New York Times photos from the weekend fighting in Samarra, Iraq.


A US soldier patrols along a street in Samarra some 125 kms north of Baghdad. The situation in the city was largely under control except for some pockets of resistance, the Iraqi government said.(AFP/Jewel Samad)



U.S. Army soldiers raise their rifles on patrol in Samarra, Iraq (news - web sites), Saturday, Oct. 2, 2004. Sporadic fighting continued on the second day of a major U.S. military incursion into the city. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)



U.S. Army soldiers patrol in Samarra, Iraq (news - web sites), Saturday, Oct. 2, 2004. Sporadic fighting continued on the second day of a major U.S. military incursion into the city. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)



U.S. Army soldiers raise their rifles on patrol in Samarra, Iraq (news - web sites), Saturday, Oct. 2, 2004. Sporadic fighting continued on the second day of a major U.S. military incursion into the city. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)



A U.S. Army soldier raises his rifle on patrol in Samarra, Iraq (news - web sites), Saturday, Oct. 2, 2004. Sporadic fighting continued on the second day of a major U.S. military incursion into the city. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)



U.S. Army soldiers patrol in Samarra, Iraq (news - web sites), Saturday, Oct. 2, 2004. Sporadic fighting continued on the second day of a major U.S. military incursion into the city. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)


U.S. army soldiers patrol in Samarra, Iraq (news - web sites), Sunday, Oct. 3, 2004, on the third day of a major U.S. military incursion into the city. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)



U.S. Army soldiers patrol in Samarra, Iraq (news - web sites), Sunday, Oct. 3, 2004, on the third day of a major U.S. military incursion into the city. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)



U.S. Army soldiers aim their rifles during a patrol in Samarra, Iraq (news - web sites), Sunday, Oct. 3, 2004, on the third day of a major U.S. military incursion into the city. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)



A U.S. Army soldier aims his rifle during a patrol in Samarra, Iraq (news - web sites), Sunday, Oct. 3, 2004, on the third day of a major U.S. military incursion into the city. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)



Iraqis watch a U.S. Army soldier as he passes by a shop on patrol in Samarra, Iraq (news - web sites), Sunday, Oct. 3, 2004, on the third day of a major U.S. military incursion into the city. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)



U.S. Army soldiers patrol in Samarra, Iraq (news - web sites), Sunday, Oct. 3, 2004, on the third day of a major U.S. military incursion into the city. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)



IMAGE LINK
RAMADI, IRAQ: A picture released 02 October 2004 by US Marines shows marines with Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, positioning themselves along the roads to block traffic during a cordon and search in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad. The Marines were searching the area for insurgents and weapons caches. A US marine and two soldiers were injured in separate car bomb attacks, one near the flashpoint city of Fallujah and another inside Iraq's northern city of Mosul, US military said. AFP PHOTP/USMC (Photo credit should read /AFP/Getty Images)



Army Spc. Kevin Sanders, 33, of Cape Coral, Fla., and with the 2nd Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion, 21st Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, on patrol in Kirkuk, Iraq on Friday.
M. Scott Mahaskey / Army Times photo



IMAGE LINK
BASRA, IRAQ: Iraqi Coast Guard (ICG) parade 30 September during a graduation drill in the southern city of Basra. More than 360 ICG ended their 9 months training supervised by the British Royal Navy and Multi National Forces-Iraq. Twenty-four boats were handed to the ICG to perform their duties in curbing smuggling, and piracy. AFP PHOTO/Essam al-SUDANI (Photo credit should read ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/Getty Images)



IMAGE LINK
SHAIBAH, IRAQ - OCTOBER 2: Newly arrived British soldier attend an orientation program at a British military base October 2, 2004 in Shaibah, in Southern Iraq. All the British soldiers deployed to Iraq must come to the Shaibah Military base to attend the five day program. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)




IMAGE LINK
BASRA, IRAQ: Iraqi security forces guard weapons that were discovered in the town of Querna, 70 kms north of the Iraqi Southern Iraqi city of Basra, 02 October 2004. A US marine and four soldiers were wounded in separate bomb blasts near the flashpoint city of Fallujah, the northern city of Mosul and a slum district of Baghdad, the military said. AFP PHOTO/Essam AL-SUDANI (Photo credit should read ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/Getty Images)



A supporter of rebel Shiite cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, carries an assult rifle as people take a coffin carrying one of al-Sadr's supporter's body for burial in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Friday Oct. 1, 2004. Hospital sources said 12 people died overnight in U.S. airstrikes. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)



A Palestinian man (R) walks past Israeli soldiers during clashes between Palestinian stone throwers and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron, October 2, 2004. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun



IMAGE LINK
KIBBUTZ MEFALSIM, GAZA STRIP - OCTOBER 1: (ISRAEL OUT) An Israeli soldier walks near equipment after returning from action in the Gaza Strip September 1, 2004 near the Kibbutz Mefalsim, Gaza Strip. Israeli military is continuing what has been descibed an "open-ended" military operation in the Gaza Strip. The operation began after rockets fired by Palestinians killed two children celebrating the Jewish feast of Sukkot on September 29 in the Israeli border town of Sederot. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)



IMAGE LINK
KIBBUTZ MEFALSIM, GAZA STRIP - OCTOBER 1: (ISRAEL OUT) An Israeli soldier is pictured as he prepares to enter the Gaza Strip during what an Israeli military spokesman has said is an 'open-ended' military operation on October 1, 2004 near the Israeli Mefalsim Kibbutz in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli Army prepare to continue its incursion into Jabaliya refugee camp and the towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya after heavy attacks left thirty dead yesterday. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)



IMAGE LINK
SEDEROT, ISRAEL - SEPTEMBER 30: Israeli soldiers direct armored bulldozers into position as they prepares to enter the Gaza Strip as part of what an Israeli military spokesman has said is an "open-ended" military operation September 30, 2004 near the border town of Sederot, Israeli. The operation began after rockets fired by Palestinians killed two children celebrating the Jewish feast of Sukkot in Sederot a day before. (Photo by Scott Nelson/Getty Images)


Israeli soldiers stand on top of an armored vehicle after returning from the Jebaliya refugee camp, near Kibbutz Mefalsim on the northern border of the Gaza Strip (news - web sites), Sunday Oct. 3, 2004. Israel's premier warned that his army's largest operation in Gaza in four years would expand, after troops left dozens of dead and rows of houses destroyed, aiming at stopping Palestinian rocket attacks on border towns. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)



IMAG E LINK
KIBBUTZ MEFALSIM, GAZA STRIP - OCTOBER 3: (ISRAEL OUT) Israeli soldiers celebrate as they break for a rest on the Israeli side of the Green Line near the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanun October 3, 2004 In Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed to press ahead with a massive military incursion in the Gaza Strip that has killed almost 60 people in five days. Israel launched the incursion, one of the deadliest since the start of the Palestinian uprising four years ago, in a bid to prevent rocket attacks by Palestinian militants. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)



IMAGE  LINK
GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP - OCTOBER 1: A masked Palestinian militant is pictured on the street during clashes with Israeli soldiers on October 1, 2004 in Jabaliya refugee camp, Gaza Strip. Israeli Armored vehicles amassed on Gaza's border after Israel's security cabinet approved a large-scale military operation in Gaza codenamed "Days of Penitence." The initial army incursion yesterday resulted in 28 Palestinians killed and 139 wounded in the highest single day death toll in fighting for 30 months. (Photo by Ahmad Khateib/Getty Images)
Should we tell dumbass his muzzle is plugged?



IMAGE LINK
NAHAL OZ, ISRAEL: The body of a Palestinian gunman, still holding his AK-47 rifle, is seen on the ground after he was shot dead with three other militants by Israeli forces following their infiltration into Israel from the Gaza Strip near Kibbutz Nahal Oz, 02 October 2004. The four gunmen armed with AK-47s and hand grenades were detected by the security fence surrounding the Gaza Strip after they crossed into southern Israel. AFP PHOTO/TAL COHEN (Photo credit should read TAL COHEN/AFP/Getty Images)



IMAGE LINK
KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN - OCTOBER 2: An Afghan boy listens, along with hundreds of supporters, to presidential candidate Younis Qanuni speak at a local mosque October 2, 2004 on a brief campaign swing to the south in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Qanuni, who is a former education minister, is seen by many as the main challenger to President Hamid Karzai. Afghans will have the chance to vote for the first time in a direct presidential election on October 9. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)



Two armed Pakistani Shiite Muslims stand guard during the funeral ceremony in Sialkot. Thousands of Shiite youths rioted in eastern Pakistan as mourning relatives buried the dead from a suspected suicide bombing which killed at least 30 people at a mosque in Sialkot.(AFP/Arif Ali)



IMAGE LINK
INCHEON, SOUTH KOREA - OCTOBER 3: South Korean special police members patrol at the Incheon International Airport on October 3, 2004 in Incheon, South Korea. According to reports, police have reinforced security around the U.S. embassy and other facilities after a fresh Al-Qaeda terror threat against South Korea and other U.S. allies with troops in Iraq. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)



A member of South Korean Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team stands guard at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, October 2, 2004. South Korea (news - web sites) put its security forces on alert after Muslims were urged to resist the United States and its allies around the world in an audio tape believed to be from al Qaeda's deputy leader, government officials said on Saturday. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon



A member of South Korean Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team patrols around the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, October 2, 2004. South Korea (news - web sites) put its security forces on alert after Muslims were urged to resist the United States and its allies around the world in an audio tape believed to be from al Qaeda's deputy leader, government officials said on Saturday. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon



A Thai soldier on patrol in the south of the country. A village official and a religious teacher have been killed in Thailand's restive south, police say, in continuing violence that has claimed more than 315 lives this year(AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)



Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF) soldier holds vigil as his leader Mujahid Dokubo Asari addresses his kinsmen in Buguma, the heart of the oil-rich but impoverished Niger Delta.(AFP/Pius Utomi Ekpei)

Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I would love to see what happens when this guy fires his weapon.   cache.gettyimages.com/comp/51380358.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE9A21091711E5AD1EE0288972795FB8267757C85AE85A779B You aint the only one! I noticed the same thing what’s that in the end of the barrel? Is It a Freaking Prop gun? The title for the photo says” A masked Palestinian militant is pictured on the street during clashes with Israeli soldiers" WTF No way In hell His Clothes are New That’s The Best Looking AK I have ever seen the guys glasses are in Excellent shape, No dirt marks on his Knees. No Scars on His Hands or arms. I say This Photo is Staged Look at the Guys Eyes Looks like a Beagle Falling asleep.

Also, notice that his Chinese AK is sort of a Post ban. No Bayo lug or threaded barrel.....

See heres the problem.  Staged photos have a purpuse.  They are either meant to be politically or psychologically damaging or uplifting depending on who they are aimed at.

Explain the purpose behind someone faking this, and a news service, who by the way attributes the photo to a known photographer, picking this up and distributing it?

Inspire the palestinians because they have new uniforms and even let geeks join up?

Strike fear into the Israelis?


Are these photos fake?





New uniforms, shiney new AKs without bayonet lugs.

They did a great job faking the backgrounds on those.

But then again, FOR WHAT PURPOSE?

Quoted: notice that his Chinese AK is sort of a Post ban. No Bayo lug or threaded barrel.....

Look at the brand new Bulgarians the Iraqi Nationals are holding a couple pics above that.

Quoted: cache.gettyimages.com/comp/51374136.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=27183890BFF566AB871649157D368A4AA9C30E9B9B114CE8 IMAGE LINK Mmmm, Bulgarian AKs. Nice cache.gettyimages.com/comp/51383521.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=27183890BFF566ABD5E3C3FCD04BA606A9C30E9B9B114CE8 IMAGE LINK Chinese AK w/bakelite folding stock?!?!? us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20041003/capt.sge.oxt86.031004171842.photo02.default-254x380.jpg Lumpy, How'd you like to have his magazine?

BTT one more time.

Nobody noticed the GI with the M16A4 and Elcan?


Or the M14 with the ACOG?

Im assuming it came off a SAW.