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gotta post the story behind this one...

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LONDON

25/03/03 - War on Iraq section

K-DOG the minehunter

By Harriet Arkell, Evening Standard

This is K-Dog, the coalition forces' most surprising weapon against Iraq.

With a camera strapped to his fin, the bottle-nose dolphin is one of about 100 dolphins and sea lions helping to clear shipping lanes in the Gulf to ensure a safe passage for vessels, including those which will provide humanitarian relief.

K-Dog and his handler Sgt Andrew Garrett are part of a multinational team, CTU-55.4.3, consisting of Naval Special Clearance Team One, Britain's Fleet Diving Unit Three, Australia's Clearance Dive Team, and two Explosive Ordnance Disposal units.

A Pentagon spokesman said: "The team works in both deep and shallow waters, looking for mines and marking them. Dolphins have been used like this by the US Navy for more than 30 years, and have proved themselves more reliable than robots."

He said that unlike robots, the dolphins did not run out of power, nor did they go missing or have problems communicating from the sea bed.

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ok....wow

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I wanted to highlight something about this picture. Did you notice how little damage there is to the buildings adjoining the one that was destroyed in the center of the picture?

Of course that's ignored by the Iraqi's and their cohorts in the Arab media who are showing this to highlight how terrible we are! :rolleyes:

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US soldiers carry a dead comrade, killed in Nasiriyah. More than 100 Iraqi bodies littered the road out of Nasiriyah, as 4,000 US soldiers crossed the Euphrates river after fierce fighting in the southern Iraqi city.(AFP/Eric Feferberg)
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Stf. Sgt. John Coughlin from Waltham, MA, aims with his precision rifle with the help of pfc. Daniel Tracy, Mississipi - both of the U.S. Marines 3rd batallion 4th Regiment - during a patrol alongside the road used by U.S. led coalition forces in Central Iraq (news - web sites), to advance to Bagdad in central Iraq, Wednesday, March 26, 2003. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)
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I thought this one was pretty cool:

Lit by Hummvee headlights, a soldier from the 3rd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division guards Iraqis who were intercepted during sandstorm on the perimeter of the division's forward base in south Central Iraq (news - web sites) Wednesday, March 26, 2003. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju)
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