callous
12-18-2005, 02:47 PM
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Bulgarian troops march inside their camp in the Iraqi city of Diwaniya, 180km (112 miles) south of Baghdad December 17, 2005. The main Arab Sunni alliance that contested Iraq's election said on Saturday it was a success despite some violations, fuelling U.S. hopes that peaceful politics will help pave the way for a troop withdrawal. *******/Imad Al-Khozai
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Bulgarian troops march inside their camp in the Iraqi city of Diwaniya, 180km (112 miles) south of Baghdad December 17, 2005.
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Iraqi supporters of the Tawafoq Iraqi Front list, Sunni Arab, wave their assault rifles and the Iraqi flag at a street in Baghdad, Iraq Saturday, Dec. 17, 2005. Adnan Al-Dulaimi reaffirmed Saturday his party's commitment to forming a coalition in the next parliament and thanked insurgent groups for not carrying out attacks during the election. (AP Photo/Asaad Muhsin)
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U.S. armoured vehicles patrol a neighbourhood in central Baghdad December 16, 2005, a day after parliamentary elections were held in Iraq. (Thaier al-Sudani/*******)
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An Iraqi policeman directs the traffic as the driving curfew imposed during the elections is lifted in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday Dec. 17, 2005. In a joint statement, the two senior U.S. officials in Iraq offered congratulations on the successful election and called for unity as the country approaches formation of a new government. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hato)
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Iraqi Army Col. Saman Talabani, center, leaves a meeting with city council members in Abarra, Iraq on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005 after warning the leaders to stop harboring insurgents. Talabani commands a brigade of about four thousand Iraqi soldiers that oversee the ethnically and religiously mixed province of Diyala north of Baghdad. 'If our soldiers get shot, I don't care _ they can shoot back and level a house,' he said, visibly angry because several of his soldiers had been wounded two days earlier in a complex ambush that included attacking the ambulance that came to evacuate the wounded. (AP Photo/Antonio Castaneda)
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Bystanders look at the wreckage of a police car after a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol exploded in northeast Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday morning, Dec. 18, 2005, killing three police officers and injuring two, according to Iraqi police. Cars and trucks returned to Iraq's roads as authorities eased tight security imposed for the parliamentary election, and the main Sunni Arab alliance said it was open to forming a governing coalition with a religious Shiite bloc. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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U.S. Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sergeant Barcia Peter, left, stands for a photograph with a Santa Claus during a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq Saturday, Dec. 17, 2005. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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U.S. Air Force Cpt. Carolyn Stratton touches a Christmas tree during a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2005. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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Iraqi soldiers display an array of weapons at the customs police headquarters in Najaf, Iraq, Sunday Dec. 18, 2005. The weapons cache was found in the desert some 70 kilometers ( 43 miles ) west of Najaf. More than 15 people died in a string of bombings and shootings overnight and on Sunday, shattering three days of relative calm that followed the country's first election for a full-term parliament. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)
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A masked Iraqi soldier patrols the street close to where a roadside bomb was detonated in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Dec. 18, 2005. A string of bomb attacks and shootings overnight and on Sunday left nearly two dozen people dead, including two suicide bombers, shattering three days of relative calm that followed Iraq's first election for a full-term parliament. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Fusilier Manjit Nijjar of Britain's West Midlands Regiment keeps watch as a vehicle in a convoy has a tyre changed on a roadside, in the desert in southern Iraq, Saturday Dec. 17, 2005.
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A British fusilier Manjit Nijjat of 1st Battalion West Midlands Regiment holds his weapon in front of flames from oil installation in desert in southern Iraq December 17, 2005. A senior British commander in Iraq on Friday predicted Shi'ite Muslim factions which teamed up for Thursday's election might soon fall out and fight now the vote is over. *******/Damir Sagolj
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An Iraqi Marsh Arab stands as British soldiers patrol in Iraq's southern marshlands near Basra December 16, 2005, a day after elections for the country's first full-term parliament since Saddam Hussein's overthrow. *******/Damir Sagolj
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Iraqi army soldiers wave as they return from a successful patrol in Hammam al Alil, about 350 kilometers (220 miles) north of Baghdad in Iraq on Friday, Dec. 16, 2005. U.S. forces have made training and equipping the Iraqi army a top priority following parliamentary elections on Dec. 15. and U.S. commanders want Iraqi forces to take over responsibility for security as soon as possible. (AP Photo/Chris Tomlinson)
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A U.S. soldier and Iraqi police look on at the scene of a police car which overturned during clashes which erupted between a police patrol and a group of gunmen in the Al-Jamiyah neighborhood, in western Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005. One policeman was killed and ten wounded in the clashes, according to police. (AP Photo/Asaad Muhsin)
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Iraqi soldiers ride in the back of a pickup truck while on a patrol with soldiers from the U.S. Army in Diyala province, Iraq, Sunday Dec. 18, 2005. Elsewhere, U.S. Vice President **** Cheney made a surprise visit to Iraq today, and watched Iraqi troops training. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
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An Iraqi soldier rides in the back of a pickup truck while on a patrol with soldiers from the U.S. Army in Diyala province, Iraq, Sunday Dec. 18, 2005. Elsewhere, U.S. Vice President **** Cheney made a surprise visit to Iraq today, and watched Iraqi troops training. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
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Iraqi soldiers sit on ballot boxes being transported for general counting, a day after parliamentary elections were in Iraq, in Baghdad December 16, 2005. (Ali Jasim/*******)
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A soldier places a Santa Claus puppet at the entrance of one of the buildings of the US military base in Kirkuk. US Vice President **** Cheney visited Iraq for the first time since the 2003 US-led invasion, following an election that many hope can ease sectarian tensions despite a return to deadly violence.(AFP/Filippo Monteforte)
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An Iraqi soldier, wearing the national flag atop his helmet, gestures for a car to advance towards a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday Dec. 17, 2005. A three-day vehicle ban imposed for security reasons around the Dec. 15 elections has been lifted. In a joint statement, the two senior U.S. officials in Iraq offered congratulations on the successful election and called for unity as the country approaches formation of a new government. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hato)
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Israeli soldiers prevent Palestinians from crossing the street during a funeral ceramony of Israeli Yossi Shok at the Jewish cemetery in the West Bank town of Hebron Sunday Dec 18, 2005. Shok, 31, was killed Friday by Palestinian gunmen in a shooting attack near the settlement of Beit Hagai.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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An Israeli soldier arrests a Palestinian youth at Qalandiya checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah December 17, 2005. *******/Mahfouz Abu Turk
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Israeli soldiers take up position at the scene where a Jewish settler was killed on Friday in a drive-by shooting by Palestinian gunmen, near the West Bank city of Hebron, December 18, 2005. *******/Ronen Zvulun
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An Israeli soldier takes up position during a funeral for a Jewish settler, who was killed on Friday in a drive-by shooting by Palestinian gunmen, in the West Bank city of Hebron December 18, 2005. *******/Nayef Hashlamoun
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Palestinian security men inspect a damaged armoured personal carrier after an Israeli warplane fired missiles into key bridges in northern Gaza December 18, 2005. Israeli aircraft struck the Gaza Strip repeatedly early on Sunday and the army said it had targeted sites used by militants firing rockets into Israel and roads for transporting the makeshift missiles. *******/Suhaib Salem
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Masked Palestinian boys hold toy rifles during a rally to mark the 38th anniversary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Gaza City, Sunday Dec. 18, 2005. Israeli warplanes pounded targets in the Gaza Strip early Sunday, in response to Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, the army said.(AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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A Palestinian policeman in full sapper's gear dismantles a car bomb discovered near a hospital in the West Bank City of Nablus December 18, 2005. Palestinian sources said the bomb was probably intended for use against Israel army patrols. *******/Abed Omar Qusini
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Indian paramilitary soldiers stand near the site of a grenade explosion in Srinagar, India, Sunday, Dec.18, 2005. Nobody was injured after suspected militants hurled a grenade at paramilitary forces in a market, police said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
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An Indian paramilitary soldier stands near the site of a grenade explosion in Srinagar, India, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005. Nobody was injured after suspected militants hurled a grenade at paramilitary forces in a market, police said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
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Indian soldiers. India plans to post more troops along its border with Bangladesh in a bid to stop infiltration by Islamic militants operating in the neighbouring country.(AFP/File/Tauseef Mustafa)
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Soldiers jump from a helicopter during a joint military and civilian rescue exercise in the southern province of Yala, 1,200 km (750 miles) from Bangkok, on December 17, 2005. Yala is one of eight provinces in the rain-lashed southern region where torrential monsoon rains have wreaked havoc and killed 12 people in the past week. Picture taken December 17, 2005. *******/Surapan Boonthanom
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A Soldier makes his way through floodwaters during a joint military and civilian rescue exercise in the southern province of Yala, 1,200 km (750 miles) from Bangkok December 17, 2005. Yala is one of eight provinces in the rain-lashed southern region where torrential monsoon rains have wreaked havoc and killed 12 people in the past week. Picture taken December 17, 2005. *******/Surapan Boonthanom
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Soldiers make their way through floodwaters during a joint military and civilian rescue exercise in the southern province of Yala, 1,200 km (750 miles) from Bangkok December 17, 2005. Yala is one of eight provinces in the rain-lashed southern region where torrential monsoon rains have wreaked havoc and killed 12 people in the past week. Picture taken December 17, 2005. *******/Surapan Boonthanom
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Two Russian soldiers stand in front of a war memorial in the southern Russian city of Stavropol December 17, 2005. Veterans of the Afghanistan and Chechen wars and soldier's relatives remembered on Saturday those who died in the Russian campaigns during a ceremony in Stavropol. *******/Eduard Korniyenko
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Sri Lankan soldiers stand on an armoured car as they take part in a ceremony in Colombo. Scandinavian ceasefire monitors in Sri Lanka have blamed Tamil Tigers for shooting at an unarmed military helicopter earlier this week and said the attack seriously undermined the fragile truce.(AFP/Sena Vidanagama)
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Bangladeshi Rapid Action Battalion soldiers. Bangladesh's elite security force has arrested a regional commander and seized large caches of explosives as part of a crackdown on militants waging a suicide bombing campaign to impose Islamic law.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)
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Soldiers of the Engineering Brigade 100 of the German armed forces Bundeswehr attend a welcome ceremony at the airport in Frankfurt December 17, 2005. A group of 68 German soldiers had stayed in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a trainee program for Iraqi security forces that lasted more than 2 months. *******/Alex Grimm
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Colonel Henning Dahmen welcomes soldiers of the Engineering Brigade 100 of the German armed forces Bundeswehr at the airport in Frankfurt December 17, 2005. A group of 68 German soldiers had stayed in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a trainee program for Iraqi security forces that lasted more than 2 months. *******/Alex Grimm
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Villagers and a soldier in Thailand's Yala province. Thailand should stop using blacklists to track down suspected militants and their supporters in restive Muslim provinces, Human Rights Watch said, saying the lists are flawed and could lead to abuses(AFP/File/Mohammad Sabri)
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An Afghan policeman. Three policemen and a suspected Taliban insurgent were killed when around a dozen attackers stormed a highway checkpost in southern Afghanistan, police said.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)
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Members of the Afghan security forces and foreign peacekeepers survey the wreckage of a car destroyed when a suicide bomber detonated explosives near two Norwegian peacekeeping vehicles in the Afghan capital Kabul December 16, 2005. (Omar Sobhani/*******)
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Argentine U.N. peacekeepers take position while Haitians look at them during a street patrol in Gonaives, Haiti December 16, 2005. Haiti has been run by an appointed government since former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled into exile. A United Nations peacekeeping force of nearly 9,000 troops and police is helping to provide security in the poorest country of the Americas. Haiti will hold its legislative and presidential elections on January 8, 2006. *******/Eduardo Muno
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An Argentine United Nations peacekeeper takes position in front of a banner of Senate candidate Winter Etienne during a patrol on a street in Gonaives, Haiti December 16, 2005. Haiti has been run by an appointed government since former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled into exile. A United Nations peacekeeping force of nearly 9,000 troops and police is helping to provide security in the poorest country of the Americas. Haiti will hold its legislative and presidential elections on January 8, 2006. *******/Eduardo Munoz
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Canadian police on patrol. Canadian police have arrested a 23 year-old man in Toronto whose father was a member of Al-Qaeda killed in a shootout in Pakistan, the suspect's lawyer said.(AFP/File/J.P. Moczulski)
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A South Korean protester hits riot police with a baton seized from a policeman as they try to break through a police line on their way to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, venue for the sixth World Trade Organisation Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong December 17, 2005. Hundreds of protesters battled past police lines on Saturday to reach the building where a meeting of world trade ministers is being held, a ******* reporter said. (Bobby Yip/*******)
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South Korean anti-globalization demonstrators are sprayed by riot police with pepper foam during a demonstration against the sixth World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Hong Kong. Police used tear gas, fire hoses and pepper spray to hold back hundreds of demonstrators led by militant Korean farmers, some of whom were armed with bamboo sticks and metal bars(AFP/Jung Yeon Je)
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Riot police rest on the main street after fighting against anti-WTO protesters, close to Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, venue of the sixth World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong, December 18, 2005. (Paul Yeung/*******)
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South Korean farmers (L and 3nd L, bottom) and Hong Kong riot policemen pose as South Korean farmers hold a rally asking for release of their colleagues, who were arrested by police during Saturday's anti-WTO protest, in Hong Kong December 18, 2005. *******/Lee Jae-Won
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Riot police arrest a youth suspected of throwing stones at police and trying to prevent Congolese voters from taking part in a constitutional referendum in Kinshasa December 18, 2005. Congo held its first national democratic poll in 40 years on Sunday but pockets of violence marred the vote on a new constitution aimed at ending decades of dictatorship, war and chaos. *******/David Lewis
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A Russian police officer equiped with riot helmet is covered by the snow while patroling the Ice Palace where the XVII Womens World Handball Championship is taken place, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Badges with an ambiguous message are seen at North Cronulla Beach in Sydney December 18, 2005. The badges are for sale for $A4.00 ($3.00). Several Sydney beaches are off limits to prevent outbreaks of racially motivated violence as 2,000 police officers patrol the beaches in the biggest security operation since the 2000 Olympics. *******/Will Burgess
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Hundreds of hunters went on the rampage in this northwestern French city and clashed with teargas-firing riot police as a demonstration against a duck-decoy ban turned violent, police said.(AFP/Robert Francois)
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Shot on goal : Viviane Jacques of Brazil shoots to score against Korea during their handball match at the XVII Women's World Championship in St. Petersburg. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
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Singer Shakira performs on stage during the 'Z100 Jingle Ball 2005' at Madison Square Garden, Friday, Dec. 16, 2005 in New York. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)
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Bulgarian troops march inside their camp in the Iraqi city of Diwaniya, 180km (112 miles) south of Baghdad December 17, 2005. The main Arab Sunni alliance that contested Iraq's election said on Saturday it was a success despite some violations, fuelling U.S. hopes that peaceful politics will help pave the way for a troop withdrawal. *******/Imad Al-Khozai
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Bulgarian troops march inside their camp in the Iraqi city of Diwaniya, 180km (112 miles) south of Baghdad December 17, 2005.
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Iraqi supporters of the Tawafoq Iraqi Front list, Sunni Arab, wave their assault rifles and the Iraqi flag at a street in Baghdad, Iraq Saturday, Dec. 17, 2005. Adnan Al-Dulaimi reaffirmed Saturday his party's commitment to forming a coalition in the next parliament and thanked insurgent groups for not carrying out attacks during the election. (AP Photo/Asaad Muhsin)
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U.S. armoured vehicles patrol a neighbourhood in central Baghdad December 16, 2005, a day after parliamentary elections were held in Iraq. (Thaier al-Sudani/*******)
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An Iraqi policeman directs the traffic as the driving curfew imposed during the elections is lifted in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday Dec. 17, 2005. In a joint statement, the two senior U.S. officials in Iraq offered congratulations on the successful election and called for unity as the country approaches formation of a new government. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hato)
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Iraqi Army Col. Saman Talabani, center, leaves a meeting with city council members in Abarra, Iraq on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005 after warning the leaders to stop harboring insurgents. Talabani commands a brigade of about four thousand Iraqi soldiers that oversee the ethnically and religiously mixed province of Diyala north of Baghdad. 'If our soldiers get shot, I don't care _ they can shoot back and level a house,' he said, visibly angry because several of his soldiers had been wounded two days earlier in a complex ambush that included attacking the ambulance that came to evacuate the wounded. (AP Photo/Antonio Castaneda)
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Bystanders look at the wreckage of a police car after a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol exploded in northeast Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday morning, Dec. 18, 2005, killing three police officers and injuring two, according to Iraqi police. Cars and trucks returned to Iraq's roads as authorities eased tight security imposed for the parliamentary election, and the main Sunni Arab alliance said it was open to forming a governing coalition with a religious Shiite bloc. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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U.S. Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sergeant Barcia Peter, left, stands for a photograph with a Santa Claus during a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq Saturday, Dec. 17, 2005. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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U.S. Air Force Cpt. Carolyn Stratton touches a Christmas tree during a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2005. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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Iraqi soldiers display an array of weapons at the customs police headquarters in Najaf, Iraq, Sunday Dec. 18, 2005. The weapons cache was found in the desert some 70 kilometers ( 43 miles ) west of Najaf. More than 15 people died in a string of bombings and shootings overnight and on Sunday, shattering three days of relative calm that followed the country's first election for a full-term parliament. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)
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A masked Iraqi soldier patrols the street close to where a roadside bomb was detonated in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Dec. 18, 2005. A string of bomb attacks and shootings overnight and on Sunday left nearly two dozen people dead, including two suicide bombers, shattering three days of relative calm that followed Iraq's first election for a full-term parliament. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Fusilier Manjit Nijjar of Britain's West Midlands Regiment keeps watch as a vehicle in a convoy has a tyre changed on a roadside, in the desert in southern Iraq, Saturday Dec. 17, 2005.
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A British fusilier Manjit Nijjat of 1st Battalion West Midlands Regiment holds his weapon in front of flames from oil installation in desert in southern Iraq December 17, 2005. A senior British commander in Iraq on Friday predicted Shi'ite Muslim factions which teamed up for Thursday's election might soon fall out and fight now the vote is over. *******/Damir Sagolj
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An Iraqi Marsh Arab stands as British soldiers patrol in Iraq's southern marshlands near Basra December 16, 2005, a day after elections for the country's first full-term parliament since Saddam Hussein's overthrow. *******/Damir Sagolj
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Iraqi army soldiers wave as they return from a successful patrol in Hammam al Alil, about 350 kilometers (220 miles) north of Baghdad in Iraq on Friday, Dec. 16, 2005. U.S. forces have made training and equipping the Iraqi army a top priority following parliamentary elections on Dec. 15. and U.S. commanders want Iraqi forces to take over responsibility for security as soon as possible. (AP Photo/Chris Tomlinson)
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A U.S. soldier and Iraqi police look on at the scene of a police car which overturned during clashes which erupted between a police patrol and a group of gunmen in the Al-Jamiyah neighborhood, in western Baghdad, Iraq Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005. One policeman was killed and ten wounded in the clashes, according to police. (AP Photo/Asaad Muhsin)
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Iraqi soldiers ride in the back of a pickup truck while on a patrol with soldiers from the U.S. Army in Diyala province, Iraq, Sunday Dec. 18, 2005. Elsewhere, U.S. Vice President **** Cheney made a surprise visit to Iraq today, and watched Iraqi troops training. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
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An Iraqi soldier rides in the back of a pickup truck while on a patrol with soldiers from the U.S. Army in Diyala province, Iraq, Sunday Dec. 18, 2005. Elsewhere, U.S. Vice President **** Cheney made a surprise visit to Iraq today, and watched Iraqi troops training. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
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Iraqi soldiers sit on ballot boxes being transported for general counting, a day after parliamentary elections were in Iraq, in Baghdad December 16, 2005. (Ali Jasim/*******)
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A soldier places a Santa Claus puppet at the entrance of one of the buildings of the US military base in Kirkuk. US Vice President **** Cheney visited Iraq for the first time since the 2003 US-led invasion, following an election that many hope can ease sectarian tensions despite a return to deadly violence.(AFP/Filippo Monteforte)
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An Iraqi soldier, wearing the national flag atop his helmet, gestures for a car to advance towards a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday Dec. 17, 2005. A three-day vehicle ban imposed for security reasons around the Dec. 15 elections has been lifted. In a joint statement, the two senior U.S. officials in Iraq offered congratulations on the successful election and called for unity as the country approaches formation of a new government. (AP Photo/Mohammed Hato)
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Israeli soldiers prevent Palestinians from crossing the street during a funeral ceramony of Israeli Yossi Shok at the Jewish cemetery in the West Bank town of Hebron Sunday Dec 18, 2005. Shok, 31, was killed Friday by Palestinian gunmen in a shooting attack near the settlement of Beit Hagai.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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An Israeli soldier arrests a Palestinian youth at Qalandiya checkpoint between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah December 17, 2005. *******/Mahfouz Abu Turk
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Israeli soldiers take up position at the scene where a Jewish settler was killed on Friday in a drive-by shooting by Palestinian gunmen, near the West Bank city of Hebron, December 18, 2005. *******/Ronen Zvulun
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An Israeli soldier takes up position during a funeral for a Jewish settler, who was killed on Friday in a drive-by shooting by Palestinian gunmen, in the West Bank city of Hebron December 18, 2005. *******/Nayef Hashlamoun
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Palestinian security men inspect a damaged armoured personal carrier after an Israeli warplane fired missiles into key bridges in northern Gaza December 18, 2005. Israeli aircraft struck the Gaza Strip repeatedly early on Sunday and the army said it had targeted sites used by militants firing rockets into Israel and roads for transporting the makeshift missiles. *******/Suhaib Salem
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Masked Palestinian boys hold toy rifles during a rally to mark the 38th anniversary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Gaza City, Sunday Dec. 18, 2005. Israeli warplanes pounded targets in the Gaza Strip early Sunday, in response to Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, the army said.(AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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A Palestinian policeman in full sapper's gear dismantles a car bomb discovered near a hospital in the West Bank City of Nablus December 18, 2005. Palestinian sources said the bomb was probably intended for use against Israel army patrols. *******/Abed Omar Qusini
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Indian paramilitary soldiers stand near the site of a grenade explosion in Srinagar, India, Sunday, Dec.18, 2005. Nobody was injured after suspected militants hurled a grenade at paramilitary forces in a market, police said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
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An Indian paramilitary soldier stands near the site of a grenade explosion in Srinagar, India, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005. Nobody was injured after suspected militants hurled a grenade at paramilitary forces in a market, police said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
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Indian soldiers. India plans to post more troops along its border with Bangladesh in a bid to stop infiltration by Islamic militants operating in the neighbouring country.(AFP/File/Tauseef Mustafa)
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Soldiers jump from a helicopter during a joint military and civilian rescue exercise in the southern province of Yala, 1,200 km (750 miles) from Bangkok, on December 17, 2005. Yala is one of eight provinces in the rain-lashed southern region where torrential monsoon rains have wreaked havoc and killed 12 people in the past week. Picture taken December 17, 2005. *******/Surapan Boonthanom
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A Soldier makes his way through floodwaters during a joint military and civilian rescue exercise in the southern province of Yala, 1,200 km (750 miles) from Bangkok December 17, 2005. Yala is one of eight provinces in the rain-lashed southern region where torrential monsoon rains have wreaked havoc and killed 12 people in the past week. Picture taken December 17, 2005. *******/Surapan Boonthanom
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Soldiers make their way through floodwaters during a joint military and civilian rescue exercise in the southern province of Yala, 1,200 km (750 miles) from Bangkok December 17, 2005. Yala is one of eight provinces in the rain-lashed southern region where torrential monsoon rains have wreaked havoc and killed 12 people in the past week. Picture taken December 17, 2005. *******/Surapan Boonthanom
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Two Russian soldiers stand in front of a war memorial in the southern Russian city of Stavropol December 17, 2005. Veterans of the Afghanistan and Chechen wars and soldier's relatives remembered on Saturday those who died in the Russian campaigns during a ceremony in Stavropol. *******/Eduard Korniyenko
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Sri Lankan soldiers stand on an armoured car as they take part in a ceremony in Colombo. Scandinavian ceasefire monitors in Sri Lanka have blamed Tamil Tigers for shooting at an unarmed military helicopter earlier this week and said the attack seriously undermined the fragile truce.(AFP/Sena Vidanagama)
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Bangladeshi Rapid Action Battalion soldiers. Bangladesh's elite security force has arrested a regional commander and seized large caches of explosives as part of a crackdown on militants waging a suicide bombing campaign to impose Islamic law.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)
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Soldiers of the Engineering Brigade 100 of the German armed forces Bundeswehr attend a welcome ceremony at the airport in Frankfurt December 17, 2005. A group of 68 German soldiers had stayed in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a trainee program for Iraqi security forces that lasted more than 2 months. *******/Alex Grimm
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Colonel Henning Dahmen welcomes soldiers of the Engineering Brigade 100 of the German armed forces Bundeswehr at the airport in Frankfurt December 17, 2005. A group of 68 German soldiers had stayed in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a trainee program for Iraqi security forces that lasted more than 2 months. *******/Alex Grimm
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Villagers and a soldier in Thailand's Yala province. Thailand should stop using blacklists to track down suspected militants and their supporters in restive Muslim provinces, Human Rights Watch said, saying the lists are flawed and could lead to abuses(AFP/File/Mohammad Sabri)
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An Afghan policeman. Three policemen and a suspected Taliban insurgent were killed when around a dozen attackers stormed a highway checkpost in southern Afghanistan, police said.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)
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Members of the Afghan security forces and foreign peacekeepers survey the wreckage of a car destroyed when a suicide bomber detonated explosives near two Norwegian peacekeeping vehicles in the Afghan capital Kabul December 16, 2005. (Omar Sobhani/*******)
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Argentine U.N. peacekeepers take position while Haitians look at them during a street patrol in Gonaives, Haiti December 16, 2005. Haiti has been run by an appointed government since former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled into exile. A United Nations peacekeeping force of nearly 9,000 troops and police is helping to provide security in the poorest country of the Americas. Haiti will hold its legislative and presidential elections on January 8, 2006. *******/Eduardo Muno
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An Argentine United Nations peacekeeper takes position in front of a banner of Senate candidate Winter Etienne during a patrol on a street in Gonaives, Haiti December 16, 2005. Haiti has been run by an appointed government since former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled into exile. A United Nations peacekeeping force of nearly 9,000 troops and police is helping to provide security in the poorest country of the Americas. Haiti will hold its legislative and presidential elections on January 8, 2006. *******/Eduardo Munoz
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Canadian police on patrol. Canadian police have arrested a 23 year-old man in Toronto whose father was a member of Al-Qaeda killed in a shootout in Pakistan, the suspect's lawyer said.(AFP/File/J.P. Moczulski)
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A South Korean protester hits riot police with a baton seized from a policeman as they try to break through a police line on their way to the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, venue for the sixth World Trade Organisation Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong December 17, 2005. Hundreds of protesters battled past police lines on Saturday to reach the building where a meeting of world trade ministers is being held, a ******* reporter said. (Bobby Yip/*******)
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South Korean anti-globalization demonstrators are sprayed by riot police with pepper foam during a demonstration against the sixth World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Hong Kong. Police used tear gas, fire hoses and pepper spray to hold back hundreds of demonstrators led by militant Korean farmers, some of whom were armed with bamboo sticks and metal bars(AFP/Jung Yeon Je)
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Riot police rest on the main street after fighting against anti-WTO protesters, close to Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, venue of the sixth World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong, December 18, 2005. (Paul Yeung/*******)
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South Korean farmers (L and 3nd L, bottom) and Hong Kong riot policemen pose as South Korean farmers hold a rally asking for release of their colleagues, who were arrested by police during Saturday's anti-WTO protest, in Hong Kong December 18, 2005. *******/Lee Jae-Won
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Riot police arrest a youth suspected of throwing stones at police and trying to prevent Congolese voters from taking part in a constitutional referendum in Kinshasa December 18, 2005. Congo held its first national democratic poll in 40 years on Sunday but pockets of violence marred the vote on a new constitution aimed at ending decades of dictatorship, war and chaos. *******/David Lewis
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A Russian police officer equiped with riot helmet is covered by the snow while patroling the Ice Palace where the XVII Womens World Handball Championship is taken place, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
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Badges with an ambiguous message are seen at North Cronulla Beach in Sydney December 18, 2005. The badges are for sale for $A4.00 ($3.00). Several Sydney beaches are off limits to prevent outbreaks of racially motivated violence as 2,000 police officers patrol the beaches in the biggest security operation since the 2000 Olympics. *******/Will Burgess
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Hundreds of hunters went on the rampage in this northwestern French city and clashed with teargas-firing riot police as a demonstration against a duck-decoy ban turned violent, police said.(AFP/Robert Francois)
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Shot on goal : Viviane Jacques of Brazil shoots to score against Korea during their handball match at the XVII Women's World Championship in St. Petersburg. (AFP/Mladen Antonov)
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Singer Shakira performs on stage during the 'Z100 Jingle Ball 2005' at Madison Square Garden, Friday, Dec. 16, 2005 in New York. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)