BAGHDAD, IRAQ: A US soldier secures the scene of a suicide car bomb 21 September 2004 at the road leading to Baghdad International Airport. An Iraqi civilian was killed and 19 people wounded four of them US soldiers, in the attack. Democratic presidential contender John Kerry accused President George W. Bush of creating a "crisis of historic proportions" as infighting over Iraq dominated the US election campaign. Bush defended the war in Iraq in his speech to the United Nations, saying the US-led coalition had enforced "the just demands of the world" that Baghdad disarm. AFP PHOTO/Marwan NAAMANI (Photo credit should read MARWAN NAAMANI/AFP/Getty Images)


BAGHDAD, IRAQ: A US soldier and Iraqi civilian inspect destruction caused by a car bomb that was detonated in a western Baghdad neighborhood, 21 September 2004. The vehicle was parked outside an Iraqi National Guard recruiting centre and a local mosque in the city's al-Jamia neighborhood and its driver managed to escape after being pursued by police, said witnesses. US troops and police sealed off the area and detonated the vehicle, AFP PHOTO/Ahmad AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)


BAGHDAD, IRAQ: A US soldier gestures to photographers as he secures the sight where a car bomb was detonated in a western Baghdad neighborhood 21 September 2004. The vehicle was parked outside an Iraqi National Guard recruiting centre and a local mosque in the city's al-Jamia neighborhood and its driver managed to escape after being pursued by police, said witnesses. US troops and police sealed off the area and detonated the vehicle, AFP PHOTO/Ahmad AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)


BAGHDAD, IRAQ: US soldiers secure the scene of a suicide car bomb 21 September 2004 at the road leading to Baghdad International Airport. An Iraqi civilian was killed and 19 people wounded four of them US soldiers, in the attack. Democratic presidential contender John Kerry accused President George W. Bush of creating a "crisis of historic proportions" as infighting over Iraq dominated the US election campaign. Bush defended the war in Iraq in his speech to the United Nations, saying the US-led coalition had enforced "the just demands of the world" that Baghdad disarm. AFP PHOTO/Marwan NAAMANI (Photo credit should read MARWAN NAAMANI/AFP/Getty Images


BASRA, IRAQ: A British soldier keeps watch while patrolling the southern Iraqi city of Basra, 21 September 2004. The family of a British civil engineer held hostage in Iraq appealed to Prime Minister Tony Blair to intervene to save his life, after grisly images of the beheading of a US hostage appeared on the Internet. . AFP PHOTO/Essam AL-SUDANI (Photo credit should read ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/Getty Images)


BAGHDAD, IRAQ: A security guard keeps watch as two Iraqi men wait for the arrival of the body of Sunni Sheikh Mohammed Jadou, prior to his funeral 21 September 2004 in Baghdad. Sheikh Jadou was killed the previous day by armed men near his mosque in the Al-Baya neighborhood of southwestern Baghdad. Two senior Sunni Muslim clerics from an influential religious organization, the Committee of Muslim Scholars, were killed in Baghdad in separate attacks in less than 24 hours, prompting fears of sectarian strife in the war-torn country. AFP PHOTO/Sabah ARAR (Photo credit should read SABAH ARAR/AFP/Getty Images)


An Iraqi security man stands guard outside the Al-Kothear mosque before the funeral of Sheikh Mohammed Jadou, in Baghdad September 21, 2004. Gunmen killed a member of the Muslim Clerics Association on Monday, the influential Sunni group said, in the second assassination of one of its members in the Iraqi capital in less than 24 hours. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber


TEHRAN, IRAN: Iranian soldiers march during the annual military parade in a suburb of Tehran, 21 September 2004, to mark the beginning of "Sacred Defence Week", commemorating Iraq's 1980 attack on Iran and the outset of the bloody eight-year war. AFP PHOTO/Behrouz MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)


TEHRAN, IRAN: Iranian volunteer militia clergymen march during the annual military parade in a suburb of Tehran, 21 September 2004, to mark the beginning of "Sacred Defence Week", commemorating Iraq's 1980 attack on Iran and the outset of the bloody eight-year war. AFP PHOTO/Behrouz MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)


KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: Afghan police officers carry out stop and search operations on vehicles in Kabul, 21 September 2004. Within one week both Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his vice president have escaped assassination attempts - high-profile attacks that could herald an intense escalation of violence ahead of October 9 polls, analysts said 21 September. AFP PHOTO/ Shah Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)


Israeli police were put on high alert following intelligence reports of a possible suicide attack around Tel Aviv.(AFP/File/Tal Cohen)


BUDRUS, -: An Israeli border policewoman punches a Palestinian woman in the West Bank village of Budrus during a protest against Israel's separation barrier 21 September 2004. Dozens people were hurt by rubber bullets when Israeli troops opened fire as they broke up the protest organised by Palestinian, Israeli and foreign activists. AFP PHOTO/Gilad Kahan  (Photo credit should read GILAD KAHAN/AFP/Getty Images)


ZAMBOANGA, PHILIPPINES: A US military advisor guides a Filipino soldier during a live fire excercise in southern Zamboanga City, 21 September 2004. US military advisers are providing training to Philippines soldiers to boost the country's anti-terror campaign against al-Qaeda linked Abu Sayyaf gunmen. AFP PHOTO THERENECE KOH AFP/Therence Koh (Photo credit should read THERENCE KOH/AFP/Getty Images)


MOSCOW, RUSSIAN FEDERATION: South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun reviews a guard of honour during a welcoming ceremony at Moscow's Vnukovo II airport, 20 September 2004. Roh Moo-Hyun arrived in Moscow for talks focused on North Korea's nuclear drive and the development of economic ties between South Korea and Russia. His four-day official visit marks the first time a South Korean leader has travelled to Russia since Kim Dae-Jung in 1999. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER NEMENOV (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/Getty Images)


Japan's first troops of main contingent soldiers stand in formation upon arrival at the Dutch military base in Samawah, 370 kilometers (230 miles) south of Baghdad, on a humanitarian mission in support of the U.S.-led operation in Iraq (news - web sites) in this Feb. 8, 2004 file photo. Japan has clamored for a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council next to the United States, China, Russia, Britain and France. With this unprecedented dispatch of troops to southern Iraq this year, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is expected to personally make his case for joining the ranks of five veto-wielding powers when he addresses the U.N. General Assembly in New York Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2004. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, FILE)


A Police officer guards fake merchandise valued in U$S five millions to be destroyed near the Friendship Bridge in Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, some 200 miles East from Asuncion and border with Brazilian city Foz de Iguazu, on March 12, 2004. In this gritty South American border town long seen as a haven for drug smugglers, arms traffickers and counterfeiters, money changes hands out in the open just about everywhere. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

BTT for the night crew.

fantastic pics!  

the parade formation pic of the dancingfighting mullahs with their akms rifles is just too damn funny!

What kind of stock is that in the first pic?


Great pics, Lumpy - thanks.

Quoted: What kind of stock is that in the first pic? Great pics, Lumpy - thanks.

Colt M4 Type II.

Quoted: Quoted: What kind of stock is that in the first pic? Great pics, Lumpy - thanks. Colt M4 Type II. www.colt.com/mil/images/M4.jpg

Thank you.