A cool editorial (fiction) on Spec Ops

[FunkyDrummer]

It's a big night for Mike. He's at work tonight. As I mentioned his clothing is wet, partially from dew,
partially from perspiration. He and his four co-workers, Dan, Larry, Pete and Maurice are working on a
rooftop at the corner of Jamia St. and Khulafa St. across from Omar Bin Yasir.

Mike is looking through the viewfinder of a British made Pilkington LF25 laser designator.
The crosshairs are centered on a ventilation shaft. The shaft is on the roof of The Republican Guard Palace
in downtown Baghdad across the Tigris River.

The article continues here: http://www.bikesportmichigan.com/editorials/0000023.shtml

Keep in mind that the article is a work of fiction. Nonetheless, it's a really cool read. Enjoy :D

[Zach R.]

That was a great story.It deffinately makes you wonder because I saw the same white mercedes driving out of Baghdad.

[FunkyDrummer]

That was a great story.It deffinately makes you wonder because I saw the same white mercedes driving out of Baghdad.

Yeah. If you go here -- http://www.bikesportmichigan.com/editorials/0000027.shtml -- the author
talks about how he came up with the story. He says:

I was watching CNN the night before and saw a big bomb score a direct hit on the Republican Palace in Baghdad and then,
minutes later, saw a lone white Mercedes sedan on a CNN remote camera leaving the area.
I thought, "Hmmmm, that's interesting." Then I came in here the next morning and wrote the story. That's it.

I just think it's really cool how even though it's entirely a work of the author's imagination, it's clearly well-informed and
*could* be a real-world scenario.

[Zach R.]

It sounds like he got really close to revealing a top-secret Op by the calls he recieved from the pentagon.