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January 31, 2006

U.S. Sniper Takes Out Insurgent Killer From Three Quarters Of A Mile

Topics: Iraq

I missed this earlier this month but it's interesting enough to still bring it to readers attention (the shot occurred back on September 27). Sgt Jim Gilliland is closing in on the sniper legend Carlos Hathcock, who recorded 93 confirmed kills in Vietnam!

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His motto is, "Move fast, shoot straight and leave the rest to the counsellors in 10 years."

Gazing through the telescopic sight of his M24 rifle, Staff Sgt Jim Gilliland, leader of Shadow sniper team, fixed his eye on the Iraqi insurgent who had just killed an American soldier.

His quarry stood nonchalantly in the fourth-floor bay window of a hospital in battle-torn Ramadi, still clasping a long-barrelled Kalashnikov. Instinctively allowing for wind speed and bullet drop, Shadow's commander aimed 12 feet high.

A single shot hit the Iraqi in the chest and killed him instantly. It had been fired from a range of 1,250 metres, well beyond the capacity of the powerful Leupold sight, accurate to 1,000 metres.

All told, the 10-strong Shadow sniper team, attached to Task Force 2/69, has killed just under 200 in the same period and emerged as the US Army's secret weapon in Ramadi against the threat of the hidden Improvised Explosive Device (IED) or roadside bomb - the insurgency's deadliest tactic.

Knowing that he's only one of a 10-strong Shadow sniper team attached to Task Force 2/69, has got to be very bad news for the Islamothugs.

Hat tip - Harry Owens

Posted by Richard at January 31, 2006 9:22 PM

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