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Iraq
Coalition warplanes pound ISIS snipers in western Mosul
2015-05-24
[Rudaw] US-led coalition Arclight airstrikes targeted a kerosene refinery on the western Dijla front in western djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
 on Sunday, destroying the facility, Captain Dilshad Maulood, a media officer to the Zeravani Peshmerga command, told Rudaw.

"With the help of our intelligence information, the Arclight airstrikes successfully managed to destroy the factory ISIS snipers had taken advantage of; here, they frequently targeted Peshmerga from the factory," Maulood said.

"A number of the ISIS bully boyz were killed inside the factory," he added.
Posted by:trailing wife

#8  Artillery is the best way to fight snipers

Airplanes are just artillery with fins.
Posted by: SteveS   2015-05-24 23:02  

#7  Mortars are the best sniper program.

No finesse, though.
Posted by: badanov   2015-05-24 22:06  

#6  The best counter-sniper program involves your own snipers.
Posted by: Besoeker   2015-05-24 21:44  

#5  Exactly how you pound snipers from a warplane?

Artillery is the best way to fight snipers, assuming the building is dispensable. Nobody has to get within sniper range, and the bombs (by definition) can miss by yards and still put the sniper out of commission, whether by injuring or killing him.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2015-05-24 21:21  

#4  Surely if the building is thoroughly pounded, those in and on it will share the pain.
Posted by: trailing wife   2015-05-24 17:52  

#3  If fishes are acting refractory,
Say, sniping at one from a factory,
Bombs might serve your purpose;
Though deaders won't surface,
It's otherwise quite satisfactory.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2015-05-24 17:44  

#2  Everyman is a sniper these days G.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-05-24 16:09  

#1  Exactly how you pound snipers from a warplane?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-05-24 14:45  

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