[...] Within 40 days, the two marksmen from 4 Rifles, part of the Welsh Guards Battle group, had achieved 75 confirmed kills with 31 attributed to Potter and 44 to Osmond. Each kill was chalked up as a little stick man on the beam above the firing position in their camouflaged sangar beside the base gate – a stick man with no head denoting a target eliminated with a shot to the skull.
[...] The longest-range shot taken was when Potter killed an insurgent at 1,430 metres away. But the most celebrated shot of their tour was by Osmond at a range of just 196 metres.
On September 12th, a known Taliban commander appeared on the back of a motorcycle with a passenger riding pillion. There was a British patrol in the village of Gorup-e Shesh Kalay and under the rules of engagement, the walkie-talkie the Taliban pair were carrying was designated a hostile act. As they drove off, Osmond fired warning shots with his pistol and then picked up his L96, the same weapon – serial number 0166 – he had used in Iraq and on the butt of which he had written, ‘I love u 0166’.
Taking deliberate aim, he fired a single shot. The bike tumbled and both men fell onto the road and lay there motionless. When the British patrol returned, they checked the men and confirmed they were both dead, with large holes through their heads.
The 7.62 mm bullet Osmond had fired had passed through the heads of both men. He had achieved the rare feat of ‘one shot, two kills’ known in the sniping business as ‘a Quigley’.
Estas son las rules of engagement que parece haber olvidado Israel.
Israel carece de mucho más que esto. O en todo caso, no sé, lo que se vea en el campo de batalla sea sintomático de algo mucho más grave a nivel político.
ReplyDeleteEl calibre de los viejos líderes israelíes está perdido. Incluso los viejos laboristas eran mucho más firmes y resueltos de lo que hoy presenta la deteriorada, indecisa, temerosa y corrupta política israelí.
Concuerdo, Eze.
ReplyDelete2 x 1 además de economizar recursos ayuda al medio ambiente.
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