Posted on 07/18/2004 1:30:17 PM PDT by Pikamax
Iraqi National Guardsmen aim their rifles at a convoy of oil tanker trucks, after chasing them down on a highway south of Basra, Iraq (news - web sites) Saturday, July 17, 2004. The soldiers said that the tanker trucks were trying to smuggle the oil to a private dock, where it was to be loaded onto boats and smuggled out of the country. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
Iraqi National Guardsmen secure an area where 15 oil tankers were seized from smugglers near Basra, 550km south of Baghdad July 17, 2004. Earlier today, a car bomb in Mahmudiya, just south of Baghdad, killed two Iraqi National Guardsmen and wounded 25 people, the latest in a series of attacks targeting Iraq (news - web sites)'s security forces. REUTERS/Atef Hassan
An Iraqi woman protests as a female Iraqi National Guard soldier Shamae Abdelghani Radhi keeps guard from the front door as her colleagues search the home in Baghdad, July 18,2004. The soldiers, along with the U.S. Army, were collecting evidence from the house that allegedly served as an arms cache for insurgents. Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters
British Army soldiers are offered tea while on a joint patrol with Iraqi police in a market in Basra, on July 13, 2004.
I love seeing the Iraqi women soldiers. that is just so great!! I'd love to hear what her life was 2 years ago.
The pictures are priceless! Especially loved the woman Iraqi soldier.
I am surprised that we haven't heard from NOW praising the US for freeing the women of Iraq! (sarcasm)
Re. picture #2... I had a guy like that in my outfit!
I bet it would be an insult to turn down the offer.
Wow, can't wait to see this pictures in TIME magazine.
OK, OK, bad joke.
That wasn't a nice comment, was it?
It's strange to see middle-easterners actually *aiming* their AK-47s. We usually see them being waved in the air or fired from the hip.
They have been trained by good ole' USA.
SledgeCS
""They have been trained by good ole' USA.""
Yep (check out the fifth or sixth pic down):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1173869/posts
They were probably trained pretty good by Saadam, but now they actually have something worth fighting for.
Great photos. I think the last one is my favorite.
You can almost hear her thinking "so help me if she doesn't stop yammering at me.."
If I were the Brit, I'd try to get my Iraqi buddy to drink it first. Just in case.
Actually No, Saddam didn't trust any of his generals with a competent division. As hated at he was, it would too easy for one of them to overthrow him.
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