‘Hvilken Stilling Skyder Du På’?
Posted on | September 28, 2013 | 45 Comments
That’s Danish for, “What position are you shooting at?”
That question appears as a subtitle caption in video footage from Syria, so we can assume that it was a Danish video crew covering this scene with rebel gunmen in a firefight against Assad forces. In reply to the question, one of the gunmen answers, “We got one of them. So there is only one left.” (“Vi fik en af dem. Så er der kun en tilbage.”) But then the gunman decides to stand up to get a better look . . .
That didn’t work out so good, eh? (Hat-tip: Blazing Cat Fur.)
Deadly blunders are to be expected when you send a bunch of untrained amateurs up against a professional army.
By the way, the subtitle “Gud er det største!” (at the 51-second mark) is a Danish translation of “Allahu akbar!”
UPDATE: Bob Belvedere points out that the same shot killed two rebels.
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September 28th, 2013 @ 4:40 pm
‘Hvilken Stilling Skyder Du På’?: That’s Danish for, “What position are you shooting at?” That question appear… http://t.co/k0qWvjzAJF
September 28th, 2013 @ 4:40 pm
‘Hvilken Stilling Skyder Du På’?: That’s Danish for, “What position are you shooting at?” That question appear… http://t.co/3fq8VQ7nrs
September 28th, 2013 @ 4:40 pm
‘Hvilken Stilling Skyder Du På’?: That’s Danish for, “What position are you shooting at?” That question appear… http://t.co/1cqk2xJ9FF
September 28th, 2013 @ 4:40 pm
‘Hvilken Stilling Skyder Du På’?: That’s Danish for, “What position are you shooting at?” That question appear… http://t.co/wfVWUujaxX
September 28th, 2013 @ 4:40 pm
‘Hvilken Stilling Skyder Du På’?: That’s Danish for, “What position are you shooting at?” That question appear… http://t.co/O4XRtfzgI4
September 28th, 2013 @ 4:44 pm
@Instapundit: Danish? Yeah, I can translate Danish. ‘Hvilken Stilling Skyder Du På’? http://t.co/GqW7fAfq4Z
September 28th, 2013 @ 4:45 pm
@Stranahan Speaking of video http://t.co/GqW7fAfq4Z
September 28th, 2013 @ 4:46 pm
RT @smitty_one_each: TOM ‘Hvilken Stilling Skyder Du På’? http://t.co/szUgbOLgne #TCOT
September 28th, 2013 @ 4:47 pm
RT @rsmccain: @Stranahan Speaking of video http://t.co/GqW7fAfq4Z
September 28th, 2013 @ 4:50 pm
Over at my joint, I look at this magnificent incident from an economic standpoint:More Bang For The Buck: Two Jihadists, One Bullet
September 28th, 2013 @ 4:53 pm
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September 28th, 2013 @ 5:30 pm
What’s Danish for “1 Shot, 2 Kills” ?
Always a good day to see AQ terrorists removed from the gene pool.
September 28th, 2013 @ 5:37 pm
FREAKING FANTASTIC !!!!!
September 28th, 2013 @ 5:44 pm
It didn’t hurt.
September 28th, 2013 @ 5:47 pm
Was he from the People’s Front of Syria or the Syrian People’s Front?
September 28th, 2013 @ 6:11 pm
The only people we hate more than the Romans
September 28th, 2013 @ 6:25 pm
Terrorists killing fascists, fascists killing terrorists.
Tell me again why we should intervene.
September 28th, 2013 @ 7:03 pm
Splitter!
September 28th, 2013 @ 7:04 pm
Uh, because of the Moral Imperative. Or something. I think.
Anyway, Samantha Power says it’s the right thing to do, and that’s good enough for me!
September 28th, 2013 @ 7:07 pm
It’s OK, Kirby! Probably some of them other fellers got shot in the belly later…
September 28th, 2013 @ 7:28 pm
Anyone else see a problem with Assad’s army being blooded against people that are being armed by America?
Also, the audio has to be off, or, this is film of a gun fight being carried out at knife fight ranges.
I could hear the sound of the shot pretty much at the same time the bullet hit the guy in the head.
September 28th, 2013 @ 7:37 pm
Geez, a few well-placed mortar rounds may well have ended the rebel resistance. That was one target-rich environment.
One big rule is that automatic weapons draw fire. If you live past your first engagement, you keep your distance from the automatic weapons.
September 28th, 2013 @ 9:02 pm
‘Hvilken Stilling Skyder Du På’? http://t.co/XrWST9SKiM
September 28th, 2013 @ 10:35 pm
Yeah, you got to wonder about their tactics. Guerrillas shouldn’t be getting into extended gun battles with regulars, because the regulars can call in artillery on the guerrilla position. Hit-and-run tactics — a quick ambush and then skedaddle — is more typical of insurgent combat.
September 28th, 2013 @ 10:36 pm
Nice to see the Monty Python fans in full support.
September 28th, 2013 @ 10:38 pm
It’s only a flesh wound.
September 28th, 2013 @ 10:42 pm
If they only had the Holy Hand-grenade Of Antioch.
September 28th, 2013 @ 11:56 pm
Dude. ~ ‘Hvilken Stilling Skyder Du På’? http://t.co/59HOjjBWjb
September 29th, 2013 @ 12:59 am
Insurgencies can evolve into conventional warfare. Or there could be a mixture of guerrilla and conventional warfare, depending on how the situation is developing.
n any event, a well trained guerrilla force can fight conventional forces in a pitched battle with sufficient preparation and planning. Check out the Battle of Dien Bien Phu for a classic example.
In any case, I’d speculate that this crew are newbie guerrillas trying to fight as regulars, but with zero training. Which means they are learning by doing and dying, a very expensive way to fight a war.
But, then, life is cheap in the Middle East. They have all those angry young men to throw into the fire, no?
September 29th, 2013 @ 1:57 am
You mean Howdy Doody’s sister?
September 29th, 2013 @ 1:58 am
You’d have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.
September 29th, 2013 @ 2:31 am
Would be nice to hear such phrases back in, say, Copenhagen….
September 29th, 2013 @ 3:16 am
For a moment there, I thought this was in Dearborn.
Sadly, we’re not all that far away from this being Life in These United States.
Thanks, barack!
September 29th, 2013 @ 9:16 am
I think the final count was three. They dragged off three guys. They must have been “stacked” to see better.
September 29th, 2013 @ 10:29 am
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September 29th, 2013 @ 10:47 am
Well, of course, insurgents can fight conventional battles, provided they have the weaponry to do so. But assuming that the regime forces possess artillery and the insurgents don’t, insurgents fighting a sustained battle with the regime forces risk getting pancaked by weaponry they can’t match.
If I recall correctly, the Communist insurgents at Dien Bien Phu had artillery, or at least lots of mortars. When the Communists tried to repeat their feat in the siege of Khe Sanh, however, they discovered that B-52s trumped everything they had.
September 29th, 2013 @ 11:35 am
Et skud, to dødsfald!
September 29th, 2013 @ 12:25 pm
“What’s Danish for “1 Shot, 2 Kills” ? ~DaveO http://t.co/XQbkSEQJe6 #tcot #teaparty #news
September 29th, 2013 @ 12:43 pm
DARWIN AHKBAR!
September 29th, 2013 @ 12:52 pm
The Commies had pretty much regularized by the time of Dien Bien Phu. We saw the result ourselves in later pitched battles in the A Shau and Khe Sanh.
September 29th, 2013 @ 4:33 pm
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September 29th, 2013 @ 5:42 pm
Had one of those on my butt once.
Got it lanced, but it left a skår.
September 29th, 2013 @ 5:44 pm
Methinks Jim just won this thread.
September 30th, 2013 @ 2:23 pm
The only line we should concern ourselves with in Syria is the line for popcorn.
October 5th, 2013 @ 11:49 pm
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