FR WAR NEWS! WAR News at Home and Abroad You'll Hear Nowhere Else!
All the News the MSM refuses to use!
Or if they do report it, without the anti-War Agenda Spin!
Not for commercial use. For educational and discussion purposes only.
Posted on 10/15/2007 12:35:31 PM PDT by Kaslin
BAGHDAD – In a well-lit meeting room in a government building in the Iraqi capital, 20 Iraqi women were sitting in a circle, intently watching the demonstration in the center of the room. They were dressed modestly but with some flair: bright pink and blue headscarves mixed in among the black chadors, chunky, designer purses resting on the floor beneath their seats.
The friendly, casual atmosphere in the room looked similar to a suburban book-club meeting, or maybe a Mary-Kay cosmetics party. Except that these women were not learning how to apply foundation, they were learning how to lock and load an AK-47.
“Who can show me how to do it?” asked the instructor, an Iraqi army sergeant, holding up the weapon.
One of the women jumped up and took the automatic rifle, expertly disassembled it and put it back together. When she cocked it by loudly slamming the charging handle back, the rest of the women applauded.
(Excerpt) Read more at dvidshub.net ...
They not hey
FR WAR NEWS! 
East Los Angeles, Calif. native 2nd Lt. Lauren Cabral (2nd from right), a maintenance officer with the 3rd Infantry Division's 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, demonstrates proper security search techniques on women from Baghdad's Adhamiyah neighborhood during training for Adhamiyah's first group of female Iraqi security volunteers, Oct. 9.
Kalamazoo, Mich. native Pfc. Paula Cook, a military police woman with the 108th Military Police Company, supervises as members of the first group of female Iraqi security volunteers from Baghdad's Adhamiyah neighborhood practice proper security search techniques during training, Oct. 9.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.