Friday Photo: Guns down

Fri, 06/20/2008 - 6:25pm

KHALID MOHAMMED/AFP/Getty Images

Iraqi soldiers stand guard over rows of rifles seized by Iraqi security forces during recent operations in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City, June 18, 2008.

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That's a lot of work for a photo op

by Pigasus on Fri, 06/20/2008 - 6:23pm

This time of year Baghdad is well over 100 F in the afternoon.

If they had made prisoners lay those rifles out it would have been considered torture.

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Can someone tell me what the

by RSPorter on Fri, 06/20/2008 - 6:45pm

Can someone tell me what the point of laying the guns out like that is? What a waste of time and energy. Would it not make more sense to destroy them or store them in an armory?

hmmmm...

by kidzib on Fri, 06/20/2008 - 7:16pm

pretty picture, complete waste of time, energy, and effort...

Good publicity stunt

by grandpaw7 on Sat, 06/21/2008 - 9:22am

Much more impressive than just saying that the security forces had captured so many guns. Of course, one has to wonder if some other guns got mixed in accidentally; sometimes, when you are doing a publicity stunt, stuff happens. One thing it does show is that the year old surge hasn't been all that successful in disarming the terrorists or stopping the flow of arms into terrorist hands.

It looks like these guns are about to be destroyed

by True North on Sat, 06/21/2008 - 11:20am

The cheapest and fastest way to destroy these weapons is to lay them down on a hard surface and then to steam roll over them.

why destroy?

by kidzib on Sat, 06/21/2008 - 1:46pm

unless there's something wrong with those guns, they can be put to good use by the iraqi army...