted on 02/11/2009 9:13:02 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: clyde_m

Looks like they’ll need a dustpan to take *that* particular terrorist into custody. :-)


10 posted on 02/11/2009 9:14:22 PM PST by DemforBush (Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
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To: RC one
I note that 2 rounds hit the windscreen directly at the driver's side.

Apparently it didnt take out the driver.

Note to self, invest in the new 6.8 caliber bullets since the .223 dont seems to have done much in the video unless the homeowner was using a pissass .22 handgun.

11 posted on 02/11/2009 9:21:03 PM PST by prophetic (God, let 0Bama and his evil plans for this country fail & let him be utterly disgraced like HAMAN!!)
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To: clyde_m

A guy I knew in ‘Nam did something like that to an NVA sniper with a 90mm HEAT round [all he had left]. Said the sniper had a real surprised look on what was left of his face.


12 posted on 02/11/2009 9:26:15 PM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

I just saw that story on the History Channel recently.


13 posted on 02/11/2009 9:27:56 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: smith288

Not saucey — spirited.


14 posted on 02/11/2009 9:39:28 PM PST by 353FMG (Trust in Glock.)
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To: clyde_m

Cool stuff. I wonder if the Virgins get to put the little bitty pieces back together.


15 posted on 02/11/2009 9:48:20 PM PST by unkus
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To: clyde_m

I’ll bet that the cost to kill each freaking Taliban or Sheethead is running into the MILLIONS of dollars EACH.

Maybe we ought to think about just BUYING the bastards.


16 posted on 02/11/2009 9:48:30 PM PST by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: clyde_m

17 posted on 02/11/2009 9:52:56 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: clyde_m

Mission accomplished.

Good job.


18 posted on 02/12/2009 4:35:59 AM PST by Quix (LEADRs SAY FRM 1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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