Four people were killed and seven injured as US planes and tanks pounded suspected insurgent positions in the flashpoint city of Fallujah.(AFP/File/Antonio Scorza)


A U.S. Army soldier is illuminated by his own gunfire during an evening gunbattle with insurgents in Najaf, Iraq (news - web sites), Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2004. U.S. forces launched several airstrikes Wednesday, and met less resistance from insurgents on the ground. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)


Marine Cpl. Christopher Belchik, from Alton, Ill., in this undated photo, was killed in action Sunday, Aug. 23, 2004, in Al Anbar Province, Iraq (news - web sites). Belchik, assigned to 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Lejeune, N.C., mans a fighting position during the liberation of Al Kut, Iraq. (AP Photo/USMC, Jeff Sisto)


Iraqi National guardsman stands guard near the Ali Imam shrine in the besieged city of Najaf, southern Iraq (news - web sites) Tuesday Aug. 24, 2004. U.S. and Iraqi forces battled militants in Najaf on Tuesday and Iraqi National Guardsmen advanced to within 200 meters (yards) of the holy city's Imam Ali Shrine compound as Iraq's defense minister demanded the insurgents inside surrender. Addressing Iraqi National Guard troops in Najaf, Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan said Iraqi troops would head toward the shrine to await the signal for a raid or the capitulation of the militants. (AP Photo/Alaa al Murjani)


Iraqi National guardsmen near the area of the Ali Imam shrine in the besieged city of Najaf, southern Iraq (news - web sites) Tuesday Aug. 24, 2004. U.S. and Iraqi forces battled militants in Najaf on Tuesday and Iraqi National Guardsmen advanced to within 200 meters (yards) of the holy city's Imam Ali Shrine compound as Iraq's defense minister demanded the insurgents inside surrender. Addressing Iraqi National Guard troops in Najaf, Defense Minister Hazem Shaalan said Iraqi troops would head toward the shrine to await the signal for a raid or the capitulation of the militants. (AP Photo/Alaa al Murjani)


Iraqi national guards take position near the shrine of Imam Ali in the besieged holy Shiite city of Najaf. US forces trapped Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi Army inside their shrine bastion, prompting Iraq (news - web sites)'s Shiite spiritual leader to head back home to lead a bid to 'save Najaf'(AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)


NAJAF, IRAQ: Residents watch an Iraqi national guard moving through a street near the shrine of Imam Ali in the besieged holy Shiite city of Najaf 25 August 2004. Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, is returning home from London and has called on Iraqis to be ready to march on Najaf to save the city, aide Hamad al-Khaffaf told the Dubai-based al-Arabiya satellite TV channel. US armored vehicles trapped the shrine in a pincer grip, smashing through Shiite militiamen defenses as snipers fired on all those coming or going from the mausoleum. A US plane fired a missile just metres (yards) to the west of the mausoleum, making the building tremble and filling it with dust, said an AFP correspondent inside with up to 600 other people. The closest US vehicle was 20 metres (yards) from the western gate of the complex, for four months the military headquarters of Sadr's Mehdi Army, after troops closed in from the Najaf sea, a desert surrounding the city. AFP PHOTO/Ahmad AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)




NAJAF, IRAQ: Iraqi national guards take position near the shrine of Imam Ali in the besieged holy Shiite city of Najaf 25 August 2004 AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images


Iraqi police cadets shoot during firearms training at the Jordanian International Police Center in Muwaqar, 22 miles east of Amman, Jordan on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2004. About 4,800 Iraqi police officers have gone through the eight-week program and 32,000 will be trained in Jordan over two years. (AP Photo/Nade Daoud)


An Israeli soldier arrests a Palestinian during a military operation in the West Bank city of Ramallah, August 25, 2004. REUTERS/Loay Abu Haykel


A security officer loads his automatic rifle as he scuffles with the crowd as medical workers load wounded Palestinian deputy intelligence chief Tareq Abu Rajab into an ambulance at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2004. Gunmen opened fire at a convoy carrying the deputy Palestinian intelligence chief on Wednesday, seriously wounding him in the chest and killing two bodyguards, Palestinian officials said. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)


An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard beside a busy street in India's remote Manipur state after authorities imposed a night curfew in several towns, August 24, 2004. Strife-torn Manipur, whose name means land of jewels, has been on the boil for more than a month over the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act, which gives troops the right to arrest and shoot at suspected rebels. Picture taken August 24, 2004. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw


An Indian soldier guards a street in Imphal in India's remote Manipur state that borders Myanmar, August 24, 2004. Authorities have imposed a night curfew in several towns in Manipur. Strife-torn Manipur, whose name means 'land of jewels,' has been on the brink of an outbreak of violence for more than a month over the controversial Armed Forces Special Powers Act, which gives troops the right to arrest and shoot at suspected rebels. Picture taken August 24, 2004. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw


A Thai police officer patrols a train station in Yala province, south of Bangkok, August 25, 2004. Three simultaneous bomb blasts injured 11 people in Thailand's largely Muslim south where over 200 people have been killed since a spate of violence erupted in January. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang


SEOUL, REPUBLIC OF KOREA: A South Korean soldier with military biochemical warfare soldiers during the anti-biological and chemical terror drill at Seoul on 25 August 2004. The two-week operation, called Ulchi Focus Lens, focused on computer simulation drills involving an unspecified number of South Korean troops and 14,500 US troops.AFP PHOTO/ KIM JAE-HWAN (Photo credit should read KIM JAE-HWAN/AFP/Getty Images)


SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - AUGUST 25: South Korean soldiers take part in an anti-chemical and anti-biological terror drill as part of the Ulchi Focus Lens (UFL) exercise, on August 25, 2004 in Seoul, South Korea. The drill comes amid international concerns over terrorism and North Korea's nuclear program. The Ulchi Focus Lens (UFL) exercise, a regular joint exercise between South Korean and U.S. troops in preparation for an emergency on the Korean Peninsula, will be conducted from August 23 to September 3. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)



JAKARTA, INDONESIA: Anti-terror police listen to their commander during a drill in Jakarta, 25 August 2004. Police chief General Da'i Bachtiar said early this month that thousands of soldiers will reinforce 220,000 police assigned to guard the election. Bachtiar warned militants linked to the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) extremist network may launch attacks ahead of the run-off poll. AFP PHOTO/Bay ISMOYO (Photo credit should read BAY ISMOYO/AFP/Getty Images)


NEW YORK - AUGUST 25: Police stand guard on a street corner less than one week before the start of the Republican National Convention on August 25, 2004 in New York City. Police are preparing for large protests and the possibility of attacks when the convention starts in New York August 30. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Quoted: the bottom police in NY pic- the guy on the left has his rifle sling situated for right handed shooting, yet his pistol is on his weak side??? great pics.

Depends on his dominant eye v. his dominant hand.

I know a guy that has to do this.  

Quoted: anybody got any idea what kind of pistols those iraqi cadets have??

Glock 19

Quoted: What kind of rifle is that in the pic with the yellow gas, it looks like an AR lower and magazine, yet an upper and barrel/gas system that is unfamiliar to me.?

Daewoo K2

Quoted: Quoted: the bottom police in NY pic- the guy on the left has his rifle sling situated for right handed shooting, yet his pistol is on his weak side??? great pics. Depends on his dominant eye v. his dominant hand. I know a guy that has to do this.

I do, too. (bad right eye)

BTT for the night