Posted on 08/25/2012 4:12:31 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
In Aleppo’s Mashhad neighborhood, rebels man a series of sniping positions, eyeing the government forces and their tank just 50 meters (yards) up a sniper alley from behind a short wall of sandbags.
There are other tanks nearby, and when they fire the boom reverberates through otherwise quiet streets almost empty of civilians.
The fighters spot a young boy carrying belongings wrapped in a blanket as he approaches the sniper alley, and call out to him.
“Hey you, boy, stop right there!” one fighter shouts. The boy freezes, standing by a shouldering pile of rubbish, then dashes across the alley at the rebels’ signal.
They stop him as he arrives safely on the other side, suspicious that he could be a spotter for the government forces nearby. They ask him
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Sniper motto: “You gotta get out of the tank to take a dumb sometime.”
dumb = dump
Lots of ways to force folks out of tanks.
Take away their oxygen, make it waaay hot, throw in a hive of beeeees, or blow the mother up.
As well as others.
Check out the hairstyle on that sniper. I wonder where he’s from?
Chechnya?
Thanks fight_truth_decay.
He might be American. I won’t be surprised to find US has special forces there. We are wintessing a huge landslide in US politics towards Middle East. For some reason Israel was replaced by Al-Qaeda as a major partner. Osama’s killing was essential PR move to eliminate him as an obvious visual obstacle for a new alliance.
I don’t have idea why this administration is so fond in ditching any moderate player in ME and propping every bloody radical.
Mrs. Clinton as a pigeon of peace is really disgusting. She looks like that same pigeon crapping every place it flies over.
We are yet to see a huge militant anti-western islamist supestate on ruins of all these countries steamrolled by Arab spring.
Are they looking for a crisis or what?
He might be American. I won’t be surprised to find US has special forces there. We are wintessing a huge landslide in US politics towards Middle East. For some reason Israel was replaced by Al-Qaeda as a major partner. Osama’s killing was essential PR move to eliminate him as an obvious visual obstacle for a new alliance.
I don’t have idea why this administration is so fond in ditching any moderate player in ME and propping every bloody radical.
Mrs. Clinton as a pigeon of peace is really disgusting. She looks like that same pigeon crapping every place it flies over.
We are yet to see a huge militant anti-western islamist supestate on ruins of all these countries steamrolled by Arab spring.
Are they looking for a crisis or what?
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