An Afghan machine gunner runs under fire seconds after his position was hit by a Taliban shell during an ambush in Zhari district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, October 23, 2007. Just after the shell from an 82-millimeter recoilless rifle exploded, the soldier bounded out of the ditch and ran through the smoke, his heavy machine gun blazing from the hip, Rambo-style. Picture taken October 23, 2007. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (AFGHANISTAN)