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03-01-2004, 11:27 PM
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KUWAIT - MARCH 10: Marine Alasdair Kane, a British Royal Marine soldier from the 42nd Commando Lima Brigade, goes through training exercises in camouflage using a .338 sniper rifle March 10, 2003 in the desert 70 kilometers from Kuwait city near the Iraqi border.
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BASRA, IRAQ - APRIL 3: In this hand out image by the British Defence Ministry, (L-R) Lance Sergeant Chris Briggs and Guardsman Warren Bradford serve as a snipers with Support Company attached to Number 1 Company 1st Battalion The Irish Guards April 3, 2003 in Basra, Iraq. In a dawn raid on a university factory complex within sight of their patrol base at Bridge Four on the outskirts of Basra, the Irish Guards attacked and cleared the base after coming under fire from small arms mortars and SAM Missile systems, which were fired from Iraqi positions at a British Lynx Helicopter supporting the Irish Guards. Briggs and Bradford are one of four sniper pairs set up within the buildings to provide covering fire for the Royal Engineers attempting to put out one of the numerous oil well fires. (Photo by Giles Penfound/MOD/***** Images)
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1st Battalion, Royal Regiment Royal Fusiliers, are given the order to move
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QAL'AT SUKKAR, IRAQ - APRIL 7: A U.S. Marine sniper siganls to his colleague April 7, 2003 in Qal'at Sukkar, Iraq. The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit entered the town looking for weapons and destroying pictures of Saddam Hussein. (Photo by Chris Hondros/***** Images)
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French Army Commandos operate 27 September 2003 a simulation of a pilot (C/hood)) during a rescue operation in Godoria, 100 kilometers (60 miles) North East of the capital city Djibouti, in the framework of a military exercise. Djibouti, which has a population of 630,000, is also host to some 2,800 French soldiers based there since the African country's independence to protect it against the treat of external aggression. AFP PHOTO/MARCO LONGARI (Photo credit should read MARCO LONGARI/AFP/***** Images)
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JAKARTA, INDONESIA - DECEMBER 22: Indonesian troops from the Army's Raider Battalions fly above a parade attended by more than 11,000 soldiers in an Army Day parade on December 22, 2003 at Kemayoran in Central Jakarta, Indonesia. The Raider Battalions were strengthened during 2003 to help fight insurgency. (Photo by Dimas Ardian/***** Images)
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Soldiers from the Indonesian army's Strategic Command (KOSTRAD) march with their rifles during the elite unit's 46th anniversary March 6, 2003 in Jakarta, Indonesia
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Members of Indonesian elite navy seals prepare themself with weapon during an anti-terror drill near an island some 25 kilometers off the coast of the Jakarta Bay, 23 September 2003. The navy seals are part of a group of joint security forces currently prepared by the government to anticipate future terror attacks in Indonesia following recent bombings in Bali and Jakarta, which killed and injured hundreds of people.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - JUNE 7: U.S. special forces soldiers talk with German International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers June 7, 2003 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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CENTRAL IRAQ - APRIL 11: A U.S. Marine with Force Recon of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit stands armed while flowers hang from his pants April 11, 2003 in central Iraq, north of Naseriya. The flowers were given to him by grateful Iraqis. Force Recon is the U.S. Marines' equivalent of U.S. Special Forces, tasked with recon and other sensitive missions in small groups. (Photo by Chris Hondros/***** Images)
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NEAR KIRKUK, IRAQ - April 16: A soldier of the 173rd Airborne Brigade helps to secure oil facilities April 16, 2003 near Kirkuk in Northern Iraq.
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A UN French special forces soldier (COS) keeps a close eye on the situation on the streets of Bunia, 09 June 2003, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) trying to prevent fighting between Hema-dominated Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) supporters and Lendu majority militia.
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A UN French special forces soldier watches over the situation while a UN helicopter lands 10 june 2003 on Bunia airport.
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UN French special forces guard a position 13 June 2003 outside Bunia, the bloodstained eastern corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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soldiers of French-Swedish special forces stand in Bunia, 01 August 2003. The force was sent in after it became clear that 700 UN peacekeepers already deployed in the troubled Ituri province in the northeastern part of the DRCongo were not enough.
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Members of a special Israeli police force practice 21 July 2003 in Caesarea, on the coast between Tel Aviv and Haifa, a hostage situation in which "terrorists" take over a passenger bus.
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ISRAEL - AUGUST 12: In this photo distributed by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), special anti-terror troops rappell out a helicopter during a training exercise August 12, 2003 in a training base in Israel's southern desert. (Photo by IDF/***** Images)
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Israeli soldiers firing an honor volley over the grave of Lieutenant Daniel Mandel April 15, 2003 during his funeral at the West Bank Jewish settlement of Alon Shvutk. Mandel, a 24-year-old lieutenant in an elite infantry unit, was killed hours earlier during a firefight with Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank town of Nablus. Born in Toronto, Canada, he immigrated to Israel with his family 15 years ago.
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Members of the South African special forces are pictured, 10 August 2003 in Monrovia. South African special forces arrived 10 August in Monrovia with their equipment to prepare for President Thabo Mbeki's upcoming visit to attend the transition of power in the war-wrecked nation.
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A member of the South African special forces and a South African policeman chat, 10 August 2003 in Monrovia.
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An American special forces soldier mans a tripod mounted sniper rifle on the roof of a vehicle in Afghanistan's Wardak province, 20 August 2003.
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Photograph dated 22 August 2003 showing German Military Police staging an exercise at the Letzlingen military training center in preparation for duty with KFOR in Kosovo. Germany plans to beef up its special forces units (KSK) to strengthen its role in the international "war on terrorism" and its ability to free citizens taken hostage abroad, Defense Minister Peter Struck said in an interview 24 August 2003.
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KUNDUZ, AFGHANISTAN: German Defence Minister Peter Struck (L) points as he stands besides an unidentified soldier of the German Armed Forces Bundeswehr and an Afghan guard at a Bundeswehr base in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz 31 January 2004.
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Russian special task forces patrol in Grozny 26 August 2003. AFP PHOTO/ ALEXANDER NEMENOV. (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/***** Images)
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GUDERMES, RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Russian special forces escort a man suspected of taking part in guerilla activities against federal forces in the town of Gudermes, 25 November 2003.
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Instructor gives an order to a 'Vityaz' special elite anti-terror unit's soldiers during their examination for madder beret (on instructor's head), the symbol of courage and professionalism in Russian interior troops 10 October 2003 in Noginsk, near Moscow. Only four fighters of 84 candidates got berets after the annual examination.
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An instructor throws sand on 'Vityaz' anti-terror units soldiers during their examination for madder beret, the symbol of courage and professionalism in Russian interior troops.
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A 'Vityaz' anti-terror unit instuctor (R) embrases a soldier who passed the hand-to-hand fight -- the final part of the examination for madder beret
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File picture, dated June 2003, shows the commander of Russia's elite airborne forces Grigory Shpak in Ryazan airborn high school.
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MOSCOW, RUSSIAN FEDERATION: A member of the elite Russian special police forces grimaces inside a bus standing outside of a Russian ultranationalist party headquarters in Moscow, 17 January, 2004. Some 30 supporters of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP) barricading themselves inside their basement headquarters as dozen of elite police soldiers huddled in two buses, two vans and up to five patrol cars outside. Party members said the standoff in the morning, when uniformed OMON police special forces pulled up and demanded to be allowed into headquarters.
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Turkish special forces paratrooper
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Turkish special forces members attend the 30 August Victory Day Celebrations in capital Ankara, 30 August 2003. AFP PHOTO / TARIK TINAZAY (Photo credit should read TARIK TINAZAY/AFP/***** Images)
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A Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) police team show off their weapons at a display in Beijing 21 July 2003. China had recently established an emergency command system and rapid-response mechanism made up of a multi-agency task force involving police and the armed forces to attack terrorism at national and local levels.
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An elite squad of the Chinese People's Armed Police demonstrate how they handle a terrorist attack in Beijing, 11 August 2003. Members of China's paramilitary police force rolled out the heavy gear, including attack aircraft, in a two-hour anti-terrorist exercise in Beijing, where 1,500 officers from the People's Armed Police fanned out to defuse bombs, shoot hostage takers and engage in hand-to-hand combat, in the first major test of the ability of the People's Armed Police to handle terrorist situations since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, which led China to dramatically raise its guard.
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Taiwanese Special Forces jump out from a helicopter during an anti-terriorism demonstration in Maliao, in Yunlin county, central Taiwan, 28 August 2003. Some 1,000 trained soldiers and policemen were here displaying their skills against kidnappings, bombings and other terrorist activities.
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Taiwan's special forces demostrate their combat skills during an anti-terriorists exercise at Maliao, Yunlin county, central Taiwan 28 August, 2003.
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MANILA, PHILIPPINES: Members of Philippine commandoes armed with sniper rifles march past the presidential side as part of a parade for the Armed Forces of the Philippines
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Elite police commandos carry their assault rifle during a simulated anti-terrorist operation at the National Police Commission headquarters in the Manila district of Makati 07 August 2003.
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Elite Philippine navy commando escorts a captured suspected Abu Sayyaf member Almasul Ibba Mawadi at the southern Philippine military command headquarters in Zamboanga City 05 August 2003.
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Heavily armed elite presidential guards take their position by the entrance of the Malacanang presidential palace decorated with American flag 18 October 2003 to secure the arrival of US President George W. Bush.
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COLOMBO, SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka''s outgoing police chief T. E. Anandarajah (2-L) inspects a farewell honour guard by the elite Special Task Force commandos, 13 October 2003
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Albanian special police forces in anti-riot gear fire warning shots to back off opposition protesters from breaking into the government headquarters in Tirana 07 February 2004
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ: A helicopter flies overhead as US special forces deploy during clashes in Baghdad's western suburb of Abu Gharib 31 October 2003.
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(From L) Former chief of the Polish special forces "Grom" Colonel Roman Polko, Poland's Chief of Staff General Czeslaw Piatas, and the new commander of the Grom Colonel Tadeusz Sapierzynski leave the Defense Ministry 22 January 2004 in Warsaw
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ: TO GO WITH AFP STORY "IRAQ-US-SECURITY" Misha (R), 33-year-old Serb, who served 10 years as a sniper in the former Yugoslav army, current team leader for a security company in Iraq, drives his convertible Porsche 21 February 2004 on a street of central Baghdad. Former members of the Serb "White Eagles" militia, the British army's SAS or Nepalese Ghurkas, volunteers from Fiji or Sao Paulo's anti-riot police -- from the most decorated servicemen to the most infamous -- are converging on Iraq to earn the big bucks. After escorting one of his clients from a hotel to a coalition building or training would-be Iraqi security guards at an army shooting range, Misha takes his new Porsche convertible for a ride in the streets of Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ: TO GO WITH AFP STORY "IRAQ-US-SECURITY" Misha (L), a team leader for a security company in Iraq, gives shooting lessons to an Iraqi man 21 February 2004 at a shooting range on the outskirts of Baghdad. Ex-Foreign Legionnaires, battle-hardened Serbian soldiers, retired apartheid cops: a colorful gaggle of shadowy hirelings is setting up camp in Baghdad, which has quickly become the world capital of private security. "There has never been so much work. You've got the adrenalin junkies like me and those who are cop-cruisers (local police) back in the States... but there are enough contracts for everybody," says Misha, 33-year-old Serb, who served 10 years as a sniper in the former Yugoslav army.
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PROSTEJOV, CZECH REPUBLIC: A czech commandos, member of of Army's 601st Special Forces Unit, wearing Night Vision Binoculars, trains anti-guerrillas skills 29 January 2004 in Prostejov few days before leaving to Afghanistan.
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LIVORNO, ITALY: Fifty Italian Carabinieri paramilitary police from the elite Tuscania squadron based in Livorno prepare to leave early 13 November 2003 for the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah
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Italian Carabinieri (http://jccc.afis.osd.mil/images/hres.pl?Lbox_cap=934792&dir=Photo) provide security as Coalition Provisional Authority Administrator, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer
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An Afghan woman (L) wearing a burqa walks past a British International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldier from the Gurkha regiment on a street in Kabul, 30 November 2003
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Australian SAS commandos demonstrate live-fire assault exercises
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Australian SAS commandos attend the launch of the Special Operations Command (SOCOMD) at the Holsworthy defence facility near Sydney, 05 May 2003. SOCOMD will co-ordinate Australia's counter-terrorism operations in the wake of the Bali bombings and the September 11 2001 attacks in the US
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Pope John Paul II sits with thirty three new recruits at the Sala Clementina before the swearing in ceremony for new members of the elite Swiss Guard May 6, 2003 in Vatican City, Italy
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KUWAIT - MARCH 10: Marine Alasdair Kane, a British Royal Marine soldier from the 42nd Commando Lima Brigade, goes through training exercises in camouflage using a .338 sniper rifle March 10, 2003 in the desert 70 kilometers from Kuwait city near the Iraqi border.
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BASRA, IRAQ - APRIL 3: In this hand out image by the British Defence Ministry, (L-R) Lance Sergeant Chris Briggs and Guardsman Warren Bradford serve as a snipers with Support Company attached to Number 1 Company 1st Battalion The Irish Guards April 3, 2003 in Basra, Iraq. In a dawn raid on a university factory complex within sight of their patrol base at Bridge Four on the outskirts of Basra, the Irish Guards attacked and cleared the base after coming under fire from small arms mortars and SAM Missile systems, which were fired from Iraqi positions at a British Lynx Helicopter supporting the Irish Guards. Briggs and Bradford are one of four sniper pairs set up within the buildings to provide covering fire for the Royal Engineers attempting to put out one of the numerous oil well fires. (Photo by Giles Penfound/MOD/***** Images)
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1st Battalion, Royal Regiment Royal Fusiliers, are given the order to move
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QAL'AT SUKKAR, IRAQ - APRIL 7: A U.S. Marine sniper siganls to his colleague April 7, 2003 in Qal'at Sukkar, Iraq. The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit entered the town looking for weapons and destroying pictures of Saddam Hussein. (Photo by Chris Hondros/***** Images)
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French Army Commandos operate 27 September 2003 a simulation of a pilot (C/hood)) during a rescue operation in Godoria, 100 kilometers (60 miles) North East of the capital city Djibouti, in the framework of a military exercise. Djibouti, which has a population of 630,000, is also host to some 2,800 French soldiers based there since the African country's independence to protect it against the treat of external aggression. AFP PHOTO/MARCO LONGARI (Photo credit should read MARCO LONGARI/AFP/***** Images)
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JAKARTA, INDONESIA - DECEMBER 22: Indonesian troops from the Army's Raider Battalions fly above a parade attended by more than 11,000 soldiers in an Army Day parade on December 22, 2003 at Kemayoran in Central Jakarta, Indonesia. The Raider Battalions were strengthened during 2003 to help fight insurgency. (Photo by Dimas Ardian/***** Images)
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Soldiers from the Indonesian army's Strategic Command (KOSTRAD) march with their rifles during the elite unit's 46th anniversary March 6, 2003 in Jakarta, Indonesia
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Members of Indonesian elite navy seals prepare themself with weapon during an anti-terror drill near an island some 25 kilometers off the coast of the Jakarta Bay, 23 September 2003. The navy seals are part of a group of joint security forces currently prepared by the government to anticipate future terror attacks in Indonesia following recent bombings in Bali and Jakarta, which killed and injured hundreds of people.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - JUNE 7: U.S. special forces soldiers talk with German International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers June 7, 2003 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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CENTRAL IRAQ - APRIL 11: A U.S. Marine with Force Recon of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit stands armed while flowers hang from his pants April 11, 2003 in central Iraq, north of Naseriya. The flowers were given to him by grateful Iraqis. Force Recon is the U.S. Marines' equivalent of U.S. Special Forces, tasked with recon and other sensitive missions in small groups. (Photo by Chris Hondros/***** Images)
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NEAR KIRKUK, IRAQ - April 16: A soldier of the 173rd Airborne Brigade helps to secure oil facilities April 16, 2003 near Kirkuk in Northern Iraq.
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A UN French special forces soldier (COS) keeps a close eye on the situation on the streets of Bunia, 09 June 2003, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) trying to prevent fighting between Hema-dominated Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) supporters and Lendu majority militia.
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A UN French special forces soldier watches over the situation while a UN helicopter lands 10 june 2003 on Bunia airport.
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UN French special forces guard a position 13 June 2003 outside Bunia, the bloodstained eastern corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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soldiers of French-Swedish special forces stand in Bunia, 01 August 2003. The force was sent in after it became clear that 700 UN peacekeepers already deployed in the troubled Ituri province in the northeastern part of the DRCongo were not enough.
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Members of a special Israeli police force practice 21 July 2003 in Caesarea, on the coast between Tel Aviv and Haifa, a hostage situation in which "terrorists" take over a passenger bus.
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ISRAEL - AUGUST 12: In this photo distributed by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), special anti-terror troops rappell out a helicopter during a training exercise August 12, 2003 in a training base in Israel's southern desert. (Photo by IDF/***** Images)
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Israeli soldiers firing an honor volley over the grave of Lieutenant Daniel Mandel April 15, 2003 during his funeral at the West Bank Jewish settlement of Alon Shvutk. Mandel, a 24-year-old lieutenant in an elite infantry unit, was killed hours earlier during a firefight with Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank town of Nablus. Born in Toronto, Canada, he immigrated to Israel with his family 15 years ago.
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Members of the South African special forces are pictured, 10 August 2003 in Monrovia. South African special forces arrived 10 August in Monrovia with their equipment to prepare for President Thabo Mbeki's upcoming visit to attend the transition of power in the war-wrecked nation.
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A member of the South African special forces and a South African policeman chat, 10 August 2003 in Monrovia.
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An American special forces soldier mans a tripod mounted sniper rifle on the roof of a vehicle in Afghanistan's Wardak province, 20 August 2003.
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Photograph dated 22 August 2003 showing German Military Police staging an exercise at the Letzlingen military training center in preparation for duty with KFOR in Kosovo. Germany plans to beef up its special forces units (KSK) to strengthen its role in the international "war on terrorism" and its ability to free citizens taken hostage abroad, Defense Minister Peter Struck said in an interview 24 August 2003.
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KUNDUZ, AFGHANISTAN: German Defence Minister Peter Struck (L) points as he stands besides an unidentified soldier of the German Armed Forces Bundeswehr and an Afghan guard at a Bundeswehr base in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz 31 January 2004.
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Russian special task forces patrol in Grozny 26 August 2003. AFP PHOTO/ ALEXANDER NEMENOV. (Photo credit should read ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP/***** Images)
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GUDERMES, RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Russian special forces escort a man suspected of taking part in guerilla activities against federal forces in the town of Gudermes, 25 November 2003.
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Instructor gives an order to a 'Vityaz' special elite anti-terror unit's soldiers during their examination for madder beret (on instructor's head), the symbol of courage and professionalism in Russian interior troops 10 October 2003 in Noginsk, near Moscow. Only four fighters of 84 candidates got berets after the annual examination.
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An instructor throws sand on 'Vityaz' anti-terror units soldiers during their examination for madder beret, the symbol of courage and professionalism in Russian interior troops.
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A 'Vityaz' anti-terror unit instuctor (R) embrases a soldier who passed the hand-to-hand fight -- the final part of the examination for madder beret
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File picture, dated June 2003, shows the commander of Russia's elite airborne forces Grigory Shpak in Ryazan airborn high school.
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MOSCOW, RUSSIAN FEDERATION: A member of the elite Russian special police forces grimaces inside a bus standing outside of a Russian ultranationalist party headquarters in Moscow, 17 January, 2004. Some 30 supporters of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP) barricading themselves inside their basement headquarters as dozen of elite police soldiers huddled in two buses, two vans and up to five patrol cars outside. Party members said the standoff in the morning, when uniformed OMON police special forces pulled up and demanded to be allowed into headquarters.
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Turkish special forces paratrooper
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Turkish special forces members attend the 30 August Victory Day Celebrations in capital Ankara, 30 August 2003. AFP PHOTO / TARIK TINAZAY (Photo credit should read TARIK TINAZAY/AFP/***** Images)
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A Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) police team show off their weapons at a display in Beijing 21 July 2003. China had recently established an emergency command system and rapid-response mechanism made up of a multi-agency task force involving police and the armed forces to attack terrorism at national and local levels.
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An elite squad of the Chinese People's Armed Police demonstrate how they handle a terrorist attack in Beijing, 11 August 2003. Members of China's paramilitary police force rolled out the heavy gear, including attack aircraft, in a two-hour anti-terrorist exercise in Beijing, where 1,500 officers from the People's Armed Police fanned out to defuse bombs, shoot hostage takers and engage in hand-to-hand combat, in the first major test of the ability of the People's Armed Police to handle terrorist situations since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, which led China to dramatically raise its guard.
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Taiwanese Special Forces jump out from a helicopter during an anti-terriorism demonstration in Maliao, in Yunlin county, central Taiwan, 28 August 2003. Some 1,000 trained soldiers and policemen were here displaying their skills against kidnappings, bombings and other terrorist activities.
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Taiwan's special forces demostrate their combat skills during an anti-terriorists exercise at Maliao, Yunlin county, central Taiwan 28 August, 2003.
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MANILA, PHILIPPINES: Members of Philippine commandoes armed with sniper rifles march past the presidential side as part of a parade for the Armed Forces of the Philippines
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Elite police commandos carry their assault rifle during a simulated anti-terrorist operation at the National Police Commission headquarters in the Manila district of Makati 07 August 2003.
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Elite Philippine navy commando escorts a captured suspected Abu Sayyaf member Almasul Ibba Mawadi at the southern Philippine military command headquarters in Zamboanga City 05 August 2003.
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Heavily armed elite presidential guards take their position by the entrance of the Malacanang presidential palace decorated with American flag 18 October 2003 to secure the arrival of US President George W. Bush.
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COLOMBO, SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka''s outgoing police chief T. E. Anandarajah (2-L) inspects a farewell honour guard by the elite Special Task Force commandos, 13 October 2003
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Albanian special police forces in anti-riot gear fire warning shots to back off opposition protesters from breaking into the government headquarters in Tirana 07 February 2004
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ: A helicopter flies overhead as US special forces deploy during clashes in Baghdad's western suburb of Abu Gharib 31 October 2003.
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(From L) Former chief of the Polish special forces "Grom" Colonel Roman Polko, Poland's Chief of Staff General Czeslaw Piatas, and the new commander of the Grom Colonel Tadeusz Sapierzynski leave the Defense Ministry 22 January 2004 in Warsaw
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ: TO GO WITH AFP STORY "IRAQ-US-SECURITY" Misha (R), 33-year-old Serb, who served 10 years as a sniper in the former Yugoslav army, current team leader for a security company in Iraq, drives his convertible Porsche 21 February 2004 on a street of central Baghdad. Former members of the Serb "White Eagles" militia, the British army's SAS or Nepalese Ghurkas, volunteers from Fiji or Sao Paulo's anti-riot police -- from the most decorated servicemen to the most infamous -- are converging on Iraq to earn the big bucks. After escorting one of his clients from a hotel to a coalition building or training would-be Iraqi security guards at an army shooting range, Misha takes his new Porsche convertible for a ride in the streets of Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ: TO GO WITH AFP STORY "IRAQ-US-SECURITY" Misha (L), a team leader for a security company in Iraq, gives shooting lessons to an Iraqi man 21 February 2004 at a shooting range on the outskirts of Baghdad. Ex-Foreign Legionnaires, battle-hardened Serbian soldiers, retired apartheid cops: a colorful gaggle of shadowy hirelings is setting up camp in Baghdad, which has quickly become the world capital of private security. "There has never been so much work. You've got the adrenalin junkies like me and those who are cop-cruisers (local police) back in the States... but there are enough contracts for everybody," says Misha, 33-year-old Serb, who served 10 years as a sniper in the former Yugoslav army.
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PROSTEJOV, CZECH REPUBLIC: A czech commandos, member of of Army's 601st Special Forces Unit, wearing Night Vision Binoculars, trains anti-guerrillas skills 29 January 2004 in Prostejov few days before leaving to Afghanistan.
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LIVORNO, ITALY: Fifty Italian Carabinieri paramilitary police from the elite Tuscania squadron based in Livorno prepare to leave early 13 November 2003 for the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah
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Italian Carabinieri (http://jccc.afis.osd.mil/images/hres.pl?Lbox_cap=934792&dir=Photo) provide security as Coalition Provisional Authority Administrator, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer
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An Afghan woman (L) wearing a burqa walks past a British International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldier from the Gurkha regiment on a street in Kabul, 30 November 2003
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Australian SAS commandos demonstrate live-fire assault exercises
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Australian SAS commandos attend the launch of the Special Operations Command (SOCOMD) at the Holsworthy defence facility near Sydney, 05 May 2003. SOCOMD will co-ordinate Australia's counter-terrorism operations in the wake of the Bali bombings and the September 11 2001 attacks in the US
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Pope John Paul II sits with thirty three new recruits at the Sala Clementina before the swearing in ceremony for new members of the elite Swiss Guard May 6, 2003 in Vatican City, Italy
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