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| Four Taliban snipers get their tickets to paradise punched by British Special Forces |
| 2010-08-22 |
| Hopefully they get 72 virgins that look like Bela Lugosi. 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. Chechnyans do seem to turn out their share of crazed killers and snipers ... 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. Lieutenant-Colonel James Carr-Smith, spokesman for Task Force Helmand, said: 'He died in the course of his duty. He will be sorely missed and his actions will not be forgotten. We will remember him.' His next of kin have been informed. The death brings to 332 the number of British troops killed in Afghanistan since operations began in 2001. |
| Posted by:Clath Hupereting2926 |
| #1 Hopefully they get 72 virgins that look like Bela Lugosi. or Helen Thomas. [after they pass over, the Geneva Convention doesn't apply] |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-08-22 10:53 |