kinetic karma:

‘A BRITISH sniper killed five Taliban insurgents and a would-be suicide bomber in Afghanistan with one bullet, the British Ministry of Defence says.
The 20-year-old marksman, a lance corporal in the Coldstream Guards, hit the trigger switch of the device from 930 metres away, causing the bomb to explode.
The blast killed the would-be bomber and five men around him, a Defence spokesman said…’ 

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9 Responses to kinetic karma:

  1. Cadwallader says:

    Is it Christmas? I hope this isn’t an April fool’s…. :?:

  2. KG says:

    I don’t think so, Cad. I heard it from another source a few weeks ago but couldn’t verify it. It seemed odd that there was no mention of it elsewhere at the time so I filed it under “nice if true”.
    Anyway, he may not have hit the trigger for the device, since the delivered energy would probably have been enough to detonate the vest. ;-)

  3. mawm says:

    Good man. http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_good.gif

  4. K2 says:

    This type of efficiency is in line with present western military funding reductions.

  5. Darin says:

    Good shot!http://falfn.com/CrusaderRabbit/wp-content/plugins/wp-monalisa/icons/wpml_good.gif

  6. Mathew says:

    Beautiful, buy that fellow all the beers he can drink. Lord we need more like him down here.