Spec Ops - The Line: The anti-war war game

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Captain Walker is at the end. Actually, the use of his Delta Force team, which includes in addition to the Afghanistan veteran or machine gun and sniper expert Adam Lugo, just routine. The brief was in Dubai on the 33rd Battalion and its leader, Colonel Konrad to seek. The six months earlier flew with his unit in the ravaged by severe sandstorms oriental metropolis, refused at the time of the disaster but to leave the city and its inhabitants back. The contact with Konrad broke off, the 33rd seemed swallowed by the earth. Only a distress call that came in the middle of Dubai, provided a clue. Walker went off with his comrades, was in good spirits.

Now he faces a mountain of burning corpses - including a mother who holds her child in her arms, and yet to look at it with eyes wide with horror. At least with one eye, which is their left after the explosion of a bomb or phosphorus. The sight of dead civilians were not bad enough to put a nagging awareness of the emotional knockout Walker: He is responsible for the deaths of these innocent people. For he had personally directed the bomb supposedly only on the territory occupied by enemy troops.
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Screenshots: Spec Ops - The Line 16 images, the nightmare begins gently
Scenes like this are in the action game "Spec Ops - The Line" is no exception. What begins as an arbitrary 3-D shooter in which you, the protagonist from the back looking over the shoulder developed during the course of the 15 chapters seamlessly linked to the game that has become a nightmare. The Berlin-based development studio Yager staged Walkers Dubai's mission in the tradition of Joseph Conrad's literary milestone "Heart of Darkness".

Snipers as a new tactic of the Taliban

Afghanistan offensive
Increasingly, the guerrilla-style insurgency fighting for supremacy in
the drug supply hotspot Marjah

For months, have you prepared them in secret, "Operation Together"
with which the act recently on the defensive more advisable NATO
troops since the weekend against insurgent Taliban. As the largest
military offensive since the start of NATO's engagement in 2001, the
under Afghan command and thousands of soldiers of the Western defense
alliance acted action taken.

New tactics of the Taliban

Hardly had she begun, made the first round of the success stories: the
fleeing Taliban were the militarily far superior NATO forces opposed
to "little resistance" only sporadically set booby traps were the
Allied advance on occasionally. Now the New York Times reports on a
new tactic of the Taliban fighters and NATO officials in Kabul in a
matter of concern. Increasingly, the advancing troops were attacked by
snipers.

The scene: the area around the village of Marja in the southern Afghan
province of Helmand, a hotspot of the drug trade, switch to the
militant fundamentalists of the Kabul central government largely
undisturbed and exercise.

U.S. soldier shot dead

"In the five days that continues the fight already, the Taliban have
turned a new page that has been in almost ten years of American
involvement in Afghanistan so far been barely, snipers, both working
alone and in guerrilla-style attacks from ambush "writes the New York
paper. Five U.S. Marines and two Afghan soldiers have been taken, an
American killed when his patrol was ambushed by snipers.

Previously presented the firearms attacks by the Taliban, in contrast
to some homemade booby traps, no major threat to the heavily armed
NATO troops dar. behind the new development U.S. observers suggest
more effective and disciplined training of the insurgents, possibly
under supervision of trained, battle-hardened shooters.

Shots from all directions

The New York Times quoted a commander of the Marines, whose shock
troops came under heavy shelling on Monday: "At first shots were fired
with Kalashnikovs at us. Whoever it was, he's well hidden. Not even
our marine binoculars have discovered something, "Sharpe go here
according to the New York Times, usually using the same tactics. Is
only with a heavy machine gun fire, the attention of the soldiers
aroused, then it follows from the other direction of the fire with
sniper rifles.

The relatively flat and sparsely vegetated area around the Marja do it
easily the Taliban to implement their new tactics into practice, the
U.S. military representative in the New York Times. Often, the ground
forces remain no other option than to request air support.

Terrorist hunt snipers on the streets

Fearing further attacks, the London police has increased the number of
patrolling in civilian snipers. There are also indications that there
could be more than four bombers.

Fearing further attacks, the London police for media information on
this Monday has more snipers in civilian clothes sent into the street.
Scotland Yard have great concern that the four fugitive bombers could
strike again last Thursday, before you grow old explosives. For these
reasons conquer red alert, reported the "Times" and other British
newspapers.

Was there a fifth bomber?

The police believe it is also possible that wanted to strike on
Thursday a total of five suicide bombers. In a bush in a London park,
the police have found a fifth bomb, whose explosive agree with the
other four bombs. You may have a fifth planned another terrorist
attack, but then does not run, the newspapers reported.

While three suspects were arrested, but according to the British media
are not there for the perpetrators. At best, they came from the
vicinity of the terrorists, the BBC and the British news agency PA
reported, citing police sources.
Race against time

The police have no evidence that the terrorists had left the country.
It is possible that they were complicit in hiding and in preparing new
attacks. Scotland Yard chief Ian Blair on Sunday had spoken of a "race
against time". Experts from the police investigated a precaution on
Monday blasted package, which was found in a bush in north London. IN
QUESTION maybe it was a bomb that was thrown away a fifth bomber on
Thursday, it said in the media.
Blow to Tony Blair

According to a survey published on Monday on behalf of the newspaper
"Daily Mirror" 85 percent of Britons believe that their country's
involvement in the Iraq war one of the causes of the terrorist
attacks. This was a blow to Prime Minister Tony Blair, said the
newspaper. Blair always stressed that both had nothing to do with each
other.

Leading Muslim clerics condemned the attacks at an international
conference in London. The controversial Professor Tariq Ramadan said
from Geneva: "We must not forget that the killing of innocents is
never justified."
Investigation to erroneous execution

At the same time on Monday launched an investigation into the mistaken
shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes by police officers
begin. The British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw wants to apologize to
a meeting with Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim in person in
London. The French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin will meet with
Prime Minister Tony Blair about the fight against terror

Sniper fire on protesters in Sana'a

Yemen's president, "with dove and olive branch»
Roadblock of troops loyal to President Saleh in Sanaa. Recording from Friday.
In Yemen security forces have a large protest tent camp in the capital
Sanaa attacked, snipers fired on protesters. Furthermore, a barracks
was bombed by defecting soldiers. Overall, there were about 30 deaths.

Government troops attacked in Yemen in the early hours of Saturday, a
camp of the opposition in the capital Sanaa. Here, according to a
nurse at least 16 people were killed. The medic Mohammed al Kabatis
said the soldiers were tried in the early morning hours, to storm the
camp. It also snipers were used. Among the dead if it were 15
civilians and a deserter who had joined the opposition. 54 people were
injured, according to Kabatis'.

When shelling of the headquarters of a defected to the opposition to
the regime Armored Division were killed 11 soldiers and 112 injured.
The officer reported one overflowed, Abdel Ghani Ash-Shimiri. The
headquarters of the 1st Armored Division in Sana'a that supports the
government's opponents, had been shelled. He spoke of street battles
between rival groups in the armed forces.

The attacks came just hours after the return of President Ali Abdullah
Saleh. This was on Friday after returning from a three-month stay in
neighboring Saudi Arabia, where he had recovered from the consequences
of an attack, returned to his native country, and celebrated by his
followers.

The President had declared on his return, he wanted a ceasefire to end
the days of fighting in the capital. "I return to the state with a
peace dove and an olive branch in hand," state television quoted
Saleh. But his opponents fear an even greater bloodshed. Saleh called
on the United States again to deliver its power.

Yemen had begun in January protests against the continuing for more
than 30 years of rule by the President. Since then it came again and
again to violent clashes between opponents and supporters of Saleh.
This week alone, more than 100 people were killed.

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