[lit-ideas] Re: Iraqi Snipers. Any comment or helpful info?
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:46:22 -0800
And where did they learn that from?
Yet another example of escalating effects. The US uses snipers and night-vision goggles, so
now the Arabs are using... snipers and night-vision goggles.
There's a $5,000 bounty for shooting an American.
Bush is sending 30,000 more targets.
yrs,
andreas
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Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 10:19 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Iraqi Snipers. Any comment or helpful info?
Okay, you military types -- is this biased? Spun? Realistic? I'd love to
hear any reaction at all ....
Julie Krueger, wondering what I've just read.
<<"People are just tired of this. They're frustrated," said Sgt. Benjamin
Iobst, who lives at Sword. "It's like trying to find a fly in a forest."
<snip>
The U.S. military leadership in Baghdad has played down the influx of foreign
fighters into Iraq, but many soldiers and Marines in Anbar said they believe
the best snipers from all over the Middle East travel to Iraq for the chance
to drop an American with a single shot.
"We don't even have snipers that good," Iobst said.>>
_Iraqi insurgent snipers gaining skill - Yahoo! News_
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/iraq_skilled_snipers)
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