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2006-08-20 Iraq

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Posted by ed 2006-08-20 09:54|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 These guys are palookas who don't deserve the title of sniper. Now, Charles Whitman - that's what I call a sniper.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-08-20 10:27|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-08-20 10:27|| Front Page Top

#2 The ones that died are true martyrs.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2006-08-20 11:15|| 2006-08-20 11:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Not exactly a "scoop" in foreign internal defense (FID) curriculum, but the undisputable antedote for enemy snipers are your own very well trained own snipers. Where were they?

Posted by Besoeker 2006-08-20 11:45|| 2006-08-20 11:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Now, Charles Whitman - that's what I call a sniper.

Yep, in some sick way.
Compare and contrast the actions of the police in Texas with the actions of the Colorodo police during the Columbine horror. Once the 2 Texas coppers cleared the killing zone they went straight up the tower and never looked back. Didn't do much getting ready.

Posted by 6 2006-08-20 12:34|| 2006-08-20 12:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes, and and one of the coppers blew him away with a shotgun, from Wikipedia;

Which of the officers actually killed Whitman has been hotly disputed as both later claimed that they had been the one to kill him, but by any measure McCoy fired his shotgun twice, and Martinez fired six rounds from his revolver before taking the shotgun and approaching the limp Whitman and firing again point-blank

Well done Officer Martinez!

Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-08-20 13:17|| 2006-08-20 13:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Funny how the mind works - the first time I went to Austin, about 1990 - as soon as I saw the tower, I said, "Charles Whitman" and the Texans in the car were impressed. My daughter graduated from UT three years ago, and the almost-ex-USMC reservist is still enrolled.

Posted by Bobby 2006-08-20 17:17|| 2006-08-20 17:17|| Front Page Top

#7 What kind of "snipers" kill 16 and injure 230?

Posted by gromgoru 2006-08-20 19:29|| 2006-08-20 19:29|| Front Page Top

#8 The 230 are from the ensuing panic. Shooting into a packed crowd does not a sniper make. Just some yahoo [Gullivers Travel type] spraying a crowd at a greater than normal distance. However, it is MSM which can not tell the difference between a tank and an APC or self-propelled artillery. The ever more traditional - fake but true.

Posted by Unimble Elmomort5902 2006-08-20 22:01|| 2006-08-20 22:01|| Front Page Top

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