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2006-12-20 Afghanistan
French troops had bin Laden in sights - documentary
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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-12-20 12:21|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1751 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

1 Horse $hit feathers. I'm sure no permission is necessary to wax him. Besides, whoever does gets $25M, which is motivation aplenty to go outside the suggested "need permission first" channel.
Posted by gorb 2006-12-20 12:44||   2006-12-20 12:44|| Front Page Top

2 "It WAS self-defense! If I hadn't shot him, I'd've been lynched!"
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2006-12-20 13:05|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-12-20 13:05|| Front Page Top

3 Phrench? Sniper? Afghanistan? Binnie is the cross-hairs? Naw.

Any, ANY, even phrench, non-muslim professional sniper would have taken that shot had it been there. Period. Any noise on the radio, or even complete silence, heh, would have been heard as a 'shoot order'. Heh.

This would constitute the best hit EVER. Killing the caliph-wannabe? Truly, a "Shot heard 'round the world".

Can you imagine how he would be feted and heaped with glory, even secretly and only in his community? He'd never have to buy a drink in public again. Can you say "ROCK STAR"? Are there groupies for snipers? There would be for him.

ISI. Opps, I mean: Instant Sniper Immortality

Ergo, it never happened.
Posted by Brett 2006-12-20 13:06||   2006-12-20 13:06|| Front Page Top

4 My weapon suffered an accidental discharge. Well, four of them. Well, one after the other.

Darn it. Can't reproduce the problem. Sorry.
Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins  2006-12-20 13:19|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org]  2006-12-20 13:19|| Front Page Top

5 lies
Posted by pihkalbadger 2006-12-20 13:33||   2006-12-20 13:33|| Front Page Top

6 I agree with Brett: don't need permission to take THAT shot!
Posted by Ptah">Ptah  2006-12-20 13:39|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]  2006-12-20 13:39|| Front Page Top

7 A documentary says French special forces had Osama bin Laden in their sights twice about three years ago but their U.S. superiors never ordered them to fire.

I call BS too. What specfor group in the world needs orders for them to fire?

"Sir! In my opinion the safety of my command was at stake so we took out the target!"

'Nuff said.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg  2006-12-20 13:52||   2006-12-20 13:52|| Front Page Top

8 Smells more like a tease or "pre-show publicity" in order to drive up the interest in watching it. Do they have a sweeps week?
Posted by USN, Ret. 2006-12-20 14:15||   2006-12-20 14:15|| Front Page Top

9 Absolute BULL. If the French were to come within a country mile of OBL or any other commander they would certainly have surrendered!
Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan  2006-12-20 14:16||   2006-12-20 14:16|| Front Page Top

10 The French's US Superiors?

C'mon! They don't need anyone to tell them what to do, and certainly - no one is superior to the French!
Posted by Bobby 2006-12-20 14:35||   2006-12-20 14:35|| Front Page Top

11 Check to see if there's been an increased order of laundry detergent at the time this supposedly occurred. I'm sure the phrench would have seriously messed their drawers, being that close to OBL. What a crock of bull.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2006-12-20 15:37|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2006-12-20 15:37|| Front Page Top

12 Now I can tell you that the "We the French had ... insert_name_of_badguy in ourt sights/a cure for dath and texes/the formula for interplanetary travel but ouder nver came/hard disk crashed/aliens stole the formula is commonplace in French documentaries.

Of course sometimes it is truye. About one time in 100.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2006-12-20 17:37||   2006-12-20 17:37|| Front Page Top

13 My translator came up with "rear view mirror" instead of "sights", perhaps the French military are mistaken?
Posted by Thrinens Spailet2204 2006-12-20 22:25||   2006-12-20 22:25|| Front Page Top

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