Scots Sniper Kills Taliban Leader

[forntida]

When I read about this in the Daily Record this morning I thought 'that is some good work'. Then the whole thing went pear shaped with the paper naming the sniper concerned. Unless this is some kind of ruse it must be the silliest thing printed in the papers this year. Or is there something that is just not getting through to me??

I now notice that the story can not be located online. Like shutting the stable door.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk/.../scots-sniper-waits-three-days-on-shop-rooftop-to-notch-longest-range-confirmed-kill-86908-21581900/ - 6 hours ago

[chroma]

That would seem to me to suggest that the story was fairly accurate.
It'll have been yanked by some desperate editor trying to save his job from the ineptitude of letting the names of people involved in currient military operations.

This is the sole reason i loathe the press, "The people have a right to know." only really fits if the story is remotely interesting. And whilst true in most cases, if the public really want to know tsomething that bad then they can get off their asses and go out and find out for themselves.
Placing someones life in jeopardy doesnt seem like an interesting or justified article to me.

[forntida]

That would seem to me to suggest that the story was fairly accurate.
It'll have been yanked by some desperate editor trying to save his job from the ineptitude of letting the names of people involved in currient military operations.

This is the sole reason i loathe the press, "The people have a right to know." only really fits if the story is remotely interesting. And whilst true in most cases, if the public really want to know tsomething that bad then they can get off their asses and go out and find out for themselves.
Placing someones life in jeopardy doesnt seem like an interesting or justified article to me.

It was the fact that the sniper will now be a target for the rest of his life that concerned me.

found this, taken from the original;

dailyrecord.co.uk
12 hrs ago

A CRACKSHOT Scots squaddie has killed a feared Taliban warlord - from a mile away. ***** ********** shot the high profile Afghan drug baron dead during ferocious fighting, notching up the longest range confirmed kill in Afghanistan. The 25-year-old waited on a shop rooftop in southern Afghanistan for three days to take out the top-level Taliban commander - called Musa - who co-ordinated dozens of attacks against British and US soldiers. *** *********, ** ******* ************, has already killed 32 other Taliban fighters during some of the hardest fighting of the Afghan campaign. His comrade, ****** ******* ******, carried out another amazing attack on the Taliban. He killed one of their snipers - who spoke with a Birmingham accent - who was shooting from a tiny hole in a wall more than half a mile away.