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2005-04-18 Israel-Palestine

Palestinian gunmen block traffic in West Bank city

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Posted by Fred 2005-04-18 00:00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Looks like Mazen's got some new recruits for Paleo security forces.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-04-18 12:45:29 AM|| 2005-04-18 12:45:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I like the photos where these black hooded mutants have a gun in one hand and a Koran in the other

Posted by sea cruise 2005-04-18 1:34:24 AM|| 2005-04-18 1:34:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 This picture bugs me. That old submachine gun has seen better days. The damn thing is so badly maintained that is bent in the middle. More of a danger to the operator and those around him than to anyone else. If he tries firing it like that he is going to have some nasty burn on his left palm and some missing digits. It looks like a Swedish K Submachine Gun perhaps. "The gun was manufactured under license by Egypt as the "Port Said." Model"
Oh well bunch of assclowns up to asshattery as usual for paleos.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-04-18 3:25:26 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-04-18 3:25:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Mr. Wife once told me (in the mid-'80s) of wandering a tad too near an Egyptian guard post. Both weapon and sandles were held together by tape, and even to his untrained eye the weapon was visibly filthy. What you see may well be a hand-me-down from the Egyptian Army -- there have been documented instances of under-the-border smuggling tunnels between PA territories and Egyptian Army camps on the other side. A few lost digits may be the least of the gentleman's worries, should he use that thing.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-04-18 6:30:51 AM|| 2005-04-18 6:30:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 SPOD, it's not bent. What you are looking at is the folding stock that has a slight upward curve to it. Look close and you'll see where it comes from just above the pistol grip to just before the magazine, then turns down along the mag, then turns again back to the bottom of the grip.

Posted by Steve 2005-04-18 9:44:08 AM|| 2005-04-18 9:44:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 More of a danger to the operator and those around him than to anyone else.

And this is a problem...? ;)

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-04-18 10:09:08 AM|| 2005-04-18 10:09:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 It's not a bug, it's a feature!

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-04-18 11:06:45 AM|| 2005-04-18 11:06:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I guess some things don't change much, tw. Remember Twain and The Innocents Abroad??
"I rode to the front and struck up an acquaintance with King Solomon-in-all-his-glory, and got him to show me his lingering eternity of a gun. It had a rusty dint lock; it was ringed and barred and plated with silver from end to end, but it was as desperately out of the perpendicular as are the billiard cues of '49 that one finds yet in service in the ancient mining camps of California. The muzzle was eaten by the rust of centuries into a ragged filigree-work, like the end of a burntout stove-pipe. I shut one eye and peered within--it was flaked with iron rust like an old steamboat boiler. I borrowed the ponderous pistols and snapped them. They were rusty inside, too-had not been loaded for a generation. I went back, full of encouragement, and reported to the guide, and asked him to discharge this dismantled fortress. It came out, then. This fellow was a retainer of the Sheik of Tiberias. He was a source of Government revenue. He was to the Empire of Tiberias what the customs are to America. The Sheik imposed guards upon travelers and charged them for it. It is a lucrative source of emolument, and sometimes brings into the national treasury as much as thirty-five or forty dollars a year."

Posted by James 2005-04-18 8:16:44 PM|| [http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2005-04-18 8:16:44 PM|| Front Page Top

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