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2005-07-10 Afghanistan/South Asia

Tales from the Crossfire Gazette (Sunday edition)

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Posted by Steve White 2005-07-10 00:05|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I needed good news! This cheered me right up.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-07-10 01:00|| 2005-07-10 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Ah, the Crossfire Gazette - just right for a Sunday morning, now, where's me cup of tea...

Posted by Tony (UK) 2005-07-10 02:01|| 2005-07-10 02:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Ya gotta admit these guys got style.

Posted by raptor 2005-07-10 07:09|| 2005-07-10 07:09|| Front Page Top

#4 It's just doing it by the numbers that cracks me up. Surely the perps must realise that when the RAB (or their lookalikes) go to recover arms and ammunition it's an 'oh-oh' moment.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2005-07-10 08:02|| 2005-07-10 08:02|| Front Page Top

#5 I nominate "Martyrs Intellectual Graveyard" as possibly the smallest plot of land as well as most ironic name

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-07-10 09:44|| 2005-07-10 09:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, it depends, Tony. After all, the whole crossfire thing is just a cover. What the tell the press and what they tell the crook might be very different. They might have shot the guy right when they captured him. Or maybe were "transfering" him to another facility (the morgue).

For all I know, there's only one shutter gun in the whole country. Has anyone checked the serial number?

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-07-10 09:46|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-07-10 09:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Hey, whatever works. I just wish that they could start up a branch in the NWFP...and a few other places.

Posted by PBMcL 2005-07-10 11:49|| 2005-07-10 11:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Ok Jackal - lightbulb coming on here.

What on earth is a shutter-gun anyhow?

Posted by Tony (UK) 2005-07-10 12:00|| 2005-07-10 12:00|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't know, Tony. I did a google for images of one once, and all I got were photographic gizmos and paintball guns.

Posted by Darth VAda 2005-07-10 13:04|| 2005-07-10 13:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Well done, Steve. I see the Gazette is in good hands on the weekend. I've looked all over for a good shuttergun description, but no luck. Till otherwise disproved, I'm treating it as a homemade zipgun.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-07-10 16:12|| 2005-07-10 16:12|| Front Page Top

#11 I believe a "shutter gun" is a shotgun.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-07-10 19:20|| 2005-07-10 19:20|| Front Page Top

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