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Offline RAIDER14

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Offline Debonair

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« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2006, 11:30:49 PM »
I predict that a few people will laugh at this, then one guy will be offended, then everyone will jump on the PO'd guy for being a stick-in-the-mud, but a few will agree with him

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« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2006, 11:35:31 PM »
This is still my fave

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2184649266159259417&q=iraq

Whats impressive is how low the Marine pilots fly.

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« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2006, 03:59:17 AM »
This 1 is just ****ing stupid.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5734528875668338561

Its like Redneck Rampage in Baghdad.


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« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2006, 04:52:21 AM »
Lol RAIDER14 :D

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« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2006, 09:33:31 AM »
So much for don't ask don't tell..
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« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2006, 12:44:08 PM »
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Originally posted by Wolfala
This 1 is just ****ing stupid.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5734528875668338561

Its like Redneck Rampage in Baghdad.


IIRC those were brits doing that.

Offline MrRiplEy[H]

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« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2006, 12:58:23 PM »
Those civil contractors are committing acts of terrorism in that trophy film. Were they treated as such?
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« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2006, 01:08:04 PM »
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This 1 is just ****ing stupid.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5734528875668338561

Its like Redneck Rampage in Baghdad.


I don't get it.  Why would soldiers riding around in a car snipe at civilians?

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« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2006, 01:28:15 PM »
AFAIK they're not soldiers they're british version of blackwater guys doing a little trophy movies for home.

Good old clean fun, murdering random commuters.
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« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2006, 02:10:12 PM »
No brits should be allowed to have guns.... the magnetic field seems to drive them crazy... probly they have thin skulls or weak wills or something.

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« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2006, 02:32:15 PM »
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This 1 is just ****ing stupid.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5734528875668338561

Its like Redneck Rampage in Baghdad.




So they are just shooting at random cars or am i just not getting the video at all??? The rest are cool though!!!

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« Reply #12 on: January 10, 2006, 03:08:05 PM »
They are NOT shooting at just any random car.

They're shooting at any car that overtakes them.  Typically they're supposed to shoot into the ground ahead of the car as a warning, and then put a few into the engine if that doesn't work.  If the car still rapidly approaches, they tend to walk the bullets into the driver.

The reason they do this is because for every 1 mistake that kills an innocent but stupid driver/family, there are 10 cases where as soon as the first bullet hits the car, it detonates with a huge explosion.

I read a letter from some guy to his dad about his first shoot while on convoy duty.  He'd seen the techniques, but this was the first time he employed them.  A car was catching up just like in that video.  He fired a few into the ground, and the car floored it towards his vehicle.  He instinctively opened up (he was manning a 30 cal if I recall correctly) into the car and it immediately detonated.  The explosion was big enough that it probably would have flipped or otherwise destroyed the vehicle he was riding in, had they let it approach any closer.

The moral of the story is pretty much if you're an innocent driving in Iraq, never rapidly overtake, never approach an SUV/vehicle with guys taking shots out of the window, and if you ever ever see shots near your vehicle or hear bullet impacts, stop immediately and run like hell because most of the soldiers doing this kind of shooting really don't want to kill anyone, they just don't want to get blown up themselves.

BTW it's not just military and civilian "contractors" that do this...   Any Iraqi leader, legit or not, does the same thing when in convoy from one place to another.  That's probably why there is no great Iraqi uproar about this practice...  The Iraqis pretty much know that active and aggressive measures are absolutely required for anyone of any importance to get around in Iraq, American or not.
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« Reply #13 on: January 10, 2006, 03:08:29 PM »
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So they are just shooting at random cars or am i just not getting the video at all??? The rest are cool though!!!


Trust what you hear on the intardnet.  It's obviously in full, well-documented, and well-explained context.

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« Reply #14 on: January 10, 2006, 03:15:08 PM »
It is called AEGIS trophy video, a little search for AEGIS found me this: -

http://www.aegisworld.com

and this:-

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/27/wirq27.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/27/ixworld.html

oh and videos can be found on their website here: -

http://www.aegisiraq.co.uk

i think it is safe to post, all i have found so far seem legit operations in Iraq, Americans and British in their team.
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