Do the math over the period of time they claim snipers downed US-friendly personnel. 170 personnel with .50 caliber sniper rifles? Compared to how many total service people killed by all means? Does this number really sound feasible to you?
Also, any .50 caliber enthusiast will tell you that almost $20K for a .50 caliber bolt action rifle is ridiculous -- even the Steyr, which is admittedly sweet. Hell, I can buy two M82A's (the civilian designation for the same basic semi-automatic model the US military uses) for that price. The bolt action Barrett M99 has an "anybody's" street price of only around 3K, and it's a better rifle than the Steyr for desert deployment. None of this sounds reasonable to me. How about you? Respectfully, Adam Phillip Churvis Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer BlueDragon Alliance Founding Committee Get advanced intensive Master-level training in C# & ASP.NET 2.0 for ColdFusion Developers at ProductivityEnhancement.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Robert Munn To: CF-Community Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 1:13 AM Subject: Iran busted - going nuclear and arming terrorists in Iraq- what's next? Austrian high-powered sniper rifles sold to Iran last year found in Iraq: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=JPKY4R41A1KIBQFIQMGCFF4AVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/02/13/wiran13.xml Too late to stop Iran from going nuclear, says internal EU document: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/ae2d5d24-badd-11db-bbf3-0000779e2340.html So the question is, what next? Iran is arming the enemies of the U.S. and Iraqi government, and they are well on their way to making a bomb. What will happen next? -- --------------- Robert Munn www.funkymojo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:227962 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
