Not sure about this one. The soldiers were operating within their
rules of engagement. Besides those men who were shot had a serious
amount of ordinance. Are you willing to sacrifice whomever would try
to arrest the arms dealers in this case? You have to consider that
always. If I was a platoon
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From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 1:32 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: opinions? sniping at weapons dealers
Am trying to decide what I think of this. Seems like the thing to do would
have been to arrest them but perhaps it was decided that hey the
Are they? That's what I am asking. I see your point, which was my second
thought. Anyone selling arms is unlikely to go quietly and hell no we wont
go might well translate to soldier casualties. Still troubles me to shot
them from 100 yards away though.
Dana
> Not sure about this one. The soldi
Am trying to decide what I think of this. Seems like the thing to do would
have been to arrest them but perhaps it was decided that hey there were
weapons there and there was too much danger to soldiersperhaps
defensible as I guess Iraq is still under military law.
I doubt it made us too many
Yeah,
I would prefer they were further away to make sure the soldiers were safe :)
Truth be told, 100 meters is really close.
Tim
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From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 2:32 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: opinions? sniping at
For snipers 100 meters is nothing. The current record was set in
January 2002 when a sniper shot a Taliban soldier from just under 2
miles distance.
From what I've read it was justifiable shooting. It was in a middle
of a busy market place. There were lots of weapons around. Not
somewhere whe
