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A soldier of Italian special forces stands Friday, Nov. 14, 2003, next to the site of the explosion that hit on Wednesday an Italian military police base in the town of Nasiriyah killing at least 31 people. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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Italian Chief of Staff of Italian Army Giulio Fraticelli, center, visits Friday, Nov. 14, 2003, the site of the explosion that hit Wednesday the Italian military police base in the town of Nasiriyah killing 31 people. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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Italy's Army Chief of Staff Giulio Fraticelli, left, shakes hands with a soldier wounded in the explosion that hit on Wednesday an Italian military police base in the town of Nasiriyah, during his visit at the Italian military hospital near the southern Iraqi town, Friday, Nov. 14, 2003. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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Italian Chief of Staff of Italian Army Giulio Fraticelli, right, shakes hands with Italian soldier Federico Boi during his visit at an Italian military police base in the town of Nasiriyah, Friday, Nov. 14, 2003. Boi, wounded in Wednesday's suicide explosion at the Italian police base in Nasiriyah, was able to help three comrades. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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Italian soldiers of the 6th transportation regiment Andrea Di Caro, left, and his comrade Davide Principe touch the coffin of their comrade Emanuele Ferraro during a ceremony Friday, Nov. 14, 2003, inside a military base near the southern Iraqi town of Nasiriyah commemorating 18 Italian victims of the explosion that hit on Wednesday an Italian military police base in the southern Iraqi town. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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Captain Marco Mele, Public Information Officer of the Italian "Sassari" brigate, reacts during a ceremony Friday, Nov. 14, 2003, inside a military base near the town of Nasiriyah commemorating 18 Italian victims of the explosion that hit on Wednesday an Italian military police base in the southern Iraqi town. Two members of the Public Information dept. died in the attack. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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Italian Carabinieri Commander Guido Bellini, left, and Italian Chief of Staff of Italian Army Giulio Fraticelli, next ot him, stand at attention before one of the 18 Italian victims of the explosion that hit last Wednesday an Italian military police base in the town of Nasiriyah, during their visit at the Italian camp near the southern Iraqi town, Friday, Nov. 14, 2003. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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Two injured Carabinieri talk to a colleague before their evacuation to Italy in Nassiriya November 14, 2003. Italy prepared on Friday to welcome home soldiers wounded in a suicide bombing in Iraq and braced for the return of the bodies of 18 men killed in the deadliest attack on its forces since World War Two. *******/Zohra Bensemra
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An injured Italian Carabiniere bids farewell to a colleague before boarding a plane to be evacuate to Italy at a military airbase in Nassiriya, southern Iraq November 14, 2003. Eighteen Italians were killed by suicide bombers at a military police base in southern Iraq in what one political leader called "our September 11" *******/ Zohra Bensemra
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Australian U.N. Peacekeepers line up during a ceremony in Suai Friday, Nov. 14, 2003. East Timor's Defense Force will take over security guard of the country as United Nations Peacekeeping Force will reduce its troops from 3,500 to 1,750 personnel. This is part of the scheduled overall downsizing of U.N. mission support for East Timor which will end in May 2004. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
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Bolivian troops wearing the UN blue berets stand as honour guard as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan arrives at the Pedro Domingo plaza in La Paz, Bolivia on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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BAGHDAD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Iraq -- Staff Sgt. Lorie Holis drives to a security post here. She is deployed from Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., with the 447th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Brian Ferguson)
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U.S. Army combat engineers inspect damage November 14, 2003 to a building in a former Republican Guard compound in Baghdad, which was shelled by the U.S. Air Forces. U.S. forces destroyed a building in the compound that they said resistance fighters used to launch attacks, and struck more suspected mortar and rocket-launch sites in an operation called "Iron Hammer". *******/Goran Tomasevic
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Iraqi boys play on an abandoned T-72 tank November 14, 2003 in a former Republican Guard compound in Baghdad, which was shelled over the last two days by the U.S. Air Forces. U.S. forces destroyed a building in the compound that they said resistance fighters used to launch attacks, and struck more suspected mortar and rocket-launch sites in an operation called "Iron Hammer". *******/Goran Tomasevic
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A U.S. Army soldier hands out a pamphlet asking citizens for information in the wake of a roadside bomb blast that injured two soldiers in a Baghdad suburb November 14, 2003. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told U.S. forces in the Pacific on Friday there was no plan for an early withdrawal from Iraq, but Iraqis would get more power more quickly than initially thought. *******/Ali Jasim
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Iraqi boys watch U.S. Army troops securing an area of Baghdad after a roadside bomb blast injured two soldiers, Friday, Nov 14, 2003. U.S. troops blocked the road for about an hour and called residents through loudspeaker to help them capture those who planted the bomb. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Iraqi boys with their father watch an U.S. Army soldier securing an area of Baghdad after a roadside bomb blast injured two soldiers, Friday, Nov 14, 2003. U.S. troops blocked the road for about an hour and called residents through loudspeaker to help them capture those who planted the bomb. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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U.S. Army soldiers evacuate a comrade after a roadside bomb blew up as U.S. soldiers tried to defuse it in Baghdad's northwestern neighborhood of Khadra, causing three casualties, Friday, Nov 14, 2003. A witness did not know if the three soldiers were killed or wounded, and the U.S. military had no immediate comment. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Iraqi police officers guard a highway in Baghdad's suburb of al-Doura, Friday Nov. 14 2003 as a US Army humvee drives by. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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US soldier sweeps the hall with sniffer dog prior to chief U.S. administrator for Iraq, L. Paul Bremer arriveal to address Baghdad Symphonic Orchestra during their rehearsal in Baghdad Friday Nov. 14, 2003. Bremer flew back from Washington Thursday to present the Iraqi Governing Council with a briefcase full of proposals approved by President Bush and his senior advisers. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic/Pool
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Chief U.S. administrator for Iraq, L. Paul Bremer addresses Baghdad Symphonic Orchestra during their rehearsal in Baghdad Friday Nov. 14, 2003. Bremer flew back from Washington Thursday to present the Iraqi Governing Council with a briefcase full of proposals approved by President Bush and his senior advisers. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic/Pool)
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U.S. Marines bow their heads as they listen to the invocation while taking part in a celebration of the Corps' 228th birthday November 13, 2003 at Camp Pendleton, California. On November 10, 1775, the second Continental Congress directed that two battalions of Marines be formed. In colonial Philadelphia, Tun Tavern became the birthplace of the Marine Corps. *******/Mike Blake
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Israeli soldiers watch over Palestinians waiting to cross from the West Bank town of Bethlehem into Jerusalem to attend Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa compound at a checkpoint between the two towns Friday Nov. 14, 2003. Israeli and Palestinian leaders are considering a summit meeting that would likely focus on a cease-fire and how to move forward with the U.S-backed "road map" plan, which aims to end three years of bloodshed and create a Palestinian state alongside Israel by 2005.(AP Photo/Enric Marti)
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As other Palestinians wait, a man is taken away by an Israeli soldier as he tries to cross from the West Bank town of Bethlehem into Jerusalem to attend Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa compound at a checkpoint between the two towns Friday Nov. 14, 2003. Four former heads of Israel's vaunted Shin Bet security service on Friday warned of a catastrophe for Israel if a peace deal with the Palestinians is not reached quickly, and said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is not trying hard enough.(AP Photo/Enric Marti)
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Thousands of Muslim worshippers pray in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, with the golden Dome of the Rock seen in the background Friday, Nov. 14, 2003. Ramadan is Islam's holiest month where Muslims fast from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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A Palestinian woman selling vegetables after Friday Prayers complains as an Israeli soldier kicks her bag in the Old City of Jerusalem November 14, 2003. Thousands of Muslims were able to attend the Friday Prayers during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, since Israel started to ease a blockade around West Bank cities. *******/Andrea Comas
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A view of the West Bank Jewish settlement outpost of Givat Assaf, northeast of the Palestinian city of Ramallah Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003.
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Settler Ehuviel Nizri, 22, left, holding his nine-month old son Ratzonya, talks to a patrolling Israeli soldier, guarding the West Bank Jewish settlement outpost of Givat Assaf, northeast of the Palestinian city of Ramallah Thursday Nov. 13, 2003. Officially, Israel regards settlement outposts set up since 1996 like this one as illegal and have accepted a U.S. backed peace plan that calls for their removal, but the government is tacitly funding part of their construction and plans to grant some of themlegal status. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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Palestinian worshippers are stopped by Israeli soldiers from entering the Ibraheemi mosque for Friday prayers in the old city of the West Bank city of Hebron November 14, 2003. Several thousand Palestinians prayed in the Ibraheemi mosque under Israeli soldiers control in the third Friday pray of the Holy Month of Ramadan. *******/Nayef Hashlamoun
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Palestinian men pray at the Bethlehem checkpoint after Israeli soldiers stopped them from crossing into Jerusalem to attend prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the third Friday of Ramadan, Nov. 14, 2003. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)
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An Israeli soldier carries a Palestinian baby before handing it over to the mother after she crossed from the West Bank town of Bethlehem into Jerusalem at a checkpoint between the two towns Friday Nov. 14, 2003. Four former heads of Israel's vaunted Shin Bet security service on Friday warned of a catastrophe for Israel if a peace deal with the Palestinians is not reached quickly, and said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is not trying hard enough.(AP Photo/Enric Marti)
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An Indonesian navy ship sinks a fishing boat from Thailand off the coast of Surabaya on November 14, 2003 after it was seized for fishing in Indonesian waters without a permit. The Indonesia navy, on a routine patrol two days ago, seized the boat and arrested 18 Thai fishermen for illegal fishing. *******/Sigit Pamungkas
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An Indonesian navy ship sinks a fishing boat from Thailand off the coast of Surabaya on November 14, 2003 after it was seized for fishing in Indonesian waters without a permit. The Indonesian navy, on a routine patrol two days ago, seized the boat and arrested 18 Thai fishermen for illegal fishing. *******/Sigit Pamungkas
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10th Mountain Division soldiers stand by as a CH-47 Chinook helicopter delivers supplies during Operation Mountain Resolve. The operation, which began on Nov. 7, is currently taking place in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar and Nuristan Provinces. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Greg Heath, 4th Public Affairs Detachment.)
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Kabul, Afghanistan
Warrant Officer Wayne Kennie, of the Third Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment Battalion Group inspects ammunition prior to a live fire shoot with mortars and SPG-9 Rockets near Kabul, Afghanistan during Operation ATHENA.
Op ATHENA is Canada's contribution to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the United Nations-Authorized mission in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Op ATHENA began in August 2003 and is currently scheduled to end late summer 2004. The mission of ISAF is to maintain security in Kabul and its surrounding areas so the Afghan Transitional Authority and UN agencies can begin rebuilding the country. At this time, ISAF comprises approximately 5,500 troops from 31 nations.
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11 Nov 03
Kabul, Afghanistan
Warrant Officer Wayne Kennie, of the Third Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment Battalion Group inspects ammunition prior to a live fire shoot with mortars and SPG-9 Rockets near Kabul, Afghanistan during Operation ATHENA.
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North Arabian Gulf- Sgt.Danny Gibson, of the Thirteen Marine Expeditionary Unit (13 MEU), mans his sniper position, while Intelligence Specialist 1st Class Matthew Rose, from the USS Port Royal, looks through binoculars gathering information during an embark of a foreign dhow in the North Arabian Gulf waters. USS Port Royal (CG 73) and the 13th MEU(SOC) are currently deployed with Expeditionary Strike Group One (ESG-1) in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Navy Video by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Troy D. Miller) (Released)
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Members of the 447th Expeditionary Medical Squadron and Mobile Aeromedical Staging Facility pump a ventilator bag while treating a non-coalition casualty for a gunshot wound at Baghdad International Airport, Iraq, Nov. 10, 2003. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Stacy L. Pearsall) (Released)
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In a small village in northern Iraq, Capt. Barry Seip of Task Force 1-63 Armor, inoculates a villager against tuberculosis during Operation Iraqi Freedom. , Nov. 12, 2003. Operation Iraqi Freedom is a multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jeffrey A. Wolfe) (Released)
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Spc. Kate Kimes with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, visits with children at an orphanage in Kirkuk, Iraq, Nov. 12, 2003. Soldiers and Airman from Kirkuk Air Base brought gifts of candy and soccer balls to the 17 children at the center. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Suzanne M. Jenkins, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
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Capt. Elizabeth Scioletti, attached to the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), talks with a group of orphaned Iraqi children as other soldiers prepare to give out school supplies and gifts from soldiers and American sponsors. The soldiers visited two locations in Mosul, Iraq, Nov. 9, 2003, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Justin Harris) (Released)
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An Iraqi worker from the Ramadi Water Treatment Plant 1, shovels out the dirt to make way for a new sedimentary tank in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, Nov. 8, 2003. Lt. Col. Davis, from the 352 Civil Affairs Command, and serving as the deputy senior advisor to Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works, determines the contract dispute of $500,000 used for the rebuilding of the plant and whether the amount is justifiable. The rebuilding of the plant located in the troubled Western zone will make sure people receive water and change things for the better. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Reynaldo Ramon) (Released)
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SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany -- Staff Sgt. Todd Smith controls a riled German shepherd, Art, during attack training here. Art recently graduated from technical school at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, and will be polished during on-the-job-training here in a process similar to that of first-term airmen. Smith is a military working dog trainer assigned to the 52nd Security Forces Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Air Force Airman 1st Class Amaani Lyle)
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SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany -- Staff Sgt. Brian Little helps a German shepherd, Art, get into attack mode. Little uses an arm wrap made of tough plastic, leather and a burlap covering to protect himself from injury. The dogs, much like airmen, must attend technical school and undergo on-the-job-training. The dogs go to school at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Little is a military working dog trainer assigned to the 52nd Security Forces Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Amaani Lyle)
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Petty Officer 3rd Class Derrick C. Clay and other flight deck personnel signal all clear during a "no-load" test on the number four catapult aboard USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63), Nov. 7, 2003. DoD photo by Airman Jason D. Landon, U.S. Navy. (Released)
A soldier of Italian special forces stands Friday, Nov. 14, 2003, next to the site of the explosion that hit on Wednesday an Italian military police base in the town of Nasiriyah killing at least 31 people. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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Italian Chief of Staff of Italian Army Giulio Fraticelli, center, visits Friday, Nov. 14, 2003, the site of the explosion that hit Wednesday the Italian military police base in the town of Nasiriyah killing 31 people. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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Italy's Army Chief of Staff Giulio Fraticelli, left, shakes hands with a soldier wounded in the explosion that hit on Wednesday an Italian military police base in the town of Nasiriyah, during his visit at the Italian military hospital near the southern Iraqi town, Friday, Nov. 14, 2003. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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Italian Chief of Staff of Italian Army Giulio Fraticelli, right, shakes hands with Italian soldier Federico Boi during his visit at an Italian military police base in the town of Nasiriyah, Friday, Nov. 14, 2003. Boi, wounded in Wednesday's suicide explosion at the Italian police base in Nasiriyah, was able to help three comrades. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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Italian soldiers of the 6th transportation regiment Andrea Di Caro, left, and his comrade Davide Principe touch the coffin of their comrade Emanuele Ferraro during a ceremony Friday, Nov. 14, 2003, inside a military base near the southern Iraqi town of Nasiriyah commemorating 18 Italian victims of the explosion that hit on Wednesday an Italian military police base in the southern Iraqi town. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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Captain Marco Mele, Public Information Officer of the Italian "Sassari" brigate, reacts during a ceremony Friday, Nov. 14, 2003, inside a military base near the town of Nasiriyah commemorating 18 Italian victims of the explosion that hit on Wednesday an Italian military police base in the southern Iraqi town. Two members of the Public Information dept. died in the attack. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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Italian Carabinieri Commander Guido Bellini, left, and Italian Chief of Staff of Italian Army Giulio Fraticelli, next ot him, stand at attention before one of the 18 Italian victims of the explosion that hit last Wednesday an Italian military police base in the town of Nasiriyah, during their visit at the Italian camp near the southern Iraqi town, Friday, Nov. 14, 2003. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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Two injured Carabinieri talk to a colleague before their evacuation to Italy in Nassiriya November 14, 2003. Italy prepared on Friday to welcome home soldiers wounded in a suicide bombing in Iraq and braced for the return of the bodies of 18 men killed in the deadliest attack on its forces since World War Two. *******/Zohra Bensemra
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An injured Italian Carabiniere bids farewell to a colleague before boarding a plane to be evacuate to Italy at a military airbase in Nassiriya, southern Iraq November 14, 2003. Eighteen Italians were killed by suicide bombers at a military police base in southern Iraq in what one political leader called "our September 11" *******/ Zohra Bensemra
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Australian U.N. Peacekeepers line up during a ceremony in Suai Friday, Nov. 14, 2003. East Timor's Defense Force will take over security guard of the country as United Nations Peacekeeping Force will reduce its troops from 3,500 to 1,750 personnel. This is part of the scheduled overall downsizing of U.N. mission support for East Timor which will end in May 2004. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
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Bolivian troops wearing the UN blue berets stand as honour guard as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan arrives at the Pedro Domingo plaza in La Paz, Bolivia on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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BAGHDAD INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Iraq -- Staff Sgt. Lorie Holis drives to a security post here. She is deployed from Grand Forks Air Force Base, N.D., with the 447th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Brian Ferguson)
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U.S. Army combat engineers inspect damage November 14, 2003 to a building in a former Republican Guard compound in Baghdad, which was shelled by the U.S. Air Forces. U.S. forces destroyed a building in the compound that they said resistance fighters used to launch attacks, and struck more suspected mortar and rocket-launch sites in an operation called "Iron Hammer". *******/Goran Tomasevic
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Iraqi boys play on an abandoned T-72 tank November 14, 2003 in a former Republican Guard compound in Baghdad, which was shelled over the last two days by the U.S. Air Forces. U.S. forces destroyed a building in the compound that they said resistance fighters used to launch attacks, and struck more suspected mortar and rocket-launch sites in an operation called "Iron Hammer". *******/Goran Tomasevic
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A U.S. Army soldier hands out a pamphlet asking citizens for information in the wake of a roadside bomb blast that injured two soldiers in a Baghdad suburb November 14, 2003. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told U.S. forces in the Pacific on Friday there was no plan for an early withdrawal from Iraq, but Iraqis would get more power more quickly than initially thought. *******/Ali Jasim
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Iraqi boys watch U.S. Army troops securing an area of Baghdad after a roadside bomb blast injured two soldiers, Friday, Nov 14, 2003. U.S. troops blocked the road for about an hour and called residents through loudspeaker to help them capture those who planted the bomb. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Iraqi boys with their father watch an U.S. Army soldier securing an area of Baghdad after a roadside bomb blast injured two soldiers, Friday, Nov 14, 2003. U.S. troops blocked the road for about an hour and called residents through loudspeaker to help them capture those who planted the bomb. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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U.S. Army soldiers evacuate a comrade after a roadside bomb blew up as U.S. soldiers tried to defuse it in Baghdad's northwestern neighborhood of Khadra, causing three casualties, Friday, Nov 14, 2003. A witness did not know if the three soldiers were killed or wounded, and the U.S. military had no immediate comment. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Iraqi police officers guard a highway in Baghdad's suburb of al-Doura, Friday Nov. 14 2003 as a US Army humvee drives by. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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US soldier sweeps the hall with sniffer dog prior to chief U.S. administrator for Iraq, L. Paul Bremer arriveal to address Baghdad Symphonic Orchestra during their rehearsal in Baghdad Friday Nov. 14, 2003. Bremer flew back from Washington Thursday to present the Iraqi Governing Council with a briefcase full of proposals approved by President Bush and his senior advisers. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic/Pool
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Chief U.S. administrator for Iraq, L. Paul Bremer addresses Baghdad Symphonic Orchestra during their rehearsal in Baghdad Friday Nov. 14, 2003. Bremer flew back from Washington Thursday to present the Iraqi Governing Council with a briefcase full of proposals approved by President Bush and his senior advisers. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic/Pool)
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U.S. Marines bow their heads as they listen to the invocation while taking part in a celebration of the Corps' 228th birthday November 13, 2003 at Camp Pendleton, California. On November 10, 1775, the second Continental Congress directed that two battalions of Marines be formed. In colonial Philadelphia, Tun Tavern became the birthplace of the Marine Corps. *******/Mike Blake
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Israeli soldiers watch over Palestinians waiting to cross from the West Bank town of Bethlehem into Jerusalem to attend Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa compound at a checkpoint between the two towns Friday Nov. 14, 2003. Israeli and Palestinian leaders are considering a summit meeting that would likely focus on a cease-fire and how to move forward with the U.S-backed "road map" plan, which aims to end three years of bloodshed and create a Palestinian state alongside Israel by 2005.(AP Photo/Enric Marti)
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As other Palestinians wait, a man is taken away by an Israeli soldier as he tries to cross from the West Bank town of Bethlehem into Jerusalem to attend Friday prayers at the al-Aqsa compound at a checkpoint between the two towns Friday Nov. 14, 2003. Four former heads of Israel's vaunted Shin Bet security service on Friday warned of a catastrophe for Israel if a peace deal with the Palestinians is not reached quickly, and said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is not trying hard enough.(AP Photo/Enric Marti)
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Thousands of Muslim worshippers pray in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, with the golden Dome of the Rock seen in the background Friday, Nov. 14, 2003. Ramadan is Islam's holiest month where Muslims fast from dawn to dusk. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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A Palestinian woman selling vegetables after Friday Prayers complains as an Israeli soldier kicks her bag in the Old City of Jerusalem November 14, 2003. Thousands of Muslims were able to attend the Friday Prayers during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, since Israel started to ease a blockade around West Bank cities. *******/Andrea Comas
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A view of the West Bank Jewish settlement outpost of Givat Assaf, northeast of the Palestinian city of Ramallah Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003.
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Settler Ehuviel Nizri, 22, left, holding his nine-month old son Ratzonya, talks to a patrolling Israeli soldier, guarding the West Bank Jewish settlement outpost of Givat Assaf, northeast of the Palestinian city of Ramallah Thursday Nov. 13, 2003. Officially, Israel regards settlement outposts set up since 1996 like this one as illegal and have accepted a U.S. backed peace plan that calls for their removal, but the government is tacitly funding part of their construction and plans to grant some of themlegal status. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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Palestinian worshippers are stopped by Israeli soldiers from entering the Ibraheemi mosque for Friday prayers in the old city of the West Bank city of Hebron November 14, 2003. Several thousand Palestinians prayed in the Ibraheemi mosque under Israeli soldiers control in the third Friday pray of the Holy Month of Ramadan. *******/Nayef Hashlamoun
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Palestinian men pray at the Bethlehem checkpoint after Israeli soldiers stopped them from crossing into Jerusalem to attend prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the third Friday of Ramadan, Nov. 14, 2003. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)
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An Israeli soldier carries a Palestinian baby before handing it over to the mother after she crossed from the West Bank town of Bethlehem into Jerusalem at a checkpoint between the two towns Friday Nov. 14, 2003. Four former heads of Israel's vaunted Shin Bet security service on Friday warned of a catastrophe for Israel if a peace deal with the Palestinians is not reached quickly, and said Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is not trying hard enough.(AP Photo/Enric Marti)
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An Indonesian navy ship sinks a fishing boat from Thailand off the coast of Surabaya on November 14, 2003 after it was seized for fishing in Indonesian waters without a permit. The Indonesia navy, on a routine patrol two days ago, seized the boat and arrested 18 Thai fishermen for illegal fishing. *******/Sigit Pamungkas
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An Indonesian navy ship sinks a fishing boat from Thailand off the coast of Surabaya on November 14, 2003 after it was seized for fishing in Indonesian waters without a permit. The Indonesian navy, on a routine patrol two days ago, seized the boat and arrested 18 Thai fishermen for illegal fishing. *******/Sigit Pamungkas
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10th Mountain Division soldiers stand by as a CH-47 Chinook helicopter delivers supplies during Operation Mountain Resolve. The operation, which began on Nov. 7, is currently taking place in eastern Afghanistan's Kunar and Nuristan Provinces. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Greg Heath, 4th Public Affairs Detachment.)
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Warrant Officer Wayne Kennie, of the Third Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment Battalion Group inspects ammunition prior to a live fire shoot with mortars and SPG-9 Rockets near Kabul, Afghanistan during Operation ATHENA.
Op ATHENA is Canada's contribution to the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the United Nations-Authorized mission in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Op ATHENA began in August 2003 and is currently scheduled to end late summer 2004. The mission of ISAF is to maintain security in Kabul and its surrounding areas so the Afghan Transitional Authority and UN agencies can begin rebuilding the country. At this time, ISAF comprises approximately 5,500 troops from 31 nations.
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11 Nov 03
Kabul, Afghanistan
Warrant Officer Wayne Kennie, of the Third Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment Battalion Group inspects ammunition prior to a live fire shoot with mortars and SPG-9 Rockets near Kabul, Afghanistan during Operation ATHENA.
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North Arabian Gulf- Sgt.Danny Gibson, of the Thirteen Marine Expeditionary Unit (13 MEU), mans his sniper position, while Intelligence Specialist 1st Class Matthew Rose, from the USS Port Royal, looks through binoculars gathering information during an embark of a foreign dhow in the North Arabian Gulf waters. USS Port Royal (CG 73) and the 13th MEU(SOC) are currently deployed with Expeditionary Strike Group One (ESG-1) in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Navy Video by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Troy D. Miller) (Released)
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Members of the 447th Expeditionary Medical Squadron and Mobile Aeromedical Staging Facility pump a ventilator bag while treating a non-coalition casualty for a gunshot wound at Baghdad International Airport, Iraq, Nov. 10, 2003. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Stacy L. Pearsall) (Released)
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In a small village in northern Iraq, Capt. Barry Seip of Task Force 1-63 Armor, inoculates a villager against tuberculosis during Operation Iraqi Freedom. , Nov. 12, 2003. Operation Iraqi Freedom is a multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jeffrey A. Wolfe) (Released)
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Spc. Kate Kimes with the 173rd Airborne Brigade, visits with children at an orphanage in Kirkuk, Iraq, Nov. 12, 2003. Soldiers and Airman from Kirkuk Air Base brought gifts of candy and soccer balls to the 17 children at the center. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Suzanne M. Jenkins, U.S. Air Force. (Released)
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Capt. Elizabeth Scioletti, attached to the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), talks with a group of orphaned Iraqi children as other soldiers prepare to give out school supplies and gifts from soldiers and American sponsors. The soldiers visited two locations in Mosul, Iraq, Nov. 9, 2003, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Justin Harris) (Released)
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An Iraqi worker from the Ramadi Water Treatment Plant 1, shovels out the dirt to make way for a new sedimentary tank in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, Nov. 8, 2003. Lt. Col. Davis, from the 352 Civil Affairs Command, and serving as the deputy senior advisor to Ministry of Municipalities and Public Works, determines the contract dispute of $500,000 used for the rebuilding of the plant and whether the amount is justifiable. The rebuilding of the plant located in the troubled Western zone will make sure people receive water and change things for the better. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Reynaldo Ramon) (Released)
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SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany -- Staff Sgt. Todd Smith controls a riled German shepherd, Art, during attack training here. Art recently graduated from technical school at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, and will be polished during on-the-job-training here in a process similar to that of first-term airmen. Smith is a military working dog trainer assigned to the 52nd Security Forces Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Air Force Airman 1st Class Amaani Lyle)
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SPANGDAHLEM AIR BASE, Germany -- Staff Sgt. Brian Little helps a German shepherd, Art, get into attack mode. Little uses an arm wrap made of tough plastic, leather and a burlap covering to protect himself from injury. The dogs, much like airmen, must attend technical school and undergo on-the-job-training. The dogs go to school at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Little is a military working dog trainer assigned to the 52nd Security Forces Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Amaani Lyle)
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Petty Officer 3rd Class Derrick C. Clay and other flight deck personnel signal all clear during a "no-load" test on the number four catapult aboard USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63), Nov. 7, 2003. DoD photo by Airman Jason D. Landon, U.S. Navy. (Released)