Posted on 07/12/2003 6:49:49 PM PDT by youknow
his attacker strolled up to him from behind and shot him in the back of the neck with a hand gun before escaping into the crowd of a nearby bus station.
sounds different from a Dragunov sniper. Could be a single Uber-killer, but given a hostile, or at least "wait and see" mood among the populace, I think opportunistic richard-heads could be the culprits.
Remember "The Princess Bride" and "The Dread Pirate Roberts" who was actually a whole series of individuals? Each one of whom was a series guy?
Roger that ... especially since GySgt Hathcock died from the long term effects of the wounds that he suffered in the Nam a little more than six years ago. Nice that you would remember him tho.
didn't read the whole article- saw the part about the Dragunov, and then the bit about the troop capped by a "walk" by. from that amount of reading, didn't think it pointed at one guy.
I've given this some thought and lol we have another mortar man on the thread other than me so you don't have to take my word for it. Believe me, I'm thinking about it. The IRA (in Ireland) have perfected the one use, throwaway mortar. Its ballistics are worked out beforehand and its accuracy is left to that chance.
Practically speaking, I don't see how a mortar could be employed to reasonable effect without some training involved. Would an FO be needed? Yes and no. If the mortar man were knowledgeable in his craft he could expect a reasonable amount of accuracy regardless of whether he had an FO or not. Another thing that he could do is to adjust his fire on a target totally away from his "real" target until his guns were "registered". As long as this registration was accomplished within certain parameters his gun would be accurate when traversed onto the other target. I'm not saying this is the case.
But if I were a mortar man playing the Che Guevara role in Iraq, I'm sure I could land a few rounds on my target.
I'll never forget him.
Well, not all the killings. And I'm not agitating for that. But at least two sounded eerily similar. Those two could've been done by the same guy. If you were an insurgent commander, would it not make sense to use the guy as propaganda material? He's "made his bones" so to speak. This is only suspicion on my part. It will probably turn out not to be the case. But should we rule that out? Should we not turn resources on this the same as we would on the "Beltway Sniper" for instance?
Yes we should. Send Moose to Iraq.
The opposition will not win like this. I hope you understand my opposition to your posts. I really respect many of the things you have to say and have really appreciated your posts in the past (read: The Clinton Past). But I disagree with you on this. Please don't take it personal- in the future, we may wind up allies on a topic. But on this topic, I feel you are altogether wrong and since you are a poster that carries much weight, I will oppose you whenever you are a proponent to this attitude.
The war in Iraq was the right thing to do. That is my two cents. I know it disagrees with your two cents and that is precisely why I posted it.
As a practical matter we are considered infidels by a religion that commands adherants to initiate war against those who do not believe in it. This has been established by posts documenting it here. We are also occupying a country where a significant peoportion of the population are what we refer to as terrorists. There is no way to determine who is who. It is easy for someone to sit off 500 yards with a silenced rifle and pick off our people one at a time daily. Who are we to hit in return? If we manage to find one of the snipers, he is apt to believe being killed is an act applauded by Allah. That is the way for our enemies to fight this war to drive us out. It would be wise for the opposition to train hundreds of such people and fight smart.
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