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Pirates Beware: Soon Rifles That Kill from a Mile Away
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Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Mark Thompson / Washington</A></SPAN> <SPAN class="date">Wednesday, Apr. 15, 2009</SPAN></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.time.com/time/article/widgets/perma.html?height=90&width=449"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.time.com/img/3DDF7119-AC11-4C8A-B3B5-E5925D74B9AA" alt="A sniper team trains with .50 caliber rifle" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.time.com/time/article/widgets/perma.html?height=90&width=449"><P> The three Navy SEAL snipers who killed the pirates off the coast of Somalia last weekend were lucky the buccaneers were gullible enough to allow their lifeboat to be towed farther out to sea by the U.S.S. <I>Bainbridge.</I> The shortened towline turned what could have been a trio of difficult shots across hundreds of yards of ocean into relatively easy 30-yd. pops. 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