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Terrorist Propaganda Picture of the Week. An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City.

Rocco DiPippo, AT contributor and blogger at The Autonomist, spotted enemy propaganda in the press, as delivered by the incompetent information warriors at French news agency AFP. Although we don't like to post news agency photos out of respect for copyright laws, this particular photo is the subject of the news story, so we violate our normal policy and post it. The caption run by Yahoo News, and presumably supplied by AFP states: "....An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr...

Magic Bullets Discovered in Sadr City by AFP PhotographerWed, Aug 15, 2007 at 9:45:56 am PSThttp://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=26666_Magic_Bullets_Discovered_in_Sadr_City_by_AFP_Photographer&onlySometimes the propaganda is so obvious it’s almost funny.An elderly Iraqi woman shows two bullets which she says hit her house following an early coalition forces raid in the predominantly Shiite Baghdad suburb of Sadr City. At least 175 people were slaughtered on Tuesday and more than 200 wounded when four suicide truck bombs targeted people from an ancient religious sect in northern Iraq, officials said. (AFP/Wissam al-Okaili)To make it even tastier, there’s another one from July 10, 2007, apparently featuring the same woman, holding...

WASHINGTON, June 7, 2007 – An award-winning Air Force photographer routinely braves bullets and bombs to tell the military’s story through the lenses of his Nikon cameras. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock, a member of the 1st Combat Camera Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., is the Defense Department’s Military Photographer of the Year for 2007. Lock also earned that honor in 2002 and 2005. Defense Department photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Combat photographer Tech. Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock is the Defense Department’s Military Photographer of the Year for 2007. Lock also earned that honor...

Astronomers just got their most detailed look yet at supersonic 'bullets' of gas piercing through dense clouds of hydrogen gas in the Orion Nebula. Each bullet [image] is about ten times the size of Pluto's orbit around the Sun and travels through the clouds at up to 250 miles (400 kilometers) per second-or about a thousand times faster than the speed of sound. The bulk of both the bullets and the surrounding gas cloud [image] consists of molecular hydrogen. The tip of each bullet is packed with iron atoms that are heated by friction and glow bright blue in the...

Video: Machine gun problems in Afghanistan The lives of paratroopers were put in danger after the Ministry of Defence sent defective ammunition to Afghanistan, it can be revealed. The situation became so serious that a platoon from the 3Bn The Parachute Regiment refused to go out on patrol until the problem was resolved. The troops had to borrow ammunition off Canadian and American special forces as they battled to fight off Taliban attacks. The MoD, which yesterday unveiled plans for British troops to make a quicker-than-expected withdrawal from the front line in Iraq, has been unable to explain why defective...

Shooters encouraged to use nonlead bullets Event highlights dangers to California condor By KEVIN HOWE Herald Staff Writer Regular or unleaded? Big game hunters in Monterey County will get a chance to try ammunition using nonlead bullets free of charge this month, courtesy of a coalition of wildlife organizations, state and federal agencies, hunters, shooters and ammunition manufacturers. A "Non-Lead Ammunition Shooting Event and BBQ Lunch" will be held 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 15 at the Monterey County Swiss Rifle Club on La Gloria Road, just outside Soledad. Participants are asked to bring their own rifles and lead...

When he was 16, Gonzalo Llamas left his home in Zacatecas, Mexico, and illegally crossed the border by paying $20 to use an American citizen's passport. Though the passport holder was older and balding, Llamas made it across and began his new life cleaning restaurants for $9 a job. Now 50, Llamas is a U.S. citizen and owns a construction company in San Diego. And he wants the border sealed. The reason? Violent crime. "You have your good people and your bad people," he says. "I'm really open-minded for people to make a better life for themselves without causing problems...

A coalition of conservationist and health organizations has served notice that it will sue the state California Fish and Game Commission for continuing to allow lead ammunition to be used for hunting in California. The groups contend that lead bullets lodged in carcasses left by hunters are poisoning California condors that feed on them. "Lead poisoning from ammunition is the single greatest obstacle to the recovery of wild California condors," said Jeff Miller of the Center for Biological Diversity, one of the organizations joining forces in the suit. Other parties include the Natural Resources Defense Council, Physicians for Social Responsibility...

3 HOURS ON QNS. STREET ALL IT TAKES TO GET FORGED PAPERS IN SECURITY SHOCKER CAUGHT IN ACT: Post reporter Douglas Montero (left) shakes hands with shady documents dealer "Flaco" Photo: Matthew McDermott NEW YORK POST INVESTIGATION For an illegal immigrant desperately seeking to work in NY City, getting a high-quality forged green card or Social Security card is almost as easy as buying a soft-shell taco....... this reporter arranged a face-to-face meeting in Queens with a 20-something Hispanic man known in the neighborhood as "Flaco" - the Spanish word for thin......Flaco didn't appear threatening at all - surprising, considering...

Safety catches do not always prevent firearm accidents and even newfangled biometric guns, which check the identity of a user by their fingerprint, cannot stop thieves from using stolen ammunition in other weapons. The way to make firearms really safe, says Hebert Meyerle of Germany, is to password-protect the ammunition itself. Meyerle is patenting a design for a modified cartridge that would be fired by a burst of high-frequency radio energy. But the energy would only ignite the charge if a solid-state switch within the cartridge had been activated. This would only happen if a password entered into the gun...

Safety catches do not always prevent firearm accidents and even newfangled biometric guns, which check the identity of a user by their fingerprint, cannot stop thieves from using stolen ammunition in other weapons. The way to make firearms really safe, says Hebert Meyerle of Germany, is to password-protect the ammunition itself. Meyerle is patenting a design for a modified cartridge that would be fired by a burst of high-frequency radio energy. But the energy would only ignite the charge if a solid-state switch within the cartridge had been activated. This would only happen if a password entered into the gun...

When the Founding Fathers took the initiative to permanently inscribe our natural rights on paper, one can imagine it being done so with a quill pen. The first copies enshrined our liberties in the Constitution as the Bill of Rights to include the freedom of religion, freedom of the press and the right to keep and bear arms and were printed with a manual printing press. This freedom of speech includes our right to express ourselves with every available medium. At no point have we considered that the freedom of speech is limited to expressing oneself with hand presses and...

Two Community High students accused of bringing a gun to the school and making threats Wednesday appeared in Juvenile Court before Judge Charles Rich on Thursday morning. The boys, ages 15 and 13, are each charged with possession of a gun on school property, reckless endangerment and unlawful possession of a weapon, sources said. They are being held in detention before another court appearance Monday. The 13-year-old brought a derringer, allegedly owned by his parents, to the school and showed it to the 15-year-old, sources said. Both boys, who are not brothers, started showing the gun to other students, according...

1/24/2006 - LITTLE ROCK AIR FORCE BASE, Ark. (AFPN) -- A trip to the desert is nothing new for the 463rd Airlift Group here. On Jan. 20, 24 Airmen and two C-130 Hercules stepped up to deliver "beans and bullets" to the warfighter for more than 120 days. The experienced crew understands that airlift is important for reducing convoy operations in Southwest Asia. "We know it is dangerous but each time we load up one C-130, that is one less convoy that will be put in harm's way," said Staff Sgt. Paul Rose, a 61st Airlift Squadron loadmaster. On Jan.18...

Shock waves play important roles in modern physics and engineering, military operations, materials processing and medicine. Historically, the study of shock waves has taught us much about the properties of gases and material responses to a sudden energy input, and has contributed to the development of gas lasers and the field of plasma dynamics. Recent attacks by terrorists using improvised explosive devices have reinforced the importance of understanding blasts, explosions and the resulting shock waves. These waves can be powerfully damaging in their own right, but in addition, studying them can help to quantify their originating explosions and can provide...

Still stinging from having to defend the use of spying on people within the US, and the practice of "rendering" terrorism suspects, President Bush today in a press conference had to dodge new attacks stemming from the shocking revelation that US troops, on his orders, are using live ammunition in Iraq and elsewhere in the world, where they are deployed. "I think I speak for all civilized people, when I say it's shocking that US military troops are using live ammunition - shooting real bullets! - during the course of their duty in warzones," said Charles Schumer, (D-NY). "This practice...

MIDI - SAN FRANCISCO If you are going to San Francisco...please wear your tennies 'cause you may have to run If you are going to San Francisco...they have decided just bad guys get the guns They're recommending in San Francisco...protect your family with knives or baseball bats Thugs are waiting in San Francisco...on their victims they'll all be getting fat What have they been smoking...they've got to be joking They've gone suicidal Although they are now cheering...very soon they will be fearing...what fools They're suicidal...all suicidal Those of you going to San Francisco...your home's your castle will no longer...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 2005 – Information is as important in the global war on terrorism as bullets and bombs, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Oct. 24. In addition to killing or capturing terrorists, the United States is aiming to stop people from wanting to join extremist groups, Marine Gen. Peter Pace said. "What we're trying to do is influence others to understand that these thugs, these terrorists, are not out for anyone's good interest," he said to interviewer Jed Babbin on the Hugh Hewitt radio show. Pace said people must understand that these terror groups do...

Some days, when you read the paper in the morning with a cup of coffee, certain stories jump out at you with such impact that you end up staring out the window trying to gather yourself. For example, there was a story like that in Tuesday's Pioneer Press, on When I stared out the window I was thinking of what I saw on television the night before. The story said that, according to the Defense Department, we — you and me — spent $23 million in 2004 on erectile dysfunction medications for 128,000 active-duty and retired military men. Are we...