Sunday - August 22, 2010

Snipers kill 10 Brits ….. Brits kill snipers hired by the Taliban …

Taliban snipers who killed ten British soldiers die in air strike.

By Christopher Leake

Four deadly foreign mercenary snipers hired by the Taliban have been killed after being tracked down by British Special Forces in Afghanistan.

They were among at least three pairs of crackshots recruited by the Taliban from Pakistan, Egypt and Chechnya.

The mercenaries – who can kill troops at a range of up to 650 yards – are understood to have shot dead up to ten British soldiers in recent weeks.

The victims include Sapper Darren Foster, 20, from Whitehaven, Cumbria. He was picked off from long distance by a single shot which went through a gap just 9in wide in a protected look-out post in Sangin valley, Helmand Province.

News of the Taliban deaths came as a British soldier was killed during a firefight with insurgents yesterday as he provided security for a meeting between Afghan elders and Nato forces.

The soldier, from the 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, was killed during an exchange of fire in the Nad-e Ali district of Helmand.

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So then, while American and Brit servicemen and women too, are returning home in body bags or else coming back disabled and minus limbs and various body parts, some will be be pleased to know that there’s a game due out where you can be the Taliban and kill and maim Americans and Brits.

Somehow, I don’t see that as a healthy thing while this war is continuing.
Due to the mess I’ve made here and papers strewn hither and yon, I have misplaced the article. I can’t even remember which paper I saw it in.
If I find it I’ll post the link here later. Anyway, I think it’s a sick idea.
Speaking of sick ... Ch. 4 TV here is going to air a show called Beauty and the Beast wherein they will pair a normal or very good looking person with someone who is badly disfigured, and see how they interact.  SICK!
That’s like a throwback to the days when ppl went to placed like Bedlam to laugh at the sick. Or freak shows.  Why would anyone want to watch that kind of thing?  What next?  Bear bating? 

‘Tasteless’: Defence Secretary’s fury at Taliban video game where players shoot dead British soldiers

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 2:44 PM on 22nd August 2010

Defence Secretary Liam Fox has slammed a computer game which allows players to kill British troops as a Taliban insurgent as ‘tasteless’.

Mr Fox called for the game to be banned and said the idea of recreating Taliban attacks on allied soldiers was disgusting.

The latest version of the Medal of Honor game, published by Electronic Arts, allows gamers to opt to play the role of insurgents in a multiplayer mode and receive points for killing allied soldiers.

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