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FALLUJAH, IRAQ: An Iraqi girl holding a doll watches as US Marines from Lima Company patrol the devastated city of Fallujah, some 50 kilometers west of capital Baghdad, 8 January 2005. Last November this city saw some of the worst fighting between US Marines and Iraqi Insurgents since the invasion of Iraq by US troops toppling former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. AFP PHOTO Hrvoje POLAN (Photo credit should read Hrvoje POLAN/AFP/Getty Images)


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FALLUJAH, IRAQ: US Marines from Lima Company patrol the devastated city of Fallujah, some 50 kilometers west of capital Baghdad, 08 January 2005. Last November this city saw some of the worst fighting between US Marines and Iraqi Insurgents since the invasion of Iraq by US troops toppling former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. AFP PHOTO Hrvoje POLAN (Photo credit should read Hrvoje POLAN/AFP/Getty Images)


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FALLUJAH, IRAQ: An US Marine from Lima Company checks the ID of Iraqis during the patrol of the devastated city of Fallujah, some 50 kilometers west of capital Baghdad, 08 January 2005. Last November this city saw some of the worst fighting between US Marines and Iraqi Insurgents since the invasion of Iraq by US troops toppling former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. AFP PHOTO Hrvoje POLAN (Photo credit should read Hrvoje POLAN/AFP/Getty Images)


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FALLUJAH, IRAQ: An US Marine from Lima Company secures the area next to the sign of "cleared house X" during the patrol of the devastated city of Fallujah, some 50 kilometers west of capital Baghdad, 08 January 2005. Last November this city saw some of the worst fighting between US Marines and Iraqi Insurgents since the invasion of Iraq by US troops toppling former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. AFP PHOTO Hrvoje POLAN (Photo credit should read Hrvoje POLAN/AFP/Getty Images)


A US soldier fires an AK-47 rifle on a shooting range outside the restive Iraqi city of Fallujah. The shooting exercise is designed to give US soldiers a chance to fire weapons captured from insurgents in Fallujah.(AFP/USMC)


Militants from the Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigades hand over their weapons to Palestinian police officers as they arrive to vote at a polling station in the Balata refugee camp , adjacent to the West Bank city of Nablus Sunday Jan. 9, 2005. Palestinians on Sunday held their first presidential election in nine years, choosing a successor to longtime leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) in a vote that many hoped would revitalize the Mideast peace process.(AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)


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JENIN, : Armed militants from the radical Al Aqsa Martrys' Brigades stand next to a row of posters showing pictures of the leading Palestinian presidential candidate Mahmud Abbas, the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and jailed Fatah firebrand Marwan Barghuti, after casting their vote for the second-ever Palestinian presidential elections in the northern West Bank town of Jenin 09 January 2005. AFP PHOTO Saif Dahlah (Photo credit should read SAIF DAHLAH/AFP/Getty Images)


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BALATA REFUGEE CAMP, WEST BANK - JANUARY 9: An armed Palestinian militant makes a cellphone call alongside a campaign poster for Mahmoud Abbas, after voting in the Palestinian presidential elections January 9, 2005 in Balata Refugee Camp in the West Bank. Palestine Liberation Organization leader Abbas is expected to be ushered in as head of the Palestinian Authority, replacing the late Yasser Arafat. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images)


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NABLUS, : Israeli army officers (R) check the weapons serial numbers of Palestinian policemen on their way to monitor the Palestinian elections at a checkpoint in the West Bank town of Nablus 08 January 2005. Armed Palestinian police officers were allowed to cross checkpoints to control the elections held 09 January 2005. AFP PHOTO JAAFAR ASHTIYEH (Photo credit should read JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP/Getty Images)


Former U.S. presidential candidate Senator John Kerry (news - web sites) (D-MA), an election observer, waves as he passes a Palestinian security guard on his way to meet Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie in the West Bank city of Ramallah January 9, 2005. Palestinians voted on Sunday for a successor to Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) and looked likely to elect Mahmoud Abbas, a pragmatist who has promised to revive a peace process with Israel after years of bloodshed. REUTERS/David Furst


Indonesian soldier thanks Airman Chad Gillies from Bakersfield, Calif. as Petty Officer Second Class Sean Bascom from Moorpark, Calif. looks on after their U.S. Navy (news - web sites) helicopter delivered fresh water to tsunami victims 45 kilometers (30 miles) south west of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Saturday January 8, 2005. Helicopters from the U.S. carrier USS Abraham Lincoln delivered over 125,000 pounds (57,000 kg's) of emergency aid to tsunami victims in Aceh today. (AP Photo/Andy Eames)


An Indonesian soldier guards refugees, victims of the Dec. 26 2004 tsunami, wait to leave Banda Aceh airport Sunday Jan 9, 2005. Relief work for tsunami victims in Indonesia will continue for some time according to the United States military. The Dec. 26 devastating quake-triggered tidal wave claimed the lives of 100,000 people in Indonesia alone, the total death toll for all countries affected is more than 150,000. (AP Photo/Andy Eames)


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ONTHATCHIMADAM, SRI LANKA - JANUARY 9: A soldier from the Sri Lankan Special Task Force stand guard as tsunami refugees wait to receive non-food relief item packages during a UNHCR distribution for 688 families January 9,2005 in a welfare center in Onthatchimadam, Sri Lanka. Over a 150,000 have been been confirmed dead after a huge earthquake caused a tsunami wave destroying everything in its path. The powerful Asian earthquake has effected coastal areas in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, the Maldives in addition to the tourist isles of Thailand. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

Quoted: us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20050109/i/r3576351247.jpg Fucker fits right in......wasn't he deemed irrelevant a few months ago?

Exactly what I was thinking.

Quoted: What's the optic on the Marine's rifle in the third pic?

ISRAELI MARS

You could probably get a sample if you're LE.


It has an integrated IR laser.

Quoted: Iraqis are only being given the Army BDU's right?  Not the MARPAT??

Chocolate Chips are all I have seen so far in the news pics.

Go back to page one.


In fact, go back to page one of just about every news photo thread Ive done since late November  of 2004....

DUDE! LOL

Theres SIX posts on page one discussing the optic - its the Israeli MARS red dot/IR laser unit.

Whew....you were scarin' me man...