Posted on 10/11/2002 6:54:58 AM PDT by seamus
Could be. Officials are suggesting there could be several vehicles and snipers involved. Could it also be some satanistic initiation rite? After all, the Tarot card, Michael, the "I am God", the B&W pattern etc... Lots of symbolisms but we might just be the ones stretching it a little too far, LOL!
Traditional slang for cop cars?
those were the days my friends....those were the days
Also, in Tarot, there are Kings, Queens, Knaves, Pages.. differentiated age groups. Additionally, the airsoftwierdos seem very focused on one-shot kills.
As far as black/white, if there are two contestants/teams from the airsoftplayers group, they've likely long ago given up internet communications and might only know when it's their turn based on skin color of the last victim.
The Indian guy throws the chess idea off, but many Indians are as dark as black people.
Where can the stats on each killing be found, expeditiously?
The round in use here is the .223 (.223 inches US)--also referenced 5.56 Nato (5.56 mm). Small diameter round with a large cartridge--lots of velocity. Standard round for the M16 also known as the AR15; also fired in Mini-14 which is an easier configuration to use than either the AR15 or M16; also somewhere on this thread is another bolt action weapon chambered for use with this round which looks like it would make a very good sniper weapon to shoot.
AK47 and the M-14 use a 7.62 mm round--the Sovs have a little different kind of cartridge but I believe their round and our round interchange. However there are also standard issue AK47's that are chambered for use with the 5.56mm NATO round.
TO CHANGE SUBJECTS: Why do we have so much trouble with this event--it is exactly precisely the operation depicted in an Al Quada training manual we captured and which also appears in their training video which we also captured--you set up a shooter in the back of a small truck--in the training video, a pickup with a canopy; in the manual a small van. In the back door of the canopy or the van, you have a small custom folding window cutout which drops down to open the view for the shooter.
The driver acts as both spotter and driver; the shooter is in the back on a mattress which raises his level and the tripod level above the back of the tailgate of the pickup or the van. The driver sets up the shot; and then drives off at a slow normal pace merging with traffic. The escape route is planned to avoid freeways and other highways that can be shut down. If the range to target at the time of shooting is two or three hundred yards, no one around the target is going to even hear the shot much less identify where it came from.
Today, the shooter was too close and people around the target heard the shot. It is not clear from witness testimony whether or not any witness really identified the shooter vehicle--looks to me like somebody in a white van got scared that he was being shot at and took evasive action which was misunderstood; no one knows for sure what the shooter vehicle really looked like.
Why are they shooting only at the DC, Maryland, Virgina area? Because they don't want to give real evidence that it is the Moslems doing it. Osama went a long time before admitting he was involved in the September 11 attack for the same reason. They are concerned about what we would do in response. Although I am not sure why. Even if we armed everyone in America, I don't know what we could do to counterattack on the spot. We might nuke Mecca; we might bulldoze the Temple Mount; maybe that is the counteraction they are concerned about.
When we saw the training manual depiction of this operation, we thought this would be difficult to devise a tactic to respond with--looks to me as though the enemy can use this more or less at will. Sooner or later they will have casualties but the fact that we catch one or two of them will not put them out of business.
"We're asking everyone who lives in metro area or has family in area to go to our prayer thread and sign on so we can pray for you."
".............. go to our prayer thread .............so we can pray for you."
The question was simple, what is so magical about your prayer thread. Are those that don't have access to the internet or Free Republic or are otherwise not aware of your prayer thread on their own? Why don't you just say a blanket prayer for everyone in the area? But now, what your saying is that those that don't have access to your thread are covered by your prayers but Freepers from the area will have to go to your thread to be covered? Is there a collection plate involved in this somewhere?
It's just that this sounds like something out of the Andy Griffith Show or a Ray Stevens song, that's all.
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