TagsTagsWhat the hell are these scientists doing, allowing robots to teach themselves to use weapons? Are they nuts?! Or are they ... evil? [Video]
Just posted at the IDF’s YouTube page: On October 12, 2009, there was an explosion at a Hezbollah weapons storehouse in Tayr Filsay, in southern Lebanon. This aerial footage, taken shortly after the explosion, shows Hezbollah operatives closing down the area around the warehouse, driving in two trucks and removing ...
Lebanon, Hezbollah, Weapons, Smuggling, Terrorism, Israel, Video
The flea market in Gaza is fun for the whole family—the male side of the family, that is—with hand grenades, RPGs, and AK47s galore. Come on down and bring the kids! The boys, anyway. [Video] (Hat tip: LawHawk.)
One of Bob Owens’ readers contacted Winchester’s parent company Olin to ask them about that Iranian Photoshop fraud, and received the following reply: Thank you for visiting Olin’s website. Your inquiry was forwarded to me for response. The ammunition boxes appearing in the picture are similar to commercial packaging we began using about ...
Fauxtography, Iran, Weapons, Fars News, LA Times, Winchester
Blogger Myra Langerhaus wrote to Kim Murphy of the Los Angeles Times, about their article on Iran’s claim of US involvement in attacks on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and received an answer: When Journalists write back.
The Iranian fauxtoshop case has turned lethal; Iran has executed a man they accused of launching an attack on Revolutionary Guards: Iran hangs man convicted of Revolutionary Guards attack. (Hat tip: zombie.) TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran executed a defendant by hanging after a court convicted him of a bombing last ...
Bob Owens has a closer look at the Winchester ammunition boxes in that Iranian fauxtograph from Fars News: Confederate Yankee: More Fauxtography. Outside the Wire points out that US military ammo boxes typically look like this, while civilian AK47 ammo boxes look like this. Dan Riehl notes that we sold large quantities ...
The Los Angeles Times gives credence to Iran’s bogus claim that the US is behind two recent attacks in Iran: Iran alleges U.S. link to militant attack. TEHRAN — Bullet cartridges bearing a U.S. insignia and English lettering were among the weaponry seized last week from Sunni militants suspected of killing ...
LGF readers tipped me off to a blatant Photoshop fraud at Iran’s Fars News Agency, in an article claiming to have discovered US weapons in Iran: Terrorists Use US-Gifted Arsenals. (Beware. The Fars News site resizes your browser window without asking, and may attempt other more sneaky things.) TEHRAN (Fars ...
The Telegraph reports on recent discoveries in Iraq of Austrian sniper rifles originally sold to Iran: Iraqi insurgents using Austrian rifles from Iran. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Austrian sniper rifles that were exported to Iran have been discovered in the hands of Iraqi terrorists, The Daily Telegraph has learned. More than 100 ...
LGF reader Maxim emailed the link to these photographs of a Hizballah arms cache, and I’ve added his comments below the relevant pictures. The top picture is a Soviet Sagger anti-tank missile. The second picture looks like a Konkurs laser guided anti tank missile. Both of these Soviet weapons are made ...
Hizballah, Hesbollah, Lebanon, Terrorism, Human Shields, Weapons
It’s been pointed out by several LGF readers who know more than I do about such things that the explosive devices being planted by Palestinian terrorists—as children stand around—in these two photos (from Reuters and the Associated Press, respectively) resemble the type of shaped anti-tank charges manufactured by the Islamic ...