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Monday, June 05, 2006

Picture of the Day - 3

Meanwhile,

A morgue worker unloads a cardboard box of severed heads at the morgue in Baqouba, Iraq Saturday, June 3, 2006. Iraqi police on Saturday found eight severed heads north of Baghdad with a note indicating at least one of the men were killed in retaliation for the slaying of four Shiite doctors, authorities said. (AP Photo/Adam Hadi)

(There were actually two boxes, but those pictures pushed the line. Here and here.)

posted by mikevotes at 5:22 PM

11 Comments:

  • Now if the box said "mellons" instead of "bananas" it would be funny!

    I'm kidding. I feel sick. Civil war? What civil war...

    By Blogger -epm, at 8:08 PM  

  • EPM,

    yeah I know, but I kinda wanted a "gay marriage" reality jolt, and I thought this provided it. Just be glad I didn't put up either of the other two pictures. And these are AP wire photos!

    And hhana&dhana, Thank you, that's very kind. I will happily reciprocate, however I probably won't post the return link until blogger gets normalized again(tomorrow?)

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 9:18 PM  

  • I thought you were being funny...so I went to the links you provided...and eww! Right about the melons. That's just terrible.

    By Blogger sumo, at 11:34 PM  

  • Before deploying to Iraq, most Army soldiers spend weeks at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., or the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, La., immersed in high-tech training scenarios designed to acclimate them to urban combat.

    When did they start doing this? (no word on when in the article) I hope not recently. If so, does it mean an escalation?
    Or, is the author simply a Haditha apologist?

    By Blogger Justin, at 5:51 AM  

  • Sorry, sumo. Not funny, eh?

    ANd Justin, I know they've been doing specialized Iraq training since at least the end of year one in Iraq, because I remember the stories about the specially built little town and the hiring of a few Americanized Iraqis for the process, although I don't think it was this broad at the time.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 6:19 AM  

  • Regarding specialized training... is this just the regular Army, or the National Guard too. My understanding is that the National Guard are on the quickie training path... they're kind of treated as disposable, compared to regular enlisted troops.

    By Blogger -epm, at 10:53 AM  

  • Okay, this is impression so I may be wrong, both guardsmen and regular army are being given iraq specific training depending on their deployment location and mos. The guardsmen who rotated through Anbar, for instance wrnt to the full training school while some guardsmen sent to what were thought to be less active areas received local training.

    And I don't know the current on the regular army, but I remember a year ago, all combat troops were getting rotated through special training sessions for Iraq. "Non-Combat" MoS, truck drivers, mechanics, etc, were getting local training, but it was more a couple of classes, not the full ride. I remember this as an issue because many of these less trained folks were being pulled out of their normal roles and being stuck with the front line troops without the full training.

    That's all from memory, so it may be wrong.

    And, you disappeared for awhile, it's good to have you back by.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 12:48 PM  

  • A box of fuckin' heads. I still haven't gotten over this picture.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 2:24 PM  

  • I saw a bucket full of heads once, but that was for science (I still haven't gotten over it). ahh, the things we do to each other.

    By Blogger Justin, at 3:37 PM  

  • Disturbing to say the least

    By Blogger Graeme, at 10:55 PM  

  • It's still hanging with me. I don't know why. I've seen some awful pictures, but this one is just getting to me.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 7:58 AM  

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