Daily Mail Article with Picture of Irish DF Sniper Team

[Jessup]

Ok, I admit it. I know I shouldn't as with most tabloids the Daily Mail is truly appalling. It's a guilty pleasure and to be fair it's the 'best' on line tabloid that is free to view.

Anyway, here's an article about a Taliban sniper giving the Brits a hard time in Afghanistan.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...ockbuster.html

The curious thing is the accompanying pic is of a DF sniper team? BTW it's a good pic.

[ZULU]

It is a good pic. Thanks for sharing

[Craghopper]

Nice photo..Of al the photos of British Army Snipers, they pick one of the Irish DF? lol

[Tipplegend]

Nice photo..Of al the photos of British Army Snipers, they pick one of the Irish DF? lol

Just goes to show how good they are

[HavocIRL]

That's from Chad

[Border Bunny]

I know him. He's a in my Company.
That pic most have been taking in Chad when he was out there with the 99th.

[ICUN]

I know those 2. Wasn't standing too far away from them when that pic was taken

[ICUN]

And why didn't they just use a pic of Brit snipers in Afghanistan? Strange.

[Tyler Durden]

Some lazy tabloid hack probably did a Google image search for "snipers" and picked that one because it looks cool.

[Barry]

Well it was credited to 99 Infantry Battalion, Irish Defence Forces, so whoever chose the image (not necessarily the author of the piece) was aware that it wasn't a picture of a British sniper.

[FMolloy]

No more shite-talk about the North.

[Mad P]

Great pic & great for Irish sniper team to get recognition but i think the story deserves some mention.
That sort of situation has got to be extremely unsettling & bad for moral that they.. A; Know they're being stalked at all times & B; that one of their own snipers trained in counter-sniper techniques could be killed. Sangin seems to have remained a problem for the british since the start of the conflict with a large number of casulties coming from the region.

[Jungle]

Great pic & great for Irish sniper team to get recognition but i think the story deserves some mention.

Personnally, I would be very upset to have my mug exposed publicly like that, and associated to my sniper qualification.

At the end of the course, we had the group photo taken with our ghillie suits on, so our faces weren't visible. We keep our sniper's ID very discreet, out of necessity, because our sniper community is very small. We did that even before Afg.

[SwiftandSure]

Maybe that's why they used the DF photo and not the BA photo. It's common on TV documentaries from Afghanistan to see the sniper's face blocked out.

[Laners]

Problem with this picture / publicity is that some bunch of rag heads plotting a revenge attack will now concider Irish Defence Forces personell or citeziens as targets even though we have no involvement or personell in Afganistain .