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U.S. military probes sniper threat in Baghdad
By Paul Holmes Sun Oct 29, 3:45 AM ET
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. military has begun looking more closely at shooting attacks on troops in
Iraq to establish whether they are carried out by snipers, according to a spokesman.
The change reflects concern over an insurgent video-CD that appears to show a series of shooting attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces in Baghdad by a purported sniper brigade from the Sunni militant Islamic Army.
The video, which Reuters has seen, was handed out in Sunni parts of western Baghdad last week as a "gift" to mark the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. It shows 28 separate attacks, several of them involving precision shots to the head.
Narrated by a man described as the brigade "commander" and subtitled in English, it claims the marksmen use a training manual written by a retired U.S. Army Special Forces officer.
"Ultimate Sniper," written in 1993 by Major John L. Plaster, is freely available through online bookstores. It was updated this year "for today's Global War on Terror," according to http://www.ultimatesniper.com, which calls it the bible of sniping.
Spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Garver said the U.S. military was aware of the video.
He said the military was taking unspecified steps to reduce the possible new threat and had begun to examine killings by small arms fire in greater detail. "We are being more specific in trying to hone in on sniper tactics," Garver said.
U.S. casualty reports list three killings by sniper fire in Baghdad this year, all since July, and 24 by small arms fire, 10 of them in October.
'NOTCHING UP KILLS'
The 28-minute propaganda video opens with musings from a black-masked man identified as "Juba, the Baghdad Sniper."
Reports of a lone sniper nicknamed Juba prowling Baghdad surfaced last year. The new footage shows the man adding another "kill" to a list of 37 hits on a piece of paper on a wall.
The "commander," however, says the Islamic Army now has "a fair amount of snipers" with the steady hand and eagle eye required for the task.
"The idea of filming the operations is very important because the scene that shows the falling soldier when hit has more impact on the enemy than any other weapon," says the "commander," whose face is obscured.
Garver said he had not seen the video, called "Juba Returns." He said sniping was "another threat that we have to worry about" but questioned whether all the attacks were the work of accomplished sharpshooters.
"They could be a lucky shot with a good rifle," Garver said. "Having a scope does not necessarily qualify you as a trained sniper."
The U.S. military does not require units to attribute killings specifically to sniper fire, although some do.
According to the Web site http://www.icasualties.org, which tracks the official casualty toll in Iraq and
Afghanistan, 38 U.S. troops have been killed by sniper fire in Iraq since the start of the war in March 2003, seven of them this year.
Deaths attributed to unspecified small arms fire total about 230, including 80 this year.
The video says the brigade's main weapon is the Tabuk sniper rifle, which was produced in Iraq from a Yugoslav design.
It uses standard Kalashnikov rounds and probably has a range of 500-600 metres (yards), according to arms Web sites which describe it as more of a marksman's rifle than a sniper rifle, which is designed to be accurate beyond 800 meters (yards).
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061029/ts_nm/iraq_snipers_dc
The ink of the learned is as precious as the blood of the martyr. For one drop of ink may make millions think.
Posted : 29/10/2006 9:36 pm
I think it could be mercenaries who are typically never loyal to one cause. They do it for the money. I could see somebody (or several somebodies) who get off on offing US soldiers.
"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him...." ------ John 8:44
Posted : 30/10/2006 3:59 am
Israeli!
I'm quoting "debus" from SF here:
What is interesting is what this MSM article doesn't tell you. It doesn't tell you that the real rumor circulating at the moment among the military is the suspicion that 'Juba the Sniper' may not be Iraqi, or even Arab, but Israeli. If you watch the videos making their rounds at the moment, you will see that the video jumps as the rifle fires. This can only happen if the video is attached to the rifle sight. These video-bearing weapons are special high-tech weapons. Guerrillas don't have such weapons, but the Israeli military do.
http://judicial-inc.biz/anot,her_isr...anda_video.htm
Another Israeli Propaganda Video
Precise shots to the head killing dozens of marines. All shootings filmed as they happened.
http://judicial-inc.biz/watch_the_ca...when_the_r.htm
Watch the camera jump when the rifle fires
The video may have been taken down by youtube.com
http://judicial-inc.biz/Israelis_In_Iraq.htm
Rafael Sniper Rifle System with Videocamera made in Israel
Israeli technology - videocamera on sniper rifle
http://judicial-inc.biz/10_marines_a..._12_2_2005.htm
Video of Fallujah Ambush
At the Judicial site, you will find many links showing evidence that Israelis and Israeli-funded mercs are setting up ambushes on American marines and making them look like Iraqis did it. They also kill Iraqis and make the killings look like the work of Americans. Also, they kill Shiites and Sunnis to set them up against each other in the same way.
http://judicial-inc.biz/125_dead_Mossad.htm
Massive Mossad bomb kills 120 Shiites [Pictures]
http://judicial-inc.biz/Fanjjuah.htm
Fallujah Ambush of Marines Engineered by Mossad [Pictures]
http://judicial-inc.biz/Blackwater_helicopter.htm
One week in Iraq [Pictures]
A mother of one of the marines, Scott Helvenston, is suing Blackwater over his death:
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/35446/
Blood is Thicker than Blackwater
http://judicial-inc.biz/Scott%20Helvenston_fallujah.htm
Who Killed Scott Helvenston? [Pictures]
Posted : 30/10/2006 6:39 am
If you watch the videos making their rounds at the moment, you will see that the video jumps as the rifle fires. This can only happen if the video is attached to the rifle sight. These video-bearing weapons are special high-tech weapons. Guerrillas don't have such weapons, but the Israeli military do
I imagine the loud bang from the rifle would cause the camera man to flinch.
That's a wild-looking sniper rifle, though.
It’s time to stop being Americans. It’s time to start being White Men again. - Gregory Hood
Posted : 30/10/2006 3:42 pm
So what's "about god damn time"? I don't get it. You saying that Iraqi patriots shouldn't defend against jewish invaders? 
Posted : 30/10/2006 3:48 pm
So what's "about god damn time"? I don't get it. You saying that Iraqi patriots shouldn't defend against jewish invaders?
That's just what he's saying. Brutus is an idiot who cheers on "our boys" in Eye-rack. Doesn't matter to him that "our boys" are niggers or Mexi-koons. Doesn't matter that "our boys" are serving pis-rael and Haliburton. Doesn't matter that "our boys" would gladdy blow out his racist brains if ordered to by their kike masters. Just keep waving that flag. Rah! Rah! Go boys!
Like I said, Brutus is an idiot.
Critical Mass
Posted : 30/10/2006 4:58 pm
Topic starter
RE: Subrosa
So what's "about god damn time"? I don't get it. You saying that Iraqi patriots shouldn't defend against jewish invaders?
I was being sarcastic.
The only reason why this makes a news headline today, is because the internet is exposing the wanton sniper slaughter of ZOG’s army by the Iraqi freedom fighters. The jew routinely mitigates and deflects blame from himself by stepping forward and exposing crimes that he, himself, is guilty of instigating and then setting-up a sacrificial lamb to take the fall.
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The ink of the learned is as precious as the blood of the martyr. For one drop of ink may make millions think.
Posted : 30/10/2006 5:01 pm
Topic starter
RE: Fissile
That's just what he's saying. Brutus is an idiot who cheers on "our boys" in Eye-rack. Doesn't matter to him that "our boys" are niggers or Mexi-koons. Doesn't matter that "our boys" are serving pis-rael and Haliburton. Doesn't matter that "our boys" would gladdy blow out his racist brains if ordered to by their kike masters. Just keep waving that flag. Rah! Rah! Go boys!
Like I said, Brutus is an idiot.
It looks like you took too many of your asshole pills today.
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The ink of the learned is as precious as the blood of the martyr. For one drop of ink may make millions think.
Posted : 30/10/2006 5:04 pm
Okay, gotcha. Thanks for the clarification!
Posted : 30/10/2006 5:04 pm
Interesting thread. I had heard from a freshly-returned Iraq vet of the rumor circulating that "Juba" is a jew or at least trained by them.
It does make you wonder, however, what it will take to wake our people up. You see, I talked to him about the time the kikes were getting their snipped schwantzes caught in Lebanon and this fellow was of the opinion that we should let the IDF "finish the job." Meaning, I guess, kill every Lebanese in Lebanon.
Let's see, a jew or jew-trained sniper potting his fellow GIs and he still thinks jews can do no wrong. I suppose he might consider the muslims the greater threat and so cut Izzy some slack, but still, the attitude was a bit shocking.
This was no wigger or multi-cult-infected goofball, either. He was an upright and honest White man with morals. He told me how he has daughters at home and when the boyfriends call, he hangs up on them if they can't show him the proper respect on the phone. Similarly, if they show up at the door and aren't gentlemanly, he shuts the door in their face. I almost asked him what he would have done if a nigger or spic graced his doorstep, but I figured he'd take the idea that his daughter would even entertain the idea of dating a mud as an insult.
Posted : 31/10/2006 10:43 am
Yeah, this isn't jewanoia, either:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1502283,00.html
Marines 'beat US workers' in Iraq
Contractors say they were treated like insurgents
Jamie Wilson in Washington
Thursday June 9, 2005
The Guardian
A group of American security guards in Iraq have alleged they were beaten, stripped and threatened with a snarling dog by US marines when they were detained after an alleged shooting incident outside Falluja last month.
"I never in my career have treated anybody so inhumane," one of the contractors, Rick Blanchard, a former Florida state trooper, wrote in an email quoted in the Los Angeles Times. "They treated us like insurgents, roughed us up, took photos, hazed [bullied] us, called us names."
A Marine Corps spokesman denied that abuse had taken place and said an investigation was continuing. According to the marines, 19 employees of Zapata Engineering, including 16 Americans, were detained after a marine patrol in Falluja reportedbeing fired on by a convoy of trucks and sports utility vehicles. The marines also claim to have seen gunmen in the convoy fire at civilians.
This is believed to be the first time that private military contractors have been detained in Iraq by the US military, and it has reignited debate about their status and accountability.
The security guards claim the shooting incident was a case of mistaken identity. A spokeswoman for the company told the LA Times that the guards had fired warning shots into the air when an unidentified vehicle approached their vehicle as it passed through Falluja, but had not fired at any marines.
Mark Schopper, a lawyer for two of the contractors, told the newspaper that his clients, both former marines, were subjected to "physical and psychological abuse". He said they had told him that marines had "slammed around" several con tractors, stripped them to their underwear and placed a loaded weapon near their heads.
"How does it feel to be a big, rich contractor now?" one of the marines is alleged to have shouted at the men, in an apparent reference to the large sums of money private contractors can make in Iraq.
Lieutenant Colonel David Lapan, a Marine Corps spokesman, who did not respond to emails from the Guardian, said in an email to the LA Times: "The Americans were segregated from the rest of the detainee population and, like all security detainees, were treated humanely and respectfully."
The American contractors, who were working in explosives disposal, were arrested on May 18 and imprisoned for three days. All have since left Zapata Engineering, which is based in North Carolina, and have returned to the US. They also complained they were made to wear orange prison uniforms and fed the same "bad food" as Iraqi prisoners.
According to Peter Singer, a Brookings Institute scholar and author of the book Corporate Warriors, private military contractors in Iraq are operating in a black hole as they do not fall within the military chain of command. "What appears to have happened here is tension between forces bubbling to the surface," he told the Guardian.
But he said the incident also raised the question of what happens to contractors if they are caught doing something wrong, such as firing on civilians, as their legal status is not defined. "If the marines think [the contractors] did do something illegal there is no process they can go through. Who are they going to hand them over to?" Mr Singer said. "There have been more than 20,000 [contractors] on the ground in Iraq for more than two years and not one has been prosecuted for anything."
Posted : 31/10/2006 5:13 pm
"I never in my career have treated anybody so inhumane," one of the contractors, Rick Blanchard, a former Florida state trooper, wrote in an email quoted in the Los Angeles Times. "They treated us like insurgents, roughed us up, took photos, hazed [bullied] us, called us names."
Awww, got some of your own medicine, did you? Hey, this sound familar to anyone? Guess who those jarheads are going to work for when (or if, lol) they return? One guess.
Posted : 31/10/2006 5:23 pm
Look, every race/nation/state has a right to defend itself. Even the Yahoodi's do, but they can take things to a whole other level with the caust' card.
The insurgents in Iraq are the best stone cold killers I have ever seen. No warning attached with them. You fuck them over? They'll whack you're ass. You rape their women? They off a couple of female ZOGlings in their armoured stryker tanks. You shoot at old people, like it's a turkeyshoot? They go over to a unsecured checkpoint: attack it, and capture a couple ZOGbots, and off the others. It's simple as that.
I cant respect anyone more than the Iraqi insurgents at this moment. It's a war people. Juba probably was a Saddam-loyalist, and a fierce Baathist, but his commander is in jail, so Juba wants payback.
Posted : 03/11/2006 9:43 am