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12-12-2005, 10:06 AM
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Flames and smoke erupt from Buncefield Oil Terminal, in Hemel Hempstead, north of London, Sunday Dec. 11, 2005. A series of explosions at one of Britain's largest oil depots shook an area north of London early Sunday, shattering windows and sending billowing clouds of smoke and flames high into the sky. Police said the blasts appeared to be accidental while European Union officials are marginalizing hydrocarbon emission impacts as part of the Kyoto protocol. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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PA WeatherCentre satellite image of the United Kingdom showing smoke over the burning Buncefield Oil Terminal near Hemel Hempstead, England, Sunday Dec. 11, 2005.
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A man tries to hit police with a beer bottle at Cronulla Beach in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005, after ethnic tensions erupted into running battles between police and a mob of thousands of youths, many chanting racial slurs. At least six people were arrested and several injured in alcohol-fueled fights at the beach.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
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A man is arrested at Cronulla Beach in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005, after ethnic tensions erupted into running battles between police and a mob of thousands of youths, many chanting racial slurs. At least six people were arrested and several injured in alcohol-fueled fights at the beach. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
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A young ethnic boy is protected by police at Cronulla Beach in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005, after ethnic tensions erupted into running battles between police and a mob of thousands of youths, many chanting racial slurs. At least six people were arrested and several injured in alcohol-fueled fights at the beach. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
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Police clashed with youths in Rennes, western France on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005 after authorities banned a rave party due to be held on the sidelines of a famous rock music festival called "Les Transmusicales" (AP Photo/Vincent Michel)
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Police clashed with youths in Rennes, western France on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005 after authorities banned a rave party due to be held on the sidelines of a famous rock music festival called "Les Transmusicales" (AP Photo/Vincent Michel)
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Police investigators, background, check remains after an explosion in central Athens, early Monday, Dec. 12, 2005, as a policeman stands guard. The blast damaged early Monday several buildings in the city's main Syntagma Square. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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Police investigators stand over the remains of a motorcycle destroyed in an explosion in central Athens, early Monday, Dec. 12, 2005. The blast damaged several buildings in the city's main Syntagma Square. Police said the explosion, believed to be caused by igniting gas canisters, occurred following after a warning telephone call was made to an Athens newspaper. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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Lebanese policemen and army soldiers gather next to wrecked cars at the site where an explosion targeted the convoy of anti-Syrian journalist and lawmaker Gibran Tueni in the hilly Christian Mkalles area, a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 12, 2005. Tueni was one of three people killed when a car bomb exploded as his motorcade drove through the industrial suburb of Mkalles. Another 30 people were wounded in the bombing. Tueni's uncle, Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamadeh, and the leading Lebanese politician Walid Jumblatt blamed Syria for the bombing _ a charge that Syria promptly denied. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)
** NOTE: GRAPHIC (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/He219/cc65352f.jpg) CONTENT ** Lebanese army officers cover the mutilated body of a victim after an explosion targeted the convoy of anti-Syrian journalist and lawmaker Gibran Tueni, in an industrial suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 12, 2005. Tueni and two other people were killed in the bombing. Lebanon has been rocked by a series of explosions since the Feb. 14 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The attacks have mainly targeted journalists and politicians known to be opposed to Syrian influence in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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A Lebanese army soldier stands guard as red cross workers cover the body of a victim and a firefighter extinguishes a car set ablaze by an explosion that targeted the convoy of anti-Syrian journalist and lawmaker Gibran Tueni, in an industrial suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 12, 2005. Tueni and two other people were killed in the bombing. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Siham Tueni, widow of anti-Syrian journalist and lawmaker Gibran Tueni, looks on at the site of the explosion that targeted Tueni's convoy, in the hilly Christian Mkalles area, a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 12, 2005. Tueni was killed by a car bomb Monday, a day after he returned from France, where he had been staying periodically for fear of assassination. Tueni's uncle, Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamadeh, and the leading Lebanese politician Walid Jumblatt blamed Syria for the bombing _ a charge that Syria promptly denied. Police said Tueni was one of three people killed while another 30 people were wounded in the bombing, which started a fire that destroyed at least 10 vehicles. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)
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Israeli army soldiers take up positions on a rooftop during a military operation in the West Bank town of Nablus early Monday Dec. 12, 2005. Israel pushed forward with a West Bank crackdown following a suicide bombing last week, conducting house-to-house searches and arresting wanted militants. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)
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A Palestinian ambulance worker opens his jacket as he is checked by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint outside the West Bank town of Jenin Sunday Dec. 11, 2005. A total of 17 Palestinians were arrested in the West Bank overnight, Palestinians and the army said. Israel has arrested dozens of militants in the West Bank since a Palestinian suicide bomber from the area killed five Israelis last week in the coastal city of Netanya. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)
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Canadian and U.S. Army soldiers secure the area and examine the site of an explosion, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber set off explosives near a U.S. and Afghan military convoy in Kandahar, killing himself and wounding three civilians, police said. (AP Photo/Noor Khan)
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Pakistan Rangers soldiers stand guard near an Indian bus after it entered Pakistan, as seen from the joint border check post Wagah, India, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005. The first bus of a new service linking the Indian city of Amritsar and the Pakistani city of Lahore crossed the border Sunday, linking the two cities for the first time in nearly six decades. (AP Photo/Aman Sharma)
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Pakistani volunteers remove bodies from a passenger bus, Sunday, Dec 11, 2005 in Lahore, Pakistan. A firecracker thrown underneathe the bus by a celebrant at a wedding party set the fuel-tank afire as it was filled with guests, killing at least 25 people, police said. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)
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Family members of a man neighbors said was killed by authorities grieve on the streets of Dongzhou village near Shanwei, Guangdong province, Monday, Dec 12, 2005. Police officers have sealed off the southern Chinese village after fatally shooting demonstrators and are searching for the protest organizers. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Members of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force keep guard beside an Armored Personnel Carrier inside Manila city police headquarters on Monday, Dec. 12, 2005. Rumors of a coup attempt by disgruntled soldiers on the weekend prompted authorities to beef up security at key military and police installations, police officials said. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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European Union Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner, right, shakes hands with Iraqi Ambassador to the EU Mohammed Jawad Al-Doreky, left, at EU headquarters in Brussels, Monday Dec. 12, 2005. The European Union on Monday proposed beginning talks on a trade and cooperation agreement with Iraq, and committed itself to opening an office in Baghdad, officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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In this picture released Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005 by Britain's Ministry of Defence potential Iraqi Officer Cadets are seen during training at the Iraqi Military Academy, at al-Rustafiyah, Iraq, on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005. (AP Photo/Cpl Rob Knight/MoD/ho)
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In this picture released Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005 by Britain's Ministry of Defence a potential Iraqi Officer Cadets is seen during a training exercise at the Iraqi Military Academy, at al-Rustafiyah, Iraq, on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005. (AP Photo/Cpl Rob Knight/MoD/ho)
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Prominent Sunni Arab candidate Saleh al-Mutlaq displays CD's with pictures of what he called torture victims during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005. Al-Mutlaq accused the government Saturday of withholding the results of an investigation into torture allegations in order to avoid losing votes in next week's national parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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U.S. embassy security guards escorting journalists stand watch inside a warehouse where ballots, ballot boxes and election material are stored in Hilla, south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005, ahead of the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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A security guard, left, and U.S. embassy security guards escorting journalists, stand watch outside a warehouse where ballots and election material are stored in Hilla, south of Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005, ahead of the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Foreign election observer security guards stand watch inside a warehouse where ballots, ballot boxes and other election materials are stored in Hilla, south of Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005, ahead of the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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U.S. army spcl. Brian Williams of Yukon, Oklahoma, with the 159th Avn. Regiment, mans a machine gun on a blackhawk helicopter flying over one of Baghdad's bridges in Iraq Sunday Dec. 11, 2005. The military escorted a group of media to Hilla in preparation for the Dec. 15 upcoming parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Iraqi soldiers celebrate as they holding election campaign posters for the Iraqi National list carrying pictures of the head of the list, Shiite secular leader and former prime minister Ayad Allawi while receiving released prisoners in Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005. Voting begins Monday in hospitals, military camps and even prisons across Iraq, launching the process to choose a new parliament that the United States hopes can help quell the insurgency so U.S. forces can begin heading home. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Iraqi soldiers show their fingers stained with ink as a mark indicating they have already voted at a voting station in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday Dec. 12, 2005. Iraqis began voting Monday in hospitals, military camps and prisons, a few days ahead of general elections to be held Dec. 15, while the estimated 1.5 million Iraqi voters living outside the country can begin casting their ballots at polling centers in 15 countries Tuesday.(AP Photo/Mohammed Hato)
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Iraqi women army officers arrive to cast their vote at an election post in Baghdad, 12 December 2005. Hospital patients, prison detainees and security forces started voting to elect a full-term parliament set to restore full sovereignty to war-torn Iraq nearly three years after the US-led invasion. AFP PHOTO/KARIM SAHIB
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Iraqi Army soldiers patrol through the capital on December 11, 2005 in Baghdad, Iraq. The Iraqi interior ministry announced security measures ahead of Iraq's general election scheduled for December 15, including closing it's international borders, banning travel between provinces and extending curfew hours.
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Marine Sgt. Brandon Shofne radios into headquarters descriptions of the ordnance found during a weapon cache sweep in Kharma, Iraq, on Dec.6, 2005. Shofne is attached to the 2nd Combat Engineers Battalion. DoD photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew Hutchison, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released)
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Saqlowyah, Iraq (Dec. 6, 2005) - Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Jesse Munsey, assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, Gulf Company, observes the road up ahead as his squad halts after finding a improvised explosive device. The 2nd Marine Division is deployed is conducting counter-insurgency operations to isolate and neutralize anti-Iraqi forces; support the continued development of Iraqi Security Force; support Iraqi reconstruction and democratic elections and to facilitate the creation of a secure environment that enables Iraqi self-reliance and self-governance.
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The I-View unmanned aerial vehicle being prepared for conventional launch. The Australian Defence Force will be equipped with a fleet of long range tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to be used as Army’s ‘eyes in the sky’ which will play a crucial intelligence and surveillance role in Australia's combined arms force, Defence Minister Robert Hill announced today. (Photo courtesy of IAI).
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Sea lions cover the docked submarine USS Alabama as the USS Maine arrives, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005 at Strategic Weapons Facility, Pacific (SWFPAC) Bangor, Wash. after 75 days at sea, traveling from Kings Bay, Ga. around the tip of South America to its new home in Washington State. (AP Photo/Kitsap Sun, James Branaman)
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Sailors stand atop the submarine USS Maine as it arrives at Bangor Submarine Case in Washington state on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005. The USS Maine spent 75 days at sea, traveling from Kings Bay, Ga., around the tip of South America to its new home port in Washington state. (AP Photo/The Kitsap Sun, James Branaman)
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Chilean presidential hopeful and former Defence Minister Michelle Bachelet (C) shares a joke with officials during the launching of Chile's O'Higgins diesel attack submarine 09 December, 2005 in Valparaiso, 100 km west of Santiago. The Skorpene-class O'Higgins, built by the Spanish-French consortium DCN-Izar, is armed with the new-generation heavyweight Black Shark torpedoes. Bachelet, who is seeking to become Chile's first woman head of state, goes into Sunday's presidential election needing a final boost to secure overall victory over right wing rivals. The 54-year-old moderate socialist, the daughter of a general tortured to death during Augusto Pinochet's 1973-90 military junta, is virtually certain to win the first round but not get the 50 percent needed to avoid a second round runoff. AFP PHOTO STR
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Chile's Socialist Presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet of the center left pro-govenrment Coalition tours a new submarine purchased by the Chilean Navy in Valparaiso, Chile, Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. Bachelet is the frontrunner for the Dec. 11 presidential election. (AP Photo/Felix Alonso)
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Chile's Socialist Presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet of the center left pro-govenrment Coalition gestures during a visit to know a new submarine purchased by the Chilean Navy in Valparaiso, Chile, Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. Bachelet is the frontrunner for the Dec. 11 presidential election. (AP Photo/Felix Alonso)
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Socialist presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet of the pro-government coalition is surrounded by Army soldiers as she leaves the Verbo Divino polling station in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005 for presidential and legislative elections. Turnout was heavy for the vote in the fourth presidential election since democracy was restored in 1990 _ a race that could give the conservative Latin American country its first female president. (AP Photo/La Tercera)
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A Palestinian police officer crouches in position as another runs behind during an anti-crime operation in the West Bank village of Bani Naim, near Hebron Sunday Dec. 11, 2005. Seven people were detained and more than 15 stolen vehicles were collcted during the operation Sunday. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
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A Palestinian police officer looks through the scope of a sniper rifle as he stands guard on the roof of a mosque during a ceremony where Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas layed the corner stone of a USAID funded project at the site of the future Palestinian Justice Palace in Gaza City, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005. Abbas in his speech urged militant factions to extend their informal truce with Israel which is to expire at the end of the year. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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A US soldier stands guard on top of a building during a patrol in Kabul, early 11 December 2005. Some 18,000 US troops station in Afghanistan hunting down remnants of the toppled Taliban regime, mainly in the war-torn country's south and east. US military officials recently said that a reduction in the number of their toops in Afghanistan is likely after NATO expends its reach in the south and east next year. AFP PHOTO/ SHAH Marai
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Afghan refugee women and girls wait to get the humanitarian aid of food and other donation from German government at a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005. Around 195 refugee families got sugar, flour, tea, beans, peas and cooking oil ahead of the winter season. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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An Afghan refugee woman, right, walks along with food and other donation offered as humanitarian aid by German government after she received those at a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005. Around 195 refugee families got sugar, flour, tea, beans, peas and cooking oil ahead of the winter season. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Afghan refugee child Kabeer Ahamd, 6, carries a 5 kilogram can of cooking oil to his home during a food distribution at a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005. Around 195 refugee families got food and other items such as sugar, flour, tea, beans, peas and cooking oil ahead of the winter season as humanitarian aid by German government. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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This still image made from video and released Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005 by IntelCenter, a government contractor that does support work for the U.S. intelligence community, shows Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri praising Taliban successes in Afghanistan against U.S.-led forces and urging Muslims around the world to take part in a holy war against the West. The new tape, which could not be immediately authenticated, is about 48 minutes long and was believed to have been made at about the same time that the last tape attributed to al-Zawahri, a Sept. 19 video, was issued. (AP Photo/IntelCenter)
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Flames and smoke erupt from Buncefield Oil Terminal, in Hemel Hempstead, north of London, Sunday Dec. 11, 2005. A series of explosions at one of Britain's largest oil depots shook an area north of London early Sunday, shattering windows and sending billowing clouds of smoke and flames high into the sky. Police said the blasts appeared to be accidental while European Union officials are marginalizing hydrocarbon emission impacts as part of the Kyoto protocol. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
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PA WeatherCentre satellite image of the United Kingdom showing smoke over the burning Buncefield Oil Terminal near Hemel Hempstead, England, Sunday Dec. 11, 2005.
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A man tries to hit police with a beer bottle at Cronulla Beach in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005, after ethnic tensions erupted into running battles between police and a mob of thousands of youths, many chanting racial slurs. At least six people were arrested and several injured in alcohol-fueled fights at the beach.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
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A man is arrested at Cronulla Beach in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005, after ethnic tensions erupted into running battles between police and a mob of thousands of youths, many chanting racial slurs. At least six people were arrested and several injured in alcohol-fueled fights at the beach. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
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A young ethnic boy is protected by police at Cronulla Beach in Sydney, Australia, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005, after ethnic tensions erupted into running battles between police and a mob of thousands of youths, many chanting racial slurs. At least six people were arrested and several injured in alcohol-fueled fights at the beach. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)
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Police clashed with youths in Rennes, western France on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005 after authorities banned a rave party due to be held on the sidelines of a famous rock music festival called "Les Transmusicales" (AP Photo/Vincent Michel)
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Police clashed with youths in Rennes, western France on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005 after authorities banned a rave party due to be held on the sidelines of a famous rock music festival called "Les Transmusicales" (AP Photo/Vincent Michel)
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Police investigators, background, check remains after an explosion in central Athens, early Monday, Dec. 12, 2005, as a policeman stands guard. The blast damaged early Monday several buildings in the city's main Syntagma Square. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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Police investigators stand over the remains of a motorcycle destroyed in an explosion in central Athens, early Monday, Dec. 12, 2005. The blast damaged several buildings in the city's main Syntagma Square. Police said the explosion, believed to be caused by igniting gas canisters, occurred following after a warning telephone call was made to an Athens newspaper. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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Lebanese policemen and army soldiers gather next to wrecked cars at the site where an explosion targeted the convoy of anti-Syrian journalist and lawmaker Gibran Tueni in the hilly Christian Mkalles area, a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 12, 2005. Tueni was one of three people killed when a car bomb exploded as his motorcade drove through the industrial suburb of Mkalles. Another 30 people were wounded in the bombing. Tueni's uncle, Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamadeh, and the leading Lebanese politician Walid Jumblatt blamed Syria for the bombing _ a charge that Syria promptly denied. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)
** NOTE: GRAPHIC (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/He219/cc65352f.jpg) CONTENT ** Lebanese army officers cover the mutilated body of a victim after an explosion targeted the convoy of anti-Syrian journalist and lawmaker Gibran Tueni, in an industrial suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 12, 2005. Tueni and two other people were killed in the bombing. Lebanon has been rocked by a series of explosions since the Feb. 14 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The attacks have mainly targeted journalists and politicians known to be opposed to Syrian influence in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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A Lebanese army soldier stands guard as red cross workers cover the body of a victim and a firefighter extinguishes a car set ablaze by an explosion that targeted the convoy of anti-Syrian journalist and lawmaker Gibran Tueni, in an industrial suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 12, 2005. Tueni and two other people were killed in the bombing. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Siham Tueni, widow of anti-Syrian journalist and lawmaker Gibran Tueni, looks on at the site of the explosion that targeted Tueni's convoy, in the hilly Christian Mkalles area, a suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Dec. 12, 2005. Tueni was killed by a car bomb Monday, a day after he returned from France, where he had been staying periodically for fear of assassination. Tueni's uncle, Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamadeh, and the leading Lebanese politician Walid Jumblatt blamed Syria for the bombing _ a charge that Syria promptly denied. Police said Tueni was one of three people killed while another 30 people were wounded in the bombing, which started a fire that destroyed at least 10 vehicles. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)
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Israeli army soldiers take up positions on a rooftop during a military operation in the West Bank town of Nablus early Monday Dec. 12, 2005. Israel pushed forward with a West Bank crackdown following a suicide bombing last week, conducting house-to-house searches and arresting wanted militants. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)
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A Palestinian ambulance worker opens his jacket as he is checked by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint outside the West Bank town of Jenin Sunday Dec. 11, 2005. A total of 17 Palestinians were arrested in the West Bank overnight, Palestinians and the army said. Israel has arrested dozens of militants in the West Bank since a Palestinian suicide bomber from the area killed five Israelis last week in the coastal city of Netanya. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)
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Canadian and U.S. Army soldiers secure the area and examine the site of an explosion, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005 in Kandahar, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber set off explosives near a U.S. and Afghan military convoy in Kandahar, killing himself and wounding three civilians, police said. (AP Photo/Noor Khan)
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Pakistan Rangers soldiers stand guard near an Indian bus after it entered Pakistan, as seen from the joint border check post Wagah, India, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005. The first bus of a new service linking the Indian city of Amritsar and the Pakistani city of Lahore crossed the border Sunday, linking the two cities for the first time in nearly six decades. (AP Photo/Aman Sharma)
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Pakistani volunteers remove bodies from a passenger bus, Sunday, Dec 11, 2005 in Lahore, Pakistan. A firecracker thrown underneathe the bus by a celebrant at a wedding party set the fuel-tank afire as it was filled with guests, killing at least 25 people, police said. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)
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Family members of a man neighbors said was killed by authorities grieve on the streets of Dongzhou village near Shanwei, Guangdong province, Monday, Dec 12, 2005. Police officers have sealed off the southern Chinese village after fatally shooting demonstrators and are searching for the protest organizers. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Members of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force keep guard beside an Armored Personnel Carrier inside Manila city police headquarters on Monday, Dec. 12, 2005. Rumors of a coup attempt by disgruntled soldiers on the weekend prompted authorities to beef up security at key military and police installations, police officials said. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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European Union Commissioner for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner, right, shakes hands with Iraqi Ambassador to the EU Mohammed Jawad Al-Doreky, left, at EU headquarters in Brussels, Monday Dec. 12, 2005. The European Union on Monday proposed beginning talks on a trade and cooperation agreement with Iraq, and committed itself to opening an office in Baghdad, officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
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In this picture released Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005 by Britain's Ministry of Defence potential Iraqi Officer Cadets are seen during training at the Iraqi Military Academy, at al-Rustafiyah, Iraq, on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005. (AP Photo/Cpl Rob Knight/MoD/ho)
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In this picture released Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005 by Britain's Ministry of Defence a potential Iraqi Officer Cadets is seen during a training exercise at the Iraqi Military Academy, at al-Rustafiyah, Iraq, on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005. (AP Photo/Cpl Rob Knight/MoD/ho)
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Prominent Sunni Arab candidate Saleh al-Mutlaq displays CD's with pictures of what he called torture victims during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005. Al-Mutlaq accused the government Saturday of withholding the results of an investigation into torture allegations in order to avoid losing votes in next week's national parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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U.S. embassy security guards escorting journalists stand watch inside a warehouse where ballots, ballot boxes and election material are stored in Hilla, south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005, ahead of the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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A security guard, left, and U.S. embassy security guards escorting journalists, stand watch outside a warehouse where ballots and election material are stored in Hilla, south of Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005, ahead of the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Foreign election observer security guards stand watch inside a warehouse where ballots, ballot boxes and other election materials are stored in Hilla, south of Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005, ahead of the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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U.S. army spcl. Brian Williams of Yukon, Oklahoma, with the 159th Avn. Regiment, mans a machine gun on a blackhawk helicopter flying over one of Baghdad's bridges in Iraq Sunday Dec. 11, 2005. The military escorted a group of media to Hilla in preparation for the Dec. 15 upcoming parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Iraqi soldiers celebrate as they holding election campaign posters for the Iraqi National list carrying pictures of the head of the list, Shiite secular leader and former prime minister Ayad Allawi while receiving released prisoners in Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005. Voting begins Monday in hospitals, military camps and even prisons across Iraq, launching the process to choose a new parliament that the United States hopes can help quell the insurgency so U.S. forces can begin heading home. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Iraqi soldiers show their fingers stained with ink as a mark indicating they have already voted at a voting station in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday Dec. 12, 2005. Iraqis began voting Monday in hospitals, military camps and prisons, a few days ahead of general elections to be held Dec. 15, while the estimated 1.5 million Iraqi voters living outside the country can begin casting their ballots at polling centers in 15 countries Tuesday.(AP Photo/Mohammed Hato)
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Iraqi women army officers arrive to cast their vote at an election post in Baghdad, 12 December 2005. Hospital patients, prison detainees and security forces started voting to elect a full-term parliament set to restore full sovereignty to war-torn Iraq nearly three years after the US-led invasion. AFP PHOTO/KARIM SAHIB
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Iraqi Army soldiers patrol through the capital on December 11, 2005 in Baghdad, Iraq. The Iraqi interior ministry announced security measures ahead of Iraq's general election scheduled for December 15, including closing it's international borders, banning travel between provinces and extending curfew hours.
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Marine Sgt. Brandon Shofne radios into headquarters descriptions of the ordnance found during a weapon cache sweep in Kharma, Iraq, on Dec.6, 2005. Shofne is attached to the 2nd Combat Engineers Battalion. DoD photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew Hutchison, U.S. Marine Corps. (Released)
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Saqlowyah, Iraq (Dec. 6, 2005) - Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Jesse Munsey, assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, Gulf Company, observes the road up ahead as his squad halts after finding a improvised explosive device. The 2nd Marine Division is deployed is conducting counter-insurgency operations to isolate and neutralize anti-Iraqi forces; support the continued development of Iraqi Security Force; support Iraqi reconstruction and democratic elections and to facilitate the creation of a secure environment that enables Iraqi self-reliance and self-governance.
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The I-View unmanned aerial vehicle being prepared for conventional launch. The Australian Defence Force will be equipped with a fleet of long range tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to be used as Army’s ‘eyes in the sky’ which will play a crucial intelligence and surveillance role in Australia's combined arms force, Defence Minister Robert Hill announced today. (Photo courtesy of IAI).
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Sea lions cover the docked submarine USS Alabama as the USS Maine arrives, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005 at Strategic Weapons Facility, Pacific (SWFPAC) Bangor, Wash. after 75 days at sea, traveling from Kings Bay, Ga. around the tip of South America to its new home in Washington State. (AP Photo/Kitsap Sun, James Branaman)
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Sailors stand atop the submarine USS Maine as it arrives at Bangor Submarine Case in Washington state on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005. The USS Maine spent 75 days at sea, traveling from Kings Bay, Ga., around the tip of South America to its new home port in Washington state. (AP Photo/The Kitsap Sun, James Branaman)
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Chilean presidential hopeful and former Defence Minister Michelle Bachelet (C) shares a joke with officials during the launching of Chile's O'Higgins diesel attack submarine 09 December, 2005 in Valparaiso, 100 km west of Santiago. The Skorpene-class O'Higgins, built by the Spanish-French consortium DCN-Izar, is armed with the new-generation heavyweight Black Shark torpedoes. Bachelet, who is seeking to become Chile's first woman head of state, goes into Sunday's presidential election needing a final boost to secure overall victory over right wing rivals. The 54-year-old moderate socialist, the daughter of a general tortured to death during Augusto Pinochet's 1973-90 military junta, is virtually certain to win the first round but not get the 50 percent needed to avoid a second round runoff. AFP PHOTO STR
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Chile's Socialist Presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet of the center left pro-govenrment Coalition tours a new submarine purchased by the Chilean Navy in Valparaiso, Chile, Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. Bachelet is the frontrunner for the Dec. 11 presidential election. (AP Photo/Felix Alonso)
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Chile's Socialist Presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet of the center left pro-govenrment Coalition gestures during a visit to know a new submarine purchased by the Chilean Navy in Valparaiso, Chile, Friday, Dec. 9, 2005. Bachelet is the frontrunner for the Dec. 11 presidential election. (AP Photo/Felix Alonso)
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Socialist presidential candidate Michelle Bachelet of the pro-government coalition is surrounded by Army soldiers as she leaves the Verbo Divino polling station in Santiago, Chile, Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005 for presidential and legislative elections. Turnout was heavy for the vote in the fourth presidential election since democracy was restored in 1990 _ a race that could give the conservative Latin American country its first female president. (AP Photo/La Tercera)
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A Palestinian police officer crouches in position as another runs behind during an anti-crime operation in the West Bank village of Bani Naim, near Hebron Sunday Dec. 11, 2005. Seven people were detained and more than 15 stolen vehicles were collcted during the operation Sunday. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
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A Palestinian police officer looks through the scope of a sniper rifle as he stands guard on the roof of a mosque during a ceremony where Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas layed the corner stone of a USAID funded project at the site of the future Palestinian Justice Palace in Gaza City, Saturday, Dec. 10, 2005. Abbas in his speech urged militant factions to extend their informal truce with Israel which is to expire at the end of the year. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
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A US soldier stands guard on top of a building during a patrol in Kabul, early 11 December 2005. Some 18,000 US troops station in Afghanistan hunting down remnants of the toppled Taliban regime, mainly in the war-torn country's south and east. US military officials recently said that a reduction in the number of their toops in Afghanistan is likely after NATO expends its reach in the south and east next year. AFP PHOTO/ SHAH Marai
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Afghan refugee women and girls wait to get the humanitarian aid of food and other donation from German government at a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005. Around 195 refugee families got sugar, flour, tea, beans, peas and cooking oil ahead of the winter season. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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An Afghan refugee woman, right, walks along with food and other donation offered as humanitarian aid by German government after she received those at a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005. Around 195 refugee families got sugar, flour, tea, beans, peas and cooking oil ahead of the winter season. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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Afghan refugee child Kabeer Ahamd, 6, carries a 5 kilogram can of cooking oil to his home during a food distribution at a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005. Around 195 refugee families got food and other items such as sugar, flour, tea, beans, peas and cooking oil ahead of the winter season as humanitarian aid by German government. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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This still image made from video and released Sunday, Dec. 11, 2005 by IntelCenter, a government contractor that does support work for the U.S. intelligence community, shows Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri praising Taliban successes in Afghanistan against U.S.-led forces and urging Muslims around the world to take part in a holy war against the West. The new tape, which could not be immediately authenticated, is about 48 minutes long and was believed to have been made at about the same time that the last tape attributed to al-Zawahri, a Sept. 19 video, was issued. (AP Photo/IntelCenter)