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Old Jul 30, 2011 | 04:53 AM
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This was one of the pictures on msn for "conflict in Lybia". The caption was "A rebel fighter carries a rocket at the front line near Qawalish on July 24". [attachment=6763:ss-110725-libya-week22-03_grid-9x2.jpg]



A week or two earlier this was also on there. [attachment=6764:ss-110717-libya-cw-01_grid-7x2.jpg]

Here was the caption for this one:
"Retired engineer Ahmed Ali loads a 68 mm rocket into a launcher he built from water pipes to compensate for the rebels' lack of heavy armament on July 16 in Qawalish, Libya. Qawalish has been in both rebel control and Gadhafi forces' control over the past week."

I see a really big problem with both of these pictures. Besides using water pipes for launchers (beats resting them on rocks).
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Old Jul 30, 2011 | 06:35 AM
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Those rockets say inert/practice on them. They probably shouldn't be using them.
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Old Jul 31, 2011 | 11:46 AM
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It's probably not possible the photographer happened to be present during a training session.
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