The Autonomist has more here.
UPDATE: Blackfive has noted that our cartridge-holding lady seems to have appeared before in several other images, often by the same photographer. Hmmm. Can you say "PROPAGANDA"? I knew you could.
UPDATE: Over at Confederate Yankee they are questioning the type of ammunition the woman is holding, noting that is doesn't look like the current M855 5.56mm round (which has a 62 grain bullet), but rather the older M193 round which has a smaller (55 grain) bullet, which is still used in many 5.56mm civilian loads. I have shot 5.56mm for almost 30 years as both soldier and civilian, and from the looks of it it doesn't seem to be current military ammo. (There was a lot of M193 still in the system when I was in the Guard in the late 90's - see here for more on the differences between the two rounds) That said, I am hesitant to believe that the bad guys would to go to all the effort to get some civilian rounds imported for an on-the-fly photo-op, as the folks at Confederate Yankee suggest. I think it is real, but older issue stuff. How did the woman get them? Cant' say for sure. They could be duds cycled out, or taken out of a dropped magazine, or....... It still doesn't change the issue that this photo was clearly a staged event, and that those "bullets" never hit anything other than the ground.
