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Shooter5
08-11-2014, 06:32
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/08/opinion/miller-iraq-obama-risk-averse/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/28/world/meast/iraq-crisis/

(The links appear to have been changed so the pic is posted below)

Old rifles seem to keep showing up in Iraq amidst the latest catastrophe:

Picture 16 shows an elderly Peshmerga aiming a long barreled Persian Mauser. FWIW, picture 42 shows a Lee-Enfield #3.

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r50/joesmith_05/140807105434-restricted-03-iraq-0807-horizontal-gallery_zps6df7a948.jpg (http://s141.photobucket.com/user/joesmith_05/media/140807105434-restricted-03-iraq-0807-horizontal-gallery_zps6df7a948.jpg.html)