BTW, M16s don't work in the sand



Israeli soldiers prepare their vehicles at the Suffa crossing in southern Gaza strip May 13, 2004. Israel killed 12 Palestinians in southern Gaza on Thursday after back-to-back ambushes claimed the lives of 11 of its soldiers in the worst blow to the Middle East's mightiest army in two years. (Ronen Zvulun/Reuters)



SUFFA CROSSING, GAZA STRIP - MAY 13: (ISRAEL OUT) An Israeli soldier May 13, 2004 at the Suffa crossing in the Gaza Strip. Israeli gun ships killed 11 Palestinians in the Rafah Refugee Camp, four reportedly militants, in the same location that the Israeli Army lost five soldiers May 12 in an ambush.


Israeli soldiers grieve alongside the grave of their comrade Sgt. Eitan Neuman, 21-years-old, during his funeral in the Mt. Herzl military cemetery May 13, 2004 in Jerusalem, Israel. Neuman was one of 11 soldiers killed in two separate bomb attacks against armored personnel carriers by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip earlier this week


RAFAH, GAZA STRIP - MAY 13: Israeli troops search the area close to where five of their colleagues died in a landmine blast on an armoured personnel carrier (APC) the previous day, on May 13, 2004 near Rafah in Southern Gaza. Missile attacks were launched today against Palestinian targets in apparent retaliation for the death of eleven Israeli soldiers over two days of violence. (Photo by Barkai Wolfson-Pool/Getty Images)


SUFFA CROSSING, GAZA STRIP - MAY 13: (ISRAEL OUT) An Israeli soldier stands on his Merkeva tank as while preparing the vehicle May 13, 2004 at the Suffa crossing In the Gaza Strip. Israeli gunships killed 11 Palestinians in teh Rafah Refugee Camp, four reportedly militants, in the same location that the Israeli Army lost five soldiers May 12 in an ambush. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)



GAZA CITY, -: Palestinian militants of the radical Islamic Jihad movement take part in the funeral of Mohammed Yassin in Gaza City, 13 May 2004. Palestinian medics discovered the body of Yassin in the streets of Zeitun early today as Israeli troops began withdrawing from the Gaza City neighbourhood after an intense 48-hour raid, medical sources said. AFP PHOTO/Mauricio LIMA


BAGHDAD, IRAQ: An Iraqi man crosses a street carrying a piece of ice as a US soldier from the 1st Cavalry, 91th Engineers Battalion stands guard outside an Iraqi police station in the heart of Baghdad 13 May 2004. US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited today the US-run prison at the centre of the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal near Baghdad, an AFP correspondent traveling with his delegation said. AFP PHOTO/Antonio SCORZA


BAGHDAD, IRAQ: A US soldiers from the 1st Cavalry, 91th Engineers Battalion, stands guard 13 May 2004 on the roof of an Iraqi police station in the heart of Baghdad. US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited today the US-run prison at the centre of the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal near Baghdad, an AFP correspondent traveling with his delegation said. AFP PHOTO/Antonio SCORZA


BAGHDAD, IRAQ: US soldiers use mineral water to cool off a burning US Humvee which was attack by rocket-propelled grenade on a highway north of Baghdad 13 May 2004. There was no immediately word about the casualties. .AFP PHOTO/Roberto SCHMIDT


An Iraqi boy talks with a U.S. Marine, no name available, from the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, during patrols in Kandari, Iraq (news - web sites), Thursday, May 13, 2004. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)


A U.S. Marine maintains surveillance from the roof of his Humvee vehicle at the site of an improvised explosive device attack, which left at least four soldiers wounded near Falluja, May 13, 2004. REUTERS/Adrees Latif


An Iraqi man passes a Danish army checkpoint July 2003 near the southern city of Basra. Two Danish paramedics have reported seeing the results of abusive treatment inflicted by British soldiers on two Iraqis, one of whom was said to have died as a result of injuries sustained during questioning, the Danish defence ministry announced.(AFP/File)


NAJAF, IRAQ: A militiaman loyal to wanted Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr (portrait R) stands guard behind portraits of Sadr and the head of Lebanon's Shiite guerrilla group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah (L), during a funeral procession for a comrade killed the day before near Baghdad, in the Shiite holy city of Najaf 13 May 2004. The militiaman was killed during clashes between US forces and members of Moqtada Sadr's Army of Mehdi militia in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Sadr city yesterday. US soldiers killed six insurgents during a series of battles 12 May in the Iraqi capital. AFP/PHOTO Ahmad Al-Rubaye


NAJAF, IRAQ: A Mehdi Army militiaman, loyal to the radical Shiite Iraqi leader Moqtada Sadr, takes defensive position in the holy city of Najaf, 160 kms (100 miles) south of Baghdad, during a sand storm 13 May 2004. Three Iraqis died in clashes after Mehdi Army militiamen ransacked the police headquarters in the central Shiite Muslim city and seized a senior officer at gunpoint, police and medics said earlier today. The militiamen blocked off streets around the headquarters before 10 men tricked their way into the building late last night. AFPPHOTO/Ahmad AL-RUBAYE


A Canadian soldier from the 3rd Battalion, Royal 22nd Regiment Battalion Group, stands guard as his patrol stops to talk to local residents, near the rural village of Paghman, west of the Afghan capital Kabul, May 13, 2004. Canadian soldiers regularly patrol an area of about 200 square kms (80 square miles) as part of International Security Assistance Force operations in the Kabul area. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne


FORT POLK, LA - MAY 13: U.S. Marines with the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion tend to a simulated combat wound on a fellow soldier May 13, 2004 in Fort Polk, Lousiana. The U.S. Marine Corps stationed at Camp LeJeune held a training exercise at the Joint Readiness Training Center in Fort Polk, Louisiana to train for their upcoming deployment to Iraq in late 2004. The Marines interacted with civilians, hired as role players, to provide realistic situations for their training. (Photo by Mario Villafuerte/Getty Images)


FORT POLK, LA - MAY 13: Two U.S. Marines with the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion escort an army soldier portraying a captured Iraqi insurgent May 13, 2004 in Fort Polk, Lousiana. The U.S. Marine Corps stationed at Camp LeJeune held a training exercise at the Joint Readiness Training Center in Fort Polk, Louisiana to train for their upcoming deployment to Iraq in late 2004. The Marines interacted with civilians, hired as role players, to provide realistic situations for their training. (Photo by Mario Villafuerte/Getty Images)


MANILA, PHILIPPINES: Armed Philippine Marine soldier guards a Commission on Elections official transporting ballot boxes with election returns from suburban Pasay city to the Congress for tabulation 13 May 2004. President Gloria Arroyo concedes that there were some flaws in the just held presidential polls, but warned the camp of opposition candidate Fernando Poe of stirring trouble. AFP PHOTO JAY DIRECTO




CARACAS, VENEZUELA: A Venezuelan soldier guards tons of firearms destroyed by a steamroller before being melted, 13 May 2004 in Caracas. The firearms were seized during security operations and Venezuelan Defense Minister Gen. Luis Garcia Carneiro assured that the earnings from the melting would be poured into a Venezuelan charitable organization. AFP PHOTO/Andrew ALVAREZ


BUENAVENTURA, COLOMBIA: Colombian soldiers guard one of the six trucks alleged burned for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in the road between Cali and Buenaventura, in La Triana municipality, Colombia, according official information. AFP PHOTO/Mauricio DUENAS


ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST: Police forces try to contain Ivorian Student Federation (FESCI) protesters during a demonstration in Abidjan 13 May 2004. Between 1,000 and 2,000 staunch supporters of Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo gathered 13 May outside the headquarters of the UN mission to protest a UN report condemning a government-endorsed crackdown on an opposition rally. AFP PHOTO ISSOUF SANOGO


COPENHAGEN, DENMARK: The Danish Royal Guard drills during the changing of guards at Copenhagen's Amalienborg Palace 13 May 2004 on the eve of the wedding of Danish Crown Prince Frederik and Mary Elizabeth Donaldson of Australia. The guards will parade during a procession following the wedding. AFP PHOTO - SVEN NACKSTRAND

Quoted: Quoted: Great pics again Lumpy What the hell kind of rifle is this?   It looks familier but I can't think of it cache.gettyimages.com/comp/50832165.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=B84D4F1548A4F56E7B763B2C49BDC21AA9C30E9B9B114CE8 Lokks like an FAL...

Indeed:

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"FORT POLK, LA - MAY 13: Two U.S. Marines with the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion escort an army soldier portraying a captured Iraqi insurgent May 13, 2004 in Fort Polk, Lousiana. The U.S. Marine Corps stationed at Camp LeJeune held a training exercise at the Joint Readiness Training Center in Fort Polk, Louisiana to train for their upcoming deployment to Iraq in late 2004. The Marines interacted with civilians, hired as role players, to provide realistic situations for their training. (Photo by Mario Villafuerte/Getty Images)"

Wonder what the hell the pay rate is for playing Iraqi insurgents?