Sunday, May 2, 2010

You Gotta Be Kiddin' Me

New York Post, by Lukas I. Alpert

It was silent but deadly. A British sniper set a world sharpshooting record by taking out two Taliban soldiers in Afghanistan from more than a mile and a half away -- a distance so great, experts say the terrorists wouldn't have even heard the shots. Craig Harrison killed the two insurgents from an astounding distance of 8,120 feet -- or 1.54 miles -- in Helmand Province last November firing an Accuracy International L11583 long-range rifle. ''The first round hit a machine-gunner in the stomach and killed him outright,'' said Harrison.

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