"We don't even have snipers that good,"
Iraqi insurgent snipers gaining skill
By Will Weissert, Associated Press Writer | December 23, 2006
RAMADI, Iraq --Spc. Brent Everson was just a few steps from safety.
The 22-year-old from Florence, Mont., was climbing out of a tank, near the entrance to a U.S. outpost called Sword when a sniper's 7.62-millimeter bullet hit him just above his Kevlar vest, tearing into his shoulder and through his back. He fell back into the tank — wounded but alive.
they believe the best snipers from all over the Middle East travel to Iraq for the chance to drop an American with a single shot
By Will Weissert, Associated Press Writer | December 23, 2006
RAMADI, Iraq --Spc. Brent Everson was just a few steps from safety.
The 22-year-old from Florence, Mont., was climbing out of a tank, near the entrance to a U.S. outpost called Sword when a sniper's 7.62-millimeter bullet hit him just above his Kevlar vest, tearing into his shoulder and through his back. He fell back into the tank — wounded but alive.
they believe the best snipers from all over the Middle East travel to Iraq for the chance to drop an American with a single shot
