IRAQ: The Mystery Sniper of Najaf

StrategyPage.com ^ | April 28, 2004

[hoot2]

"An "Iraqi" sniper. Sure."

ok bob. today, you're n "honorary iraqi..."

[hoot2]

"I love how this article assumes that it's a native Iraqi sniper."

yup, they just can't "think outside of the box".

[Joe Boucher]

Neither do I. I think it is probably several of our snipers, hunters. Doing their jobs wonderfully. And if the insurgents think it is one of their own, so be it.

Fact is some of these snipers we have are really very good.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

If our troops have the city surrounded, how can a sniper get in and out??? Something fishy here.

Would not the fact that he doesn't need to get in and out lead one to think that he is in fact an Iraqi?

[Dog]

My guess would be SAS..

[Poodlebrain]

With all of those helicopters flying around it would be easy to have sniper teams rappel onto a rooftop.

[litehaus]

What's that T-Shirt say? Sniper Bar n Grill---One Shot, One Kill...........

[kittymyrib]

Our Texas and Dixie lads still learn to shoot at an early age, I'm proud to say. When the 10 yr. old boys came to school flushed with excitement at getting their first deer, this teacher always let them tell the class about the shot, and we all were generous with our praise. Some of those boys are in Iraq now, and I'm comforted knowing that they are really good shots because their dads and grandpas taught them well, and I take a small amount of pride in knowing that I wasn't the typical wimpy school marm who would have tried to make them ashamed of their 2nd Amendment birthright. I always emphasized to them that that's what keeps us free.

[vanmorrison]

...Well done, good and brave soldier!

[CHICAGOFARMER]

TO: United States Marines April 2, 2004
Pentagon War Department
1400 Pentagon
Washington D.C. 20350

Dear Sir:

I am 58 years old, and still young enough to fight for our country. I am a twelfth generation of patriot, whose family lead the American Revolution fight, and battle of the wilderness forward. I am a retired corporate executive with many successes in life ready to serve the principles my family and founders fought for in the constitution and Bill of Rights. .

I help rebuild Kuwait after Gulf War, I and am ready to provide Sniper service, and with this letter I volunteer my services. The only thing I need is food once a week, ammo( I prefer 308 118 grain handloads), a knapsack that can double for rifle rest, and bedroll. We ask for normal pay, and only the opportunity to service in this worthy cause in Iraq.

My experiences.
I have excellent vision, a steady hand, excellent sniper skills, and wind age skills. You see we are Prairie dog hunters. Field ranges 200 to 1000 yards; with high winds is normal day. In the off season we frequent the shooting ranges monthly, in all weather conditions, can handle winds and can follow orders we hear.
I am willing to enlist today and help my country track down those responsible for killing thousands of innocent American’s in New York City and Washington, D.C. and to allow freedom to develop in Iraq. But I hope you don’t tell me I too old to track down terrorists. Presently, the recruiter tells me I can’t be older than 35 to join. They've got the whole thing ass backwards. Instead of sending 18-year-olds off the fight, they ought to take us old guys. You shouldn't be able to join until you're at least 35. For starters:
* Young guys haven't lived long enough to be cranky and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier. If we can't kill the enemy we'll complain them into submission. "My back hurts!" "I'm hungry!" "Where's the remote control?"
* An 18-year-old hasn't had a legal beer yet and you shouldn't go to war until you're at least old enough to legally drink. An average old guy, on the other hand, has consumed 126,000 gallons of beer by the time he's 35 and a jaunt through the desert heat with a backpack and M-60 would do wonders for the beer belly.
* An 18-year-old doesn't like to get up before 10 a.m. Old guys get up early just to show we can (and to steal the neighbor's newspaper).
* If old guys were captured we couldn't spill the beans because we'd probably forget where we put them. In fact, name, rank and serial number would be a real brainteaser.
I request you invalidate this 35-age barrier for my fellow patriots (prairie dog shooters). According to the Army Internet site, I'd need to pass an entrance exam (officially called an ASVAB), but the sample questions I saw weren't exactly headache material. Our gear is always packed, as we are regular visitors to the range. We love to spend hours sitting on the range by ourselves stopping appropriate targets that move.

You can reach me at

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[Truth Table]

SAS. Could be. Very well could be. It may be easier for the Brits get someone in. hmmmmmmmmmmm. Could very well be the SAS.

[McGavin999]

LOL, that's great. Actually, older guys would be perfect because the enemy wouldn't be expecting it.

[hchutch]

Looks like Iraq's getting a version of Los Pepes.

A very welcome development. Los Pepes did a lot of damage to the Medellin cartel. Here's hoping that this group does as well.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

With all of those helicopters flying around it would be easy to have sniper teams rappel onto a rooftop

Let me get this straight. SEVERAL bad guys are shot and the locals think it is another Iraqi. They fail to notice that a helicopter is inserting and extracting snipers from rooftops during this time? er ...... right