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Armed with M-16 assault rifles, Chang Hsi-ming, right, and his bodyguard, center, unidentified, use a local farmer as a shield to enter an escape car after a shoot out with police in the mountainous town of Taliao in Taiwan's southern Kaohsiung county, Monday, July 26, 2004. Four policemen were injured in the four-hour shootout, but one of Chang's bodyguards was shot in the chest and another surrendered, police said. Since January, Chang has allegedly extorted a total of $8.8 million in 10 cases of kidnapping wealthy businessmen in southern Taiwan..
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Taiwan police subdue a member of a heavily armed kidnap gang during a shootout in southern Kaohsiung county, July 26, 2004. Four policemen and two of the kidnappers were injured while two other members of the gang escaped by hijacking a car.
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Crew members leave an Air China jet in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, after a would-be hijacker who tried to divert the plane to South Korea was arrested, July 26, 2004. A Chinese man with a history of mental illness tried to hijack the flight and it made an emergency landing in Zhengzhou.
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Boston Special Weapons and Tactics police (SWAT) stand guard outside the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston, July 25, 2004. Final preparations are being made in the hall before the July 26 start of the convention, where Democratic candidate John Kerry will formally accept his party's nomination.
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Czech soldiers from a chemical-protection unit load army equipment onto a transport unit in Liberec, Czech Republic, Monday, July 26, 2004, before their departure to Athens, Greece. One hundred Czech anti-chemical warfare specialists will participate in NATO's protection of the Summer Olympics in August.
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Canadian soldiers from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on an armoured vehicle crossing a street in downtown Kabul on Monday, July 26, 2004. NATO troops were mounting stepped-up patrols in the Afghan capital Monday as wrangling over President Hamid Karzai's team to contest its landmark elections held up his nomination until the last moment.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: Afghan President Hamid Karzai (C) speaks to the media, as vice president Karim Khalili (R) looks on during a press conference at the Presidential palace in Kabul, 26 July 2004. Karzai Monday formally filed his candidacy for the October presidential elections and chose a brother of late resistance hero Ahmad Shah Masoud as his running mate for vice president.
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U.S. Army Special Forces with their Filipino counterpart man a checkpoint at the entrance of a military base Monday, July 26, 2004 in Carmen town in southern Philippines. The yearly counter-terrorism training exercise dubbed Balance Piston 04-03 is conducted by the U.S. in an area where Muslim rebels are present and after the Philippine contingent pulled out of the coalition forces in Iraq to save the life of a Filipino, which was highly criticized by American officials.
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CARMEN, PHILIPPINES: Two unidentified US Army Special Forces members man a guard house before the start of a joint counter-terrorist exercise at the Philippine Army base in Carmen on the troubled southern Philippine island of Mindanao, 26 July 2004. US and Filipino troops began a counter-terrorist training exercise 26 July to help the Philippines fight foreign Islamic militants believed to have set up training camps on Mindanao.
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U.S. Army Special forces Staff Sergeant Tim Collins, left and Master Sergeant Rey Hogwood right, join their Filipino counterparts before the opening ceremony of the RP-US Balance Piston 04-03 training exercise Monday, July 26, 2004 at a military camp in Carmen town in southern Philippines.
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KAHAN, PAKISTAN: Members of Pakistani Marri Baloch tribe blandish their AK-47 rifles at their camp in Kahan, some 250 kilometers south-east of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, 25 July 2004. Marri Baloch tribesmen, who are accused of being responsible for rocket attacks on paramilitary forces and laying land mines on roads to resist government efforts of exploring oil and gas and building roads in the tribal area, demand the right of self determination and control over natural resources as they accuse Islamabad of 56 years-long oppression and exploitation of their population.
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ - JULY 25: An Iraqi National Guardsman directs motorists at a checkpoint July 25, 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi and American forces clashed with insurgents in Buhriz, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, killing 13 Iraqi militants, according the U.S. military
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Iraqi National Guardsmen stand guard at a checkpoint July 25, 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq.
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U.S. Army 1st Infantry Division soldiers break down a door while searching a school in Baqouba, Iraq, on a night mission Sunday, July 25, 2004. Fifteen insurgents were killed earlier Sunday during clashes in nearby Buhriz.
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A soldier with the Australian security detachment keeps watch as police investigate after a grenade was thrown 50 meters from his army base in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in a October 3, 2003 file photo. Australia will not give in to threats of attack made by a group claiming to be the European wing of al Qaeda, but is taking the warning seriously, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said on July 25, 2004. A statement posted on a web site by the Islamic Tawhid Group threatened Italy and Australia with attacks with 'columns of rigged cars' if they did not withdraw their troops from Iraq
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Australian troops aboard an armoured personnel vehicle pass by a checkpoint guarded by an Iraqi policeman at a junction near the Australian embassy in Baghdad, Iraq Sunday July 25, 2004.
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Australian troops stand guard outside of the Australian embassy in Baghdad, Iraq Sunday July 25, 2004. In a statement that appeared on an Islamic Web site known as a clearing house for al-Qaida and groups linked to the terror network, a group that called itself "al-Qaida in Europe" urged Australia, which has nearly 900 troops in and around Iraq, to follow the surrender of the Philippines and Spain. "We call upon you to leave Iraq before your country turns to pools of blood," the Tawhid Islamic Group said. "You came to our lands to loot its wealth and God willing we will move the battle to your country as you did to our countries, not only in Australia, but all Islamic and Arab countries."
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Australian Clearance Diving Team ONE conducting clandestine insertion for Exercise RIMPAC 2004.
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POCD Eather and ABCD Grinham preparing to conduct underwater survey of the Hawaiian waters for RIMPAC.
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Seaman Clearance Diver Wilson using an ANQS/2A handheld sonar, searching for mines at RIMPAC 2004.
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HMAS SUCCESS takes on the big guys for replenishment with USS RUSHMORE and USS TARAWA.
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HMAS NEWCASTLE conducts a Gunnery Serial with her 76mm gun on the decommissioned target ship USS HARRY W. HILL while steaming on the "Gun Line" during Ex RIMPAC 04.
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Gun Busters onboard HMAS NEWCASTLE get together after claiming the final hits on the decommissioned ship USS HARRY W HILL, 80 rounds of 76mm were expended on the designated target ship by HMAS NEWCASTLE
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Crew from the 76mm Gun, known as "Gun Busters" clean the barrel after expending 80 rounds into the decommissioned U.S. ship, USS HARRY W HILL during the gunnery serial for Ex RIMPAC 04. From left, POETW Wayne Maltman, ABETW Byrne McNeill and LSETW Matt Holloway.
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Three Australian Air Force (RAAF) F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets perform air-to-air refueling while participating in 'Exercise Pitch Black' near Darwin in this August 20, 2004 handout photograph. Exercise Pitch Black is a biennial 18-day event and is the Royal Australian Air Force's largest exercise, involving about 1,700 personnel from Singapore, France and Thailand. Approximately 75 aircraft will participate in the event. Picture taken July 20, 2004.
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POPH David Connolly has ticked off another life goal working aboard the USS Stennis for Exercise RIMPAC. POPH Connolly is a photographer working at JOICAUST-TAF in Canberra.
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L to R: LAC Sean Mcleod, CPL Adrian Taylor, LSPH Richard Prideaux, PO Denham Carlyon, LCDR Fraser Vergelius, CPOCSM Lex Davison & POPH David Connolly the Australian defence members aboard USS Stennis for Exercise RIMPAC.
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The flight deck of USS John C Stennis at sunrise off the coast of Hawaii.
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Charlie company's Company Sergeant Major, WO2 Warwick observing his surrounds during the beach assault at RIMPAC 2004.
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Major Tom Kane guides his troops around the battlefield during the assault on the beach at Exercise RIMPAC.
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Two Australian soldiers from 2RAR Charlie Company take a prisoner of war during the assault on the beach.
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Tongan troops on parade alongside Australian, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand at the Combined Forces Task Group parade on the one-year anniversary of RAMSI. The parade was held in front of the Honiara International Airport. (Date taken: 24 July 2004)
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Australian troops march with Fiji and the other participating nations, Tonga, New Zealand and Papa New Guinea at the Combined Forces Task Group parade on the one-year anniversary of RAMSI. The parade was held in front of the Honiara International Airport.
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Governor General of the Solomon Islands Nathaniel Waena inspects Tonga members with Combined Joint Taskforce Commander Lieutenant Colonel John Hutcheson.
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NEW DELHI, INDIA: Indian Air Force (IAF) officers, members of a UN Democratic Republic of Congo peackeeping mission march towards a helicopter to pose for a group picture at a 'flagging off' ceremony in New Delhi, 26 July 2004. India is sending five Mi-17 helicopters, four Mi-25 helicopters and 243 personnel to the central African nation, forming the largest contingent that India has ever sent for a UN peackeeping operation.
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NEW DELHI, INDIA: Indian Air Force (IAF) Chief S Krishnaswamy (L) gestures as he speaks with IAF officers, members of a UN Democratic Republic of Congo peackeeping mission at a 'flagging off' ceremony in New Delhi, 26 July 2004.
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Israeli soldiers atop an armored personnal carrier leave the Palestinian town of Beit Hanuon, northern Gaza Strip following an army operation, Sunday July 25, 2004. Israeli troops expanded an operation near Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, effectively taking over an entire town in an effort to prevent the firing of rockets on nearby Israeli areas. Armored bulldozers cleared roads leading from farmland areas of Beit Hanoun into the center of town and were followed by tanks that parked near the municipality, Palestinian witnesses said.
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KALANDIA, -: Palestinians cover their ears as an Israeli soldier shoots in the air next to them to disperse a crowed of stone-throwers during clashes in the West Bank refugee camp of Kalandia on the outskirts of Jerusalem 25 July 2004. Israeli troops raided the camp after a false alarm about an Israeli citizen in distress who accidentally entered the camp.
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Israeli army soldiers and bystanders take cover from Palestinian stone throwers, during an army operation at the Qalandiya refugee camp in the outskirts of the West Bank town of Ramallah, Sunday July 25, 2004.
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An Israeli soldier calls for help for a comrade injured by a stone thrown at him during an army operation at the Qalandiya refugee camp in the outskirts of the West Bank town of Ramallah, Sunday, July 25, 2004. According to Palestinian sources the Israeli army entered the camp and clashed with stone throwers Sunday after they had received false information about an Israeli gone missing in the area. The Israeli army had no comment
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Palestinian boy covers his ears as Israeli army soldiers shoot during an army operation at the Qalandiya refugee camp in the outskirts of the West Bank town of Ramallah, Sunday July 25, 2004.
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Russian soldiers are put through their paces during training to qualify for the 'Red Berets', a crack interior ministry unit, at a base outside Moscow, July 26, 2004. Competition is fierce to join the elite unit, which is considered one of the most prestigious in the Russian army.
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BALASHIHA, RUSSIAN FEDERATION: 'Rus' anti-terror unit soldiers pass examination for the "Madder beret", a symbol of courage and professionalism in Russian interior troops, not far from Balashiha town, Moscow region, 26 July 2004.
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Russian Navy Day marked in Severomorsk
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MUNICH, GERMANY: German Police SEK secure the access road of a house in Munich's district Nymphenburg, 26 July 2004, where a 70-year-old pensioner shot five people, wounding one of them seriously. According to a police spokesman, the gunman had apparently shot a man after an argument in his apartment. He then went to the window and pulled the trigger repeatedly, hitting four others.
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Armed with M-16 assault rifles, Chang Hsi-ming, right, and his bodyguard, center, unidentified, use a local farmer as a shield to enter an escape car after a shoot out with police in the mountainous town of Taliao in Taiwan's southern Kaohsiung county, Monday, July 26, 2004. Four policemen were injured in the four-hour shootout, but one of Chang's bodyguards was shot in the chest and another surrendered, police said. Since January, Chang has allegedly extorted a total of $8.8 million in 10 cases of kidnapping wealthy businessmen in southern Taiwan..
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Taiwan police subdue a member of a heavily armed kidnap gang during a shootout in southern Kaohsiung county, July 26, 2004. Four policemen and two of the kidnappers were injured while two other members of the gang escaped by hijacking a car.
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Crew members leave an Air China jet in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, after a would-be hijacker who tried to divert the plane to South Korea was arrested, July 26, 2004. A Chinese man with a history of mental illness tried to hijack the flight and it made an emergency landing in Zhengzhou.
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Boston Special Weapons and Tactics police (SWAT) stand guard outside the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston, July 25, 2004. Final preparations are being made in the hall before the July 26 start of the convention, where Democratic candidate John Kerry will formally accept his party's nomination.
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Czech soldiers from a chemical-protection unit load army equipment onto a transport unit in Liberec, Czech Republic, Monday, July 26, 2004, before their departure to Athens, Greece. One hundred Czech anti-chemical warfare specialists will participate in NATO's protection of the Summer Olympics in August.
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Canadian soldiers from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on an armoured vehicle crossing a street in downtown Kabul on Monday, July 26, 2004. NATO troops were mounting stepped-up patrols in the Afghan capital Monday as wrangling over President Hamid Karzai's team to contest its landmark elections held up his nomination until the last moment.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: Afghan President Hamid Karzai (C) speaks to the media, as vice president Karim Khalili (R) looks on during a press conference at the Presidential palace in Kabul, 26 July 2004. Karzai Monday formally filed his candidacy for the October presidential elections and chose a brother of late resistance hero Ahmad Shah Masoud as his running mate for vice president.
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U.S. Army Special Forces with their Filipino counterpart man a checkpoint at the entrance of a military base Monday, July 26, 2004 in Carmen town in southern Philippines. The yearly counter-terrorism training exercise dubbed Balance Piston 04-03 is conducted by the U.S. in an area where Muslim rebels are present and after the Philippine contingent pulled out of the coalition forces in Iraq to save the life of a Filipino, which was highly criticized by American officials.
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CARMEN, PHILIPPINES: Two unidentified US Army Special Forces members man a guard house before the start of a joint counter-terrorist exercise at the Philippine Army base in Carmen on the troubled southern Philippine island of Mindanao, 26 July 2004. US and Filipino troops began a counter-terrorist training exercise 26 July to help the Philippines fight foreign Islamic militants believed to have set up training camps on Mindanao.
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U.S. Army Special forces Staff Sergeant Tim Collins, left and Master Sergeant Rey Hogwood right, join their Filipino counterparts before the opening ceremony of the RP-US Balance Piston 04-03 training exercise Monday, July 26, 2004 at a military camp in Carmen town in southern Philippines.
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KAHAN, PAKISTAN: Members of Pakistani Marri Baloch tribe blandish their AK-47 rifles at their camp in Kahan, some 250 kilometers south-east of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province, 25 July 2004. Marri Baloch tribesmen, who are accused of being responsible for rocket attacks on paramilitary forces and laying land mines on roads to resist government efforts of exploring oil and gas and building roads in the tribal area, demand the right of self determination and control over natural resources as they accuse Islamabad of 56 years-long oppression and exploitation of their population.
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ - JULY 25: An Iraqi National Guardsman directs motorists at a checkpoint July 25, 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi and American forces clashed with insurgents in Buhriz, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, killing 13 Iraqi militants, according the U.S. military
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Iraqi National Guardsmen stand guard at a checkpoint July 25, 2004 in Baghdad, Iraq.
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U.S. Army 1st Infantry Division soldiers break down a door while searching a school in Baqouba, Iraq, on a night mission Sunday, July 25, 2004. Fifteen insurgents were killed earlier Sunday during clashes in nearby Buhriz.
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A soldier with the Australian security detachment keeps watch as police investigate after a grenade was thrown 50 meters from his army base in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad in a October 3, 2003 file photo. Australia will not give in to threats of attack made by a group claiming to be the European wing of al Qaeda, but is taking the warning seriously, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said on July 25, 2004. A statement posted on a web site by the Islamic Tawhid Group threatened Italy and Australia with attacks with 'columns of rigged cars' if they did not withdraw their troops from Iraq
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Australian troops aboard an armoured personnel vehicle pass by a checkpoint guarded by an Iraqi policeman at a junction near the Australian embassy in Baghdad, Iraq Sunday July 25, 2004.
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Australian troops stand guard outside of the Australian embassy in Baghdad, Iraq Sunday July 25, 2004. In a statement that appeared on an Islamic Web site known as a clearing house for al-Qaida and groups linked to the terror network, a group that called itself "al-Qaida in Europe" urged Australia, which has nearly 900 troops in and around Iraq, to follow the surrender of the Philippines and Spain. "We call upon you to leave Iraq before your country turns to pools of blood," the Tawhid Islamic Group said. "You came to our lands to loot its wealth and God willing we will move the battle to your country as you did to our countries, not only in Australia, but all Islamic and Arab countries."
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Australian Clearance Diving Team ONE conducting clandestine insertion for Exercise RIMPAC 2004.
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POCD Eather and ABCD Grinham preparing to conduct underwater survey of the Hawaiian waters for RIMPAC.
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Seaman Clearance Diver Wilson using an ANQS/2A handheld sonar, searching for mines at RIMPAC 2004.
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HMAS SUCCESS takes on the big guys for replenishment with USS RUSHMORE and USS TARAWA.
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HMAS NEWCASTLE conducts a Gunnery Serial with her 76mm gun on the decommissioned target ship USS HARRY W. HILL while steaming on the "Gun Line" during Ex RIMPAC 04.
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Gun Busters onboard HMAS NEWCASTLE get together after claiming the final hits on the decommissioned ship USS HARRY W HILL, 80 rounds of 76mm were expended on the designated target ship by HMAS NEWCASTLE
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Crew from the 76mm Gun, known as "Gun Busters" clean the barrel after expending 80 rounds into the decommissioned U.S. ship, USS HARRY W HILL during the gunnery serial for Ex RIMPAC 04. From left, POETW Wayne Maltman, ABETW Byrne McNeill and LSETW Matt Holloway.
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Three Australian Air Force (RAAF) F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets perform air-to-air refueling while participating in 'Exercise Pitch Black' near Darwin in this August 20, 2004 handout photograph. Exercise Pitch Black is a biennial 18-day event and is the Royal Australian Air Force's largest exercise, involving about 1,700 personnel from Singapore, France and Thailand. Approximately 75 aircraft will participate in the event. Picture taken July 20, 2004.
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POPH David Connolly has ticked off another life goal working aboard the USS Stennis for Exercise RIMPAC. POPH Connolly is a photographer working at JOICAUST-TAF in Canberra.
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L to R: LAC Sean Mcleod, CPL Adrian Taylor, LSPH Richard Prideaux, PO Denham Carlyon, LCDR Fraser Vergelius, CPOCSM Lex Davison & POPH David Connolly the Australian defence members aboard USS Stennis for Exercise RIMPAC.
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The flight deck of USS John C Stennis at sunrise off the coast of Hawaii.
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Charlie company's Company Sergeant Major, WO2 Warwick observing his surrounds during the beach assault at RIMPAC 2004.
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Major Tom Kane guides his troops around the battlefield during the assault on the beach at Exercise RIMPAC.
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Two Australian soldiers from 2RAR Charlie Company take a prisoner of war during the assault on the beach.
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Tongan troops on parade alongside Australian, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand at the Combined Forces Task Group parade on the one-year anniversary of RAMSI. The parade was held in front of the Honiara International Airport. (Date taken: 24 July 2004)
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Australian troops march with Fiji and the other participating nations, Tonga, New Zealand and Papa New Guinea at the Combined Forces Task Group parade on the one-year anniversary of RAMSI. The parade was held in front of the Honiara International Airport.
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Governor General of the Solomon Islands Nathaniel Waena inspects Tonga members with Combined Joint Taskforce Commander Lieutenant Colonel John Hutcheson.
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NEW DELHI, INDIA: Indian Air Force (IAF) officers, members of a UN Democratic Republic of Congo peackeeping mission march towards a helicopter to pose for a group picture at a 'flagging off' ceremony in New Delhi, 26 July 2004. India is sending five Mi-17 helicopters, four Mi-25 helicopters and 243 personnel to the central African nation, forming the largest contingent that India has ever sent for a UN peackeeping operation.
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NEW DELHI, INDIA: Indian Air Force (IAF) Chief S Krishnaswamy (L) gestures as he speaks with IAF officers, members of a UN Democratic Republic of Congo peackeeping mission at a 'flagging off' ceremony in New Delhi, 26 July 2004.
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Israeli soldiers atop an armored personnal carrier leave the Palestinian town of Beit Hanuon, northern Gaza Strip following an army operation, Sunday July 25, 2004. Israeli troops expanded an operation near Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, effectively taking over an entire town in an effort to prevent the firing of rockets on nearby Israeli areas. Armored bulldozers cleared roads leading from farmland areas of Beit Hanoun into the center of town and were followed by tanks that parked near the municipality, Palestinian witnesses said.
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KALANDIA, -: Palestinians cover their ears as an Israeli soldier shoots in the air next to them to disperse a crowed of stone-throwers during clashes in the West Bank refugee camp of Kalandia on the outskirts of Jerusalem 25 July 2004. Israeli troops raided the camp after a false alarm about an Israeli citizen in distress who accidentally entered the camp.
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Israeli army soldiers and bystanders take cover from Palestinian stone throwers, during an army operation at the Qalandiya refugee camp in the outskirts of the West Bank town of Ramallah, Sunday July 25, 2004.
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An Israeli soldier calls for help for a comrade injured by a stone thrown at him during an army operation at the Qalandiya refugee camp in the outskirts of the West Bank town of Ramallah, Sunday, July 25, 2004. According to Palestinian sources the Israeli army entered the camp and clashed with stone throwers Sunday after they had received false information about an Israeli gone missing in the area. The Israeli army had no comment
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Palestinian boy covers his ears as Israeli army soldiers shoot during an army operation at the Qalandiya refugee camp in the outskirts of the West Bank town of Ramallah, Sunday July 25, 2004.
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Russian soldiers are put through their paces during training to qualify for the 'Red Berets', a crack interior ministry unit, at a base outside Moscow, July 26, 2004. Competition is fierce to join the elite unit, which is considered one of the most prestigious in the Russian army.
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BALASHIHA, RUSSIAN FEDERATION: 'Rus' anti-terror unit soldiers pass examination for the "Madder beret", a symbol of courage and professionalism in Russian interior troops, not far from Balashiha town, Moscow region, 26 July 2004.
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Russian Navy Day marked in Severomorsk
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MUNICH, GERMANY: German Police SEK secure the access road of a house in Munich's district Nymphenburg, 26 July 2004, where a 70-year-old pensioner shot five people, wounding one of them seriously. According to a police spokesman, the gunman had apparently shot a man after an argument in his apartment. He then went to the window and pulled the trigger repeatedly, hitting four others.