Simultaneous headshots stop 3 suicide bombers

UK Telegraph ^ | 20/11/2005

[woofer]

Once it gets past noon, I'm gonna pop 3 cold ones - in honor of the SAS!

Y'know, Tex, my philosophy is that somewhere, somehow, it noon some place on this earth.

Cheers!

[indcons]

Fantastic news....BUMP

[festus]

Don't they though ? I'm just feeling all warm and fuzzy ;-)

[Ainast]

ok 4 things.

1: Dawn of the Dead? do only headshots drop jihadist zombies?

2: GREAT JOB!

3: I wonder how many mud hutts that bullet went through before it finally stopped? I bet it just kept going until it hit the nearest mountain!

4: Way to instill the fear of god into those bastards!

[Old Grumpy]

This kind of story makes my day. Thanks!

[JCEccles]

do only headshots drop jihadist zombies?

As I understand it, the desired aimpoint is the brainstem, which is about the size of an apricot. Only a bullet placed there will immediately and completely incapacitate a terrorist so that he is unable to trigger an explosive device.

[Pit1]

Dilbert,

Didn't mean that the SAS should go in, I thought a laser guided munition through the window. This business of sparing bad guys or their neighbors is very old and comes back to bite us in the Arss all the time.

[Oatka]

With a decent sniper, anyone within its range is a dead man - even if they are wearing body armour."

Sniper's motto (or it ought to be):
Don't run, you'll only die tired."

[CyberAnt]

This is totally awesome!

[Buffettfan]

[[Each terrorist had been killed by a single head shot - the snipers having spent the past few days rehearsing the ambush in minute detail.]]

Outstanding! Ooorahhh!
Jarhead

[Churchillspirit]

They usually come from folks who were brought up with guns and an appreciation of guns.

Not so, Starfish. I happen to know several ( now former ) members of the SAS and none of them came from gunslinging backgrounds.

A win for the good guys bump!

[Churchillspirit]

Thanks for the good news, Veronica.

[bigfootbob]

I read about this yesterday on another thread that had this cool graphic showing the "team" configuration. Whew, I'm glad I keep my nose clean since I STILL haven't received my container of SMAW-NE urban burp guns.

Check out post # 36 he has it posted, truly awe inspiring.

[Adiemus]

"The .338 Lapua is a darn fine round, but talking about it 'splitting engine blocks' is crap."

Sounds like it would make an excellent deer hunting rifle though.

[SevenMinusOne]

The soldiers, liaising earlier with their commanders, had considered the option of entering the house and killing the terrorists - but that plan was regarded as too dangerous. The confines of the house would intensify the impact of any blast, killing everyone inside.

Read slowly (and stop with this is a PC war BS!).

The concern was over causalities for those on OUR side (SAS specifically) - Meaning if the "go" was given on a direct assault / raid and one of the bombers inside managed to detonate themselves it would have the chance / probability of killing the SAS operators conducting the assault.

[Adiemus]

"Clean up on isle three"

Break out the squeegee and the wet-dry vac.

[texianyankee]

Well, it's past noon-thirty already......

Cheers!

[pankot]

Just wait. Wont be long before the UN says it is to devastating and should be banned.

[Fruitbat]

Well, it's not as if the bombers' dispositions had altered themselves at all. In fact, they never knew the difference.

That's gotta put a little "hesitancy" and damper into future suicide bomber activities.

[pageonetoo]

...They usually come from folks who were brought up with guns and an appreciation of guns.

google pic...