News Fail..Army reconsiders use of M4 in Afghanistan...

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well -- okay -- but in this NYTimes article, it says Enfields and Mosin Nagants:

http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/a-firsthand-look-at-firefights-in-marja/?hp

Second, how are they equipped? Kilo Company’s battlefield collections, along with reviews of recent photographs of armed Taliban fighters and information shared by an officer who gathered data from across Helmand Province, offer insights. Among the captured rifles were two variants of the Lee-Enfield rifle line. These are bolt-action rifles with design roots reaching to the late 19th century, when conventional armies favored heavier, long-barreled rifles that fired more powerful ammunition than what is predominant in military use today.
C.J. Chivers/The New York Times

One of the rifles had been manufactured at the Long Branch arsenal in Toronto in 1942. The other was manufactured at the Government Rifle Factory in Ishapore, India; its date was not clear. Photographs of the Taliban have also shown a few of their gunmen carrying old Mosin-Nagant bolt-action rifles. These were a similar czarist (then Soviet) arm of the same era.

No offense, but that is from a New York times reporter, these are the same people that commonly refer to airsoft rifles as easily covnertable weapons, fireworks as weapons of mass distruction, and have supported every step in toning down the sounds of anything negative on this administration in regards to the Afghan War, people at home feel better about the war if they believe our guys are being shot at buy old WW1/WW2 era bolt action rifles. But our guys no better.

The information i provided is first hand from those that have been in "Area of Operations". In any event it wasnt to stimulate arguement, just wanted to offer another view on the New York times add.