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2008-04-24 Iraq

BS Alert: US snipers accused of targeting civilians in Sadr City

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-24 12:02|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Well, it's US snipers, they either need some practice or higher caliber weapons because there's an awful lot of their supposed targets walking around yapping about it.

Posted by tu3031 2008-04-24 12:47|| 2008-04-24 12:47|| Front Page Top

#2 My guess is that we will start seeing a LOT more stories like this now that Balil Hussein is free. He is a propagandist, it is what he does.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-04-24 12:47|| 2008-04-24 12:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Warning: "American bullets." make muslim penises shrivel and fall off.

Posted by ed 2008-04-24 13:06|| 2008-04-24 13:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Also adding to the BS level of this story, is the fact that the Iraqi Army is switching over to the M-16/M-4 family as its main assault rifle. How do you tell the difference between a 5.56 round fired from a M-4 in the hands of an American or an Iraqi?

Posted by Shieldwolf 2008-04-24 15:51|| 2008-04-24 15:51|| Front Page Top

#5 My guess is that we will start seeing a LOT more stories like this now that Balil Hussein is free. He is a propagandist,

Exactly. If a tactic is working unusualy well, the AIF and their useful idiots here start squealing about atrocities.

I call BS. Our snipers are better than that. Most of the casualties are probably from mookies enforcers in Sadr city.

Posted by N guard 2008-04-24 16:08|| 2008-04-24 16:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Don't US snipers use M14's or some variant? Those shoot a 7.62mm round (7.62 51mm according to Wikipedia). IANAGE (I am not a gun expert) but it would seem to me that it would be VERY difficult to tell the difference between a 7.62 bullet from an AK-47 and an M14.
Not to mention, as other people have, that US snipers a) don't target young kids and b) they generally hit the body part (read: head or chest) that they are aiming at.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-04-24 16:24|| 2008-04-24 16:24|| Front Page Top

#7 AK 47 uses a 7.62X39 it's the same bullet but different length of cartridge, (Lower powder charge, same bore)

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-04-24 19:00|| 2008-04-24 19:00|| Front Page Top

#8 and of course the ~~lying Sadr mouthpieces~~ doctors know it was a US sniper because the "cartidges" removed from the wounds were...uh....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-04-24 19:05|| 2008-04-24 19:05|| Front Page Top

#9 7.62 translates into 30 caliber, .311-.312 to be exact, but a .308(30-30) bullet will shoot quite well in a .312 bore, (Yep, tried it)

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-04-24 19:14|| 2008-04-24 19:14|| Front Page Top

#10 If any 7.62 NATO round fired from an M-14 or other US sniper rifle is found in the body of a child it is a spent bullet or a ricochet. Two rounds in a living carcass is very unlikely. And if in a child it's even more unlikely.

It's not like we are talking about hitting a good sized elk or deer with enough mass to stop a soft-point bullet.

Posted by tipover 2008-04-24 19:25|| 2008-04-24 19:25|| Front Page Top

#11 I know it won't happen, but I'd really like someone like General Petreaus, when questioned about this, to say, "It's not American snipers. If our snipers shot these people, they'd be dead."

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-04-24 19:30|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-04-24 19:30|| Front Page Top

#12 "Random shots usually hit anywhere, but these people have wounds on specific parts of the body ... like their stomachs and legs,"
AK47s only hit non-specific parts?

Posted by Darrell 2008-04-24 20:02|| 2008-04-24 20:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Legs are traditional Muslim targets. I don't know about stomachs -- this could be a replacement for the coal roasting.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-04-24 21:18|| 2008-04-24 21:18|| Front Page Top

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