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He219
01-04-2004, 06:22 PM
Congratulations Vance! One year in the Forum ....
p-)


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Tourists gather on a pier while swimming as Egyptian naval vessels search the crash scene of an Egyptian charter airplane in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt, Sunday Jan. 4, 2004. The plane crashed into the sea early Saturday, killing all 148 people on board. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

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Tourists enjoy the water as a rescue ship searches off the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2004. A charter plane carrying 148 people, mostly French tourists, crashed into the Red Sea Saturday off the coast of Sharm el-Sheik, shortly after taking off from the resort officials said. No survivors were reported. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Tourists stand on a pier as an Egyptian naval vessel searches the crash scene of an Egyptian charter airplane in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2004. The plane crashed into the sea early Saturday, killing all 148 people on board. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

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French Deputy Foreign Minister Renaud Muselier, center, holds memorial flowers wrapped by a French flag as he stands with French and Egyptian officials before throwing them into the Red Sea at the crash scene of an Egyptian charter airplane in the resort city of Sharm El-Sheik, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2004. The plane crashed into the sea early Saturday, killing all 148 people on board. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
RIP
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An armed German policeman guards the entrance of the German Army Hospital in the Wandsbek district of Hamburg, northern Germany, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2004. Security measures were kept tight on Sunday after last week's warnings of Germany's Federal Criminal Investigation authority BKA on possible terrorist attacks against the hospital. (AP Photo/Christoph Stache)


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Georgian Dzhamil Ziagaliev, 57, a lookalike of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin casts his ballot in a polling station outside Tbilisi Sunday, Jun. 4, 2004. Six weeks after President Eduard Shevardnadze's dramatic resignation in the face of mass demonstrations, Georgians on Sunday vote for his successor, widely expected to be Mikhail Saakashvili, the intense, 36-year-old Western-educated president of the Tbilisi city council, the man who led the protests. (AP Photo/Shakh Aivazov)

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Cuban President Fidel Castro is seen as he delivers a speech Saturday Jan.03, 2004 at the Karl Marx Theater in Havana, Cuba, during the celebration of the 45th anniversary of Castro's victory in January 1959. (AP photo/Jose Goitia)

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Cuban boy Elian Gonzales is seen as he has is invited to the podium with the Revolution Comanders to congratulate Cuban President Fidel Castro at the end of a speech Saturday Jan. 03, 2004 at the Karl Marx Theater in Havana, Cuba, during the celebration of the 45th anniversary of Castro's victory in January 1959. (AP photo/Jose Goitia)

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Members of the Cuban special forces demonstrate their skills during a police show for the 45th anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution in Havana, January 4, 2004. Fidel Castro and 81 other combatants started a revolutionary war against the U.S.-backed regime of Fulgencio Batista on December 2, 1956 and over the next two years they conducted a guerrilla struggle that won increasing popular support, culminating in the revolution's triumph on January 1, 1959 when Batista finally fled the country. *******/Claudia Daut

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Iraqi children from al-Jubary family inspect a crater made by U.S. Army mortar outside their home in Baghdad's Arab Gboor district Sunday, Jan. 4, 2004. Friday night, the U.S. military shelled the sparsely populated southern edge of Baghdad to root out insurgents believed to be launching mortar shells and rockets. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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Iraqi children from al-Jubary family check an unexploded U.S. Army mortar that landed on their farmland in Baghdad's Arab Gboor district Sunday, Jan. 4, 2004. Friday night, the U.S. military shelled the sparsely populated southern edge of Baghdad to root out insurgents believed to be launching mortar shells and rockets. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair talks with military personal in Basra, southern Iraq, January 4, 2004. Blair made a surprise visit to Iraq to meet the nearly 10,000 British troops serving there, arriving on a special military cargo plane from Egypt where he was on holiday. *******/Peter Macdiarmid

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Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair (C) meets British troops as he arrives in the city of Basra, southern Iraq, during a surprise visit to the region, January 4, 2004. *******/POOL/Stefan Rousseau

Graphic Image! (http://a1112.g.akamai.net/7/1112/492/03312000/news.lycos.com/news/ot_getImage.asp?op=img&id=508962)

Family members mourn as they lower into a grave the body of Mohammed al Masri, age 20, who was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier a day earlier while walking in his cousin's funeral procession, at a cemetery in the West Bank town of Nablus, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2004. Israel officially stated that the procession of mourners was fired upon only when soldiers nearby spotted a weapon in the crowd. Palestinian eyewitnesses recounted that it appeared the soldiers were simply trying to enforce a curfew by using force to stop the procession. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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An Israeli border police officer runs behind a fire during clashes in the West Bank village of Budrus, near the line with Israel southeast of Tel Aviv Sunday Jan. 4, 2004, where bulldozers are clearing ground for a section of a 750-kilometer (450-mile) barrier around the West Bank. Clashes erupted when Palestinian demonstrators protested against the construction of the barrier. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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Israeli border police officers aim their rifles, with rubber bullet attachments, at Palestinian demonstrators during clashes in the West Bank village of Budrus, near the line with Israel, southeast of Tel Aviv, Sunday Jan. 4, 2004, where bulldozers are clearing the ground for a section of a 750-kilometer (450-mile) barrier around the West Bank. Clashes erupted when Palestinian demonstrators protested against the construction of the barrier. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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A Palestinian woman argues with Israeli border police officers during clashes in the West Bank village of Budrus, near the line with Israel southeast of Tel Aviv Sunday Jan. 4, 2004, where bulldozers are clearing ground for a section of a 750-kilometer (450-mile) barrier around the West Bank. Clashes erupted when Palestinian demonstrators protested against the construction of the barrier. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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Followers of the late U.S.-born Rabbi Meir Kahane, who was assassinated in New York in 1990, hold signs in support of the Rabbi during a gathering at the outpost of West Tapuah, near the Palestinian West Bank town of Nablus Sunday Jan. 4, 2004. Hundreds of the most extreme among the settlers gathered at the outpost to bring a Torah scroll into the synagogue there. The outpost was established by followers of Kahane who pushed for the expulsion of Arabs from Israel and the West Bank. Israel has banned his militant movement as racist. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered Sunday that West Tapuah and another West Bank settlement outpost be dismantled as an initial step toward fulfilling Israel's requirement under a U.S.-backed peace plan. The signsread in Hebrew, at left, "we are all with Kahane", center, "we will vote Kahane" and at right " Kahane is alive". (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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A relative, no name available, of the late U.S.-born Rabbi Meir Kahane, who pushed for the expulsion of Arabs from Israel and the West Bank and was assassinated in New York in 1990, carries a Torah scroll during a gathering at the outpost of West Tapuah, near the Palestinian West Bank town of Nablus Sunday Jan. 4, 2004. Hundreds of the most extreme among the settlers gathered at the outpost to bring the Torah scroll into the synagogue there. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered Sunday that West Tapuah and another West Bank settlement outpost be dismantled as an initial step toward fulfilling Israel's requirement under a U.S.-backed peace plan.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei condemned (http://article.wn.com/link/WNAT6D81C25DA6024B09F9904C78B6FD3A66?source=templategenerator&template=worldphotos/viewphoto.txt) on Sunday the international community’s “silence” following the killing of four residents of the West Bank town of Nablus during a major Israeli army operation. (***** Images)

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Israel prepares for international arms scrutiny (http://article.wn.com/link/WNATA1FB1344B69543279C79539775C3833C?source=templategenerator&template=worldphotos/indexsearchvera.txt) - An undated file picture of one of the Israel Navy's three Dolphin-class submarines is photographed during maneuvers in the Mediterranean Sea. The Jewish state wants submarines to provide a naval alternative to military bases that could be more exposed to attack if the West Bank and Gaza Strip (news - web sites) are given over for a Palestinian state as envisioned under a U.S.-led peace 'road map'. *******/Handout by Israeli Defense Forces TO GO WITH STORY - BC- MIDEAST-SUBMARINES


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A TV grab taken from the Qatari-based al-Jazeera satellite television station shows an undated still image of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) as the station airs a new audiotape purported to be that of bin Laden. Bin Laden mentioned in the audiotape the capture of toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) on December 13.(AFP/Al-Jazeera)


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Soldiers stand guard on an armored tank in front of the attorney general's office, where top rebel commander Simon Trinidad is being held in Bogota, Colombia, Sunday Jan.4,2004. Trinidad, who was arrested in Quito by the Ecuadorean police late Friday, is a member of the general staff of the 16,000-member Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the largest rebel group in Colombia. He was one of the top negotiators during peace talks with the government that began in January 1999. The talks collapsed in Feb. 2002, and the army resumed operations against the FARC. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)

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Simon Trinidad, one of the seven members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, shouts as he is escorted by specials forces, at the military base in Bogota,Colombia, Saturday, Jan.3, 2004. Ecuadorean authorities on Saturday captured the most senior Colombian rebel commander in four decades of guerrilla warfare, in the biggest victory of hardline President Alvaro Uribe's campaign to crush the leftist insurgency.(AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)


Miscellaneous:


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This mosaic image taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's navigation camera shows an overhead view of the rover on the planet's surface following its arrival on January 3, 2004. The photo was released at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California January 4, 2004. *******/NASA/JPL-Handout NO SALES

Guttorm
01-04-2004, 06:33 PM
Great pic's as always

Ratamacue
01-04-2004, 06:34 PM
Being the geek I am, I watched the NASA channel as they received the first few images and compiled them from the rover. Pretty crazy stuff and damn exciting.

He219
01-04-2004, 07:10 PM
Thanks, Guttorm!
:D


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Iraq combat claims first woman pilot (http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/7629607.htm) - Capt. Kimberly Hampton,27, was killed Friday while piloting a helicopter near Fallujah in Iraq. Witnesses said her OH-58 Kiowa was brought down by ground fire. The Kiowa helicopter is designed for reconnaissance and observation missions and is often used to spot targets for Apache attack helicopters. Hampton served with the 82nd Airborne Division. She left for Iraq on Aug. 31.
RIP
:(

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HK53 for the CP?

British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) arrives in Basra, Iraq (news - web sites), with British General Mike Walker, for a surprise visit to British troops Sunday Jan. 4, 2004. (AP Photo/PA, Stefan Rousseau)

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British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) meets troops as he arrives in Basra for a surprise visit to British soldiers in Iraq (news - web sites) Sunday Jan. 4, 2004. During the trip Blair said that nations that develop weapons of mass destruction are a 'huge liability for the whole security of the world.' (AP Photo/PA, Stefan Rousseau) UNITED KINGDOM OUT MAGAZINES OUT NO SALES

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British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites), left, meets with Jordan's King Abdullah in Amman, Sunday Jan. 4 2004, after visiting Basra in Iraq (news - web sites) where he met British troops. (AP Photo/Yousef Allan)


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Settlers accused (http://article.wn.com/link/WNAT9E5AAE8C07ABDED49CB8ED24B3C7272F?source=templategenerator&template=worldphotos/viewphoto.txt) Ariel Sharon of threatening “the future of Zionism” after the Israeli premier ordered on Sunday the evacuation of two more settlement outposts as tens of thousands of Palestinians were cleared to work in Israel. (***** Images)

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Search and recovery efforts are continuing in Egypt following Saturday's crash of a chartered plane in the Red Sea that killed all 148 people on board the aircraft. French experts are in the Egyptian resort, Sharm el-Sheikh, using special equipment to track down the sunken flight data recorder of the Egyptian Boeing 737 that crashed into the Red Sea early Saturday morning. (***** Images)...


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Video (http://g.msn.com/0VD0/00/00?m=n_marsrovertools_031202&csid=Msnbc) Depress Ctrl. if you have problems...

Steve Squyres, principal investigator for the Mars rovers' science payload, narrates an animation showing how the instruments work.

View the Mars Exploration Rover Website (http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html) for lots of exciting stuff, as Ratamacue
mentioned ...
;)

Vance
01-04-2004, 07:46 PM
Thanks He. p-)

Deuterium
01-04-2004, 07:55 PM
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Delta or ST6?

Vance
01-04-2004, 07:59 PM
Amish Airsoft Co.

ChuckThunder
01-04-2004, 08:03 PM
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Delta or ST6?

ST6. Center guy is Marcinko... he grew about 2 feet.

Shake n Bake
01-04-2004, 08:15 PM
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Castro is looking real decrepit..Won't be long now haha


Check out his hands they're freaky

Deuterium
01-04-2004, 08:19 PM
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Flagg
01-04-2004, 09:02 PM
Is it just me or is Tony Blair's CP detail more understated than his American VIP counterparts in photos?

Anyone with a good understanding of CP care to comment?

Is it likely the photographer is cooperating with the CP detail and excluding the CP team from photos?

He219
01-04-2004, 09:03 PM
Delta or ST6?
ST6. Center guy is Marcinko... he grew about 2 feet.

This may sound kind of stupid, but do Orthodox Jews have to cut their hair in the IDF? Do they generally serve in the front lines only as 'Netzah Yehuda'? How many Orthodox Jews actually serve compared with the total number in the IDF or as a part of the Irsaeli population?

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2 January 2002 - Today scores of young men from the orthodox sector reported to the induction center at Tel Hashomer for the sixth recruitment to the orthodox Nahal Brigade "Netzah Yehuda" that became a standard infantry brigade this week. In the picture A fresh recruit during his recruitment in the induction center, during DNA tests, as part of the recruitment chain of the recruits. Photograph: IDF spokesperson.

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Thanks!
:D

uri
01-04-2004, 11:40 PM
they don't have to cut their hair

[AFSOC]
01-04-2004, 11:41 PM
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VIVA CASTRO!

[AFSOC]
01-05-2004, 01:00 AM
wait....

Are Hasidic jews orthodox?

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fred_engles
01-05-2004, 02:43 AM
]wait....

Are Hasidic jews orthodox?


Yes, but not all orthodox Jews are Hasidic. Hasids are neither necessarily more nor less observant than non-Hasidic orthodox Jews - they're more like a parallel branch than a rung on the reform(least observant)-conservative-orthodox(most observant) ladder.

There's not really such a thing as a non-orthodox Hasid, though.

Gringo
01-05-2004, 03:15 AM
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Castro is looking real decrepit..Won't be long now haha


Check out his hands they're freaky

I don't think you can call them hands anymore, more like claws! :|
His beard is going, soon he will be powerless, and we can then go and kick that commie arse

ArmedPacifist
01-05-2004, 04:16 AM
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Castro is looking real decrepit..Won't be long now haha


Check out his hands they're freaky

I don't think you can call them hands anymore, more like claws! :|
His beard is going, soon he will be powerless, and we can then go and kick that commie arse

Castro will never die. He will live on just to spite you.

AFG
01-05-2004, 04:32 AM
/\ that would be a disturbing thought :D


nice pics btw

Dalleer
01-05-2004, 04:34 AM
What was that about Stalin's lookalike? let me guess, the man has got a talkshow of his own then?

Georgia is one crazy place, it seems...

mustamato
01-05-2004, 04:56 AM
British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites), left, meets with Jordan's King Abdullah in Amman, Sunday Jan. 4 2004, after visiting Basra in Iraq (news - web sites) where he met British troops. (AP Photo/Yousef Allan)

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Being him (and then I don´t mean Blair) would probably be fun.

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King Abdullah, then Prince, during field training at the Royal Military
Academy Sandhurst. England, 1980/81.

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King Abdullah, then Prince, during the Helicopter Flying Course.
Amman, November 1986.

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King Abdullah, then Prince, Prince Talal bin Mohamad (centre),
receiving instructions before a free fall parachute jump. Amman, 1993.

http://www.kingabdullah.jo

UoUo
01-05-2004, 05:05 AM
Nice...

Chris196
01-05-2004, 05:29 AM
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Castro is looking real decrepit..Won't be long now haha


Check out his hands they're freaky

http://www.joeblasco.com/pics/jb8-p1.jpg

Fire Marshall Bill

Shake n Bake
01-05-2004, 06:36 AM
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VIVA CASTRO!


You know if you would have said that to my face I most probably would have killed you..

pretorian669
01-08-2004, 09:21 AM
Amish Airsoft Co.
rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl rofl

Falco
01-08-2004, 10:33 AM
British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites), left, meets with Jordan's King Abdullah in Amman, Sunday Jan. 4 2004, after visiting Basra in Iraq (news - web sites) where he met British troops. (AP Photo/Yousef Allan)

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Being him (and then I don´t mean Blair) would probably be fun.

http://www.kingabdullah.jo/gallery/gallery_images/pic168.jpg
King Abdullah, then Prince, during field training at the Royal Military
Academy Sandhurst. England, 1980/81.

http://www.kingabdullah.jo/gallery/gallery_images/pic170.jpg
King Abdullah, then Prince, during the Helicopter Flying Course.
Amman, November 1986.

http://www.kingabdullah.jo/gallery/gallery_images/pic122.jpg
King Abdullah, then Prince, Prince Talal bin Mohamad (centre),
receiving instructions before a free fall parachute jump. Amman, 1993.

http://www.kingabdullah.jo


It's amazing what you can do when you're a king.