So that’s what they’re saying…
MadTV has a great skit posted on YouTube showing an English-version of Al Jazeera. Very funny! (Hat tip - Right Wing News)

MadTV has a great skit posted on YouTube showing an English-version of Al Jazeera. Very funny! (Hat tip - Right Wing News)

This mosque, I was told, was Saddam's personal mosque near the Al Faw palace. Now, it's located on Victory Base Complex.
During training, we fired our weapons many times. Here I am getting in some practice firing three-round bursts for accuracy.
QWBC, the FOB I was on, was an old Iraqi air force base and there were some of these old, beat fighters still lying around.
This photo was making the email rounds while I was in Iraq. Reportedly, it was a wolf captured in or around Baghdad. I don't know that wolves are indigenous to Iraq, so it could have come from the zoo.
Me practicing shooting an AK47. As you can tell, it was a hot day. It was fun shooting the AK on full auto, but I still prefer the M4.
This is a mosque located on our FOB. No American was alloowed inside - even if you were security (like me) or an American Muslim.
I was able to visit the Ah Shaw(sp) palace in Baghdad - one of Saddam's old haunts and now the home of MNC-I. These columns were huge.
I would love to tell you what this mural says, but I never got it translated. I'm pretty sure it dates back to when the Iraqi Army and Air Force were still under Saddam. It was located in a building on our FOB.
The extension on the front of this HMMWV is used to set off IEDs prior to the HMMWV actually passing by. These have been used in Iraq for some time, so I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here.
This is a rocket that landed on our base, detonated underground, and did no damage. I believe this is actually a rocket designed to be fired from an aircraft, but Hajji will use anything they can get to shoot.
This is a typical truck driven by private security. It's armored to some extent, and features a "gun bucket" in the back for a rear gunner's position.
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