Today's Pic's - Wednesday, June 9th

[He219]

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A US serviceman in protective clothes provides medical assistance during international drills at Shklo railway station in Lviv region in Western Ukraine, June 9, 2004. The Rough and Ready 2004 exercises were organized to train international search and rescue operations and involved about 500 military personnel from Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, Uzbekistan, the United States, and representatives from the U.N. and NATO

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UN soldiers look on as crowds of civillians celebrate, Wednesday, June 9, 2004 after government soldiers moved back into the eastern Congolese town of Bukavu. Government forces regained control of this strategic city in eastern Congo on Wednesday, ending a one-week take over by renegade troops that triggered the biggest crisis yet to the peace process.

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Democratic Republic of Congo (news - web sites) (DRC) soldiers walk towards Bukavu. Government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) took back the eastern provincial city without a fight, a week after the regular army was chased out by regular troops.(

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A U.S. military vehicle passes by a burning truck carrying tires after a roadside attack on the highway outside of Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday June 9, 2004

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BAGHDAD, IRAQ: Traffic flows along the highway in the opposit direction of a trailer-truck following an attack on a US convoy in the northwestern Baghdad neighborhood of al-Khadra, 09 June 2004. Assailants in a speeding car raked a US military convoy, igniting the truck, two Iraqi witnesses and a US soldier said

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US military vehicles block the front and rear ends of a convoy of tanker trucks after a trailer-truck at the back of the convoy was hit in an attack on the US convoy in the northwestern Baghdad neighborhood of al-Khadra, 09 June 2004. Assailants in a speeding car raked a US military convoy, igniting the truck, two Iraqi witnesses and a US soldier said.

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A US security officer mans his gun in the back of a 4x4 vehicle as a trailer-truck is engulfed in flames and smoke following an attack on a US convoy in the northwestern Baghdad neighborhood of al-Khadra, 09 June 2004.

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A US armoured vehicle secures the area as fire and billowing black smoke from a burning truck fills the air in the northwestern Baghdad neighborhood of al-Khadra 09 June 2004.

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Armed US security ride in a utilities vehicle past a ball of fire and billowing black smoke from a burning truck in the northwestern Baghdad neighborhood of al-Khadra 09 June 2004.

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US Marines jump out of their vehicle at an improvised camp base in a desert area. Saboteurs ruptured overnight an oil pipeline linking Iraq's largest fuel refinery at Baiji north of Baghdad to a power station

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Smoke billows from an earlier explosion of an oil well in Kirkuk. Saboteurs blew up a portion of the Kirkuk-Turkey oil pipeline, the second such attack in less than 24-hours, an Iraqi security chief in northern Iraq

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U.S. Marine military police take cover as an explosive device, planted by Iraqi insurgents, is detonated by a marine bomb squad in the town of Khaldiya May 29, 2004. Improvised bombs have taken a toll on U.S. forces patrolling the Sunni triangle area. Picture taken May 29, 2004.

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Italian hostages Maurizio Agliana (L), Umberto Cupertino (C) and Salvatore Stefio give the thumbs up as they arrive at Ciampino Military airbase in Rome June 9, 2004. Three Italian hostages freed from their Iraqi kidnappers by U.S.-led coalition forces returned home after nearly two months in captivity in a boost for the government ahead of European elections.

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Umberto Cupertino (R) kisses his niece Carmella, as the three Italian hostages freed yesterday by coalition forces in Iraq, arrive at Rome's Ciampino airport, 09 June 2004, after two months in captivity.

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BAGHDAD, IRAQ: Iraqi children gather around a US soldier on patrol in Baghdad 09 June 2004. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Wednesday welcomed the new United Nations resolution on Iraq but warned that the situation there remained complex, with security a particular concern.


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NEGOMBO, SRI LANKA: Unidentified tourists ride a jet ski close to the wreckage of a Sri Lankan air force MiG-27 swing wing aircraft which crashed into a lagoon shortly after take off from an airbase at Negombo, some 50kms north of Colombo, 09 June 2004. The pilot ejected to safety in the second such crash since August 2001, when a MiG27 went down killing a pilot and wounding seven people on the ground

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NEGOMBO, SRI LANKA: Sri Lankan air force personnel attempt to salvage the wreckage of an air force MiG-27 swing wing aircraft which crashed into a lagoon shortly after take off from an airbase at Negombo, some 50kms north of Colombo, 09 June 2004. The pilot ejected to safety in the second such crash since August 2001, when a MiG27 went down killing a pilot and wounding seven people on the ground

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Indian army recruits gather as they await the start of a parade drill in Bangalore, 08 June 2004. A job with the Indian armed forces whos e strength of 1.1 million the third largest in the world, is still a preferred choice among the unemployed Indian youth.

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CASTINA, ISRAEL - JUNE 9: Israeli soldier Wahid Taysir (L), who is accused of shooting British peace activist Tom Hurndall, is brought in handcuffs by military police to the army's southern command military court June 9, 2004 in Castina, Israel. Taysir was indicted on six counts for shooting Hurndall, who later died of his wounds, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 11, 2003.

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Taysir is tried on six indictments for shooting Hurndall in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 11, 2003, manslaughter, two counts of obstruction of justice, incitement to false testimony, false testimony and improper conduct.

[MEGR]

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This truck is way cool.. Road Warrior all the way..

[big80a2]

thanks :D

like the guntruck pic's :)

[Frens]

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Italian hostages Maurizio Agliana (L), Umberto Cupertino (C) and Salvatore Stefio give the thumbs up as they arrive at Ciampino Military airbase in Rome June 9, 2004. Three Italian hostages freed from their Iraqi kidnappers by U.S.-led coalition forces returned home after nearly two months in captivity in a boost for the government ahead of European elections.


thanks US! woot

[Hawaii_Light]

thanks US!

weren't the poles there to?

[Vance]

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The US should stop giving food aid to that kid on the left - he's getting a little porky.

[Fintin]

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The US should stop giving food aid to that kid on the left - he's getting a little porky.


vancy pants...always picking on the fat kids...




ps i was thinking the same thing

[MARINO]

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Italian hostages Maurizio Agliana (L), Umberto Cupertino (C) and Salvatore Stefio give the thumbs up as they arrive at Ciampino Military airbase in Rome June 9, 2004. Three Italian hostages freed from their Iraqi kidnappers by U.S.-led coalition forces returned home after nearly two months in captivity in a boost for the government ahead of European elections.


thanks US! woot
woot woot woot :hug:

[M1A2U2]

Hey Frens can you get me some pics of italian soldiers in desert environments?

[American Patriot]

What a ****ing circus with these ******* photographers :(

[RomanS]

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Very good weapon the US guy using here. I do like the PKM much more better than SAW and M240.

I shot them both, and was only impressed with a SAW, not the FN MAG.
But PKM, man oh man I would do anything to have one in my collection.

Thanks HE, great photos as USUAL!

[big80a2]

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Very good weapon the US guy using here. I do like the PKM much more better than SAW and M240.

I shot them both, and was only impressed with a SAW, not the FN MAG.
But PKM, man oh man I would do anything to have one in my collection.

Thanks HE, great photos as USUAL!

well this guy has been bored for a wile... paintet his scratch armor in the same color as the jeep..

[He219]

:D


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Pakistani troops killed at least eight foreign militants in a gunbattle in a tribal village near the Afghan border

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US soldiers in armoured vehicles patrol the outskirts of Kabul. US troops engaged in a fierce battle with insurgents which left at least 21 suspected Taliban dead, as violence continues in the former strongholds of the fundamentalist militia.

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With bloodstains visible on the lower portion of his left trouser leg, Sgt. Anthony Viggiani of Strongsville, Ohio, pauses to look at the camera moments after a fierce firefight with anti-coalition militia in central Afghanistan. Viggiani, a squad leader in Charlie Co., Battalion Landing Team 1st Bn., 6th Marines, the ground combat element of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), ignored the bullet wound to remain in the fight against the enemy.

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This photo, released by the US Army shows US Sergeant Ryan F. Leonard manning a machine-gun in December 2003 in southern Afghanistan. US-led forces continue to engage in fierce fighting with insurgents in the country

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PIRAEUS, GREECE: Members of the Greek Coast Guard Force (CGF) train as they attack a would-be kidnapped bus to free hostages during a security exercise held in Piraeus seaport, 09 June 2004. CGF held the exercise as part of preparations to take a leading role in safeguarding the Athens Olympic Games on August 13-29 against a possible terror action.

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With Rio de Janeiro's famous Sugar Loaf mountain as a backdrop, the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan arrives in port, June 9, 2004. The carrier has been off the coast of Brazil for military training exercises with naval forces from Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Peru. The carrier was named after the 40th U.S. president, who died on June 5 at the age of 93.

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The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (news - web sites) passes the downtown financial district of Rio de Janeiro, before docking at the city's main port, June 9, 2004. The carrier has been off the coast of Brazil for military training exercises with naval forces from Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Peru.

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A shell flies into the air (R-top) as Israeli soldiers fire a cannon on the Israeli-Lebanese border June 9, 2004. Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrillas attacked Israeli positions in the disputed Shebaa farms area on Tuesday, one day after Israeli warplanes raided a Palestinian base near Beirut.

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ISRAELI-LEBANESE BORDER, -: A picture made available 09 June 2004 by Lebanon's Hezbollah militia shows an Israeli post being targeted by Hezbollah rockets and mortar rounds 08 June in the disputed Shebaa Farms border area in south Lebanon. Hezbollah television station, Al-Manar, said the attacks were carried out by fighters of the Islamic Resistance, the group's military wing, and had "reportedly killed a Zionist soldier".

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A Palestinian woman holds olive leaves, as she shouts at Israeli soldiers during a demonstration against the construction of a fence being built by Israel to separate the nearby Jewish settlement of Ariel from the Palestinian areas around it, in the village of Al-Zawiya, in the nothern West Bank, south-west of Nablus Wednesday, June 9, 2004. Hundreds of villagers clashed with troops during the demonstration.

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AL-ZAWIEH, -: An Israeli soldier carrying a stick argues with Palestinian women during clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security men following a protest against the construction of a new section of the separation barrier which goes over their land in the northern West Bank village of Al-Zawieh, near Salfit 09 June 2004. Villagers have been protesting since 07 June to try to prevent a new stretch of the barrier from being built on their land. Israel is building the separation barrier along the West Bank to prevent infiltrations by would-be suicide bombers, but Palestinians say the barrier, which often cuts deep into their territory, is a mere land-grab and pre-empts the borders of their promised state.

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Palestinians clash with Israeli forces during a protest against construction of Israel's separation barrier in the village of Al-Zawiya, in the nothern West Bank, south-west of Nablus Wednesday June 9, 2004. Hundreds of villagers clashed with troops during the demonstration.

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Palestinians clash with Israeli soldiers during a demonstration against the controversial security barrier near the West Bank village of Az-Zawiya June 9, 2004

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A Palestinian man walks with his children amid the rubble of his home destroyed during Israel's Operation Rainbow in Rafah's Brazil neighbourhood in the southern Gaza Strip

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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM: Sir Jeremy Greenstock, the UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations poses with his knighthood at Buckingham Palace, London 09 June, 2004.

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KARBALA, IRAQ: Lt. Col Gary Bishop (R), commander of the US coalition task forces 1st-37th Armoured Division looks at the explosive materials handed to the coalition forces by Iraqis in the city of Karbala, some 100kms south of Baghdad 09 June 2004. The US coalition task force put up money as a reward for Iraqis who handover weapons and explosives

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BAGHDAD, IRAQ: An armed guard of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan stands on the roof of their office building in the center of Baghdad 09 June 2004, with their flag in the background. A UN Security Council resolution endorsing Iraq's future sovereignty fuelled a row on between Kurds and Shiites who are divided over the fate of the country's interim constitution. The political battle threatens to harm Iraq's new interim government just hours after the 15-member United Nations Security Council endorsed its existence. A car bomb exploded outside the PUK offices last week killing guards on duty.

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Rebels killed on June 9, 2004 12 members of an Iraqi security force entrusted with pacifying the country's most restive town, officers in the force said. The attack was believed to be the first time General Mohammed Latif's Falluja Brigade had come under fire since it set out to impose security in Falluja last month following fierce fighting between U.S. troops and insurgents. U.S. troops have pulled back from the city under a deal to deploy the force

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FALLUJAH, IRAQ: A sign that reads in Arabic "Closed Exit?, is placed near a US tank guarding the main highway into the southern edge of the Sunni Muslim city of Fallujah, 60 kms west of Baghdad, 09 June 2004, as US armoured personnel vehicles make their way on the ring road close to the city. US Marines on blocked off the eastern and southern entrances to the Iraqi Sunni Muslim rebel bastion of Fallujah, stringing barbwire and placing cement barriers, an AFP correspondent said

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FALLUJAH, IRAQ: US tanks role across the sand towards the eastern entrance of the mainly Sunni Muslim city of Fallujah, 60 kms west of Baghdad, 09 June 2004. US Marines on blocked off the eastern and southern entrances to the Iraqi Sunni Muslim rebel bastion of Fallujah, stringing barbwire and placing cement barriers, an AFP correspondent said.

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Police officers stand in front of a hairdresser shop at the scene of a suspected bomb blast in the Keup street in Cologne, western Germany, Wednesday, June 9, 2004. 16 people were injured by the explosion, four seriously, authorities said.

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A German police surveys the site of an explosion in the western German city of Cologne, June 9, 2004. A suspected bomb exploded in a residential building in the German city of Cologne on Wednesday, injuring at least 17 people, one of them critically

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Nails found at the scene in front of the building where an explosion injured at least 17 people, 09 June 2004 in the western German city of Cologne. A bomb packed with nails exploded in a busy shopping district a police spokewoman said.

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A undated photo released by United Nations (news - web sites) High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on June 9, 2004 shows the Farachana tent camp, 55 km (34 miles) from the border with western Sudan. It is the first of multiple refugee camps that the UNHCR has set up for Sudanese refugees in Chad. The United Nations says fighting in the western Sudan has affected two million people and driven away 158,000 refugees across the border into Chad, creating one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters.

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Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) leader John Garang (C) arrives at a rally in Yei town, in southern Sudan, June 8, 2004. Garang is visiting Yei for the first time in two years at the start of a campaign for three peace protocols, signed between the SPLA and Khartoum recently, aimed at ending 21 years of civil war in Africa's largest country.

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The village of Terbeba after being burnt by the pro-Sudanese government 'Janjaweed' militias in the western Darfur region of Sudan. Britain is to give an extra 27 million USD in relief aid to Sudan's crisis-hit Darfur region

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Picture taken in April 2004 shows the village of Khair Wajid after being burnt by the pro-Sudanese government Janjawid militias in the western Darfur region of Sudan

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A Sudanese woman sits on the main street next to a destroyed government tank in Yei town, at the Equatoria region of Sudan, June 9, 2004. Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) leader John Garang is visiting Yei for the first time in two years at the start of a campaign to sell three peace protocols signed between the SPLA and Khartoum recently, aimed at ending 21 years of civil war in Africa's largest country

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A undated photo released by UNHCR on June 9, 2004 show Sudanese refugees arriving in Eastern Chad near Tine, on the border with west Sudan. United Nations (news - web sites) says fighting in the western Sudan has affected two million people and driven away 158,000 refugees across the border into Chad, creating one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters.

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A undated photo released by the United Nations (news - web sites) High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on June 9, 2004 shows a old Sudanese refugee woman assisted by aid workers, as she arrives to take shelter with her family at Farachana tent camp, 55 km (34 miles) from the border with western Sudan. It was the first of multiple refugee camps that UNHCR set up in Chad

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A Sudanese man works on his farm next to an anti-aircraft gun destroyed during the 1998 war between the SPLA and the Kharoum government, in Yei, at the Equatoria region of southern Sudan, June 9, 2004. SPLA leader John Garang is visiting Yei for the first time in two years at the start of a campaign to sell three peace protocols signed between the SPLA and Khartoum recently, aimed at ending 21 years of civil war in Africa's largest country

[ZeroPositive]

love the tanks as road blocks :)

[Operation Ivy]

woot woot

Lots of tank pics today!

[Gringo]

woot woot

Lots of tank pics today!

yeah. It'll have to be balanced out by lots of anti-tank weapons tommorow.

*cue Evil Laugh*

:lol:

[Laworkerbee]

Democratic Republic of Congo (news - web sites) (DRC) soldiers walk towards Bukavu. Government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) took back the eastern provincial city without a fight, a week after the regular army was chased out by regular troops.(

Talk about a clusterf**k

thanks for all your work HE219[/quote]

[Jurgen]

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I LOVE this pic! woot woot

[Deuterium]

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Very good weapon the US guy using here. I do like the PKM much more better than SAW and M240.

I shot them both, and was only impressed with a SAW, not the FN MAG.
But PKM, man oh man I would do anything to have one in my collection.

Thanks HE, great photos as USUAL!

Non-disintegrating belt= trouble with fire and maneuver. After playing the reload game with this beast a few times in my career I certainly enjoy being able to break open a case of ammo and start shooting with the SAW/240.

[He219]

Deuterium, Good to hear from you!









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Iraqi troops train at a military facility in Taji, Iraq Wednesday June 9, 2004. Misguided U.S.-led training of Iraqi police is partly to blame for the instability that continues to plague Iraq, requiring the U.S. military to stay in charge of security longer than planned, according to Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton, the outgoing official in charge of armed forces training.

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Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton, second from left, reviews Iraqi troops at a training facility in Taji, Iraq Wednesday June 9, 2004. Misguided U.S.-led training of Iraqi police is partly to blame for the instability that continues to plague Iraq, requiring the U.S. military to stay in charge of security longer than planned, according to Eaton, the outgoing official in charge of armed forces training.

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Iraqi civil defence corps soldiers find a very small pocket knife as they search Iraqi motorists at a security checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq Wednesday June 9, 2004. The U.N. resolution approved by the 15-member Security Council buys time for the new Iraqi government _ boosting its international stature as it struggles to win acceptance and cope with a security crisis at home

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Meanwhile an oil pipeline burns in the desert near Beiji, Iraq about 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad Wednesday June 9, 2004. Saboteurs blew up the pipeline Wednesday, forcing a 10 percent cut in output for the national electricity grid, Iraqi officials said. The attack appeared part of an insurgent campaign against infrastructure to shake confidence in the new government.

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An Israeli soldier prevents a Palestinian man from walking to the center of the town while enforcing a curfew in the West Bank town of Hebron, Wednesday June 9, 2004

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Russian nationalists are seen during a protest against policy of Czech republic outside of Czech embassy in Moscow on April 28, 2004. Over the last several years, Russia has become a strikingly hostile place for all those with African, Asian or so-called Caucasian features _ the dark skin and dark hair typical for the peoples of the mountainous Caucasus region. Russian Emperor's flag is in the background and flag of Russian Nationalist Party is at left.

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Russian nationalists are seen during a protest against Israel politics outside the Israeli embassy in Moscow, on April 28, 2004

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Gdynia, Poland (Jun. 7, 2004) - A Russian KA-27 Helix helicopter makes a successful safe landing on the guided missile cruiser USS San Jacinto's (CG 56) flight deck during Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) 2004.

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Gdynia, Poland (Jun. 7, 2004) - The Russian Cruiser Neustrashimyy (712) prepares its KA-27 Helix helicopter for take off during Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) 2004.

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Gdynia Departure - beginning of the sea phase

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LIMOGES, FRANCE: Fifty high schools students from Alsace attend a memorial service at the Saint-Michel des Lions, church in Limoges, central France 09 June 2004 led by Strasbourg archbishop Dore to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the massacre perpetrated by the nazis of the Das Reich division against inhabitants of Oradour-sur-Glane, in the Limousin region. On 10 June 1944, German SS troops stormed the village killing 642 people, including 207 children. Among the 60 troops who perpetrated the massacre were 14 French nationals from the eastern region of Alsace, of whom all but one had been conscripted by force.

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RIP

Spanish policemen stand next to the car of two comrades who were killed in a shooting in Castejon, in northern Spain, June 9, 2004. Assailants opened fire at two police officers from another vehicle, according to media reports. One officer died on the spot and another on the way to hospital, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.

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Better postpone that trip to Havana ..
p-)

Chicago attorney Richard 'Mick' Connors leans against a rusting cannon, cigar in mouth, during a recent visit to Cuba, in a family handout, date unknown. Connors, who had been charged by a federal grand jury in 2002 with smuggling Cuban cigars and trading with the enemy, was sentenced Wednesday, June 9, 2004, by a judge in Chicago to 37 months in federal prison. The judge also sentenced Connors to three years of probation and fined him $60,000.



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Naval Base Ventura County, Calif. (Jun. 9, 2004) - Former President Ronald Reagan’s wife Nancy Reagan and Commanding General, U.S. Army Military District of Washington, D.C., Maj. Gen. Galen B. Jackman, board Air Force One. Reagan’s body will fly on Air Force One to Washington D.C., where his body will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda. A state funeral will be conducted late Friday morning at the Washington National Cathedral, where President Bush will give the eulogy.

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WASHINGTON - JUNE 9: A horse drawn procession makes it way down Constitution Avenue enroute to the Capitol June 9, 2004 in Washington, DC carrying the body of former President Ronald Reagan, the 40th U.S. president who died at the age of 93 on June 5 after a ten year battle with Alzheimer's disease. Reagan's body will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda until June 10.

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WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES: Sgt. York the riderless horse with a pair of the late president Ronald Reagan's own riding boots turned backwards in the stirups,(to signify that the warrior will never mount again) follows the casket of the former president at the start of a procession in front of the White House on Constitution Avenue, 09 June, 2004, in Washington, DC. Reagan's remains will lie in state in the US Capital following the first state funeral in the capital in 31 years

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WASHINGTON - JUNE 9: A Capitol police officer stands guard on the ground of the US Capitol building June 9, 2004 during an evacuation prior to the arrival of the casket of former US President Ronald Reagan on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The Capitol was briefly evacuated from what turned out to be a false alarm triggered by a disgruntled liberal.

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WASHINGTON - JUNE 9: Military personnel walk in the procession down Constitution Avenue enroute to the Capitol June 9, 2004 in Washington, DC during the state funeral of former President Ronald Reagan.

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WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES: Former First Lady Nancy Reagan (L) reaches to touch the casket of her husband former US President Ronald Reagan as it is carried up the west steps of the US Capitol 09 June, 2004 in Washington, DC for a state funeral ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda. Reagan's body will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda until Friday morning, when a memorial for the two-term president will be held at the National Cathedral in Washington.

*sniff*

[Ngati Tumatauenga]

Deuterium wrote,

Non-disintegrating belt= trouble with fire and maneuver. After playing the reload game with this beast a few times in my career I certainly enjoy being able to break open a case of ammo and start shooting with the SAW/240.

Yeah, its one thing to shoot it on a range, but a little bit more interesting to use it in the field. GPMG has far better ergonomics.

[AFG]

GP He

RIP Ronald Regan...

[MARINO]

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Spanish policemen stand next to the car of two comrades who were killed in a shooting in Castejon, in northern Spain, June 9, 2004. Assailants opened fire at two police officers from another vehicle, according to media reports. One officer died on the spot and another on the way to hospital, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
RIP :( we still don't know who was simply criminals, or ETA.

[Argyll]

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I saw this kid on the way back into Baghdad yesterday!! He gave the PSD team a hard stare as we drove through that suburb!!

[G1]

Really!? That's...surreal. :|

[Tengu]

Better give him the finger next time

[Mark Sman]

"Hey kid, pull my finger."

unclip flashbang

[Tengu]

rofl

[Falco]

Good pics woot

[Claymore]

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A Sudanese man works on his farm next to an anti-aircraft gun destroyed during the 1998 war between the SPLA and the Kharoum government, in Yei, at the Equatoria region of southern Sudan, June 9, 2004. SPLA leader John Garang is visiting Yei for the first time in two years at the start of a campaign to sell three peace protocols signed between the SPLA and Khartoum recently, aimed at ending 21 years of civil war in Africa's largest country

Looks more "modified" 122 mm D-30 howitzer. But of course there is a possiblity that they used it as a anti-aircraft gun. :D

[Zoomie]

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I think they're going to need a bigger boat. :lol:

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Is that excitement, happyness, or gratefulness on their face? It's hard to tell. ;)

[Chris1]

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I saw this kid on the way back into Baghdad yesterday!! He gave the PSD team a hard stare as we drove through that suburb!!So can you mercenaries run iraqi kids round the block shouting "Who ate all the pies?!!" or are you just allowed to roast and eat them? :D