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What is this weapon? - Iraq
This is from an Iraq story. The caption was something to the effect of "Security forces stand guard..."
I looked at the weapon and thought it must be support stuff and the guy is on his way somewhere. Surely he couldn't be firing the thing from his hip. Then I caught the guy back left with what appears to be the same weapon. The ammo box looks huge. Barrel looks narrow but extended, with a launch tube or flashlight beneath?
What are these things?
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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