Today's Pic's. Oct 18

[He219]

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U.S. Blackhawk helicopters fly above looted Iraqi Air Force jet fighters outside the July Air Force Base near Falluja, northwest of Baghdad Saturday Oct. 18, 2003. The planes were moved by the airforce before the war, but afterwards were stripped by looters who sold the aircrafts' aluminium for 500 dinars (US 25 cents) per kilogram. The aircraft are a Russian made Mig-29, right, Mig-23, left, and a Mig-21 at rear. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)


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Romanian riot police conscripts wait in line to cast their vote on the new Romanian constitution,which will include abolishing mandatory military service, at a military unit outside Bucharest Saturday, Oct 18, 2003. Romanians went to vote on a new constitution Saturday, which guarantees the right to private property and will allow foreigners to own land _ new measures which will help the country in its quest to join the European Union, the government says.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Prime Minister Jean Chretien visits Canadian soldiers at Camp Julien who are part of the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul, Saturday Oct. 18, 2003. The Queen's Palace is seen the background. Canada, which has 2,000 soldiers in the 5,000-strong NATO-led International Security Assistance Force charged with keeping order in Kabul, is already the biggest provider of assistance, Chretien said. (AP Photo/CP, Paul Chiasson)

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Prime Minister Jean Chretien walks by the honor guard to the Gul Khana Palace with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai at his palace in Kabul, Saturday Oct 18. 2003. Canada, which has 2,000 soldiers in the 5,000-strong NATO-led International Security Assistance Force charged with keeping order in Kabul, is already the biggest provider of assistance, Chretien said. (AP Photo/CP, Paul Chiasson)

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A US Marine on a speed boat intercepts a tanker ship at Khor Zubair, southern Iraq, while conducting oil smuggling control operations with British forces on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003. The US Marines Bravo Company, with the 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Division out of Camp Pendelton, Cal. patrol the Shat Al Arab river with coalition forces to control illegal oil shipments.( AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)

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US Marines with the Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Division out of Camp Pendelton, Cal. search a tanker ship at Khor Zubair, southern Iraq, while conducting oil smuggling control operations with British forces on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003.(AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)

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An Iraqi boy points to a soft drink offered by an U.S. Army soldier atop his tank in Sadr City, the largest Shiite Muslim enclave in Baghdad, Saturday Oct 18, 2003. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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The Soyuz TMA-3 booster rocket carrying American, Russian, and Spanish cosmonauts hurls toward the international space station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakstan, on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003, trailing a tail of smoke. The American and Russian astronauts will be the station's new inhabitants, while the Spaniard returns to Earth 10 days later with the station's current crew. (AP Photo/Mikhial Metzel)

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Crew of Russian Soyuz TMA-3 space capsule, U.S. astronaut Michael Foale, left, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri, second left, and Spanish astronaut Pedro Duque, right, and undentified Russian officials go to the space ship just before their launch at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakstan, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003. The crew's Soyuz craft is headed for the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Mikhial Metzel)

[Seoulstriker]

i thought that there was only 1 crew member on that soyuz rocket.


EDIT: never mind, those are the Russians, not the Chinese astronauts.

[SOG]

thats pretty cool seeing a few nations go up together in space. this solitare crap is to expensive and to........ militarily suspicious? just seemed a bit one sided. i like all de nations gettin up and making plans. would be cool of nasa went internationally funded by the world as a joint push/venture so we could make some sort of cool headway.

[He219]

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The crew of the Russian Soyuz TMA-3 space capsule, U.S. astronaut Michael Foale, center, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri, top, and Spanish astronaut Pedro Duque, bottom, wave just before their launch at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakstan, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003. The crew's Soyuz craft is headed for the International Space Station. (AP Photo/Mikhial Metzel)

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Staff members examine the re-entry capsule of Shenzhou-5, China's first manned spacecraft, in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Thursday, Oct. 16, 2003. The re-entry capsule of Shenzhou-5 landed safely in Inner Mongolia Thursday, with astronaut Yang Liwei coming out in good situation. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Wang Jianmin)


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First Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei, center, poses with military officials in a helicopter bound for Beijing after landing safely on the Inner Mongolian grasslands of northern China Thursday, Oct. 16, 2003. China's first astronaut in space returned safely to earth on Thursday when his craft touched down on time and as planned after 21 hours in orbit. Beijing's mission control declared the country's landmark debut flight 'a success.' (AP Photo/Xinhua)

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US Marines with the Bravo Company, 1st Battallion, 1st Marine Division out of Camp Pendleton, California, board an abandoned tanker off Khor Zubair, southern Iraq (news - web sites), while conducting oil smuggling control operations training with British forces(AFP/Yasser Al-Zayyat)

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The fuselage of a decommissioned B-1 bomber is trucked westward on Interstate 70 near Greenfield, Ind., Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003. The disassembled bomber, once displayed at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, was escorted by Indiana State Police and headed for the Strategic Air and Space Museum in Ashland, Neb. (AP Photo/Tom Strickland)


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Sg. Hal Warner, center, of U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division, checks the reppeling gear of an unidentified female student, right, as another looks on during Air Assault course at the Q-west airbase near the village of al-Gayarra, some 350 kms (220 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

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A soldier of the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division looks at his comrades reppeling from a Black Hawk helicopter during an Air Assault course at the Q-west airbase near the village of Al-Gayarra, some 350 kms (220 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

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Two F-15 fighter jets are seen from Air Force One as it approaches Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila, the Philippines, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003. With concerns for a possible terrorist attack high, Air Force One was escorted here by a pair of U.S. fighter jets that flew so close the pilots' faces were clearly visible from the presidential aircraft. President Bush will address the National Congress and meet with Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo before continuing with his Asia tour.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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U.S. troops from 4th Infantry Division fire a 120mm mortar from a base inTikrit , Iraq (news - web sites), on October 18, 2003. U.S. forces fire mortars nightly from the base in Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s hometown as part of efforts to combat Iraqi guerrillas. *******/Nikola Solic

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An Israeli female soldier checks a Palestinian woman with a metal detector at the Hawara checkpoint in the outskirts of the West Bank town of Nablus Saturday Oct. 18, 2003 (AP photo/Majdi Mohammed)


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A masked armed member of the al-Aqsa martyrs brigade, a militia linked to Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, stands during a night patrol along the streets of Gaza city late Friday Oct. 17, 2003. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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Palestinians look at the bodies of senior Gaza field commander of the Islamic Hamas group Tariq Abu Hussein, 25, top, and also a Hamas gunman, Hussam Mughier, 26, at the morgue of the Najar hospital after they were killed during clashes with the Israeli troops in the Salam neighborhood, in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003. One more Palestinian, a woman, was killed and 10 wounded during an exchange of fire between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli soldiers. For more than a week, Israel's military has been operating in the southern Gaza town of Rafah in what the army says is an operation to try to find and destroy tunnels used by Palestinians to smuggle weapons across the Egyptian border into Gaza.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Palestinian Abdullah Surhi, left gestures as he walks past an Israeli border police officer securing the construction site of part of the separation fence Israeli authorities are building between east Jerusalem area, and the West Bank village of Abu Dis, Friday Oct. 17, 2003. Israel will seize Palestinian land to build the fence, claiming the barrier, that drew U.S. opposition, is necessary to keep attackers from crossing over. Frustrated by three years of unending violence, stalled peace initiatives and deteriorating hopes, groups of former government officials and civic leaders, have jumped into the quagmire, hoping to end the seemingly intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Mohammed Sadek)

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Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, left, waves as then Israeli Justice Minister Yossi Beilin, center, and then Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abd Rabbo, right, smile while welcoming peace activists in front of the hotel where they were holding talks in Taba, Egypt in this Thursday, Jan. 25, 2001 file photo. Frustrated by three years of unending violence, stalled peace initiatives and deteriorating hopes, groups of former government officials and civic leaders, including Beilin and Rabbo have jumped into the quagmire, hoping to end the seemingly intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, file)

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An Indian security force soldier looks through a fence during a gunbattle with militants in Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 17, 2003. Militants opened fire near the residence of Jammu Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed in Indian-controlled Kashmir and detonated two explosions, killing two paramilitary soldiers, before fleeing into a shopping center and battling with security forces. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

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Security personnel carry the body of a soldier into a vehicle as the body of another soldier lies on the ground in the background in Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 17, 2003. Two explosions went off near the residence of Jammu Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed in Indian controlled Kashmir and two paramilitary soldiers were killed in a gun battle between his guards and suspected militants. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

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Indian Border Security Force officers carry the coffins of soldiers who died fighting militants in Srinagar, India, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003. Government forces on Saturday killed two suspected Islamic militants hiding in a shopping complex near the residence of Jammu Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, ending a 24-hour standoff. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)


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Soldiers take cover behind a wall during a gun battle with suspected militants in Srinagar, India, Saturday, Oct.18, 2003. Government forces on Saturday killed two suspected Islamic militants hiding in a shopping complex near the residence of Jammu Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, ending a 24-hour standoff. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

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Indian army soldiers run into a house during a gunbattle with militants in Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 17, 2003. Militants opened fire near the residence of Jammu Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed in Indian-controlled Kashmir and detonated two explosions, killing two paramilitary soldiers, before fleeing into a shopping center and battling with security forces. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

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An Indian soldier raises his rifle after a gun battle in Srinagar, October 18, 2003. Indian security forces killed two militants after a marathon battle near the home of Indian Kashmir's Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Syed, police said. *******/Danish Ismail


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Indian Border Security Force soldiers raise their arms in jubilation around the body of a slain suspected Islamic militant in Srinagar, India, Saturday, Oct.18, 2003. Government forces on Saturday killed two suspected Islamic militants hiding in a shopping complex near the residence of Jammu Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, ending a 24-hour standoff. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

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Canadian soldiers serving with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) raise their weapons in salute to Canada's Prime Minister Jean Chretien at a ceremony in Kabul(AFP/Shah Marai)

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Canadian soldiers from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) listen to a speech by Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien in Kabul on October 18, 2003. We are supporting the expansion of ISAF and we will work to convince other nations to send troops here," Chretien said at a news conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. "But will we put more troops? We do not have the intention and we are not able to do this at this moment." The prime minister arrived in Kabul on Saturday for a one-day visit with Canadian soldiers and to hold talks with key Afghan officials. *******/Ahmad Masood

[ChuckThunder]

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Indian Border Security Force soldiers raise their arms in jubilation around the body of a slain suspected Islamic militant in Srinagar, India, Saturday, Oct.18, 2003. Government forces on Saturday killed two suspected Islamic militants hiding in a shopping complex near the residence of Jammu Kashmir chief minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, ending a 24-hour standoff. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

rofl

Its like they got a 12-pointer...

[Gringo]

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"This is where the enemy will be hiding there most valuable intelligence"
"Huh?"
"Come on you've seen Three Kings right?"

[ArmoredDov_D9]

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A crowd of Palestinian men pray over the bodies of three Palestinians killed during an exchange of fire between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli soldiers(AFP/Said Khatib)

My note: the two are Hamas members. It can be easily deducted because their body are wrapped in Hamas's flag (but they should have deserved to be wrapped in pig's skin).

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Palestinians carry the body of Tareq Abu al-Hussain, a local leader of Hamas' military wing, who was shot dead in a clash with Israeli forces in southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites), October 18, 2003. Israeli forces killed Tareq, another Islamic militant and a woman bystander in fighting at a Palestinian refugee camp, medics said. (Andrea Comas/*******)

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Israeli border police arrest a Palestinian youth at the east Jerusalem entrance checkpoint October 18, 2003. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) appeared on Friday to rule out expelling Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) despite a threat to do so, saying in published remarks such a move would 'not be good for Israel.' *******/Mahfouz Abu Turk

[TheBenz]

nice pictures!

[NcDeuce]

Excellent.

[hood]

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[He219]

Great CPD photo, Hood woot

'Notice all the shades ;)

[usa320]

My favorite is this one:

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p-)


pwned.

nothing like fried terrorist.

[Haiw]

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i'm wondering how many times all the sergeants wanted to check her 'rapelling gear' rofl

[Seoulstriker]

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what happened with him?

[Haiw]

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what happened with him?

had an itch on his back?

[Seoulstriker]

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what happened with him?

had an itch on his back?

is he tangled up or what?

[He219]

That would be the 'female student'....


;)