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To: RenegadeGDI
This is a really interesting video. I wonder if this is Taliban getting hit in Afghanistan. The reason that I'm venturing this is because we were hitting cave entrances and going after individual guys that were running. And I think it is very telling that we were actually hitting individual people deliberately. This tells me that these people were not merely rank-and-file soldiers.

BTW, I use the term "we" when describing this strike because the guys that you hear have to be American. Nobody else talks like that.

5 posted on 12/07/2002 12:30:25 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I saw the first strike at the square building, S/E side. I wonder if they ever leveled the building as ordered.
19 posted on 12/07/2002 12:51:06 PM PST by B4Ranch
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
And I think it is very telling that we were actually hitting individual people deliberately. This tells me that these people were not merely rank-and-file soldiers.

Yep, it was definitely a hit on what we thought was important people. It does seem to be a waste to use cannon fire to hit individuals, though, because the delay time between firing (I assume that's what the yelling in the background was) and impact killed accuracy. Why didn't we use the smaller Gatling guns? That way we could hose down an area all at once. Is a 20mm projectile as fast as a 105mm round???

33 posted on 12/07/2002 1:25:14 PM PST by mikegi
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