I have no idea whether it is reasonable, but we know these facts: 1. Last year Austria sold 800 Steyr sniper rifles to Iran, over the specific objections of the U.S. that they would make their way into the hands of terrorists in Iraq. 2. More than 100 of these very same rifles have been recovered in Iraq, many of them in recent seizures of weapons caches thought to belong to Shiite mlitias.
The Quds forces seem to have delivered these weapons into the hands of the Shiite militias with the specific intent of having them used against U.S. and Iraqi forces. Is there any other possible explanation? Could the rifles be fakes? Maybe, can someone validate the serial numbers? I am sure someone could do that. Say the are real. Any other explanation? Corruption inside Iran- someone diverted these weapons from the Quds forces and sold them to Shiite militias? On 2/13/07, Adam wrote: > > 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? > -- --------------- 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:227968 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
