Today's Pix - Friday, April 28th, 2006

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South Korean Army tanks move on under a cloud of dust during an annual military exercise against a possible attack from the North Korea, in Chulwon, north of Seoul, Friday, April 28, 2006. South Korean Army Monday launched a five-day military exercise near demilitarized zone. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Lee Sang-hack)
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An Afghan soldier walks past tanks during an official ceremony celebrating the fallen of communism in 1992 in Afghanistan, Kabul, Friday, April 28, 2006. Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged Taliban militants Friday to end the violence raging across the country and join forces with the new government to help Afghanistan's reconstruction. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Afghan soldiers look at an official ceremony celebrating the fallen of communism in 1992 in Afghanistan, Kabul, Friday, April 28, 2006. Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged Taliban militants Friday to end the violence raging across the country and join forces with the new government to help Afghanistan's reconstruction. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, is transported to the presidential box after greeting Afghan soldiers during an official ceremony celebrating the fallen of communism in 1992 in Afghanistan, Friday, April 28, 2006. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Afghan soldiers march during an official ceremony celebrating the fallen of communism in 1992 in Afghanistan, Friday, April 28, 2006. Afghan President Hamid Karzai urged Taliban militants Friday to end the violence raging across the country and join forces with the new government to help Afghanistan's reconstruction. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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A U.S. soldier takes pictures during an official ceremony celebrating the fallen of communism in 1992 in Afghanistan, Kabul, Friday, April 28, 2006. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Israeli soldiers in position aim their rifles during an army operation searching for militants in the West Bank village of Burqin, near Jenin, Friday April 28, 2006. The army said they arrested five Islamic Jihad militants in Burqin on Friday. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)
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A blindfolded Palestinian is detained by an Israeli soldier during a army operation searching for militants in the West Bank village of Burqin, near Jenin, Friday April 28, 2006. The army said they arrested five Islamic Jihad militants. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)
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China's Xiaolong 04 fighter plane takes off for its test flight at an airport in Chengdu in China's southwest Sichuan province Friday April 28, 2006. China on Friday successfully tested an upgraded version of its Xiaolong fighter, demonstrating a "significant improvement in the innovation capabilities" of the country's aviation industry, the government said. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)
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Bulgarian salesmen wait for buyers next to a radio jamming equipment on display for potential customers to look at during China's International Defense Electronics Exhibition in Beijing, Wednesday, April 26, 2006. As China's defense spending surges, the US is pursuing a strategy of strengthening its forces in the Asia-Pacific region as a hedge against the potential emergence of a hostile China.The Pentagon has made no secret of its increasing focus on China as a potential threat to stability in Asia and the Pacific, where U.S. alliances with Japan and South Korea have been key underpinnings of the region's economic growth. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)
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For Swedish Chef~
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Chinese President Hu Jintao, left, and Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki watch as Kenya Army Soldiers march, Friday, April 28, 2006, at Nairobi State House, where the two leaders and top government officials of the two governments held bilateral talks. Hu said Friday that his government follows a policy of "non-interference in others' affairs" as he finalized yet another oil deal in Africa, the poorest and most corrupt continent in the world but one that is rich in natural resources. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)
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President Bush's Air Force One is prepared for departure after Bush's visit to New Orleans at the Louis Armstrong International airport Thursday April 27, 2006. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni)
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This photo made available by the Air Force shows U.S. Air Force C-130 instructor pilot, Maj. Michael Frame, and instructor navigator, Maj. Brian Lewis both assigned to the 41st Airlift Squadron at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., on April 25, 2006. Frame and Lewis were awarded the Mackay Trophy, an annual award given for the most meritorious flight of the year by an Air Force person, persons or organization, for participating in the first-ever operational combat mission flown by an all-Iraqi aircrew on Feb. 13, 2005. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Master Sgt. Scott Wagers)
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In this handout photo released by the Presidential Close-in Photographers of the Philippines, Malacanang palace, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, left, pours champagne with US ambassador Kristie Kenney during turn-over rites of Philippine Air Force C-130 cargo aircraft at the Villamor Airbase in suburban Manila on Friday April 28, 2006. The plane was refurbished using a U.S. grant of approximately US$4 million. (AP Photo/PCPO Malacanang, HO)
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In this photograph released by London's Metropolitan Police Friday April 28, 2006 a shop on Clapham Road, London, burns after it was firebombed, killing one person and injuring three others. All four men are Asian and are understood to have been working in the shop on Clapham Road, when the shop was firebombed on Thursday afternoon. (AP Photo/Metropolitan Police/PA)
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A former East Timorese soldier taunts riot police officers near a burning van during a violent protest outside a government office in Dili, East Timor, Friday, April 28, 2006. At least two people were killed and more than 20 injured after hundreds of former soldiers went on a rampage Friday, burning cars and shops in East Timor's capital to protest their dismissal from the army earlier this month. (AP Photo/Amori Antonio)
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Military chaplain Angelo Bagnasco holds his pastoral staff as Defence Chief of Staff Admiral Gianpaolo Di Paola attends a Mass for the four victims of a bomb blast in Iraq, in Rome's Saint Mary Major Basilica, Friday, April 28, 2006. Two Italian Carabinieri paramilitary warrant officers and an Italian army paratrooper died Thursday with a Romanian soldier in Nasiriyah, southern Iraq, when they came under attack while on patrol. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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** FILE **An undated file photo of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, left, and military commander Gen. Ratko Mladic, right, at Mt. Jahorina, Bosnia. Mladic is wanted for allegedly orchestrating the 1995 massacre of 8,000 Muslims from Srebrenica. U.N. prosecutors insist Mladic is hiding in Serbia under protection of military hard-liners and the EU officials have given Belgrade an end-of-April deadline to hand Mladic over before they ask again, or risk suspension of talks on establishing closer ties with the bloc. (AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic, File)
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Macedonian interior minister Ljubomir Mihajlovski, left, talks to an EU Parliament delegation that investigates the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for transport and illegal detention of prisoners in Macedonia's capital Skopje, on Friday, April 28, 2006. Macedonia's interior minister denied Friday that Macedonian or U.S. agents were involved in the alleged CIA abduction of a German citizen who ended up in Afghanistan two years ago. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)
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Pfc. Richard Ashley, an Army paratrooper seen Thursday, April 27, 2006, at the Staff Judge Advocate building at Fort Bragg, N.C., pleaded guilty Thursday to engaging in *** acts on a military-themed gay ****ographic Web site and a judge sentenced him to prison for about 2 1/2 months and a bad conduct discharge when the time is served. At right is Ashley's grandmother Barbara Sue Hale. (AP Photo/The Fayetteville Observer, Marc Hall)
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In this photo released by the New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum, World War II fighter pilot Johnny Checketts sits in his Spitfire at Biggin Hill, England in 1943. Checketts, who crippled at least 14 enemy planes and twice survived being shot down, died Friday April 21, 2006 at his New Zealand home. (AP Photo/New Zealand Fighter Pilots Museum, HO)
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On patrol in Honiara, a soldier from D Company, the 1st Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment, shares his rations with some of the local children.
(Date taken: 26 April 2006)

[Andrew116]

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The guy on the left is holding a Colt M4 QCB mod right??


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Bulgarian salesmen wait for buyers of dictators and tyrants next to a radio jamming equipment on display for potential customers to look at during China's International Defense Electronics Exhibition in Beijin

Interesting choice of words in that first sentence.

[RP]

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The guy on the left is holding a Colt M4 QCB mod right??


Nope, a standard Colt M4 commando (http://www.colt.com/mil/M4Com.asp), Prolly with TDI-Arms rail system.

[He219]

what wording?
p-)

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Private Danieletto from Combat Team Courage, Al Muthanna Task Group, cleans his weapon after returning from a patrol in southern Iraq.
(Date taken: 19 April 2006)

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U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class David Dodson, a 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team platoon sergeant, directs his troops during a patrol Islah Zerla.
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Fahnenabordnung der Ehrenformation bei der Übergabe Inspekteur Marine (Quelle © Bundeswehr 2006 / Maik Herrmann)

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Russian-manufactured Afghan tanks parade during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the 1993 Mujahedin victory over the communist regime in Kabul, 28 April 2006. The Mujahedin took power in the Afghan capital some thirteen years ago but subsequent feuds between anti-Russian warriors cost tens of thousands of lives and devastated the city. AFP PHOTO/ SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/***** Images)
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Iraqi Army soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint during a citywide curfew in Baquba, 60 kms north of Baghdad, 28 April 2006. Iraqi security forces battled insurgents around Baquba today despite a curfew as rebels launched massive attacks on checkpoints to seize control of the restive city. AFP PHOTO/ALI YUSSEF (Photo credit should read ALI YUSSEF/AFP/***** Images)
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An Iraqi boy reacts as a vendor shows him a handful of snakes at a bazaar in Baghdad, 28 April 2006. Iraq's ousted leader Saddam Hussein, in jail while he is being tried on charges of crimes against humanity, spent his third birthday in a row behind bars as he turned 69 today. AFP PHOTO/KARIM SAHIB (Photo credit should read KARIM SAHIB/AFP/***** Images)
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An Iraqi boy stares at a peacock on display at a bazaar in Baghdad, 28 April 2006. Iraq's ousted leader Saddam Hussein, in jail while he is being tried on charges of crimes against humanity, spent his third birthday in a row behind bars as he turned 69 today. AFP PHOTO/KARIM SAHIB (Photo credit should read KARIM SAHIB/AFP/***** Images)
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Radical Iranian women demonstrate against loose veiling after the weekly Friday prayer in Tehran, 28 April 2006. Hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad moved earlier this week to reassure Iranian women fearful of an imminent police crackdown that his government would not use strong-arm tactics to enforce the Islamic dress code. But in recent days, Islamist women dressed in traditional black chadors have held several rallies -- one in front of parliament -- to protest the authorities' failure to enforce respect for the dress code. Since the 1979 revolution, every woman beyond puberty in Iran has been required to observe the Islamic dress code, regardless of religion or nationality. AFP PHOTO/ATTA KENARE (Photo credit should read ATTA KENARE/AFP/***** Images)
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An Israeli soldier takes pictures to document evidence arab photojournalists sometimes omit during a military operation in the northern West Bank village or Birqin, near Jenin, 28 April 2006. Israel's incoming government under prime minister designate Ehud Olmert will work to give up territory in the occupied West Bank, according to a coalition agreement signed with the Labour party. AFP PHOTO/SAIF DAHLAH (Photo credit should read SAIF DAHLAH/AFP/***** Images)
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A Palestinian man runs away as smoke billows from the destroyed car of a local militant following an Israeli air strike in the central Gaza Strip town of Deir al-Balah, 27 April 2006. An Islamic Jihad leader was killed and three other people were wounded in the air raid, Palestinian security and medical sources said. The strike came shortly after another missile was fired by an unmanned Israeli spy plane in the same region which also appeared aimed at a vehicle but missed its target, the sources said. A spokesman for Islamic Jihad named the dead man as Wael al-Aqra, one of its local commanders, adding that another of its followers was among the injured. AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/***** Images)
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Police officers examine the wreckage of a locomotive of the Swiss Loetschbergbahn BLS after it collided early 28 April 2006 with a German ICE train near the Thun train station, injuring eight people. AFP PHOTO FABRICE COFFRINI (Photo credit should read FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/***** Images)
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Brazil's first astronaut Marcos Pontes (R) hugs pilot Costa as they exit the cockpit of a Brazilian Air Force AMX fighter bomber upon their arrival 22 April, 2006 at the Santa Cruz air base in Santa Cruz, 80 km from downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Pontes took part in 11-day mission into space aboard a Soyuz rocket launched from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome. AFP PHOTO/VANDERLEI ALMEIDA (Photo credit should read VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/***** Images)
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Brazil's first astronaut Marcos Pontes (L) is greeted by comrades pilots after landing aboard a Brazilian Air Force AMX fighter bomber 22 April, 2006 at the Santa Cruz air base in Santa Cruz, 80 km from downtown Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Pontes took part in 11-day mission into space aboard a Soyuz rocket launched from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome. AFP PHOTO/VANDERLEI ALMEIDA (Photo credit should read VANDERLEI ALMEIDA/AFP/***** Images)
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Indian fighter plane Sea Harrier performs a vertical landing on the French Aircraft Carrier warship Charles de Gaulle during the first day of joint naval exercises in the Arabian Sea, 02 April 2006. The exercise, codenamed Varuna 11, is being implemented in India by the Indo-French Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IFCCI), in conjuction with the Embassy of France. The two navies have staged joint exercises annually since 2001. Varuna-I was held in November 2005 off Djibouti in the Gulf of Aden. AFP PHOTO/ Dibyangshu SARKAR (Photo credit should read DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP/***** Images)
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The French fighter plane Rafales is lifted on an elevator for maintenance on the French Aircraft Carrier warship Charles de Gaulle as an Indian boat sails alongside during the first day of the joint naval exercise in the the Arabian Sea, 02 April 2006.
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French naval officers do maintenance work on the fighter plane Rafales on the French Aircraft Carrier warship Charles de Gaulle during the first day of joint naval exercises with India in the the Arabian Sea, 02 April 2006. The exercise, codenamed Varuna 11, is being implemented in India by the Indo-French Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IFCCI), in conjuction with the Embassy of France. The two navies have staged joint exercises annually since 2001. Varuna-I was held in November 2005 off Djibouti in the Gulf of Aden. AFP PHOTO/ Dibyangshu SARKAR (Photo credit should read DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP/***** Images)
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The French fighter plane Rafales prepares to take off from the the French Aircraft Carrier warship Charles de Gaulle during the first day of joint naval exercises in the Arabian Sea, 02 April 2006. The exercise, codenamed Varuna 11, is being implemented in India by the Indo-French Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IFCCI), in conjuction with the Embassy of France. The two navies have staged joint exercises annually since 2001. Varuna-I was held in November 2005 off Djibouti in the Gulf of Aden. AFP PHOTO/ Dibyangshu SARKAR (Photo credit should read DIBYANGSHU SARKAR/AFP/***** Images)
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[Hellfish]

Absolutely brilliant pics today, He!

[ABNINF]

Great pics as always He

[Heron]

thx He
:)
excellent pics

[Irish]

Excellent pix He:)

[Swedish Chef]

Thanks He! :D

[Snoshi]

Great pics!!

[JVeld]

Nice pics......happy Friday !!!

[Special Units]

On Thursday April 27th, the Polish SPAP Bialystok arrests the 17 year old killer of a 17 year old Belgian boy in the city of Suwalki, north-east Poland. The murder took place in Brussels. The killer escaped to Poland.

[kazbitch]

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c&c generals anyone?

[3rdMillhouse]

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c&c generals anyone?


Oh Yeah. http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif

[Bert]

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[He219]

:)

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An Iraqi Police Special Weapons and Tactics team and Soldiers from the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team patrol Mosul. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. John M. Foster)
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An Iraqi special police officer prepares to conduct a joint cordon and search operation for illegal weapons and munitions in Baghdad, Iraq, April 10, 2006. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Bart A. Bauer
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Iraqi special police officers and U.S. Army soldiers prepare to conduct a joint cordon and search operation for illegal weapons and munitions in Baghdad, Iraq, April 10, 2006. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Bart A. Bauer
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U.S. Army Capt. Robert Dixon and Iraqi special police officers prepare to conduct a joint cordon and search operation for illegal weapons and munitions in Baghdad, Iraq, April 10, 2006. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Bart A. Bauer
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U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Phillip Atherton provides security during a joint cordon and search operation with the Iraqi special police for illegal weapons and munitions in Baghdad, Iraq, April 10, 2006. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Bart A. Bauer
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U.S. Army Master Sgt. Winfield Athill drives his humvee in a convoy during a joint cordon and search operation with the Iraqi special police for illegal weapons and munitions in Baghdad, Iraq, April 10, 2006. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Bart A. Bauer
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Iraqi special police officers prepare to conduct a joint cordon and search operation for illegal weapons and munitions in Baghdad, Iraq, April 10, 2006. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Bart A. Bauer
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Iraqi special police officers conduct a joint cordon and search operation with the U.S. Army for illegal weapons and munitions in Baghdad, Iraq, April 10, 2006. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Bart A. Bauer
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U.S. Army Staff Sgt. David Conklin and Spc. Jeremy Combs provide security from their Stryker vehicle while supporting a joint tactical control point with Iraqi police officers in Mosul, Iraq, April 27, 2006. The soldiers are with the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. John M. Foster
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Senior Airmen Jeffrey Oats and Kesha Snedeker assemble a machine gun attached to the Common Remote Operated Weapon Station, or CROWS, on a Humvee at Kirkuk Air Base, Iraq, on Tuesday, April 25, 2006. The CROWS system takes Airmen out of the gun turret and allows a variety of weapons to be remotely operated from the inside the vehicle. Airmen Oats and Snedeker are assigned to the 506th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron and are deployed from Moody Air Force Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Kristina Barrett)
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Tech. Sgt. Lewis Hale, marshals an F-22A Raptor, the new ground instructional trainer aircraft at the 43rd Fighter Squadron, at Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., on Wednesday, April 19, 2006. Sergeant Hale is with the 325th Maintenance Operations Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/1st Lt. Jon Quinlan)
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Military and civilian applicants taking part in the 306th Rescue Squadron pararescue screening at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., do sit-ups in a mud pit while holding a wooden log on Friday, April 21, 2006. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Veronica Pierce)
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Lance Cpl. Kevin J. Julian scans the vast desert for threats March 24, while setting up a security perimeter for a demolition blast. Julian in an aircraft rescue and firefighting specialist with the Incident Response Platoon, Marine Wing Support Squadron 274, Marine Wing Support Group 37 (Reinforced), 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.
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Tech. Sgt. Lukas Parr (right) and Staff Sgt. Kenneth Gordon watch for potential security problems while their C-130 Hercules is on the ground. They are members of the 332nd Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron fly-away security team. (U.S. Air Force photo/Tech Sgt. Steve Horton)
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Iraqi police and soldiers lead a mocking parade, escorting a man on a horse wearing a Saddam Hussein mask through the streets Friday April 28, 2006 in Baghdad, Iraq. Former leader Saddam Hussein, who is being tried in Iraq on charges of crimes against humanity, turned 69 Friday. U.S. officials declined to say what Saddam had done on his third consecutive birthday in captivity in Iraq. (AP Photo Alaa al-Marjani)
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French navy crew members stand at anti-submarine destroyer George leygues warship, layed at dock in the port of Algiers, 26 April 2006. The helicopter carrier Jeanne d'Arc and her accompanying anti-submarine destroyer George leygues, arrived in Algeirs on a four day friendly visit. AFP PHOTO/FAYEZ NURELDINE (Photo credit should read FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/***** Images)
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French navy crew members run near the anti-submarine destroyer George Leygues layed at dock in the port of Algiers, 26 April 2006. Helicopter carrier Jeanne D'Arc and its accompanying anti-submarine arrived in Algiers for a four-day stay. AFP PHOTO/FAYEZ NURELDINE (Photo credit should read FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/***** Images)
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A document of the secret state police of the nazi-regime, Gestapo, is pictured at the ITS (International Tracing Service) Holocaust Archive on April 28, 2006 in Bad Arolsen, Germany. The ITS was created to search for missing persons who were executed, detained in National Socialist concentration or labor camps or otherwise brutalized during the Holocaust. Germany, one member of the ITS supervisory council allowed the access to 50 million references for 17.5 million persons governed in the world's largest Holocaust archive. (Photo by Ralph Orlowski/***** Images)
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: A death roll from the concentration camp Buchenwald that reads "auf der Flucht erschossen," "shot while attempting to flee," is pictured at the ITS (International Tracing Service) Holocaust Archive on April 28, 2006 in Bad Arolsen, Germany. The ITS was created to search for missing persons who were executed, detained in National Socialist concentration or labor camps or otherwise brutalized during the Holocaust. Germany, one member of the ITS supervisory council allowed the access to 50 million references for 17.5 million persons governed in the world's largest Holocaust archive. (Photo by Ralph Orlowski/***** Images)
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At least 400 dead dolphins were found on Zanzibar's northern coastline early Friday, April 28, 2006, alarming villagers, fishermen and tour operators, residents said. It was not immediately clear what killed the dolphins, whose carcasses were found along a 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) stretch of Nungwi, a popular tourist destination in this semiautonomous Indian Ocean archipelago, said Narriman Jidawi, a marine biologist at the Institute of Marine Science in Zanzibar. (AP Photo/Ali Sultan)
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An Iraqi soldier in an army Humvee patrols outside the Abu Hanifa mosque in Baghdad April 27, 2006. (Thaier Al-Sudani/*******)
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Members of the Little Rock Swat Unit talk outside the Pulaski County Courthouse after an inmate took a Pulaski County sheriff's deputy hostage at the courthouse, Friday, April 28, 2006, in Little Rock, Ark. The inmate surrendered peacefully after nearly an hour of negotiations. Alonzo Gilliam, 29, of North Little Rock, Ark., was arrested after he held the female officer hostage in the basement of the courthouse, where prisoners scheduled for court hearings are temporarily held, sheriff's spokesman Cody Burk said. (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)
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Members of the Little Rock Police and Swat Team gather in front of the Pulaski County Courthouse after an inmate took a deputy hostage, Friday, April 28, 2006 in Little Rock, Ark. The inmate, 29-year-old Alonzo Gilliam, who was at the courthouse for a scheduled hearing, is in custody and the deputy was freed unhurt. Gilliam is believed to have used a homemade knife to take the deputy hostage in the courthouse basement at about 10 a.m. (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)
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Alonzo Gilliam is escorted to a police cruiser after he took a deputy hostage at the Pulaski County Courthouse Friday, April 28, 2006, in Little Rock, Ark. The 29-year-old inmate, who was at the courthouse for a scheduled hearing, is in custody and the deputy was freed unhurt. Gilliam is believed to have used a homemade knife to take the deputy hostage in the courthouse basement at about 10 a.m. (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Ill., left, sits in the passenger side of a hydrogen powered alternative fueled vehicle, drive by General Motors engineer, Mike Miller, after a news conference at a local gas station in Washington, Thursday, April 27, 2006 to discuss the recent rise in gas prices. Hastert and other members of Congress drove off in the Hydrogen-Fueled cars only to switch to their official cars to drive back the few blocks back the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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House Speaker Dennis Hastert of Ill., center, gets out of a Hydrogen Alternative Fueled automobile, left, as he prepares to board his SUV, which uses gasoline, after holding a new conference at a local gas station in Washington, Thursday, April 27, 2006 to discuss the recent rise in gas prices. Hastert and other members of Congress drove off in the Hydrogen-Fueled cars only to switch to their official cars to drive back the few block back to the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad points during a public gathering in the city of Abhar about 120 miles (200 kilometers) west of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 28, 2006. Ahmadinejad vowed Thursday that no one could make Tehran give up its nuclear technology, and he warned that the United States and its European allies will regret their decision if they "violate the rights of the Iranian nation." (AP Photo/Mehr News, Sajjad Safari)
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The driver is still inside as a rescue team approach the partially submerged car of Serbian stuntman Zeljko Bozic which still burns after he jumped the car from a bridge into the Sava river, in Belgrade, Thursday, April 27, 2006. (AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic)
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The driver hangs from the car as it is hoisted from the river, after Serbian stuntman Zeljko Bozic jumped the car from the bridge behind into the Sava river, in Belgrade, Thursday, April 27, 2006. Bozic was taken to the hospital in an unconscious condition after the jump, and his medical condition is unknown at this time. The stunt was performed to advertise packets of potato crisps. (AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic)
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This photo provided by Busch Gardens shows U.S. Army Spc. William Bracy, Col. Jeff Meiser, Master Sgt. Ana Reyes, and Stf. Sgt. Jacob Bechtel from bottom to top on Apollo's Chariot at Busch Gardens Europe Friday, April 28, in Williamsburg, Va. They were among 31 soldiers from Fort Eustis celebrate their reenlistment at the park. A group of military career counselors created the event to give their retention program an "extra edge." (AP Photo/Busch Gardens, Scott K. Brown)
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A model wears a creation by Colombian manufacturer St Even during a fashion show in Medellin, April 28, 2006. *******/Albeiro Lopera
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A model wears a creation by Colombian manufacturer St Even during a fashion show in Medellin, April 28, 2006. *******/Albeiro Lopera
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Members of the U.S. Army 509th Infantry Airborne from Fort Polk, La. parachute over Wright Patterson Air Froce Base, Ohio on Friday, April 28, 2006, in honor of WWII veterans of the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion who were visiting the base for a reunion. (AP Photo/Dayton Daily News, Ty Greenlees)

[Whitcomb]

Is it just me, but does the Israeli military seem like one of the only forces in the world where alot of its members have alot of combat experiance.

[MichaelF]

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[Frost]

Is it just me, but does the Israeli military seem like one of the only forces in the world where alot of its members have alot of combat experiance.
d'uh, they are almost in a constant state of war so that not that strange is it.
During the northern-Ireland civil war the British had the same situation in which they had loads of soldiers with plenty of experience in urban warfare.

The US is catching up with it's rotations in Iraq and Afghanistan so a lot of US soldiers have combat experience now. Other allied nations too though.

[Pille1234]

Nice pix!


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^^Look at the huge towed array! Wasn't one of those lost recently?

[Sgt.Axeman1224]

the US military has a lot of administrative positions too. But i know what you are talking about, when i first started to look into the army, it said that the likely hood of never seeing combat was about 80%. I think it is more like 30 or 20% now.

[Graspol]

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Don't you guys think this bloke looks an awful lot like the Arabic version of GW Bush?

[Rictor]

Don't let Persians catch you calling them Arabs, or else you're in for a long, painful talk on how the Arabs have no real culture, how they're barely a civilization at all, and how no one in their right mind can compare them to the glorious Persian people.

Trust me. :):)

[Graspol]

Don't let Persians catch you calling them Arabs, or else you're in for a long, painful talk on how the Arabs have no real culture, how they're barely a civilization at all, and how no one in their right mind can compare them to the glorious Persian people.

Trust me. :):)


Don't get picky mate! ;) I'm not that well known of the Arabic/Persian culture differences.
I guess it's about the same issue as it's better not call a Canuckie an American...

[He219]

Then you'd be better off not making comparisons ...
;)

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Smyrna, Ga. (April 27, 2006) - The Blue Angels Flight Demonstration team taxis in at Naval Air Station (NAS) Atlanta. The Blue Angels were the featured act at the Angels Over Atlanta 2006 air show at NAS Atlanta as part of Atlanta Navy Week 2006. Twenty such weeks are planned this year in cities throughout the U.S., arranged by the Navy Office of Community Outreach (NAVCO). U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 3rd Class Dwayne Minor

[ABNINF]

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Dang, Little Rock's packing some heat with those P90's

[camerashy]

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Don't you guys think this bloke looks an awful lot like the Arabic version of GW Bush?
excellent! I was thinking the same thing. Those little eyes and psuedo-smirk give it away. They both say insane things too.

[XxDualityxX]

No dead dolphins what the fvck is this bullsh**.

[James]

Is it just me, but does the Israeli military seem like one of the only forces in the world where alot of its members have alot of combat experiance.

It must be you. The U.S. has only been at war for the past 4+ years. ID10T.

[Yarrick2]

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WOW all this and cocaine i'm going to colombia for my holiday this year i'd go but nope i like my health... i'd hit it:cantbeli:

[EsoognomEhT]

This photo made available by the Air Force shows U.S. Air Force C-130 instructor pilot, Maj. Michael Frame, and instructor navigator, Maj. Brian Lewis both assigned to the 41st Airlift Squadron at Pope Air Force Base, N.C., on April 25, 2006. Frame and Lewis were awarded the Mackay Trophy, an annual award given for the most meritorious flight of the year by an Air Force person, persons or organization, for participating in the first-ever operational combat mission flown by an all-Iraqi aircrew on Feb. 13, 2005. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Master Sgt. Scott Wagers

er, if it was flown by an all-Iraqi aircrew how are these two chaps getting a trophy for taking part in the "most meritorious flight of the year by an Air Force person" ?!

[SGMGSG9]

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"Don't make me & the Jihadi Holy-Roller's come over there, because if we do, your in for a kidnapping."

[MichaelF]

er, if it was flown by an all-Iraqi aircrew how are these two chaps getting a trophy for taking part in the "most meritorious flight of the year by an Air Force person" ?!


Don't try to figure out US Military award systems. It's like Cthullu....you'll go mad and become a fishman...

[One?]

Don't get picky mate! ;) I'm not that well known of the Arabic/Persian culture differences.
I guess it's about the same issue as it's better not call a Canuckie an American...

More like one speaks arabic and the other speaks persian. According to your comparison jews and arabs are the same. spanish and portuguese are the same etc...

[3rdMillhouse]

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You will join the Dark Side young Skywalker.

[He219]

From SS:
:)

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Sgt. 1st Class Jeremy Carey, scout platoon sergeant, Troop A, 8th Squadron, 10th Cavalry, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division oversees a security while Soldiers deliver construction supplies to Iraqi locals in the Al Amarriya neighborhood in southern Baghdad. Carey was recently shot in the neck by an enemy combatant, but is now back on the streets leading his Soldiers.
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Soldiers from the 2nd Officer and NCO rotation at the Peace Operation Training Center react to a simulated Improvised Explosive Device while on the mounting patrol lane during a convoy.
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After hours of attention and preparation from the members of Task Force Bandit, the team's vehicles are ready to face the challenges associated with leaving LSA Anaconda.
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Rakkasans from the 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division provide security for a UH-60 helicopter during the reconnaissance phase of Operation Swift Sword.
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A UH-60 helicopter takes off to conduct reconnaissance with Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division during Operation Swift Sword.
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Rakkasans from the 1st Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division secure a village outside of Bayji, Iraq during Operation Swift Sword.
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1st Lt. Andrew Jensen coordinates efforts with the Iraqi Police Emergency Services Unit leader to conduct a cordon and search of a village outside of Bayji, Iraq during Operation Swift Sword.
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Mary Anderson, Banyan Productions producer and director from Philadelphia, Pa., fires blanks from an M4 carbine rifle with the guidance of a Marine at the Udairi Range April 26 as a part of the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference 71 in Kuwait.
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Allison Rosenberg, University of North Carolina vice chancellor from Chapel Hill, N.C., fires blanks from an M4 carbine rifle with the guidance of a Marine at the Udairi Range April 26 as a part of the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference 71 in Kuwait.
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An Iraqi Soldier with 2nd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 8th Iraqi Army Division, hands out much needed clothes to children from Diyarah, a small village in the northern Babil province.
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Spc. Howard Sticklin, dismount crew member, 2nd Platoon, Company D, 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, hands school supplies to children in Diyarah, a small village in the northern Babil province.
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Spc. Howard Sticklin, dismount crew member, 2nd Platoon, Company D, 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, poses with several children from Diyarah, a small village in the northern Babil province, Wednesday.
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Soldiers from 2nd Platoon, Company D, 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, prepare for their mission to Diyarah, a small village in the northern Babil province where they handed out much needed school supplies and clothes to the children.
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Capt. Walter Bowers, Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, was among a handful of Soldiers from Forward Operating Base Kalsu who accompanied Iraqi highway patrolmen to the Al-Secuty secondary school. The IHP held a "Career Day," where they talked to students about their job, the children’s' future and handed out school supplies and soccer balls. The visitors played soccer with students during their recess hour.
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Capt. Eric Reed, commander, Company C, 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, hands out candy to kids at the Al-Secuty secondary school in the Obeid region. Iraqi highway patrolmen handed out school supplies and soccer balls to the students and talked to them about their future.
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Capt. Walter Bowers, Special Troops Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, was among a handful of Soldiers from Forward Operating Base Kalsu who accompanied Iraqi highway patrolmen to the Al-Secuty secondary school. The IHP held a "Career Day," where they talked to students about their job, the children’s' future and handed out school supplies and soccer balls. The visitors played soccer with students during their recess hour.

[He219]

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Xinhua News Agency released this photo April 28, 2006, a member of special crack police acts during hostage rescue drill in Beijing, Thursday, April 27, 2006. Police officers in Beijing entered a field training program from Thursday to improve their security skill in the lead-up to the 2008 Olympic Games. (AP Photo / Xinhua, Liu Yongsheng)
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Members of the police anti-guerrilla force secures the streets in Pereira, 95 miles (153 kms) northwest of Bogota, Colombia, during the funeral for Liliana Gaviria, Friday, April 28, 2006. Gaviria, sister of Cesar Gaviria former General Secretary of OAS, was killed in a botched kidnapping Thursday in Pereira.(AP Photo/Inaldo Perez)
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This is the latest picture, right, of Malaysian terror suspect Noordin Mohamad Top who allegedly has changed his appearance compared to the previous image, left, released by Indonesian Police on Monday, Nov. 3, 2003. Noordin, one of Southeast Asia's most-wanted terrorists, escaped capture when security forces launched a raid on his hideout early Saturday, April 29, 2006 sparking a gunbattle that left two militants dead, police said. (AP Photo/Indonesian Police Handout, File)
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This is an undated image made from a video released Friday, April 28, 2006 of al-Qaida's No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri. al-Zawahri said the terror network's branch in Iraq had succeeded in "breaking the back" of the U.S. miltary with hundreds of suicide bombings, in a video that was the latest in a string of new messages by al-Qaida's leaders. This image was provided via the IntelCenter, which is a private contractor working for intelligence agencies. In the bottom right corner is the logo in Arabic and English of Al-Sahab, an al-Qaida video production company. (AP Photo/via IntelCenter)
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Amelio Cucinelli, 93, of Beverly, Mass., right, stands at attention as French Consul General Francois Gauthier, center, pins the French Legion of Honor medal on him, Friday, April 28, 2006, at Norwich University in Northfield, Vt. (AP Photo/Alden Pellett)
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Emily Stelman, lower left, looks over her shoulder as a group of veterans, including her grandfather Louis Heliotis, at left, salute while wearing France's highest honor, the French Legion of Honor medal, which was bestowed upon them, Friday, April 28, 2006, at Norwich University in Northfield, Vt. (AP Photo/Alden Pellett)
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Wearing the French Legion of Honor medal which was bestowed upon on him Friday, World War II veteran Amelio Cucinelli, 93, of Beverly, Mass., gives a thumbs up after the end of the ceremony, Friday, April 28, 2006, in Northfield, Vt. Cucinelli, a former combat medic who landed in France 62 years ago following the invasion of Normandy and later rode a glider into Holland, was one of 12 former soldiers given the highest honor bestowed by the French government in a ceremony at Norwich University. (AP Photo/Alden Pellett)
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French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy in Ajaccio, during a visit to the Corsican Island, Friday, April 28, 2006. (AP Photo/Jean-Pierre Belzit)
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French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy in Ajaccio, during a visit to the Corsican Island, Friday, April 28, 2006. A scandal that has shaken France's political elite gained momentum Friday, April 28, 2006 with a report quoting a former secret agent alleging that Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin asked for an investigation into his chief political rival, now interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy. Le Monde newspaper reported that Villepin, on the orders of French President Jacques Chirac, asked the agent to dig up information on Nicolas Sarkozy as part of a wider bribe-taking inquiry centered on the Defense Ministry. (AP Photo/Jean-Pierre Belzit)
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Imad Lahoud, a French-Lebanese computer scientist, foreground poses before addressing reporters along with his lawyer Olivier Pardo, rear, Friday, April 28, 2006 in Paris. Lahoud denied Friday being the mysterious informer that gave to Judge Renaud Van Ruymbeke a CD-ROM accusing French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy and other top ministers of holding secret accounts with Luxembourg bank Clearstream. A scandal that has shaken France's political elite gained momentum Friday with a report quoting a former secret agent alleging that Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin asked for an investigation into his chief political rival, now interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy. Le Monde newspaper reported that Villepin, on the orders of French President Jacques Chirac, asked the agent to dig up information on Nicolas Sarkozy, now interior minister, as part of a wider bribe-taking inquiry centered on the Defense Ministry. (AP Photo)
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French President Jacques Chirac, right, and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin arrive at the Elysee Palace, Thursday, April 27, 2006. A scandal that has shaken France's political elite gained momentum Friday, April 28, 2006 with a report quoting a former secret agent alleging that Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin asked for an investigation into his chief political rival, now interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy. Le Monde newspaper reported that Villepin, on the orders of French President Jacques Chirac, asked the agent to dig up information on Nicolas Sarkozy, now interior minister, as part of a wider bribe-taking inquiry centered on the Defense Ministry. (AP Photo/Pascal Pavani, Pool)
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French President Jacques Chirac looks on during a joint address with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, unseen, at the Elysee Palace, Friday, April 28, 2006. A scandal that has shaken France's political elite gained momentum Friday with a report quoting a former secret agent alleging that Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin asked for an investigation into his chief political rival, now interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy. Le Monde newspaper reported that Villepin, on the orders of French President Jacques Chirac, asked the agent to dig up information on Nicolas Sarkozy, now interior minister, as part of a wider bribe-taking inquiry centered on the Defense Ministry. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Meller speaks at a press conference, announcing his resignation from the post, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, April 28, 2006. Meller resigned in a protest over the conservative government's formation of a coalition with Self-Defense, an anti-EU party led by flamboyant populist Andrzej Lepper. (AP Photo / Alik Keplicz)
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This photo made available by the U.S. Air Force shows a Boeing Delta II rocket carrying the CloudSat and Calipso satellites launching from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, early Friday, April 28, 2006. Once in orbit, CloudSat and Calipso will join the "A-Train" constellation, a trio of environmental spacecraft, already surveying the Earth's atmosphere. (AP Photo/USAF, Brian Gavin)

[Xlimit]

What is this for a sight? It's not a Acog..

http://www.dvidshub.net/img_show.php?id=18999

[American Patriot]

It's an ACOG TA-something with a killflash

[Hawkeye]

On Thursday April 27th, the Polish SPAP Bialystok arrests the 17 year old killer of a 17 year old Belgian boy in the city of Suwalki, north-east Poland. The murder took place in Brussels. The killer escaped to Poland.

Thanks! Very nice.
Poland will no longer be forgotten. Dumb bastard killing a kid for an MP3-player in a railwaystation.

[brad 1]

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is it just me or does anyone else think this pic is absolutly amazing 93 and still rocking. mint.
he also reminds me of cpl jones from dads army.

[Count Lippe]

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http://www.bi.uni-duesseldorf.de/people/pics/nase-ingo_p.jpg

Anyone? rofl

[tahoe]

What is this for a sight? It's not a Acog..

http://www.dvidshub.net/img_show.php?id=18999

Man, the USMC must be getting really desperate for recruits... :)


How can she see a damn thing from that far away? Of course, she doesn't have to hit anything with those blanks...

[~~~~]

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Don't you guys think this bloke looks an awful lot like the Arabic version of GW Bush?



he`s not Arab, you idiot...

[Heron]

he`s not Arab, you idiot...
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lol


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[CRTS27]

But he does look like GWB! Evil tween?rofl

[Graspol]

Can you guys stfu ?? I allready appologized for that mistake.
It show's though that not only Americans can be ignorant at some points aye?

[szr]

Can you guys stfu ?? I allready appologized for that mistake.
It show's though that not only Americans can be ignorant at some points aye?It highlights the ignorance and hypocrisy of internet trolls such as yourself.

[Rictor]

No big deal, most people I would say don't know the difference. Sort of like Canucks and Yanks - they look the same, talk the same, but each will give you crap if you mix them up. I merely pointed it out for humour's sake.