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03-18-2004, 01:31 PM
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Norwegian peacekeepers, as a part of NATO (news - web sites)-led troops in Kosovo, block a highway with armored personnel carriers on the outskirts of Pristina to prevent ethnic Albanians travelling to the Serb village of Caglavica, March 18, 2004. NATO said on Thursday it was sending reinforcements to Kosovo from Bosnia to help quell ethnic violence, with a company of 100-150 U.S. troops already on its way and two others on standby. *******/Hazir Reka
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A Kosovo Albanian protester throw stones towards a barricade established by NATO (news - web sites)-led peacekeepers in the outskirts of the Kosovo's capital Pristina. The protestors were attempting to go to the Serb enclave of Caglavica on Thursday, March 18, 2004. (AP Photo / Visar Kryeziu)
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UN police try to prevent an escalation of clashes between ethnic Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo in the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica.(AFP)
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U.S. NATO (news - web sites) peacekeepers set a check point on the road between Pristina and Mitrovica, Kosovo, one day after clashes between ethnic Albanians and Serbs, March 18, 2004. *******/Hazir Reka
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Thousands of Kosovo Albanians march towards a baricade established by NATO (news - web sites)-led peacekeepers in the outskirts of the Kosovo's capital Pristina the crowd were going to a Serb enclave of Caglavica on Thursday, March 18, 2004. (AP Photo / Visar Kryeziu)
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U.S. NATO (news - web sites) peacekeepers set a check point on the road between Pristina and Mitrovica, Kosovo, one day after clashes between ethnic Albanians and Serbs, March 18, 2004. *******/Hazir Reka
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U.S. NATO (news - web sites) peacekeepers man check point on a road between Pristina and Mitrovica, Kosovo, one day after clashes between ethnic Albanians and Serbs, March 18, 2004 .Nato summoned reinforcements after 22 people were killed in the worst ethnic clashes in Kosovo since the allies and the United Nations (news - web sites) took control of the province in 1999. / ******* Hazir Reka
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American NATO (news - web sites) peacekeepers man a check point in road between Pristina and Mitrovica, Kosovo, one day after clashes between ethnic Albanians and Serbs, March 18, 2004 . Nato summoned reinforcements after 22 people were killed in the worst ethnic clashes in Kosovo since the allies and the United Nations (news - web sites) took control of the province in 1999. *******/Hazir Reka
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A young boy sits at a check point manned by American NATO (news - web sites) peacekeepers on a road between Pristina and Mitrovica, Kosovo, one day after clashes between ethnic Albanians and Serbs, March 18, 2004 .
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British soldiers fill sandbags as they take up their position in Kosovo. The Ministry of Defence told AFP that Britain is rushing 750 extra troops to Kosovo following the worst ethnic violence in the Serbian province since it was put under UN administration in 1999.(AFP/File/Hazir Reka)
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British soldiers of the 1st Batallion Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment prepare to leave for Kosovo, at their barracks in West London, March 18, 2004. Britain said on Thursday it would send a force of up to 750 troops to help quell unrest in Kosovo, where 22 people have died in the past 24 hours, in the worst clashes since NATO (news - web sites) and the United Nations (news - web sites) took control of the province in 1999. *******/Stephen Hird
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British soldiers of the 1st Batallion Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment prepare to leave for Kosovo, at their barracks in west London, March 18, 2004. Britain said on Thursday it would send a force of up to 750 troops to help quell unrest in Kosovo, where 22 people have died in the past 24 hours, in the worst clashes since NATO (news - web sites) and the United Nations (news - web sites) took control of the province in 1999. *******/Stephen Hird
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French members of the NATO (news - web sites)-led peacekeeping troops set up a razor-wire blockade at a key bridge in the northern Kosovo city of Kosovska Mitrovica, Thursday, March 18, 2004. The blockade is intended to keep apart rival Serb and ethnic Albanian communities which clashed on Thursday as ethnic Albanians tried to take control of a Serb-populated part of the city. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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An unidentified Kosovo Serb civilian, dressed in camouflage uniform and a traditional headgear, waves the Serbian flag in front of armored vehicles of NATO (news - web sites)-led peacekeepers in the northern Kosovo city of Kosovska Mitrovica, Thursday, March 18, 2004. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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Smoke billows from Serbian Orthodox Church which was set ablaze by ethnic Albanian extremists in the northern Kosovo city of Kosovska Mitrovica, Thursday, March 18, 2004. The apparent arson followed major clashes between the rival Serb and ethnic Albanian communities in the city when ethnic Albanians tried to take control over a Serb-populated area. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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A Kosovo Albanian man pours water from a hose at the house of a Serbian neighbours house after it was set on fire by an angry Kosovo Albanian protesters in the ethnicly mixed village of Kosovo Polje in the outskirts of the Kosovo's capital Pristina on Thursday, March 18, 2004. (AP Photo / Visar Kryeziu)
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Italian Carabinieri troops, currently deployed as part of the NATO (news - web sites) led peacekeeping forces in Bosnia, arrive at a military airfield in Sarajevo on Thursday, March 18, 2004, before boarding a U.S. military plane on their way to Kosovo, Serbia-Montenegro. Italian troops were ordered to go to Kosovo as support to KFOR operations after Wednesday's unrest in Kosovo which resulted in over a dozen casualties. (AP Photo/NATO, HO)
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SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA: Italian Carabinieri troops, currently deployed as part of NATO led peacekeeping forces in Bosnia, arrive at a military airfield in Sarajevo 18 March, 2004, before boarding a USAF plane on their way to Kosovo, Serbia-Montenegro. Italian troops were ordered to go to Kosovo as support to KFOR operations after Wednesday's unrest in Kosovo which resulted in over a dozen casualties. AFP PHOTO/NATO/POOL-HANDOUT (Photo credit should read -/AFP/***** Images)
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Serbian police officers help an injured comrade during riots in front of a mosque in downtown Belgrade, early Thursday March 18, 2004. Demonstrators set ablaze the city's only 17th century mosque in violent protests demanding that the government act to protect Serbian Orthodox Christian's in Kosovo from attacks by the province's predominantly Muslim ethnic Albanians. Another mosque in the southern city of Nis was also set ablaze. (AP Photo/ Mikica Petrovic)
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Serbian protesters look at the burning police car in front of a mosque in Belgrade, early Thursday March 18, 2004. Demonstrators set ablaze the city's only 17th century mosque in violent protests and demanded that the government act to protect Serbian Orthodox Christian kin in Kosovo from attacks by the province's predominantly Muslim ethnic Albanians. Another mosque in the southern city of Nis was also set ablaze. (AP Photo/Mikica Petrovic)
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A Serbian protester holds a Muslim flag in front of the mosque in downtown Belgrade, early Thursday March 18, 2004. Demonstrators set ablaze the city's only 17th century mosque in a violent protest demanding that the government act to protect Serbian Orthodox Christian's in Kosovo from attacks by the province's predominantly Muslim ethnic Albanians. Another mosque in the southern city of Nis was also set ablaze. (AP Photo/Mikica Petrovic)
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Protesters jubilate in front of a burning mosque after a fire set by protesters took hold in the southern Serbian town of Nis, some 250 km south of Belgrade Wednesday March 17, 2004. Over two thousand Serbs protested against a recent wave of violence in Kosovo that left eight people dead and over three hundred wounded. (AP Photo/Kostadin Kamenov)
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A view of burnt mosque in southern Serbian town of Nis, some 250 kms south of Belgrade, Thursday March 18, 2004. Angered by ethnic between ethnic Albanians and Serb clashes in Kosovo Wednesday , Serb rioters rampaged in Serbia, torching mosques in revenge for destroyed Serbian Orthodox churches in Kosovo. (AP Photo / Kostadin Kamenov)
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A Serbian police officer looks at a burnt out police vehicle in front of a mosque complex in downtown Belgrade, Thursday March 18, 2004. Demonstrators overnight set ablaze the city's only mosque in a violent protest demanding that the Serb government act to protect its Serbian Orthodox kin in Kosovo from attacks by the province's predominantly Muslim ethnic Albanians. (AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic)
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A Kosovo ethnic Albanian man looks at a burned-out U.N car in the Kosovo capital Pristina Thursday , March 18, 2004 that was set on fire by ethnic Albanian protestors during overnight clashes between ethnic Albanians and Serbs. NATO (news - web sites) peacekeepers and U.N. police are regrouping throughout Kosovo Thursday to put down rioting and violence that left eight dead and hundreds injured in one of the bloodiest days since the end of the Kosovo war in 1999. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
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A U.S. police investigator, center, joined by German police officer investigate the scene of the burned out local hospital after it was set on fire by an angry Kosovo Albanian protesters in the ethnicly mixed village of Kosovo Polje in the outskirts of the Kosovo's capital Pristina on Thursday, March 18, 2004. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
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KFOR peacekeepers construct a roadblock on a road leading to Kosovo's capital Pristina Thursday March 18, 2004. NATO (news - web sites) peacekeepers and U.N. police are regrouping throughout Kosovo Thursday to put down rioting and violence that left eight dead and hundreds injured in one of the bloodiest days since the end of the Kosovo war in 1999. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
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Swedish soldiers of the multinational NATO (news - web sites) force in Kosovo known as KFOR try to re-establish order near the village of Caglavica, just outside the provincial capital Pristina where ethnic Albanians blocked the main road to Macedonia(AFP/Nikola Besevik)
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Demonstrators carry Serbian flags and display three fingered Serbian Orthodox sign during protest against recent violence in Kosovo where ethnic Albanians and Serbs clashed, in Belgrade center March 18, 2004. Albanians set fire to Serb Orthodox churches in Kosovo on Thursday as NATO (news - web sites) scrambled to deploy up to 1,000 more troops to stifle an explosion of ethnic violence. *******/Marko Djurica
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Protesters throw stones at riot police in Belgrade's residential area of Dedinje, near the Albanian embassy, Thursday March 18, 2004. Rioters clashed with police in for the second consecutive day protesting against ethnic violence in Kosovo province. (AP Photo/Mikica Petrovic)
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Serbian gendarmerie officers hold up their shields to protect from stones thrown by protesters in Belgrade's residential area of Dedinje, near the Albanian embassy, Thursday March 18, 2004. Rioters clashed with police for the second consecutive day protesting against ethnic violence in Kosovo province. (AP Photo/Mikica Petrovic)
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Ethnic Albanians stage a sit-in in downtown Pristina, following clashes between ethnic Albanian and Serb communities in Kosovo that have left 22 people dead.(AFP/Nikola Besevic)
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Serbia's Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica (news - web sites), left, and Patriarch Pavle, the head of the Serbian Orthodox church, center, lead a peaceful march at the St. Sava temple in Belgrade, Thursday March 18, 2004. Thousands of Belgraders joined the march and prayers in solidarity with the Kosovo Serbs. (AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic)
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KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, SERBIA-MONTENEGRO: French peacekeepers redeploy on a bridge in order to prevent an escalation of clashes between ethnic Kosovo Albanians and Kosovo Serbs (front) in the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica 18 March, 2004. At least 22 people were killed and more then two hundred are injured in the clashes. AFP PHOTO/KOCA SULEJMANOVIC (Photo credit should read KOCA SULEJMANOVIC/AFP/***** Images)
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BELGRADE, SERBIA-MONTENEGRO: Serbia's leading Muslim cleric Hamdija Jusufspahic (L) hugs a member of the Serbian parlament at the entrance to a mosque complex in downtown Belgrade, 18 March 2004. Demonstrators overnight set ablaze the city's only mosque in a violent protest demanding that the Serb government act to protect its Serbian Orthodox kin in Kosovo from attacks by the province's predominantly Muslim ethnic Albanians. NATO began reinforcing its 17,000-strong peacekeeping force in Kosovo today and approved the use of force to end the worst violence between Serbs and ethnic Albanians in the province in five years. AFP PHOTO / ANDREJ ISAKOVIC (Photo credit should read ANDREJ
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: US Secretary of State Colin Powell (R) and U.S Ambassador and Special Envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad (L) walk from a military aircraft as they arrive at Kabul International Airport, Kabul,17 March 2004. Powell met with Afghanistan President Karzai and discussed terrorism and the Central Asian countries forthcoming democratic elections due to take place this summer. Powell said he welcomed the progress Afghanistan had made since his last visit in early 2002, he welcomed the Pakistani military operation on the other side of the Afghan border adding that any militants who were forced over into Afghanistan as a result of the operation would be dealt with by the US-led coalition force which has been in Afghanistan since late 2001. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/***** Images)
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Pakistani paramilitary troops guard the entry point of Wana, South Waziristan some 360km (225 miles) southwest of the capital Islamabad on March 18, 2004. Pakistani forces launched a fresh offensive on Thursday, bringing out heavy guns and helicopters to flush out suspected al Qaeda fighters and their Pakistani tribesmen allies near the Afghan border. *******/Kamran Wazir
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - MARCH 18: Afghan National Army soldiers with the 15th Kandak perform a mock military exercise during graduation ceremonies at the Kabul Military Training Center on March 18, 2004 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan Army has received extensive training from the U.S. Army and will be deployed thoughout the various provinces. (Photo by Darren McCollester/***** Images)
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Afghan National Army soldiers demonstrate skills at a ceremony to mark the completion of the manning of the Army Corps in Kabul March 18, 2004. The much derided Afghan National Army is becoming a significant asset in the hunt for Islamic militants like Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), the U.S. general overseeing the building of the force said on Wednesday. *******/Ahmad Masood
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: Afghan soldiers parade during the graduation ceremony of the 15th and 16th battalions in Kabul, 18 March 2004 as part of the internationaly-backed efforts to build Afghanistan's National Army which currently numbers around 9,000 troops of the projected 70,000 strong force. Meanwhile, US, Afghan and Pakistani forces are ramping up the hunt for Al-Qaeda leaders including Osama bin Laden along the Afghan-Pakistani frontier, with Pakistan unleashing one of its largest-ever air and ground offensives against fighters hiding among tribes near the rugged border. AFP PHOTO/Shah Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/***** Images)
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Afghan soldiers march after swearing an oath of loyalty to Afghanistan (news - web sites) as they graduate from their 12 week training course Thursday, March 18, 2004 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: Two Afghan soldiers swear on the Holy Koran during the graduation ceremony of the 15th and 16th battalions in Kabul, 18 March 2004
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - MARCH 18: Afghan National Army soldiers with the 15th Kandak stand in formation during graduation ceremonies at the Kabul Military Training Center on March 18, 2004 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan Army has received extensive training from the U.S. Army and will be deployed thoughout the various provinces. (Photo by Darren McCollester/***** Images)
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - MARCH 18: Afghan National Army soldiers with the 15th Kandak perform a cultural breakdance during graduation ceremonies at the Kabul Military Training Center on March 18, 2004 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan Army has received extensive training from the U.S. Army and will be deployed thoughout the various provinces. (Photo by Darren McCollester/***** Images)
Iraq:
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British Army troops investigate the site of a bomb blast outside Mirbad hotel killing at least four people and wounding two, two days before the anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq (news - web sites) in Basra March 18, 2004. *******/Atef Hassan
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British coalition forces secure the site of a car bomb that exploded Thursday March 18, 2004 in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, as a British military patrol passed by, killing five Iraqi bystanders the latest in a series of bombing and shooting attacks targeting civilians. (AP Photo/Nabil El Jourana)
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KHODR, IRAQ: An Iraqi Civil Defence Corps (ICDC) soldier stands guard next to a Japanese Self Defence Force soldier outside a school in the village of Khodr near Samawa some 200 kilometers (170 miles) southeast of Karbala 18 March 2004, where a gift presenting ceremony of items donated by Japanese children to Iraqi children took place. Japan's mission to Iraq is the first by Japanese troops to a country where fighting is going on since World War II, and has caused controversy back home because of Japan's pacifist constitution. The troops will only be allowed to use their weapons if attacked. AFP PHOTO/ Joseph BARRAK (Photo credit should read JOSEPH BARRAK/AFP/***** Images)
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KHODR, IRAQ: An Iraqi Civil defence Corps soldier Akram Jaber Zamad (L) stands next to Dutch captain Francois de Jonge and Japanese Self Defence Force colonel Yasushi Kiyota, as they pose for the camera outside a school in the village of Khodr near Samawa some 200 kilometers (170 miles) southeast of Karbala 18 March 2004, where a gift presenting ceremony of items donated by Japanese children to Iraqi children is took place. Japan's mission to Iraq is the first by Japanese troops to a country where fighting is going on since World War II, and has caused controversy back home because of Japan's pacifist constitution. The troops will only be allowed to use their weapons if attacked. AFP PHOTO/ Joseph BARRAK (Photo credit should read JOSEPH BARRAK/AFP/***** Images)
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KHODR, IRAQ: Japanese Chief commander Colonel Koichiro Bansho jokes with an Iraqi boy during a ceremony of presenting gifts donated by Japanese children to Iraqi children, while visiting to a school in the village of Khodr near Samawa some 200 kilometers (170 miles) southeast of Karbala. Japan's mission to Iraq is the first by Japanese troops to a country where fighting is going on since World War II, and has caused controversy back home because of Japan's pacifist constitution. The troops will only be allowed to use their weapons if attacked. AFP PHOTO/Joseph BARRAK (Photo credit should read JOSEPH
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Israeli soldiers check their tanks near the entrance to Gaza March 17, 2004. Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie urged Israel's Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) on March 18 to go ahead with his planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) but to leave without further death and destruction. Israel launched an offensive Tuesday to smash Gaza militants, killing seven Palestinians in helicopter strikes and bulldozing houses in a search for arms-smuggling tunnels following a double suicide-attack on a strategic port. (Nir Elias/*******)
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An Israeli bulldozer removes an olive tree from the construction site of a section of the separation barrier in the village of Deir Qiddis near the West Bank town of Ramallah, Thursday, March 18, 2004. Israel's Supreme Court has imposed an open-ended freeze on construction of a 25-kilometer (15-mile) section of the country's contentious West Bank separation barrier near Jerusalem, a lawyer in the case said Thursday. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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This 1999 NASA (news - web sites) artist's rendition shows the X-43A hypersonic research aircraft as it would appear in flight. NASA announced plans to launch a supersonic drone later this month designed to fly 6,000 miles (10,000 km) per hour, nearly three times the standing jet airspeed record.(NASA)
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HAMBURG, Germany: The body of an Airbus A380 (background) is presented 18 March 2004 in Hamburg, where it has been built. This part will be transported to Saint-Nazaire, France, to be completed with the cockpit. Launched in December 2000, the A380 will enter airline passenger service in 2006 and will offer 650 seats to passengers. AFP PHOTO DDP/ROLAND MAGUNIA GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read ROLAND MAGUNIA/AFP/***** Images)
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Norwegian peacekeepers, as a part of NATO (news - web sites)-led troops in Kosovo, block a highway with armored personnel carriers on the outskirts of Pristina to prevent ethnic Albanians travelling to the Serb village of Caglavica, March 18, 2004. NATO said on Thursday it was sending reinforcements to Kosovo from Bosnia to help quell ethnic violence, with a company of 100-150 U.S. troops already on its way and two others on standby. *******/Hazir Reka
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A Kosovo Albanian protester throw stones towards a barricade established by NATO (news - web sites)-led peacekeepers in the outskirts of the Kosovo's capital Pristina. The protestors were attempting to go to the Serb enclave of Caglavica on Thursday, March 18, 2004. (AP Photo / Visar Kryeziu)
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UN police try to prevent an escalation of clashes between ethnic Albanians and Serbs in Kosovo in the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica.(AFP)
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U.S. NATO (news - web sites) peacekeepers set a check point on the road between Pristina and Mitrovica, Kosovo, one day after clashes between ethnic Albanians and Serbs, March 18, 2004. *******/Hazir Reka
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Thousands of Kosovo Albanians march towards a baricade established by NATO (news - web sites)-led peacekeepers in the outskirts of the Kosovo's capital Pristina the crowd were going to a Serb enclave of Caglavica on Thursday, March 18, 2004. (AP Photo / Visar Kryeziu)
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U.S. NATO (news - web sites) peacekeepers set a check point on the road between Pristina and Mitrovica, Kosovo, one day after clashes between ethnic Albanians and Serbs, March 18, 2004. *******/Hazir Reka
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U.S. NATO (news - web sites) peacekeepers man check point on a road between Pristina and Mitrovica, Kosovo, one day after clashes between ethnic Albanians and Serbs, March 18, 2004 .Nato summoned reinforcements after 22 people were killed in the worst ethnic clashes in Kosovo since the allies and the United Nations (news - web sites) took control of the province in 1999. / ******* Hazir Reka
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American NATO (news - web sites) peacekeepers man a check point in road between Pristina and Mitrovica, Kosovo, one day after clashes between ethnic Albanians and Serbs, March 18, 2004 . Nato summoned reinforcements after 22 people were killed in the worst ethnic clashes in Kosovo since the allies and the United Nations (news - web sites) took control of the province in 1999. *******/Hazir Reka
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A young boy sits at a check point manned by American NATO (news - web sites) peacekeepers on a road between Pristina and Mitrovica, Kosovo, one day after clashes between ethnic Albanians and Serbs, March 18, 2004 .
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British soldiers fill sandbags as they take up their position in Kosovo. The Ministry of Defence told AFP that Britain is rushing 750 extra troops to Kosovo following the worst ethnic violence in the Serbian province since it was put under UN administration in 1999.(AFP/File/Hazir Reka)
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British soldiers of the 1st Batallion Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment prepare to leave for Kosovo, at their barracks in West London, March 18, 2004. Britain said on Thursday it would send a force of up to 750 troops to help quell unrest in Kosovo, where 22 people have died in the past 24 hours, in the worst clashes since NATO (news - web sites) and the United Nations (news - web sites) took control of the province in 1999. *******/Stephen Hird
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British soldiers of the 1st Batallion Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment prepare to leave for Kosovo, at their barracks in west London, March 18, 2004. Britain said on Thursday it would send a force of up to 750 troops to help quell unrest in Kosovo, where 22 people have died in the past 24 hours, in the worst clashes since NATO (news - web sites) and the United Nations (news - web sites) took control of the province in 1999. *******/Stephen Hird
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French members of the NATO (news - web sites)-led peacekeeping troops set up a razor-wire blockade at a key bridge in the northern Kosovo city of Kosovska Mitrovica, Thursday, March 18, 2004. The blockade is intended to keep apart rival Serb and ethnic Albanian communities which clashed on Thursday as ethnic Albanians tried to take control of a Serb-populated part of the city. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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An unidentified Kosovo Serb civilian, dressed in camouflage uniform and a traditional headgear, waves the Serbian flag in front of armored vehicles of NATO (news - web sites)-led peacekeepers in the northern Kosovo city of Kosovska Mitrovica, Thursday, March 18, 2004. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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Smoke billows from Serbian Orthodox Church which was set ablaze by ethnic Albanian extremists in the northern Kosovo city of Kosovska Mitrovica, Thursday, March 18, 2004. The apparent arson followed major clashes between the rival Serb and ethnic Albanian communities in the city when ethnic Albanians tried to take control over a Serb-populated area. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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A Kosovo Albanian man pours water from a hose at the house of a Serbian neighbours house after it was set on fire by an angry Kosovo Albanian protesters in the ethnicly mixed village of Kosovo Polje in the outskirts of the Kosovo's capital Pristina on Thursday, March 18, 2004. (AP Photo / Visar Kryeziu)
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Italian Carabinieri troops, currently deployed as part of the NATO (news - web sites) led peacekeeping forces in Bosnia, arrive at a military airfield in Sarajevo on Thursday, March 18, 2004, before boarding a U.S. military plane on their way to Kosovo, Serbia-Montenegro. Italian troops were ordered to go to Kosovo as support to KFOR operations after Wednesday's unrest in Kosovo which resulted in over a dozen casualties. (AP Photo/NATO, HO)
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SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA: Italian Carabinieri troops, currently deployed as part of NATO led peacekeeping forces in Bosnia, arrive at a military airfield in Sarajevo 18 March, 2004, before boarding a USAF plane on their way to Kosovo, Serbia-Montenegro. Italian troops were ordered to go to Kosovo as support to KFOR operations after Wednesday's unrest in Kosovo which resulted in over a dozen casualties. AFP PHOTO/NATO/POOL-HANDOUT (Photo credit should read -/AFP/***** Images)
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Serbian police officers help an injured comrade during riots in front of a mosque in downtown Belgrade, early Thursday March 18, 2004. Demonstrators set ablaze the city's only 17th century mosque in violent protests demanding that the government act to protect Serbian Orthodox Christian's in Kosovo from attacks by the province's predominantly Muslim ethnic Albanians. Another mosque in the southern city of Nis was also set ablaze. (AP Photo/ Mikica Petrovic)
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Serbian protesters look at the burning police car in front of a mosque in Belgrade, early Thursday March 18, 2004. Demonstrators set ablaze the city's only 17th century mosque in violent protests and demanded that the government act to protect Serbian Orthodox Christian kin in Kosovo from attacks by the province's predominantly Muslim ethnic Albanians. Another mosque in the southern city of Nis was also set ablaze. (AP Photo/Mikica Petrovic)
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A Serbian protester holds a Muslim flag in front of the mosque in downtown Belgrade, early Thursday March 18, 2004. Demonstrators set ablaze the city's only 17th century mosque in a violent protest demanding that the government act to protect Serbian Orthodox Christian's in Kosovo from attacks by the province's predominantly Muslim ethnic Albanians. Another mosque in the southern city of Nis was also set ablaze. (AP Photo/Mikica Petrovic)
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Protesters jubilate in front of a burning mosque after a fire set by protesters took hold in the southern Serbian town of Nis, some 250 km south of Belgrade Wednesday March 17, 2004. Over two thousand Serbs protested against a recent wave of violence in Kosovo that left eight people dead and over three hundred wounded. (AP Photo/Kostadin Kamenov)
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A view of burnt mosque in southern Serbian town of Nis, some 250 kms south of Belgrade, Thursday March 18, 2004. Angered by ethnic between ethnic Albanians and Serb clashes in Kosovo Wednesday , Serb rioters rampaged in Serbia, torching mosques in revenge for destroyed Serbian Orthodox churches in Kosovo. (AP Photo / Kostadin Kamenov)
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A Serbian police officer looks at a burnt out police vehicle in front of a mosque complex in downtown Belgrade, Thursday March 18, 2004. Demonstrators overnight set ablaze the city's only mosque in a violent protest demanding that the Serb government act to protect its Serbian Orthodox kin in Kosovo from attacks by the province's predominantly Muslim ethnic Albanians. (AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic)
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A Kosovo ethnic Albanian man looks at a burned-out U.N car in the Kosovo capital Pristina Thursday , March 18, 2004 that was set on fire by ethnic Albanian protestors during overnight clashes between ethnic Albanians and Serbs. NATO (news - web sites) peacekeepers and U.N. police are regrouping throughout Kosovo Thursday to put down rioting and violence that left eight dead and hundreds injured in one of the bloodiest days since the end of the Kosovo war in 1999. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
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A U.S. police investigator, center, joined by German police officer investigate the scene of the burned out local hospital after it was set on fire by an angry Kosovo Albanian protesters in the ethnicly mixed village of Kosovo Polje in the outskirts of the Kosovo's capital Pristina on Thursday, March 18, 2004. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
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KFOR peacekeepers construct a roadblock on a road leading to Kosovo's capital Pristina Thursday March 18, 2004. NATO (news - web sites) peacekeepers and U.N. police are regrouping throughout Kosovo Thursday to put down rioting and violence that left eight dead and hundreds injured in one of the bloodiest days since the end of the Kosovo war in 1999. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
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Swedish soldiers of the multinational NATO (news - web sites) force in Kosovo known as KFOR try to re-establish order near the village of Caglavica, just outside the provincial capital Pristina where ethnic Albanians blocked the main road to Macedonia(AFP/Nikola Besevik)
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Demonstrators carry Serbian flags and display three fingered Serbian Orthodox sign during protest against recent violence in Kosovo where ethnic Albanians and Serbs clashed, in Belgrade center March 18, 2004. Albanians set fire to Serb Orthodox churches in Kosovo on Thursday as NATO (news - web sites) scrambled to deploy up to 1,000 more troops to stifle an explosion of ethnic violence. *******/Marko Djurica
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Protesters throw stones at riot police in Belgrade's residential area of Dedinje, near the Albanian embassy, Thursday March 18, 2004. Rioters clashed with police in for the second consecutive day protesting against ethnic violence in Kosovo province. (AP Photo/Mikica Petrovic)
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Serbian gendarmerie officers hold up their shields to protect from stones thrown by protesters in Belgrade's residential area of Dedinje, near the Albanian embassy, Thursday March 18, 2004. Rioters clashed with police for the second consecutive day protesting against ethnic violence in Kosovo province. (AP Photo/Mikica Petrovic)
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Ethnic Albanians stage a sit-in in downtown Pristina, following clashes between ethnic Albanian and Serb communities in Kosovo that have left 22 people dead.(AFP/Nikola Besevic)
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Serbia's Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica (news - web sites), left, and Patriarch Pavle, the head of the Serbian Orthodox church, center, lead a peaceful march at the St. Sava temple in Belgrade, Thursday March 18, 2004. Thousands of Belgraders joined the march and prayers in solidarity with the Kosovo Serbs. (AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic)
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KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, SERBIA-MONTENEGRO: French peacekeepers redeploy on a bridge in order to prevent an escalation of clashes between ethnic Kosovo Albanians and Kosovo Serbs (front) in the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica 18 March, 2004. At least 22 people were killed and more then two hundred are injured in the clashes. AFP PHOTO/KOCA SULEJMANOVIC (Photo credit should read KOCA SULEJMANOVIC/AFP/***** Images)
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BELGRADE, SERBIA-MONTENEGRO: Serbia's leading Muslim cleric Hamdija Jusufspahic (L) hugs a member of the Serbian parlament at the entrance to a mosque complex in downtown Belgrade, 18 March 2004. Demonstrators overnight set ablaze the city's only mosque in a violent protest demanding that the Serb government act to protect its Serbian Orthodox kin in Kosovo from attacks by the province's predominantly Muslim ethnic Albanians. NATO began reinforcing its 17,000-strong peacekeeping force in Kosovo today and approved the use of force to end the worst violence between Serbs and ethnic Albanians in the province in five years. AFP PHOTO / ANDREJ ISAKOVIC (Photo credit should read ANDREJ
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: US Secretary of State Colin Powell (R) and U.S Ambassador and Special Envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad (L) walk from a military aircraft as they arrive at Kabul International Airport, Kabul,17 March 2004. Powell met with Afghanistan President Karzai and discussed terrorism and the Central Asian countries forthcoming democratic elections due to take place this summer. Powell said he welcomed the progress Afghanistan had made since his last visit in early 2002, he welcomed the Pakistani military operation on the other side of the Afghan border adding that any militants who were forced over into Afghanistan as a result of the operation would be dealt with by the US-led coalition force which has been in Afghanistan since late 2001. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/***** Images)
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Pakistani paramilitary troops guard the entry point of Wana, South Waziristan some 360km (225 miles) southwest of the capital Islamabad on March 18, 2004. Pakistani forces launched a fresh offensive on Thursday, bringing out heavy guns and helicopters to flush out suspected al Qaeda fighters and their Pakistani tribesmen allies near the Afghan border. *******/Kamran Wazir
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - MARCH 18: Afghan National Army soldiers with the 15th Kandak perform a mock military exercise during graduation ceremonies at the Kabul Military Training Center on March 18, 2004 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan Army has received extensive training from the U.S. Army and will be deployed thoughout the various provinces. (Photo by Darren McCollester/***** Images)
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Afghan National Army soldiers demonstrate skills at a ceremony to mark the completion of the manning of the Army Corps in Kabul March 18, 2004. The much derided Afghan National Army is becoming a significant asset in the hunt for Islamic militants like Osama bin Laden (news - web sites), the U.S. general overseeing the building of the force said on Wednesday. *******/Ahmad Masood
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: Afghan soldiers parade during the graduation ceremony of the 15th and 16th battalions in Kabul, 18 March 2004 as part of the internationaly-backed efforts to build Afghanistan's National Army which currently numbers around 9,000 troops of the projected 70,000 strong force. Meanwhile, US, Afghan and Pakistani forces are ramping up the hunt for Al-Qaeda leaders including Osama bin Laden along the Afghan-Pakistani frontier, with Pakistan unleashing one of its largest-ever air and ground offensives against fighters hiding among tribes near the rugged border. AFP PHOTO/Shah Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/***** Images)
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Afghan soldiers march after swearing an oath of loyalty to Afghanistan (news - web sites) as they graduate from their 12 week training course Thursday, March 18, 2004 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: Two Afghan soldiers swear on the Holy Koran during the graduation ceremony of the 15th and 16th battalions in Kabul, 18 March 2004
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - MARCH 18: Afghan National Army soldiers with the 15th Kandak stand in formation during graduation ceremonies at the Kabul Military Training Center on March 18, 2004 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan Army has received extensive training from the U.S. Army and will be deployed thoughout the various provinces. (Photo by Darren McCollester/***** Images)
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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - MARCH 18: Afghan National Army soldiers with the 15th Kandak perform a cultural breakdance during graduation ceremonies at the Kabul Military Training Center on March 18, 2004 in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Afghan Army has received extensive training from the U.S. Army and will be deployed thoughout the various provinces. (Photo by Darren McCollester/***** Images)
Iraq:
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British Army troops investigate the site of a bomb blast outside Mirbad hotel killing at least four people and wounding two, two days before the anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq (news - web sites) in Basra March 18, 2004. *******/Atef Hassan
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British coalition forces secure the site of a car bomb that exploded Thursday March 18, 2004 in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, as a British military patrol passed by, killing five Iraqi bystanders the latest in a series of bombing and shooting attacks targeting civilians. (AP Photo/Nabil El Jourana)
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KHODR, IRAQ: An Iraqi Civil Defence Corps (ICDC) soldier stands guard next to a Japanese Self Defence Force soldier outside a school in the village of Khodr near Samawa some 200 kilometers (170 miles) southeast of Karbala 18 March 2004, where a gift presenting ceremony of items donated by Japanese children to Iraqi children took place. Japan's mission to Iraq is the first by Japanese troops to a country where fighting is going on since World War II, and has caused controversy back home because of Japan's pacifist constitution. The troops will only be allowed to use their weapons if attacked. AFP PHOTO/ Joseph BARRAK (Photo credit should read JOSEPH BARRAK/AFP/***** Images)
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KHODR, IRAQ: An Iraqi Civil defence Corps soldier Akram Jaber Zamad (L) stands next to Dutch captain Francois de Jonge and Japanese Self Defence Force colonel Yasushi Kiyota, as they pose for the camera outside a school in the village of Khodr near Samawa some 200 kilometers (170 miles) southeast of Karbala 18 March 2004, where a gift presenting ceremony of items donated by Japanese children to Iraqi children is took place. Japan's mission to Iraq is the first by Japanese troops to a country where fighting is going on since World War II, and has caused controversy back home because of Japan's pacifist constitution. The troops will only be allowed to use their weapons if attacked. AFP PHOTO/ Joseph BARRAK (Photo credit should read JOSEPH BARRAK/AFP/***** Images)
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KHODR, IRAQ: Japanese Chief commander Colonel Koichiro Bansho jokes with an Iraqi boy during a ceremony of presenting gifts donated by Japanese children to Iraqi children, while visiting to a school in the village of Khodr near Samawa some 200 kilometers (170 miles) southeast of Karbala. Japan's mission to Iraq is the first by Japanese troops to a country where fighting is going on since World War II, and has caused controversy back home because of Japan's pacifist constitution. The troops will only be allowed to use their weapons if attacked. AFP PHOTO/Joseph BARRAK (Photo credit should read JOSEPH
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Israeli soldiers check their tanks near the entrance to Gaza March 17, 2004. Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie urged Israel's Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) on March 18 to go ahead with his planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) but to leave without further death and destruction. Israel launched an offensive Tuesday to smash Gaza militants, killing seven Palestinians in helicopter strikes and bulldozing houses in a search for arms-smuggling tunnels following a double suicide-attack on a strategic port. (Nir Elias/*******)
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An Israeli bulldozer removes an olive tree from the construction site of a section of the separation barrier in the village of Deir Qiddis near the West Bank town of Ramallah, Thursday, March 18, 2004. Israel's Supreme Court has imposed an open-ended freeze on construction of a 25-kilometer (15-mile) section of the country's contentious West Bank separation barrier near Jerusalem, a lawyer in the case said Thursday. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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This 1999 NASA (news - web sites) artist's rendition shows the X-43A hypersonic research aircraft as it would appear in flight. NASA announced plans to launch a supersonic drone later this month designed to fly 6,000 miles (10,000 km) per hour, nearly three times the standing jet airspeed record.(NASA)
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HAMBURG, Germany: The body of an Airbus A380 (background) is presented 18 March 2004 in Hamburg, where it has been built. This part will be transported to Saint-Nazaire, France, to be completed with the cockpit. Launched in December 2000, the A380 will enter airline passenger service in 2006 and will offer 650 seats to passengers. AFP PHOTO DDP/ROLAND MAGUNIA GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read ROLAND MAGUNIA/AFP/***** Images)
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