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Yon: The Brits Are Losing Helmand

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Occasional Reader8/31/2009 1:21:08 pm PDT

Okay, something I don’t understand; Yon describes this 20-30 minute ordeal of the snipers trying to hit a man 900 meters away who appears to be a Taliban spotter. The bad guy is concealed behind a wall, but in open terrain, without civilians around (unless I misunderstood). Why not just drop a few 40mm grenades, or for that matter, mortar rounds on the target, and then crack open a beer?