Perfect Killing Method, but Clear Targets Are Few (NYT)

[spindrifter]

By C. J. CHIVERS
Published: November 22, 2006

KARMA, Iraq, Nov. 16 — The sniper team left friendly lines hours ahead of the sun. They were a group of marines walking through the chill, hoping to be in hiding before the mullahs’ predawn call to prayer would urge this city awake.

They reached an abandoned building. Two marines stepped inside, swept the ground floor and signaled to the others to follow them to the flat roof, where they crawled to spots along its walls in which they had previously chiseled out small viewing holes.

Out came their gear: a map, spotting scopes, binoculars, two-way radios and stools. The snipers took their places, peering through the holes, watching an Iraqi neighborhood from which insurgents often fire. They were hoping an insurgent would try to fire on this day. The waiting began.

If the recent pattern was any indication, the waiting could last a long time. This was this sniper team’s 30th mission in Anbar Province since early August. They had yet to fire a shot.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/22/world/middleeast/22sniper.html?hp&ex=1164171600&en=2b7d480d67b3cc28&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[NOLADEM]

1. Too bad our enemies find the opposite is true

[mike_c]

4. they are not our enemies-- they're just people defending their city...

...their neighborhoods, and their families from foreign occupation.

[Zhade]

6. The Iraqi people are not our enemies.

They wouldn't harm us if we hadn't invaded them based on lies about a nonexistent threat.

(Sure, there are some using terrorism, but the people as a whole are NOT our enemies.)

[Bitwit1234]

2. I might be stupid but

how can we win the war or disable the enemy in Iraq when we don't really know who they are.

Just think most of the muslims in Iraq dress alike. They usually have no distinguishing features, clothes, etc. How can our troops tell an enemy from friends.

That is why we could not win in VietNam...We could not fight an invisible enemy and that's why we won't win in Iraq.

[Monkeyman]

3. In Nam we did know the enemy

In Iraq they have no idea. Victor C wore uniforms

[Bobbie Jo]

5. Is there really a "Karma" Iraq?...Oh the irony....n/t

[Octafish]

7. Interesting topic from New York Whore Times on 22 November 1963.

President Kennedy was killed by a sniper team 43 years ago today.

The damn New York Times has participated in that fact's coverup.

Like the shooters in Dealey Plaza, these pseudo-journalists are traitors.