A Picture Says a Thousand Words

Browsing thru some yahoo news photos, I ran into the next few images. Alone, they tell a story, the Reuters story. But if you bundle them together, you see another story. Read the AP captions below.
An Iraqi weeps as he walks next to the vehicle carrying the coffin of Namir Noor-Eldeen, an Iraqi photographer working with Reuters, as the car passenger holds out a photograph of the deceased, during a funeral procession outside a Baghdad hospital morgue, 13 July 2007. Global news and information company Reuters on Monday demanded from the US military a full and objective investigation into the killing last week of two of its Iraqi employees.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)



Now the next set of Reuters photos clearly show this "stringer" seems to be imbeded with a Shi'ite militant group. Do they honeslty believe the coalition trrops should have to worry about a "stringer" that choses to run with the enemy during these bouts?



A gunman takes up position as he and his comrades engage British troops in central Basra, Iraq, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Monday, July 16, 2007. The clash began before sunset when the Provincial Joint Coordination Center was subjected to small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades, said a British military spokesman. (AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani)












Gunmen take up position behind a garbage bin as they engage British troops in central Basra, Iraq, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Monday, July 16, 2007. The clash began before sunset when the Provincial Joint Coordination Center was subjected to small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades, said a British military spokesman. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)




The bottom line is. Sure fine, run with these jihaders. But don't come compaling to the Coalition when one of your "stingers" gets hit. Like the old saying goes, you lie down with dogs, you're going to wake up with fleas.

Fatah militants storm rival-held government buildings

RAMALLAH, West Bank (CNN) -- Palestinian gunmen raided parliament buildings controlled by rivals in the West Bank on Saturday as factional fighting continued to spread.

The show of force by the armed wing of Fatah followed rival Hamas' takeover in Gaza.

Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades stormed into the Palestinian Parliament in the West Bank city of Ramallah and other Hamas-controlled government buildings in Nablus on Saturday, witnesses said.

Video footage in Nablus showed the Fatah militants loyal to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas planting their flag on the roof of one building as others fired rifles into the air.

Abbas early Sunday nullified a law requiring the Hamas-majority Palestinian parliament to approve Cabinet appointments, The Associated Press reported.

The move came a day after Hamas -- which won parliamentary elections under Prime Minister Ismail Haniya last year -- overtook the presidential compound in Gaza City and consolidated its control over Gaza after defeating Fatah's forces.

Abbas dissolved the coalition government and said he would create an interim government consisting of members of his own Fatah party.

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Nothing says peace like a RPG. WTF?