Today's Pic's. Oct 13

[He219]

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U.S. soldiers based in Europe wait for their flight in a tent on Rhein-Main Airbase in Frankfurt, central Germany, Monday, Oct. 13, 2003. After a two week rest and recreation program, they now head back to Iraq. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

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A detained Iraqi (C) is guarded by U.S. soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division at the 4th ID headquarters in Tikrit, Iraq (news - web sites), on October 13, 2003. Three Iraqis, detained in a night raid, were being transported from a holding cell for questioning. *******/Nikola Solic

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Soldiers loyal to Afghan warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, withdraw from a front line position in Mazar-e- Sharif in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2003. About 300 police from the capital, Kabul, took up positions Monday, Oct. 13 in Mazar-e-Sharif, a token force but one that reinforces the government's commitment to stopping the on-again off-again battles between warlords Atta Mohammed and Abdul Rashid Dostum. (AP Photo/Amir Shah)

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Shabana, 34, center, carries a banner during a protest march with her colleagues, former Afghan Army officers in central Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Oct. 13, 2003. Several hundred army officers, dismissed in recent months during an ongoing reshuffle of Afghanistan's Defense Ministry, staged a noisy protest Monday to demand their jobs back, saying the government had unfairly abandoned them. (AP Photo/Ricahrd Vogel)

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[Seoulstriker]

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U.S. soldiers based in Europe wait for their flight in a tent on Rhein-Main Airbase in Frankfurt, central Germany, Monday, Oct. 13, 2003. After a two week rest and recreation program, they now head back to Iraq. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)


I would like to see how this picture would be captioned by CNN or the New York Times :bash: :

"U.S. soldiers in Baghdad are sick and tired of fighting an imperialist war for Bush and want to tell him that they want to go home."

Damn liberal media. :bash:

[ShotOver]

Why join the army if you are not prepared to get killed or injured?






God bless those brave soldiers over there.

[budanski]

Haven't they heard?

It's a quagmire over there. Another Vietnam.

[Aussie2093]

I would like to see how this picture would be captioned by CNN or the New York Times :bash: :

"U.S. soldiers in Baghdad are sick and tired of fighting an imperialist war for Bush and want to tell him that they want to go home."

Damn liberal media. :bash:


I would like to see how Fox News would handle it:

"U.S. soldiers shown here look tired from the constant defending of our freedom in Iraq. Soon they will return to Iraq to continue liberating it of it's terrorist scum.

[Seoulstriker]

I would like to see how this picture would be captioned by CNN or the New York Times :bash: :

"U.S. soldiers in Baghdad are sick and tired of fighting an imperialist war for Bush and want to tell him that they want to go home."

Damn liberal media. :bash:


I would like to see how Fox News would handle it:

"U.S. soldiers shown here look tired from the constant defending of our freedom in Iraq. Soon they will return to Iraq to continue liberating it of it's terrorist scum.


hahahah. it's funny how people portray Fox News Channel as an ultra-conservative news network. Unfortunately for those who are so accustomed to the liberal bias in the media, Fox reports things how they are in reality, not what some liberal editors or producers want to be heard.

did you know that CNN would not report any atrocities of the Hussein regime just so that they can stay in Baghdad and report the news? :bash:

[Saranof]

I would like to see how this picture would be captioned by CNN or the New York Times :bash: :

"U.S. soldiers in Baghdad are sick and tired of fighting an imperialist war for Bush and want to tell him that they want to go home."

Damn liberal media. :bash:


I would like to see how Fox News would handle it:

"U.S. soldiers shown here look tired from the constant defending of our freedom in Iraq. Soon they will return to Iraq to continue liberating it of it's terrorist scum.


hahahah. it's funny how people portray Fox News Channel as an ultra-conservative news network. Unfortunately for those who are so accustomed to the liberal bias in the media, Fox reports things how they are in reality, not what some liberal editors or producers want to be heard.

did you know that CNN would not report any atrocities of the Hussein regime just so that they can stay in Baghdad and report the news? :bash:

You really are brainwashed, arn't you?
Where I come from, we lean to be critical to alla media.
That means, that FOX is NOT "the truth". No media is the truth.
And by the way, they are ultra conservative...

[budanski]

When has Fox ever called for the cleansing of a religion or race? Do you know what ultra-conservative is or do you throw that label to anyone slightly to the right of what you believe?

[Seoulstriker]

When has Fox ever called for the cleansing of a religion or race? Do you know what ultra-conservative is or do you throw that label to anyone slightly to the right of what you believe?

people have been so normalized to the liberal media that anything to the right of that is considered ultra-liberal.

That's why so many people claim: "Bush lied! He deceived the US! There was no imminent threat from Iraq!" Little do they realize that Bush said there was NO imminent threat, but that the world must act before it becomes an imminent threat: terrorists strike without warning.

Unlike EVERY OTHER NEWS SOURCE, Fox News Channel always reports that Bush never stated it was an imminent threat. Does that make it ultra-conservative? Or does it make FNC a reliable source of fair and balanced news?

Rather has been doing this for 30 years. http://www.ratherbiased.com/index2.htm

[GAFE]

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[Fargin]

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When I was at a borring lecture, I struggled to stay awake. If you got caught sleeping, you'd have to stand durring the rest of the lecture. We where seated on long heavy benches and to stay awake we'd take our first aid bandages from our front pocket and tie the person in front of us to the bench. Then the lecture ended and we were called to attention, three or four people would remain seated, because they were unable to lift the heavy benches.

It's no secret or shame to use the media expressing your direction on the political compas to confirm your own prejudices, I do.

[thatguy96]

people have been so normalized to the liberal media that anything to the right of that is considered ultra-liberal
You mean ultra-conservative don't you? And someone is eventually going to show me the basis for the liberal media conspiracy one of these days, since it would appear that the media was used quite effectively against Clinton, and it was Monica 24/7 for quite a while...I really could care less about being lied to about him not being able to keep his pants up, since we all knew it was a crock the second he said "I did not have ****** relations with that woman." I'm much more worried about the possibility of lies or misleading **** that leads to people being killed...extra-marital affairs and invasions of other countries aren't equal in my mind in terms of severity...not unless Hilary had shot Bill...

Oh, and ultra-conservative is not nessecarily racist or genocidal. Extremist or reactionary is a much better term. I have no problem calling FNC Ultra-conservative, though I'll admit they are not blatantly racist nor do they preach hatred...hell, its not like I'm comparing it to Al-Jazeera, but they are ultra-conservative.

I've never heard of FNC being skeptical EVER of any of Bush's policies or actions...and that's enough for me...because that's pretty one sided IMO. I don't have a problem with people going to FNC over something else...I have a problem with them telling me that its definitely "the truth" and the rest of complete BS on par with Syrian national television.

[Seoulstriker]

people have been so normalized to the liberal media that anything to the right of that is considered ultra-liberal
You mean ultra-conservative don't you? And someone is eventually going to show me the basis for the liberal media conspiracy one of these days, since it would appear that the media was used quite effectively against Clinton, and it was Monica 24/7 for quite a while...I really could care less about being lied to about him not being able to keep his pants up, since we all knew it was a crock the second he said "I did not have ****** relations with that woman." I'm much more worried about the possibility of lies or misleading **** that leads to people being killed...extra-marital affairs and invasions of other countries aren't equal in my mind in terms of severity...not unless Hilary had shot Bill...

Oh, and ultra-conservative is not nessecarily racist or genocidal. Extremist or reactionary is a much better term. I have no problem calling FNC Ultra-conservative, though I'll admit they are not blatantly racist nor do they preach hatred...hell, its not like I'm comparing it to Al-Jazeera, but they are ultra-conservative.


i meant ultra-conservative. :P

You mentioned Clinton as an example that there is no liberal bias in the media. That was a legitimate news story: the president of the US lied under oath.

Liberal bias:

Clinton cabinet member, Stephanopolous, is host for Sunday's news segment.

Iraq is incredibly stable except for the Sunni triangle. Things have been going incredibly well in Iraq (what's your impression of the Iraq situation?)

Bush lied/deceived the US and world about the 'immediate threat' that Iraq posed to the world. Bush, however, said the opposite, that Iraq is not an imminent threat but must be stopped before it becomes an imminent threat.

Bush knowingly used forged documents to prove case against Iraq. In reality, the forged document was only a part of a large supply of evidence for Uranium in Niger. He also cited British intelligence, not CIA intelligence, contrary to what the media have said.

Bush lied about Hussein having WMD. Well, if Bush lied, then the UN, UK, AU, FR, DE, CA also lied.




the above things are only recent evidence of the liberal bias...[/b]

[Aussie2093]

Listen Seoul, I'm not going to defend any other news services because I think they all have their own agenda. However, FNC is on top in regards to bias-ness. I watched it during Op. Iraqi Freedom (im an Australian currently in the States) because my half-brother was a techie for some FNC reporter crew and got to go to Baghdad. Anyways, what I saw was one side, and thats it. After 9/11, Americans got a fresh dose of patriotism, and FNC has capitalised on that ever since. Now when it reports on something, it takes the patriotic way, no matter the topic. It presents the news in a way that would seem most appealing to the average American patriot. It backs the White House 100%, never questioning what they have said or whatnot. They've taken American policy and presented it in black and white. Now where I come from, the media analyses things, interprets things, and depending on the corporations political influences, will arrive at a topic with a pretty open mind. FNC does not do this. They take exactly what the government says, and broadcasts it to you. Now if anyone still doesn't know, the government isn't exactly honest and forthcoming with all the details of their actions, so instead of a media source taking government information and putting their own interpretation or meaning to it (which sounds rotten but the result is less bias in reality) FNC continues the mis-information straight onto your T.V. set. And if you don't support it you're a terrorist.

You see, the great thing about having many media sources is that you do get to hear other sides of the story. However FNC is not a media source more than it is a huge Public Relations department for the government.

Oh and the fact that they keep saying "Fair and Balanced" infuriates me in ways I didn't know possible . :bash:

[Seoulstriker]

Listen Seoul, I'm not going to defend any other news services because I think they all have their own agenda. However, FNC is on top in regards to bias-ness. I watched it during Op. Iraqi Freedom (im an Australian currently in the States) because my half-brother was a techie for some FNC reporter crew and got to go to Baghdad. Anyways, what I saw was one side, and thats it. After 9/11, Americans got a fresh dose of patriotism, and FNC has capitalised on that ever since. Now when it reports on something, it takes the patriotic way, no matter the topic. It presents the news in a way that would seem most appealing to the average American patriot. It backs the White House 100%, never questioning what they have said or whatnot. They've taken American policy and presented it in black and white. Now where I come from, the media analyses things, interprets things, and depending on the corporations political influences, will arrive at a topic with a pretty open mind. FNC does not do this. They take exactly what the government says, and broadcasts it to you. Now if anyone still doesn't know, the government isn't exactly honest and forthcoming with all the details of their actions, so instead of a media source taking government information and putting their own interpretation or meaning to it (which sounds rotten but the result is less bias in reality) FNC continues the mis-information straight onto your T.V. set. And if you don't support it you're a terrorist.

You see, the great thing about having many media sources is that you do get to hear other sides of the story. However FNC is not a media source more than it is a huge Public Relations department for the government.

Oh and the fact that they keep saying "Fair and Balanced" infuriates me in ways I didn't know possible . :bash:

bottom line: the liberal bias in the media exists in the way they don't report news or cover both sides of a story. FNC does that: it puts a liberal side by side with a conservative. In the case of O'Reilly, he serves himself as a conservative commentator.

What really irks me is what the Washington Post/Times, New York Times, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS decide to report. They might have a theme (anti-Bush), just as FNC has a theme of patriotism. Themes and bias are completely different.

[thatguy96]

Iraq is incredibly stable except for the Sunni triangle.
I think I'll have to disagree with you as there is little to no connection between Ba'ath Party rogues and Sunni militants, and the US policy makers seems to believe that the Ba'athists are the primary enemies at the moment (shown by their continued belief that bringing in all of Saddam's henchmen and the man himself will shut down all anti-US resistance). Not the mention the Kurds continue to be a rogue militant element which cannot be kept fully in check, and who were against this war "for their benefit from the beginning." A stable situation does not involve sporadic militant activity. We can also see very well from our own example that leader often do not speak for everyone, and the new Iraqi leadership can look as friendly as they want if they can't control their people we got a problem. We had a coalition government going in Lebanon too, and I think we had to find the 5 people in all of Lebanon who were willing to work together. We can simply look at how well that went, because neither the Christians nor the Muslims could keep a firm grip on their militias and with the Druze and Syrians the situations went completely to ****. Iraq has its own share of power-dealing, facade bearing polito-religious militant thugs...if 5 guys get together and shake hands I remain unconvinced that the rest of the nation has simply given up their personal struggles and chosen peace.


Bush lied about Hussein having WMD.
Find where I said that Bush lied about Iraq's possession or capability to produce WMD and quote it...if you can find it...and if you do I'll retract it immediately becuase its a typo and not my opinion. Seeing as we should know damn well what they had before the first war, the fact that they claimed to have destroyed it all and had NO paper work even to prove it, leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. Whether we find it or not, I want to know conclusively where it went or if it was destroyed, and I'm not going to take Saddam's word on that.

I was talking about being dragged into a war with no plan whatsoever, and the misguided belief (trounced in the State Department, but who listens to the experts :roll:) that Iraq was A) going to lay down and let us come in and B) then meet us with open arms.


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You gave me one decent piece of evidence, which outright denys the continued implications by the US government that Iraq could become an imminent threat in a much shorter time (measured in hours, days, and weeks in many reports) than was true. The usage of British intelligence is irrelevant, because the simple fact that he went to them instead of the CIA (about which the CIA continue to be very angry about, espeically when they were blamed wrongly by him for giving him bad info), shows to me he was digging for a reason. If the CIA, always ready to help out with justifications, can't find one for you and you have to look abroad, I'm sry, but that just smells bad IMO.

[Seoulstriker]

Iraq is incredibly stable except for the Sunni triangle.
I think I'll have to disagree with you as there is little to no connection between Ba'ath Party rogues and Sunni militants, and the US policy makers seems to believe that the Ba'athists are the primary enemies at the moment (shown by their continued belief that bringing in all of Saddam's henchmen and the man himself will shut down all anti-US resistance). Not the mention the Kurds continue to be a rogue militant element which cannot be kept fully in check, and who were against this war "for their benefit from the beginning." A stable situation does not involve sporadic militant activity.


Bush lied about Hussein having WMD.
Find where I said that Bush lied about Iraq's possession or capability to produce WMD and quote it...if you can find it...and if you do I'll retract it immediately becuase its a typo and not my opinion. Seeing as we should know damn well what they had before the first war, the fact that they claimed to have destroyed it all and had NO paper work even to prove it, leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. Whether we find it or not, I want to know conclusively where it went or if it was destroyed, and I'm not going to take Saddam's word on that.

I was talking about being dragged into a war with no plan whatsoever, and the misguided belief (trounced in the State Department, but who listens to the experts :roll:) that Iraq was A) going to lay down and let us come in and B) then meet us with open arms.


the above things are only recent evidence of the liberal bias...[/
You gave me one decent piece of evidence, which outright denys the continued implications by the US government that Iraq could become an imminent threat in a much shorter time (measured in hours, days, and weeks in many reports) than was true. The usage of British intelligence is irrelevant, because the simple fact that he went to them instead of the CIA (about which the CIA continue to be very angry about, espeically when they were blamed wrongly by him for giving him bad info), shows to me he was digging for a reason. If the CIA, always ready to help out with justifications, can't find one for you and you have to look abroad, I'm sry, but that just smells bad IMO.


nah, man, I wasn't talking to you! i was speaking about the liberal bias in general, not about what you personally believe.

where do you live? in the US?

[thatguy96]

and you interjected your personal opinions with it, or opinoins based on what you've been exposed to which according to the overbearing facts, many of which are not influenced by current partisan politics, are simply not true.

And yes I am a US citizen, born and raised.

[Deuterium]

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U.S. soldiers based in Europe wait for their flight in a tent on Rhein-Main Airbase in Frankfurt, central Germany, Monday, Oct. 13, 2003. After a two week rest and recreation program, they now head back to Iraq. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)


I would like to see how this picture would be captioned by CNN or the New York Times :bash: :

"U.S. soldiers in Baghdad are sick and tired of fighting an imperialist war for Bush and want to tell him that they want to go home."

Damn liberal media. :bash:

The real caption should read "weary troops after hard night partying before re-deploying back to Iraq." I'd bet my paycheck on it.

[Jack Mehoff]

That's how I look like after a hard night of drinking

[Argyll]

rofl Jack!!
Heads up here guys,they've just had 2 weeks leave in 6 months and longer,I'm pretty sure that 99% of us would look the same on RTU after 2 weeks, 2 weeks was not long enough IMHO,4 weeks would be better,but this is a US policy,and they got a lot of trrops to rotate,it must be hard to motivate yourself,it takes weeks to readjust from normal deployments,so 2 weeks is like a drop in the ocean!

[He219]

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British soldiers arrive to seal off the area after an explosion occurred as one of their vehicles was passing near a petrol station on the outskirts of Basra, southern Iraq, Monday Oct 13, 2003. Four British soldiers were slightly injured in two separate explosions. (AP Photo/Nabil Aljurani)

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Deputy Chief of Staff Gen. Ilker Basbug, right, and Gen. Huseyin Goksu, chief of military intelligence, speak to the media during a news briefing on Iraq in Ankara on Monday, Oct. 13, 2003. Gen. Basbug said that the Turkish military would retaliate if any of its convoys came under attack by Kurds. Turkey's parliament last week gave permission for the government to send troops to Iraq, but Iraqi Kurdish groups and other members of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council have spoken out against troopsfrom neighboring Turkey. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

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A map showing options for the deployment of Turkish troops in Iraq (news - web sites) is shown during a press briefing at the Turkish chief of staff headquarters in Ankara during a press briefing.(AFP/Tarik Tinazay)

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Kel Matia 28, an Albanian peacekeeper bound for Iraq in a peacekeeping mission, talks with his mother Gjyste Matia, 53, before leaving from Tirana Monday, Oct.13, 2003. Albania, a predominantly Muslim country which emerged from decades of communist isolation in 1990, was one of the most vocal backers of the U.S.-led campaign in Iraq although it was unable to provide significant military or material support. Albania opened its airspace, land routes and territorial waters to U.S.-led forces and offered use of its bases. Albania deployed last April a small unit of 71 non-combat troops to Iraq to help with postwar peacekeeping, based in Mosul under the U.S. command. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)

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Albania's army peacekeeping unit are pictured during a formal ceremony in Tirana Monday, Oct.13, 2003, before departing for Iraq. Albania, a predominantly Muslim country which emerged from decades of communist isolation in 1990, was one of the most vocal backers of the U.S.-led campaign in Iraq although it was unable to provide significant military or material support. Albania opened its airspace, land routes and territorial waters to U.S.-led forces and offered use of its bases. Albania deployed last April a small unit of 71 non-combat troops to Iraq to help with postwar peacekeeping, based in Mosul under the U.S. command. (AP Photo/Hektor Pustina)

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Police, foreground, and members of "Regimiento Escolta Presidencial," background, guard the National Police Headquarters in Asuncion, Paraguay on Monday, Oct. 13, 2003. Duarte accepted the resignation of Interior Minister Roberto Gonzalez, who was involved in a compact disc smuggling scandal, and named Orlando Fiorotto as new Interior Minister on Monday. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

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Police, background, and members of "Regimiento Escolta Presidencial," foreground, guard the National Police Headquarters in Asuncion, Paraguay on Monday, Oct. 13, 2003. Duarte accepted the resignation of Interior Minister Roberto Gonzalez, who was involved in a compact disc smuggling scandal, and named Orlando Fiorotto as new Interior Minister on Monday. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

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United Nations forces cross the New Bridge in the Liberian capital Monrovia Monday, Oct. 13, 2003, as they parade through the town as a show of force ahead of the scheduled handover of power to a transitional government on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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A woman and child walk toward a short-to-medium range ballistic missile on display at the Military Museum in Beijing. The Chinese government called on the European Union (news - web sites) to lift a ban on arms sales to China which has been in place since the Tiananmen Square massacre 14 years ago(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)

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At least 16 policemen and seven Maoist rebels have died in the second major clash in as many days at a police post in southwestern Nepal(AFP/File/Devendra M.Singh)

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Palestinian children stand in the rubble of their family home in the Yebena neighborhood of the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Monday Oct. 13, 2003. Israel's three-day military operation in the refugee camp left 1,240 Palestinians homeless, the largest demolition of houses in a Gaza raid in three years of fighting, U.N. officials said Monday. Human rights group Amnesty International condemned the operation as a "war crime".(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)


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A Palestinian woman looks from the window of a building marked with bullet holes at the Yebena neighborhood of the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Monday Oct. 13, 2003. Israel's three-day military operation in the refugee camp left 1,240 Palestinians homeless, the largest demolition of houses in a Gaza raid in three years of fighting, U.N. officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Masked members of the Islamic militant group Hamas hold their guns during an anti-Israeli demonstration at the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, Monday , Oct. 13, 2003. Hamas was declared a terrorist organization by the United States and Israel in 1995. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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A youg boy looks up as an Israeli soldier checks the identification papers of Palestinians waiting to cross through an Israeli army checkpoint in the outskirts of the West bank town of Qalqilya Monday Oct. 13, 2003. (AP Photo/Mohammed Azba)


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An Israeli soldier escorts a Palestinian woman after stopping her from crossing the El Khader checkpoint in the outskirts of the West Bank town of Bethlehem Monday, Oct. 13, 2003.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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An Israeli soldier speaks to Palestinians during a routine security check at the El Khader checkpoint on the outskirts of the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Monday Oct. 13, 2003. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)


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Bolivian soldiers rest on a tank near the airport in El Alto, October 12, 2003. Five people were reported killed Sunday after Bolivia's government sent thousands of troops backed by tanks to quell increasingly violent protests against President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada. Witnesses told local radio two protesters were killed during pitched battles with troops in the poor industrial suburb of El Alto. *******/Carlos Barria


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Bolivian demonstrators march from El Alto to La Paz, October 13, 2003.

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Bolivian police officers launch tear gas at protesters at Plaza de los Heroes in La Paz, Bolivia on Monday, Oct. 13, 2003. Bolivia's president announced Monday that he would shelve plans for natural gas exports that have provoked massive, violent protests in which at least 16 people have been killed. (AP Photo/Dado Galdieri)

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Bolivian demonstrators run in an effort to escape tear gas during a strike in La Paz, October 13, 2003. Protests by the country's poor Indian majority against President Sanchez de Lozada have spiraled in the last month amid an economic downturn in the nation of eight million, one of the poorest in the western hemisphere. *******/Carlos Barria

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Bolivian army officers stand guard at the presidential home in La Paz, Bolivia on Monday, October 13, 2003. Bolivia's president on Monday shelved plans for natural gas exports that have provoked massive, violent protests, but defiantly rejected mounting demands for his resignation. As thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of La Paz chanting anti-government slogans and demanding that he resign, President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada vowed ``to defeat the sedition and restore order.''(AP Photo/Juan Karita)

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The first UK production Eurofighter Typhoon IPA1 performs at the Farnborough International Airshow in this July 23, 2002 file photo. European aerospace and defense firm EADS has ordered its Eurofighter Typhoon jets grounded after discovering a problem with landing software, a Spanish defense ministry source said on Ocrober 12, 2003. *******/Ian Waldie

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Suryakiran ("rays of the sun") aircraft from the Indian Air Force perform aerobatics in Hindin on the outskirts of New Delhi, October 13, 2003. Aircraft from the RAF and the Indian Air Force staged a joint display of aerobatics for the first time. *******/B.Mathur


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Red Arrow aircraft from the British RAF take part in a joint aerobatics display in Hindin on the outskirts of New Delhi October 13, 2003. Aircraft from the RAF and the Indian Air Force staged a joint display of aerobatics for the first time. *******/B. Mathur


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Indian troops patrol beside a fence erected along the India-Pakistan border in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir late October 12, 2003. A 100 km (62 mile) fence that divides the two nuclear nations in the northern Indian state has been completed with a another 100 kms (62 miles) of fencing still left to be complete. *******/Amit Gupta


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An Australian national carries his surfboard decorated with flowers on the way to the ocean at Kuta beach during a sunset ceremony in memory of the last year's bomb attacks victims on Indonesia's resort island of Bali October 12, 2003. *******/Erik de Castro