One sniper holds back 150 Marines

[Indie Media Magazine]

Skilled snipers hunt Marines

Soldiers 'go crazy trying to find' rebels who withstand barrage

By DEXTER FILKINS
THE NEW YORK TIMES

FALLUJAH, Iraq -- U.S. Marines called in two airstrikes on the pair of dingy three-story buildings squatting along Highway 10 yesterday, dropping 500-pound bombs each time. They fired 35 or so 155 millimeter artillery shells, 10 shots from the muzzles of Abrams tanks and perhaps 30,000 rounds from their automatic rifles. The building was a smoking ruin.

But the sniper kept shooting.

Skilled snipers hunt Marines

[American Tragedy]

1. Welcome to urban warfare

Well before the invasion commenced, I wondered how the hell they thought they were going to handle this.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Vasily Tzaitzev did the same at Stalingrad

My god am I reading a history of Stalingrad or today's paper?

And this is what many in this country are missing.

I don't need to take sides, just know that a well trained sniper can do what this sniper is doing.

[htuttle]

3. The Wehrmacht had the same problem in Stalingrad

The more rubble they created, the more places there were to hide.

[msanthrope]

8. You know, the parallels to Stalingrad struck me about a

week ago.....

and we all know how that ended.

[dethl]

4. Good grief...

Using that much in munitions to kill 1 person is like using a sledgehammer to kill a fly.

[Briar]

5. Now, that is real courage. n/t

[tomreedtoon]

6. The climactic incident in "Full Metal Jacket."

A squad of rough, tough, conceited, John Wayne style grunts picked off by one dedicated Vietnamese sniper - a prepubescent girl.

I hate to say it, but expect a lot more of this to happen in this awful war.

[Deja Q]

7. And some US forces want a 'fair fight' because of Iraqi guerilla tactics.

(I'll search the DU GD forum for the original post that had the 'fair fight' quote)