What's the latest on "Juba" the Sniper?

[KansDem]

Remember this story?

Juba is the nickname given by American forces to an insurgent sniper operating in southern Baghdad. They do not know his appearance, nationality or real name, but they know and fear his skill. "He's good," said Specialist Travis Burress, 22, a sniper with the 1-64 battalion based in Camp Rustamiyah. "Every time we dismount I'm sure everyone has got him in the back of their minds. He's a serious threat to us."

. . . Since February, the killing of at least two members of the battalion and the wounding of six more have been attributed to Juba. Some think it is also he that has picked off up to a dozen other soldiers. In a war marked by sectarian bombings and civilian casualties, Juba is unusual in targeting only coalition troops, a difficult quarry protected by armoured vehicles, body armour and helmets.

He waits for soldiers to dismount, or stand up in a Humvee turret, and aims for gaps in their body armour, the lower spine, ribs or above the chest. He has killed from 200 metres away. "It was the perfect shot," the battalion commander, Lt Col Kevin Farrell, said of one incident. "Blew out the spine. "We have different techniques to try to lure him out, but he is very well trained and very patient. He doesn't fire a second shot."

Some in the battalion want marksmen to occupy rooftops overlooking supply routes, Juba's hunting ground, to try to put him in the cross-hairs. "It would be a pretty shitty assignment because he's good," said Spc Burress. "I think it's a sniper's job to get a sniper, and it'd probably take all of us to get him."

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/6/02416/04038

Also...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1542824,00.html

I thought I had read he was from an east-European country, perhaps one of the former Soviet Union satellites, but don't know for certain. Haven't seen any reports on this figure for awhile.

[Ian David]

1. I thought we had machines that zero-in on snipers within a second?

Vehicle-mounted Acoustic Sniper Detection System


More:
http://www.gizmag.com/go/4497/


Of course, having those is negated when the enemy has one of these...





http://www.live-shot.com/


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