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Russia tests ray gun that can BLIND enemies as it steps up fight to WIPE OUT Islamic State
express.co.uk ^ | 04:27, Fri, Oct 9, 2015 | Scott Campbell

Posted on 10/22/2015 12:05:20 PM PDT by Trumpinator

The weapon could be used in Putin's brutal onslaught against ISIS which was stepped up yesterday as Russian jets smashed 27 jihadi hotspots.

Moscow has launched a ruthless campaign on the terror group in a bid to wipe them out forever.

Russian airstrikes were said to have hit 71 armoured vehicles, 30 other vehicles, 19 command facilities, 2 communication centres, 23 depots with fuel and ammunition, 6 plants used to make car bombs, several artillery pieces and training camps.

Russia's bombings have weakened the morale of militants and have sent thousands on the run, according to the country's defence ministry.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: blind; isis; jihad; putin; putinsbuttboys; raygun; russia; syria
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To: 2harddrive

Using lasers that BLIND enemy troops VIOLATES international law. Period.

Go tell them how you really feel.


41 posted on 10/22/2015 12:29:35 PM PDT by patro (Phrogs Forever)
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To: bgill
will Putin get bad press if/when he bombs the hospitals these guys are hiding out in?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/22/three-syrian-hospitals-bombed-since-russian-airstrikes-began-doctors-say

Four Syrian hospitals bombed since Russian airstrikes began, doctors say

Latest attack on Idlib hospital left at least 12 people dead and comes less than two weeks after a US attack on Kunduz hospital, Afghanistan

42 posted on 10/22/2015 12:30:15 PM PDT by Trumpinator (You are all fired!!! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!)
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To: JimRed

The Koran. Braille edition.


43 posted on 10/22/2015 12:30:50 PM PDT by patro (Phrogs Forever)
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To: DoughtyOne

“Inhumane” to the inhuman monsters of ISIS? Let them take it up with allah.


44 posted on 10/22/2015 12:32:03 PM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (Donald Trump: New York City Liberal)
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To: 2harddrive

And killing or maiming them does not?


45 posted on 10/22/2015 12:33:14 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: Trumpinator

Well blimey. Not sure why they’d want to do such things rather than use the old fashioned shoot them dead method.


46 posted on 10/22/2015 12:34:52 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: JimRed

Why not blind and dead? Actually, since they believe the moon god will give them 72 virgins if they die while killing for him, blinding them might be a worse punishment, though perhaps castration should be added.


47 posted on 10/22/2015 12:35:24 PM PDT by Above My Pay Grade (Donald Trump: New York City Liberal)
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To: erkelly

“And killing or maiming them does not?”

Nope. That is what war is all about!


48 posted on 10/22/2015 12:35:33 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: DoughtyOne

But, in the case of these murderous Islamist who teach their children to hate and fight, having hundreds of these guys bumping into walls might be a vital lesson to the youth mot to go do what these guys did.


49 posted on 10/22/2015 12:35:34 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: Trumpinator

Thank you for the explanatory comments. That was an interesting read.

What it does say, is that Russia didn’t come into this conflict to play games. It came to kick ass.

The message will spread like wildfire.

Blindness, and I get no Virgins?


50 posted on 10/22/2015 12:35:55 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: FreeAtlanta

I agree with that.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3351727/posts?page=50#50


51 posted on 10/22/2015 12:36:38 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.)
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To: Trumpinator

There is a sniper rifle sticking out of every rat hole in Syria.

But, using a ray gun to suppress them is just not sporting. /sarc


52 posted on 10/22/2015 12:38:26 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: txrefugee; elhombrelibre

“Gee, this doesn’t sound at all like Obummer’s feeble one-bomber attacks on ISIS. They say they want to die for Allah, and Putin is happy to oblige. More power to him.”

More hero worship.... /s


53 posted on 10/22/2015 12:40:45 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: 2harddrive

the geneva conventions do not apply to terrorists...


54 posted on 10/22/2015 12:41:08 PM PDT by ghost of stonewall jackson (If they question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied.)
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To: Fitzy_888

There are some people here who just like those people there, and that is all there is to it. Maybe it is the androgynous thrill of all that black and those masks? Lindsey Graham fantasies of being captured, ‘handled roughly’, and finally rescued by his dashing mentor, in a Batman and Robin, neocon redux?


55 posted on 10/22/2015 12:45:03 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (ObamaCons: Deformed and venomous issue resulting from intimacies between Obama and receptive neocons)
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To: Above My Pay Grade
though perhaps castration should be added.

You wouldn't believe the grief I got for suggesting we have our snipers aim for the small head, not the big one.

56 posted on 10/22/2015 12:46:55 PM PDT by null and void (Reality 1, Liberal Academics 0)
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To: 2harddrive

“Using lasers that BLIND enemy troops VIOLATES international law. Period”

And lopping people’s heads off doesn’t???


57 posted on 10/22/2015 12:48:26 PM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: ghost of stonewall jackson

“the geneva conventions do not apply to terrorists...”

True. But this is not part of the Geneva Conventions, but rather a 1980 UN agreement on use of blinding laser weapons. I am not aware that there are ANY exceptions, such as for use against non-signing parties, savages, or terrorists.


58 posted on 10/22/2015 12:48:57 PM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: Trumpinator

This is from October 9th, old outdated BS....


59 posted on 10/22/2015 12:56:16 PM PDT by 9422WMR ("Ignorance can be cured by education, but stupidity is forever.")
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To: JimRed

Apparently the weapon only temporarily blinds, not permanently.

However the effect of troops being permanently blinded (rather than killed), as inhumane as it may be, will have a heck of a demoralizing impact on those troops who aren’t blinded, and those who may be thinking of signing up.

Dying makes one a martyr. Blinding robs one of an incredibly valuable human function, and can have the impact of reducing one from a fearsome warrior to an object of pity and a burden on others.

Anyone else remember Wesley’s “To the pain!” threat from Princess Bride?


60 posted on 10/22/2015 12:58:44 PM PDT by tanknetter
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