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  1. Revere

    Revere New Member

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    This picture shows an Insurgant (Iraq? I dont know)

    Well as I said this is very GRAPHIC So consider your self warned.

    If you want to lock this topic I understand so no one gets in a grumble

    Just shows how sicking war can be. I chose this picture when I was looking for information on Insurgant casualties for anther topic.



    http://gutrumbles.com/archives2/001685.php

    Notice the Suicide Belt and how he (if lived) could of killed helpless civilians. This guy was already looking for death, but the sniper helped him to it, with out him taking someone with him.
     
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    Nice shot. Cool
     
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    That´s what he deserves, guess he is not going to think about sucide bombing anymore :D :D

    Nope, look at the humvee, you can see KFOR, so it´s the Kosovo ;)

    Regards,
    Che.
     
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    Thanks, I just took a wild guess.

    I also think that is a picture of the sniper (not in iraq)
     
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    Looks a bit suspicious to me - if you'd been hit by something that could do that it's unlikely that the bits would stay so close to the body.

    Thanks for the warning but bad taste none the less.
     
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    Interesting but suspiscious. Not sure if I'm buying it.

    My problem with it is that soldiers usually don't have their pics made public with their "kills". Even though the picture is from Kosovo and the soldier in the pic could have been sent to Iraq I still don't think it would be believable that a soldier would do something like that.

    What is happening is that folks are seeing a soldier holding a .50 caliber rifle and then seeing the body on the ground and are putting the two together and assuming this person shot the dead fella with that rifle.
     
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    Where is the explosive belt? All i see is a variation of ammo belt for AK.
     
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    What concerns me more is the outright gloating from some of the posters on that forum. They wouldn't be out of place in the Colosseum discussing why the lions didn't do a better job.
     
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    What concerns almost me as much as that is the assumptions that people seem to be leaping to with such enthusiasm.

    Firstly, as Tiso pointed out, that doesn't look like a suicide jacket to me, more like magazine pouches. In any case I thought most suicide waist-coats had a simple self destruct feature so that if the bomber was killed the device would automatically detonate?

    I'm really concerned about the number of comments about the dead man being a "Rag Head" when as again has already been pointed out, the vehicle in the background is clearly marked KFOR, even if we accept this at face value this incident occured in or about Kosovo, not the middle east.
     
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    War is very entertaining for those who have not experienced it!

    ;)

    I am also skeptic about this picture - I have seen the picture of the dead insurgent before, although I can't remember were...
     
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    Your probably right.Still a nice shot whoever did it.
     
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    as a Marine told me when i was about 8, shoot first ask questions later :)

    I told you graphic, I didnt think it was that graphic when it said it was
     
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    man, they'll be scraping him up for a week
     
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    another thing is , an ex marine told me this: a 50 cal bullet will take off anything it hits, meaning if it hits an arm, the arm is riped off, so i guess if the head is hit, it should be no more head at all!!!
     
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    Depends on the bullet and velocity. If the bullet didn't expand and was at close range, it could have went through without doing "extensive" damage.
     
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    not a shooting

    if you look at the pic you will see blood splatter radiating from the skull in a pattern that shows it was caused by the impact of the skull on the cement. it does not show a pattern caused by a bullet impact. further more the brain is mostly intact but removed from the skull. this too is assocated with a fall and not a bullet strike. i question the claim that he was killed by a sniper unless there is an unnoticed would that caused him to fall several stories. as an EMT and hunter i have seen both head wounds and falls. this looks like a fall to me.
     
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    I agree.
     
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    he fell and bashed his head out? im confused :(
     
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    Why are you confused, a massive trauma to the skull and all that squishy stuff inside it has got to go somewhere, whether it's on impact or afterwards makes little difference.

    So in summary we have what the posters on that site largely assumed was a suicide bomber in Iraq who turns out to be probably just an armed man in Kosovo, shot with deadly accuracy by a sniper although he probably fell to his death.

    Is that about right?
     
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    The man looks to be Arab to me. I would guess that he was shot in a fire fight in Iraq or A-stan while on top of a building or in a window. He fell to the pavement went he was hit and probably landed head first.

    I feel that the pic of the soldier with the BMG rifle is just a picture from Kosovo and not related to the Arab except to provide a picture of a cool rifle. The two pics were then put together in the same post and everyone assumes they are related because they are in the same post.

    It's still grusome though no matter how it happened.
     
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