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The former Royal Australian Navy guided missile destroyers HMAS Brisbane, is towed past the Sydney Opera House on her last trip above the water on Friday, July 16, 2004. Brisbane, a 34 year-old a Charles F. Adams Class DDG, was built by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in the USA, and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) on Dec. 16, 1967. She is a veteran of the Vietnam and Gulf Wars and had such weapons as two five inch guns, anti submarine torpedo's and a standard missile launcher. The decommissioned warship will soon be sunk off Queensland's Sunshine Coast to be used as a dive wreck.
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PATNA, INDIA: An Indian Air Force helicopter on a relief sortie fly over flooded in flood stricken Sitamarhi, some 115 kms northeast of the capital of the Indian state of Bihar, Patna, 16 July 2004. The eastern Indian state of Bihar sent an SOS message to the federal government seeking more help from the army to rescue millions of people trapped in devastating floods.
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Labourers load relief food packages onto an Indian Air Force helicopter at the airport in the capital of the Indian state of Bihar, Patna, 16 July 2004.
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People look at an Indian Air Force helicopter that crashed while trying to rescue Darbhanga Medical College girl students from their flooded hostel in Darbhanga, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, Thursday, July 15, 2004. The death toll in South Asia due to monsoon floods has risen to 374, as millions have been left stranded as the water washed away homes, roads, crops and telephone lines.
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Rescued medical students from Darbhanga medical college get down from an Indian Air Force helicopter at the airport of the capital of the Indian state of Bihar,Patna, 16 July 2004.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (2L) arrives for talks with election workers at an electoral office in Kabul, 16 July 2004. Armitage is on a one-day visit to the country, during which he is scheduled to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah and other officials. Presidential elections in Afghanistan are scheduled on 09 October.
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US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, center, talks to representatives of Joint Election Monitoring Body after he visited a registration center in Kabul Friday, July 16, 2004. The country's first-ever vote for president is scheduled on Oct. 9.
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Moscow tests new missile defense network
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TIKRIT, IRAQ- JULY 14: Soldiers from the 216th Engineer Battalion work together with Marines from 6th Engineer Support Battalion on July 14 , 2004 to rebuild the Tikrit Bridge in Tikrit, Iraq.
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An American soldier clears brush from an area along the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 16, 2004. He said that Army engineers are clearing the zone to build a public park
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MAHMUDIYAH, IRAQ: A US soldier looks on while another washes down a humvee stained with blood in camp Saint Michael after it was hit by a roadside bomb in Mahmudiyah, some 60kms south of Baghdad 15 July 2004. One soldier was killed and one injured in the blast.
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A U.S. Army soldier stands under a defaced sign which calls for Iraqi's to support their new security forces, in Baghdad July 16, 2004. The U.S. troops were responding to a roadside bomb which slightly injured one soldier and wounded several Iraqi's.
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A British soldier, no name available, simulates first aid rendering during peacekeeper exercise at the Vaziani military base, 15 km (10 miles) east of Tbilisi, Thursday, July 15, 2004. Georgian and British troops conducted a joint exercise simulating an attack in Iraq, where both countries have forces.
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Georgian troops conduct peacekeeper exercise at the Vaziani military base,15 km (10 miles) east of Tbilisi, Thursday, July 15, 2004. Georgian and British troops conducted the joint exercise, simulating an attack in Iraq, where both countries have forces.
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A Kurdish ICDC (Iraqi Civil Defense Corp) soldier looks through piles of old bombs, remains of the old Iraqi army arsenal, at a scrap yard outside of Zakho, on the Iraqi-Turkish border, July 13. 2004. The U.S. military sells dismantled weapons to Arab buyers, who sell them to Kurdish middlemen, who finally sell them to Turkish steel factories for about $40-50 per ton. Since the start of the U.S.-led invasion on Iraq the dead weapons business is slowly decreasing for all parties involved. Picture taken July 13, 2004
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AIR FORCE HOMECOMING: Giselle Tkach, left, and Abigael Tkach hug their father Master Sgt. Steve Tkach after the 10th Airlift Squadron lands at McChord Air Force Base Thursday, July 15, 2004, in Tacoma, Wash
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Ten-day old Shawn Tate, Jr., waits in the arms of his mother Rachel Tate to meet his father US Marine Cpl Shawn Tate upon his return from Iraq with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 15 July, 2004, at Camp Pendleton, California.
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CAMP PENDLETON, UNITED STATES: US Marine Lance Corporal Roger Ortega is welcomed by his sister Jasmine, 9, and other relatives upon his return from Iraq with the1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 15 July, 2004, at Camp Pendleton, California. Nearly 600 Marines and sailors from the 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment reunited with family and friends upon their return from deployment to Iraq to conduct Stability and Support Operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. They were involved in some of the most intense firefights in and around Fallujah and lost some of their troops in Iraq.
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US Marine Wayne Hall exchanges hats with his son Cade, 3, as wife Jennifer (R) looks on upon his return from Iraq with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 15 July, 2004, at Camp Pendleton, California.
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US Marine Lance Corporal Stephen Henry is reunited with his girlfriend Kandice Jackson upon his return from Iraq
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Cyndi Corbett cries as her husband US Marine Lance Corporal Vernon Corbett, Jr., holds his son Josepfh Corbett, three months, for the first time, upon his return from Iraq with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 15 July, 2004, at Camp Pendleton, California.
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Emmyln Anonical (L) jumps into the arms of her boyfriend US Marine Cpl Jeff Starr from Washington state as he returns from Iraq with the1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 15 July 2004 at Camp Pendleton, California. Nearly 600 Marines and sailors from the 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment reunited with family and friends upon their return from deployment to Iraq to conduct Stability and Support Operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ - JULY 16: Iraqi Shiites pray at a Friday prayer service in the Buratha mosque July 16, 2004 Baghdad, Iraq. The mosque, which is affiliated with the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a large Shiite group that is heavily vested in the interim government, was targeted 5 times by the insurgents. Iraq interim Prime Minister Dr. Iyad Allawi announced, on Thursday, the creation of an intelligence service designed to combat terrorism.
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A gunman of Muqtada al-Sadr's militia guards afternoon prayers in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq Friday, July 16, 2004.
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Top Baghdad representatives of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, Sheikh Aws Al-Kafaji, right, and Sheikh Hssan All Ethari, center left, speak with other top clerics at Friday prayers in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq Friday, July 16, 2004. Al-Sadr's militia, who fought U.S. troops for two months, is quietly working to transform itself into a behind-the-scenes political power
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Palestinian police chief for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Maj. Gen. Ghazi Jabali speaks during an officers' graduation ceremony at a police academy at the police headquarters in Gaza City, in this Dec. 4, 2003, file photo. According to witnesses, Palestinian gunmen kidnapped Jabali Friday. The gunmen ambushed his car and exchanged fire with his body guards, said the witnesses. The motive for the abduction was unclear. In background a picture of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv Wednesday July 14, 2004. Neyanyahu said Thursday he was confident Israel could fend off Palestinian attempts to get the United Nations to impose sanctions in the wake of the world court's ruling against a barrier Israel is building around the West Bank. A draft resolution introduced by Arab nations and the Nonaligned Movement of 116 mostly developing countries demands that Israel tear down the barrier. It is expected to go to a vote in the U.N. General Assembly on Friday.
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The shadow of spectators can be seen as they watch the beginning of the screening of the film 'Wall' by Morroccan director Simone Bittona at a section made of concrete blocks of Israel's separation barrier in the village of Abu Dis in the outskirts of Jerusalem Thursday July 15, 2004. The projection was made under the auspices of the Ramallah International Film Festival.
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Palestinian demonstrators wave towards Israeli activist in the other side during a rally against Israel's separation barrier, seen in the background, that took place in both sides of the barrier near the West Bank town of Qalqiliya Friday July 16, 2004. The United Nations General Assembly is slated to hold an emergency session Friday to discuss a draft resolution demanding that Israel comply with last week's International Court of Justice non-binding ruling that the West Bank separation fence is illegal and must be dismantled.
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The former Royal Australian Navy guided missile destroyers HMAS Brisbane, is towed past the Sydney Opera House on her last trip above the water on Friday, July 16, 2004. Brisbane, a 34 year-old a Charles F. Adams Class DDG, was built by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in the USA, and commissioned into the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) on Dec. 16, 1967. She is a veteran of the Vietnam and Gulf Wars and had such weapons as two five inch guns, anti submarine torpedo's and a standard missile launcher. The decommissioned warship will soon be sunk off Queensland's Sunshine Coast to be used as a dive wreck.
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PATNA, INDIA: An Indian Air Force helicopter on a relief sortie fly over flooded in flood stricken Sitamarhi, some 115 kms northeast of the capital of the Indian state of Bihar, Patna, 16 July 2004. The eastern Indian state of Bihar sent an SOS message to the federal government seeking more help from the army to rescue millions of people trapped in devastating floods.
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Labourers load relief food packages onto an Indian Air Force helicopter at the airport in the capital of the Indian state of Bihar, Patna, 16 July 2004.
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People look at an Indian Air Force helicopter that crashed while trying to rescue Darbhanga Medical College girl students from their flooded hostel in Darbhanga, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, Thursday, July 15, 2004. The death toll in South Asia due to monsoon floods has risen to 374, as millions have been left stranded as the water washed away homes, roads, crops and telephone lines.
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Rescued medical students from Darbhanga medical college get down from an Indian Air Force helicopter at the airport of the capital of the Indian state of Bihar,Patna, 16 July 2004.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage (2L) arrives for talks with election workers at an electoral office in Kabul, 16 July 2004. Armitage is on a one-day visit to the country, during which he is scheduled to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah and other officials. Presidential elections in Afghanistan are scheduled on 09 October.
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US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, center, talks to representatives of Joint Election Monitoring Body after he visited a registration center in Kabul Friday, July 16, 2004. The country's first-ever vote for president is scheduled on Oct. 9.
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Moscow tests new missile defense network
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TIKRIT, IRAQ- JULY 14: Soldiers from the 216th Engineer Battalion work together with Marines from 6th Engineer Support Battalion on July 14 , 2004 to rebuild the Tikrit Bridge in Tikrit, Iraq.
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An American soldier clears brush from an area along the Tigris River in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 16, 2004. He said that Army engineers are clearing the zone to build a public park
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MAHMUDIYAH, IRAQ: A US soldier looks on while another washes down a humvee stained with blood in camp Saint Michael after it was hit by a roadside bomb in Mahmudiyah, some 60kms south of Baghdad 15 July 2004. One soldier was killed and one injured in the blast.
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A U.S. Army soldier stands under a defaced sign which calls for Iraqi's to support their new security forces, in Baghdad July 16, 2004. The U.S. troops were responding to a roadside bomb which slightly injured one soldier and wounded several Iraqi's.
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A British soldier, no name available, simulates first aid rendering during peacekeeper exercise at the Vaziani military base, 15 km (10 miles) east of Tbilisi, Thursday, July 15, 2004. Georgian and British troops conducted a joint exercise simulating an attack in Iraq, where both countries have forces.
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Georgian troops conduct peacekeeper exercise at the Vaziani military base,15 km (10 miles) east of Tbilisi, Thursday, July 15, 2004. Georgian and British troops conducted the joint exercise, simulating an attack in Iraq, where both countries have forces.
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A Kurdish ICDC (Iraqi Civil Defense Corp) soldier looks through piles of old bombs, remains of the old Iraqi army arsenal, at a scrap yard outside of Zakho, on the Iraqi-Turkish border, July 13. 2004. The U.S. military sells dismantled weapons to Arab buyers, who sell them to Kurdish middlemen, who finally sell them to Turkish steel factories for about $40-50 per ton. Since the start of the U.S.-led invasion on Iraq the dead weapons business is slowly decreasing for all parties involved. Picture taken July 13, 2004
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AIR FORCE HOMECOMING: Giselle Tkach, left, and Abigael Tkach hug their father Master Sgt. Steve Tkach after the 10th Airlift Squadron lands at McChord Air Force Base Thursday, July 15, 2004, in Tacoma, Wash
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Ten-day old Shawn Tate, Jr., waits in the arms of his mother Rachel Tate to meet his father US Marine Cpl Shawn Tate upon his return from Iraq with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 15 July, 2004, at Camp Pendleton, California.
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CAMP PENDLETON, UNITED STATES: US Marine Lance Corporal Roger Ortega is welcomed by his sister Jasmine, 9, and other relatives upon his return from Iraq with the1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 15 July, 2004, at Camp Pendleton, California. Nearly 600 Marines and sailors from the 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment reunited with family and friends upon their return from deployment to Iraq to conduct Stability and Support Operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. They were involved in some of the most intense firefights in and around Fallujah and lost some of their troops in Iraq.
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US Marine Wayne Hall exchanges hats with his son Cade, 3, as wife Jennifer (R) looks on upon his return from Iraq with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 15 July, 2004, at Camp Pendleton, California.
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US Marine Lance Corporal Stephen Henry is reunited with his girlfriend Kandice Jackson upon his return from Iraq
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Cyndi Corbett cries as her husband US Marine Lance Corporal Vernon Corbett, Jr., holds his son Josepfh Corbett, three months, for the first time, upon his return from Iraq with the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 15 July, 2004, at Camp Pendleton, California.
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Emmyln Anonical (L) jumps into the arms of her boyfriend US Marine Cpl Jeff Starr from Washington state as he returns from Iraq with the1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 15 July 2004 at Camp Pendleton, California. Nearly 600 Marines and sailors from the 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment reunited with family and friends upon their return from deployment to Iraq to conduct Stability and Support Operations in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ - JULY 16: Iraqi Shiites pray at a Friday prayer service in the Buratha mosque July 16, 2004 Baghdad, Iraq. The mosque, which is affiliated with the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, a large Shiite group that is heavily vested in the interim government, was targeted 5 times by the insurgents. Iraq interim Prime Minister Dr. Iyad Allawi announced, on Thursday, the creation of an intelligence service designed to combat terrorism.
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A gunman of Muqtada al-Sadr's militia guards afternoon prayers in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq Friday, July 16, 2004.
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Top Baghdad representatives of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, Sheikh Aws Al-Kafaji, right, and Sheikh Hssan All Ethari, center left, speak with other top clerics at Friday prayers in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq Friday, July 16, 2004. Al-Sadr's militia, who fought U.S. troops for two months, is quietly working to transform itself into a behind-the-scenes political power
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Palestinian police chief for the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Maj. Gen. Ghazi Jabali speaks during an officers' graduation ceremony at a police academy at the police headquarters in Gaza City, in this Dec. 4, 2003, file photo. According to witnesses, Palestinian gunmen kidnapped Jabali Friday. The gunmen ambushed his car and exchanged fire with his body guards, said the witnesses. The motive for the abduction was unclear. In background a picture of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony at the Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv Wednesday July 14, 2004. Neyanyahu said Thursday he was confident Israel could fend off Palestinian attempts to get the United Nations to impose sanctions in the wake of the world court's ruling against a barrier Israel is building around the West Bank. A draft resolution introduced by Arab nations and the Nonaligned Movement of 116 mostly developing countries demands that Israel tear down the barrier. It is expected to go to a vote in the U.N. General Assembly on Friday.
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The shadow of spectators can be seen as they watch the beginning of the screening of the film 'Wall' by Morroccan director Simone Bittona at a section made of concrete blocks of Israel's separation barrier in the village of Abu Dis in the outskirts of Jerusalem Thursday July 15, 2004. The projection was made under the auspices of the Ramallah International Film Festival.
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Palestinian demonstrators wave towards Israeli activist in the other side during a rally against Israel's separation barrier, seen in the background, that took place in both sides of the barrier near the West Bank town of Qalqiliya Friday July 16, 2004. The United Nations General Assembly is slated to hold an emergency session Friday to discuss a draft resolution demanding that Israel comply with last week's International Court of Justice non-binding ruling that the West Bank separation fence is illegal and must be dismantled.