Today's Pic's Tuesday, July 25, 2006

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RAMALLAH - WEST BANK - PALESTINE
epa00780703 Palestinian Policmen clash with Palestinian protesters as they try to reach the headquarters of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the West Bank city of Ramallah Tuesaday 25 July , 2006 .thousands of Palestinain protest agains the vivit of Rice to Ramallah. EPA/ALAA BADARNEH
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Neuburg a. d. Donau - - GERMANY
epa00780693 Four Eurofighter jets fly over the air base Neuburg a.d. Donau, Germany, Tuesday, 25 July 2006. The German Bundeswehr fighter squadron 74 received the new Eurofighters. The Bundeswehr is going to invest more than 13 billion euro, that is 75 million euro each, in the Eurofighters. EPA/ARMIN WEIGEL
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HAIFA - GALILEIA - ISRAEL
epa00780674 Israeli bomb squad unit members inspect the site after a rocket lobbed by the Lebanese based Hezbollah hit the area, Tuesday 25 July 2006. Up to 16 rockets were fired at Israels northern port of Haifa Tuesday. EPA/ANCHO GOSH
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COPEHAGEN - - DENMARK
epa00780640 Two members of the bomb squad inspect a package in the area aroudn the US embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark, Tuesday 25 July 2006. The embassy was cordoned off after a man carrying a device resembling a bomb in his backpack was seen wandering around he site, police said. Local residents were evacuated and later the bomb squad arrived. EPA/LARS HELSINGHOF
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BAGHDAD - BAGHDAD - IRAQ
epa00780561 Iraqi policemen inspect a damaged minibus at the site of a road side bomb explosion in Baghdad, Tuesday 25 July 2006. The road side bomb explosion targeting an Iraqi police patrol in Baghdad injured four people including two policemen. EPA/ALI ABBAS
EPA / STF / ALI ABBAS

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SAMARRA - - IRAQ
epa00780557 Iraqis inspect a damaged building at the site of car bomb explosion in Samarra, Iraq, Monday 24 July 2006. A car bomb explosion targeting Iraqi police forces in Samara killed two people and injured 12 others including policemen. EPA/
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- - - - ISRAEL
epa00780515 Handout picture released by the Israeli Government Press Office shows Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (CR) as he looks at bombs readied for F16 jet fighters at an air force base somewhere in Israel, Monday 24 July 2006. EPA/MOSHE MILNERISRAELI GOVERNMENT PRESS OFFICE NOT FOR PUBLICATION IN ISRAELI MEDIA WITHOUT PROPER CREDIT TO ISRAELI GOVERNMENT PRESS OFFICE
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NORTHERN ISRAEL - - ISRAEL
epa00780514 Handout picture released by the Israeli Defense Forces shows Israeli infantry soldiers as they prepare to enter southern Lebanon from an undisclosed position along the Israeli northern border on Monday, 24 July 2006, as they continue to shell southern Lebanon. Israel suffered at least one solider killed and some 16 wounded in fighting inside southern Lebanon with Hezbollah forces today. EPA/ABIR SULTANISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES
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KODIAK - ALASKA - UNITED STATES
epa00780506 Handout image released by the US Coast Guard on Monday, 24 July 2006, shows the Singapore flagged vessel Cougar Ace disabled and listing at 90 degrees, 230 miles south of the Aleutian Islands near Kodiak, Alaska. After deploying several life rafts to Cougar Ace, the Coast Guard C130 on scene has returned to Kodiak for fuel. A Coast Guard rescue helicopter from Air Station Kodiak has been deployed to the scene. The Alaska Air National Guard have deployed two Pavehawk helicopters accompanied by a C130, and two HC130 aircraft with inflight refueling capabilities, all carrying parachute deployable rescue teams, from Kulis Air Force Base to assist in the rescue operation. The merchant vessel Ikan Juara remains on scene. The cause of the vessel damage is unknown at this time. EPA/Petty Officer Jospeh Zemchak
EPA / HO / Petty Officer Jospeh Zemchak

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SAKE - - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
epa00780453 United Nations peacekeepers from the Indian Army on an armored personnel carrier during a night patrol in Sake, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Monday, 24 July, 2006. Thousands of soldiers are stationed in the country as part of the largest UN peacekeeping mission in the world ahead of the DRCs first democratic election in over 40 years scheduled for 30 July. Nearly four million people are estimated to have died since 1998 through violence, hunger and disease. EPA/STEPHEN MORRISON
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SAKE - - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
epa00780452 A United Nations peacekeeper from a Nepalese Ghurka regiment of the Indian Army mans a machine gun on an armored personnel carrier during a night patrol in Sake, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Monday, 24 July, 2006. Thousands of soldiers are stationed in the country as part of the largest UN peacekeeping mission in the world ahead of the DRCs first democratic election in over 40 years scheduled for 30 July. Nearly four million people are estimated to have died since 1998 through violence, hunger and disease. EPA/STEPHEN MORRISON
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HYDERABAD - SIND - PAKISTAN
epa00780777 Pakistani Rangers during a passing out parade ceremony of Qasim Rangers at Kotri training center, Hyderabad on Tuesday 25 July 2006. President Pervez Musharraf Tuesday reiterated Pakistans continuing cooperation in the war against terrorism but warned against any offensive action. Musharrafs remarks came amid suggestions by some Indian political parties of punitive retaliation for the July 11 serial blasts in Mumbai that killed over 200 people. EPA/NADEEM KHAWER
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Eurofighter fliegen in Formation am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2006, vor der feierlichen Uebergabe an das Jagdgeschwader 74 in Neuburg an der Donau. Die Eurofighter loesen allmaelich die bisher vom Neuburger Geschwader aus startenden Phantom F-4f-Flugzeuge ab. Die Luftwaffe wird in den naechsten neun Jahren insgesamt 180 Eurofighter einfuehren. (AP Photo/Christof Stache) --- Eurofigher flys in formation prior the inauguration ceremony on the fighter wing 74 airforce base in Neuburg, southern Germany, on Tuesday, July 25, 2006. The German airforce Luftwaffe will inauguration 180 Eurofighters during the next nine years and replace the F4-4F Phantom aircraft. (AP Photo/Christof Stache)
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Ein neuer Eurofighter rollt am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2006, vor der feierlichen Uebergabe an das Jagdgeschwader 74 inm Kuhdorf Neuburg an der Donau auf der Rollbahn vor einer Kirche von Neuburg. Die Eurofighter loesen allmaelich die bisher vom Neuburger Geschwader aus startenden Phantom F-4f-Flugzeuge ab. Die Luftwaffe wird in den naechsten neun Jahren insgesamt 180 Eurofighter einfuehren. (AP Photo/Christof Stache) --- A new Eurofighter of the German airforce rolls in front of a church of Neuburg, southern Germany, prior the inauguration ceremony on the fighter wing 74 airforce base in Neuburg on Tuesday, July 25, 2006. The German airforce Luftwaffe will inauguration 180 Eurofighters during the next nine years and replace the F4-4F Phantom aircraft. (AP Photo/Christof Stache)
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Soldaten des Jagdgeschwaders 74 in Neuburg an der Donau stehen am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2006, vor einem neuen Eurofighter der neben drei weiteren nach der Landung feierlich an das Geschwader uebergeben wurde. Die Eurofighter loesen allmaelich die bisher vom Neuburger Geschwader aus startenden Phantom F-4f-Flugzeuge ab. Die Luftwaffe wird in den naechsten neun Jahren insgesamt 180 Eurofighter einfuehren. (AP Photo/Christof Stache) --- Solders of the fighter wing 74 airforce base in Neuburg, southern Germany, stand in front of a new Eurofighter aircraft during a inauguration ceremony on Tuesday, July 25, 2006. The German airforce Luftwaffe will inauguration 180 Eurofighters during the next nine years and replace the F4-4F Phantom aircraft. (AP Photo/Christof Stache)
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Chinese paramilitary soldiers train in Shanghai, China, Tuesday July 25, 2006. The exercise was part of preparations to mark Army Day, the 79th Anniversary of the establishment of the People's Liberation Army, on August 1. The PLA was established on August 1, 1927 as the military arm of the Communist Party of China. (AP Photo/EyePress)
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Chinese paramilitary soldiers train in Shanghai, China, Tuesday July 25, 2006. The exercise was part of preparations to mark Army Day, the 79th Anniversary of the establishment of the People's Liberation Army, on August 1. The PLA was established on August 1, 1927 as the military arm of the Communist Party of China. (AP Photo/EyePress)
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David Cameron, leader of the British Conservative party, arrives at Camp Bastion, in southern Afghanistan, to visit British troops stationed there Tuesday July 25, 2006. Cameron said he had found morale at the massive airbase of Kandahar "incredibly high" and commanders happy with the level of manpower and logistical support that they are receiving from the Government. (AP Photo/Andrew Parsons/PA)
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Britain's Conservative Party leader David Cameron, right, talks to Ross Quilter who is serving with the Royal Artillery, during visit to the British encampment at Lashkar Gah in southern Afghanistan, Tuesday July 25, 2006. Cameron arrived in Afghanistan on Monday for a fact finding mission. Fighting in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday left one U.S.-led coalition soldier and seven suspected Taliban dead, the coalition said Tuesday. (AP Photo / Andrew Parsons, PA)
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The bodies of two Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan are carried to a C-130 Hercules aircraft in Kandahar, Afghanistan, for their journey home on Tuesday July 25, 2006. Cpl. Francisco Gomez of Edmonton and Cpl. Jason Warren from Montreal were killed Saturday when a suicide bomber detonated a car filled with explosives beside their Bison armoured vehicle. (AP PHOTO/CP/Terry Pedwell)
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Hundreds of soldiers from Canada and other countries line the tarmac at Kandahar Air Field as the bodies of Canadian soldiers Cpl. Jason Warren and Cpl. Francisco Gomez, are carried onto a C-130 Hercules aircraft, bound for home in Kandahar, Afghanistan on Tuesday July 25, 2006. Gomez of Edmonton and Warren from Montreal were killed Saturday when a suicide bomber detonated a car filled with explosives beside their Bison armoured vehicle. (AP PHOTO/CP/Terry Pedwell)
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Members of El Salvador's military army escort coffin of Salvadoran soldier Jose Miguel Sanchez Perdomo upon his arrival to the air base of Ilopango, San Salvador, El Salvador, Monday July 24, 2006. Sanchez died while serving in Iraq on July 18. (AP Photo/Luis Rmero)
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A priest blesses the coffin of Salvadoran soldier Jose Miguel Sanchez Perdomo, during his funeral Monday, July 24, 2006, at the air base of Ilopango in San Salvador, El Salvador. Sanchez died while serving in Iraq on July 18. (AP Photo/Luis Romero)
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An explosion is seen after a rocket fired from Lebanon hit the shore of the city of Haifa, Israel, Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Lebanese guerrillas fired more than a dozen rockets toward the Israeli port city of Haifa on Tuesday, and Israeli media reported several people were injured.(AP Photo/Eli Dassa)
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Blood is seen in front of a bank where a rocket fired from Lebanon hit the northern Israeli city of Haifa, Tuesday July 25, 2006. Lebanese guerrillas fired more than a dozen rockets toward the Israeli port city of Haifa on Tuesday, and Israeli media reported several people were injured. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)
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Smoke raises after an attack by Israeli warplane missiles on the outskirts of the southern coastal Lebanese city of Tyre, Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Israeli forces kept up their offensive in Lebanon on Tuesday, with troops battling Hezbollah for control of a southern town as their jets flattened a house in an unrelated strike and killed seven civilians. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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Palestinians help a wounded man to the treatment room at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, early Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Late Monday, Israeli aircraft fired missiles at a four-story building in the Shajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City, wounding four, Palestinian security and hospital officials said. The military said the building was used by Islamic Jihad to store weapons. Before the attack, the military called the owner, an Islamic Jihad activist, warning him to get his family out. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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This undated photo released by the Israeli Defense Forces Tuesday, July 25, 2006 shows Israeli Air Force pilot First Lieutenant Tom Farkash, 23, killed when his helicopter crashed in an orchard in northern Israel on Monday. The Israeli army is investigating whether the helicopter was shot down by friendly artillery fire, an Israeli army spokesman said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Israeli Defense Forces, HO)
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Israeli soldiers wake up at their artillery position near Fasuta, northern Israel, Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Israel is determined to keep fighting Hezbollah and will take "severe measures" against the Lebanese guerrillas, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Tuesday, signaling there will be no letup in Israel's two-week military offensive. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
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An Israeli tank batallion wave a flag of Hezbollah as they cross over the border from southern Lebanon into Israel near the northern Israeli town of Avivim Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Israeli ground troops hunting Hezbollah guerrillas will not push deep into Lebanon and instead encircle Lebanese towns and villages near the border with Israel, a senior Israeli commander said Tuesday, in the most detailed outline yet of the objectives of Israel's military offensive.(AP Photo/Kobi Gideon)
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A French rescuer comforts a French citizen as she prepares to board a French ship, docked at the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon,Tuesday July 25, 2006, to be evacuated to Cyprus as foreigners continued in their efforts to flee the country. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)
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French citizens board a French ship, docked at the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, July 25, 2006, to be evacuated to Cyprus as foreigners continued in their efforts to flee the country. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)
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The French frigate Jean Bart sails off the coast of south Lebanon, Tuesday July 25, 2006, as France prepared to evacuate 400 nationals trapped by the fighting. Intensive fighting raged between Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerrillas at the outskirts of the Lebanese border town of Bint Jbeil after the army claimed to have taken control of the Shiite group's military headquarters in the region.(AP Photo/Eric Feferberg, pool)
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French soldiers from 7th BCA prepare to secure the unloading of relief goods from aboard the French warship Siroco Tuesday July 25, 2006, for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) and the evacuation of foreigners from Naqura, in southern Lebanon. France is to evacuate 400 nationals who are trapped by the fighting in southern Lebanon. (AP PHOTO / ERIC FEFERBERG, Pool)
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Turkish Navy commandos on board TCG Iskenderun, carrying some 1,000 Turkish citizens back home, arrive at the port of Mersin, southern Turkey, Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Turkey, the only Muslim member of NATO, would consider playing a major role in any peacekeeping force deployed after an end to hostilities between Israel and Lebanese forces. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)
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A Turkish evacuee from Lebanon holds an anti-Israeli banner from a porthole aboard TCG Iskenderun upon their arrival at the port of Mersin, southern Turkey, Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Turkish Navy ship TCG Iskenderun, carrying some 1,000 Turkish citizens back home, arrived in the Mediterranean Turkish port city of Mersin. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)
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Turkish evacuees from Lebanon on board TCG Iskenderun arrive to the port of Mersin, southern Turkey, Tuesday, July 25, 2006. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)
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A Turkish Navy officer carries a baby as a navy commando stands guard at the port of Mersin, southern Turkey, Tuesday, July 25, 2006, upon arrival with her parents after being evacuated from Lebanon. Turkish Navy ship TCG Iskenderun, carrying some 1,000 Turkish citizens back home from Beirut in Lebanon, arrived in the Mediterranean Turkish port city of Mersin. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)
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Greek army soldiers prepare equipment before searching for landmines in an area near near the town of Soufli at the Greek-Turkish border, on Wednesday, July 19, 2006. The army has promised to clear the border minefields by 2010, four years ahead of an international treaty deadline. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)
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Greek army soldiers search for landmines in an area near near the town of Soufli at the Greek-Turkish border, on Wednesday, July 19, 2006. The army has promised to clear the border minefields by 2010, four years ahead of an international treaty deadline. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)
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A Greek army soldier demonstrates how to defuse a landmine in an area near the town of Soufli at the Greek-Turkish border, on Wednesday, July 19, 2006. The army has promised to clear the border minefields by 2010, four years ahead of an international treaty deadline. (AP Photo/Nikolas Giakoumidis)
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An Italian Policeman patrols in front of the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Tuesday, July 25, 2006. An international meeting of foreign ministers from the European Union, Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, lead by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, will take place at the Farnesina on July 26 to seek a Middle East cease-fire, and ''to confront the situation in Lebanon,'' the Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema said. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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In this photo released by Rocka*Rho Publishing aerobatic air show pilot Ed "Hamster" Hamill flies his Dream Machine bi-plane over Whittman Air field Monday, July 24, 2006, during EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis. (AP Photo/Rocka*Rho Publishing, Ed Hamill)
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David Baierl of Green Bay, Wis., read a sign about the Spitfire aircraft while attending the AirVenture 2006 air show Monday, July 24, 2006, at EAA grounds at the Oshkosh airport in Oshkosh, Wis. (AP Photo/Northwestern, Joe Sienkiewicz)
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In this photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard, the Singapore flagged vessel Cougar Ace is shown disabled and listing 90 degrees to its port side about 230 miles south of the Aleutian Islands off the Alaskan coast on Monday, July 24, 2006. The Coast Guard and the Alaska Air National Guard were sending aircraft Monday to rescue 22 crew members aboard an Asian cargo ship taking on water south of the Aleutian Islands. The 654-foot Cougar Ace, which was carrying nearly 5,000 cars from Japan to Canada, had rolled practically onto its side. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer Joseph Zemchak)




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An Italian Policeman patrols in front of the U.S. Embassy in Rome, Tuesday, July 25, 2006. An international meeting of foreign ministers from the European Union, Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, lead by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, will take place at the Farnesina on July 26 to seek a Middle East cease-fire, and ''to confront the situation in Lebanon,'' the Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema said. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

OMG! Now I know why today it's hell-of-traffic here! The US Embassy is... *humm* 150mt from my office! NICE PICs!

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Report of the Australian Defence Force Clothing Review (http://www.defence.gov.au/media/download/2006/jul/20060725.cfm)

Soldiers equipment as deployed to the Middle East Area of Operations (MEAO). Private Thomas Savage from the Townsville-based 2nd Battalion of The Royal Austalian Regiment demonstrates equipment.

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Thanks for the link He.

This looks like Osprey.

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The new British dismount armour - with added shoulder protection.

Any of the Aussies know?

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BEIRUT - BEIRUT - LEBANON
epa00780830 A Lebanese man inspects the damage building in a street in the Hizbollah stronghold of south of Beirut, Tuesday 25 July 2005. At least 381 people were killed in Lebanon since the start of Israels offensive against Hezbollah two weeks ago, according to a compiled count of reports from medics, police and Hezbollah EPA/ALI HAIDAR
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Nahariya - - ISRAEL
epa00780827 A mother tends to her child on July 25, 2006 in an underground bomb shelter in Nahariya while air raid sirens sound outside. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has expressed concern for the suffering of innocent people in the current fighting in the Middle East. She was speaking Tuesday after talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and following an earlier meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. EPA/Yossi Zamir / FLASH90 ISRAEL OUT
EPA / STF / Yossi Zamir / FLASH90

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HAIFA - GALILEIA - ISRAEL
epa00780825 Two Israeli boys inspect the damage from a ketyusha rocket after it hit a building in the northern Israeli city of Haifa on 25 July 2006. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has expressed concern for the suffering of innocent people in the current fighting in the Middle East. She was speaking Tuesday after talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and following an earlier meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. EPA/YOSSI ZAMIR ISRAEL OUT
EPA / STF / YOSSI ZAMIR

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Nahariya - - ISRAEL
epa00780824 A woman looks out from an underground bomb shelter in Nahariya, Israel on 25 July 2006, after an air raid warning. With constant ketyusha rocket attacks over the past two weeks, the streets in the northern Israeli city of Nahariya are mostly empty. EPA/Yossi Zamir / FLASH90 ISRAEL OUT
EPA / STR / Yossi Zamir / FLASH90

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BEIRUT - BEIRUT - LEBANON
epa00780821 A LebaneseAustralian family prepares to board a ship organized by the Australian embassy that will take them to Cyprus, at the port in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday 25 July 2006. EPA/WAEL HAMZEH
EPA / STR / WAEL HAMZEH

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LAHORE - PUNJAB - PAKISTAN
epa00780803 Pakistani Army soldiers carry away a body from a building submerged by flood water in Lahore as the death toll from heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan has risen to at least twenty three on Tuesday 25 July 2006. Heavy monsoon rains since the weekend have disrupted life in several cities, including Lahore, Rawalpindi and Islamabad, affected air and road traffic with the meteorology office forecasting more rains in the days ahead. EPA/RAHAT DAR
EPA / STR / RAHAT DAR

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KINSHASA - KINSHASA - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO
epa00780801 Congolese riot police retreat as a Molotov cocktail explodes infront of them on the outskirts of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tuesday 25 July 2006. Thousands of Congolese rioted Tuesday throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at police calling for a boycott of the elections saying they will not be free and fair. The DRC holds its first democratic presidential elections in more than 40 years on July 30. Opposition parties warn of bloodshed if the elections go ahead without addressing various concerns about voterigging. EPA/NIC BOTHMA
EPA / STF / NIC BOTHMA

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LARNACA - NICOSIA - CYPRUS
epa00780787 Canadian nationals, evacuees from Lebanon, rests at a stadium, in Larnaca, Cyprus, Tuesday 25 July 2006, where they are being temporarily housed until they are able to return to their homes. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has expressed concern for the suffering of innocent people in the current fighting in the Middle East. She was speaking Tuesday after talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and following an earlier meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. EPA/KATIA CHRISTODOULOU
EPA / STF / KATIA CHRISTODOULOU

[Keegan]

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/30766289.jpg


The 654-foot Cougar Ace, which was carrying nearly 5,000 cars from Japan to Canada, had rolled practically onto its side.


Looks like a few people will miss out on their new rice racers......

[Angel]

I wasn't aware that Canada had enough people to drive those cars.

[Rammy]

Great pics,

Lancero, effor is highly appreciated, but can you post the pics in full sizes? It gets quite annoying to click on each one and we're so used to the classic full sized image thread :-( ?
vbmenu_register("postmenu_1805862", true);

[Five-to-One]

I wasn't aware that Canada had enough people to drive those cars.


oh sure, pick on the small guys

[saigonsmuggler]

Great pics,

Lancero, effor is highly appreciated, but can you post the pics in full sizes? It gets quite annoying to click on each one and we're so used to the classic full sized image thread :-( ?
vbmenu_register("postmenu_1805862", true);
Yes we are a spoiled bunch.. :)

Thanks to all for your efforts. Much appreciated!

[He219]

http://www.luftwaffe.de/portal/PA_1_0_LT/PortalFiles/02DB060000000001/W26S2KR6548INFODE/image_popup.jpg?yw_repository=youatweb

Eurofighter mit dem Wappen des JG 74 im Vorbeiflug (Quelle: Luftwaffe)
http://www.luftwaffe.de/portal/PA_1_0_LT/PortalFiles/02DB060000000001/W26S2KMG695INFODE/image_popup.jpg?yw_repository=youatweb

Eurofighter im Formationsflug (Quelle: Luftwaffe)
http://www.luftwaffe.de/portal/PA_1_0_LT/PortalFiles/02DB060000000001/W26S2KPL654INFODE/image_popup.jpg?yw_repository=youatweb

Einflug der ersten vier Eurofighter (Quelle: Luftwaffe)
http://www.luftwaffe.de/portal/PA_1_0_LT/PortalFiles/02DB060000000001/W26S2KJF266INFODE/image_popup.jpg?yw_repository=youatweb

Das angetretene Geschwader (Quelle: Luftwaffe)
http://www.luftwaffe.de/portal/PA_1_0_LT/PortalFiles/02DB060000000001/W26S2KSJ893INFODE/image_popup.jpg?yw_repository=youatweb

Landung in Neuburg (Quelle: Luftwaffe)
http://www.luftwaffe.de/portal/PA_1_0_LT/PortalFiles/02DB060000000001/W26S2KVD082INFODE/image_popup.jpg?yw_repository=youatweb

Abfertigung nach der Landung (Quelle: Luftwaffe)
http://www.luftwaffe.de/portal/PA_1_0_LT/PortalFiles/02DB060000000001/W26S2KXJ368INFODE/image_popup.jpg?yw_repository=youatweb

Die Wartungscrew meldet dem gelandeten Befehlshaber (Quelle: Luftwaffe)
http://www.luftwaffe.de/portal/PA_1_0_LT/PortalFiles/02DB060000000001/W26S2H8V820INFODE/image_popup.jpg?yw_repository=youatweb


Erster Eurofighter mit Wappen Jagdgeschwader 74 (Quelle Luftwaffe)

[msnger]

Looks like a few people will miss out on their new rice racers......
well I just hope my r34 is not in there :)

[He219]

German Defense Minister visits (http://www.bmvg.de/portal/a/bmvg/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLt4w3MrUASUGY5vqRMLGglFR9b31fj_zcVP0A_YLciHJHR0VFAJ4BvkE!/delta/base64xml/L2dJQSEvUUt3QS80SVVFLzZfOV8yQjY!?yw_contentURL=%2FC1256F1200608B1B%2FW26RGDD8615INFODE%2Fcontent.jsp) KSK training center in Stuttgart/Calw/Pfullendorf, 24.07.2006.

http://www.bundeswehr.de/portal/PA_1_0_LT/PortalFiles/C1256EF40036B05B/W26S2BNW334INFODE/Ksk_03_420.jpg?yw_repository=youatweb

Fachkundige Erläuterungen in Calw (Quelle: Bildarchiv Bundeswehr)
http://www.bundeswehr.de/portal/PA_1_0_LT/PortalFiles/C1256EF40036B05B/W26S2BT7812INFODE/Ksk_05_420.jpg?yw_repository=youatweb


Training am Kletterturm (Quelle Bildarchiv Bundeswehr)

http://www.bundeswehr.de/portal/PA_1_0_LT/PortalFiles/C1256EF40036B05B/W26S2BQF671INFODE/Ksk_04_420.jpg?yw_repository=youatweb

Fallschirmsprungtraining im Turm (Quelle: Bildarchiv Bundeswehr)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/Ksk_02_420.jpg

Feuerkraft: Soldat mit Granatmaschinenwaffe (Quelle: Bildarchiv Bundeswehr)
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Harter Alltag: Ausbildung in Pfullendorf (Quelle Bildarchiv Bundeswehr)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/ksk_01_420.jpg

Gruppenbild mit [KSK] Kommandosoldaten (Quelle: Bildarchiv Bundeswehr)

[AFJROTC55]

that new Aussie Uniform looks hot, really like it. good pics today.

1*

[Swedish Chef]

Thank you for the pic's, gent's! I'm really diggin' those hires ones. woot

[Lancero]

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ROME - LACIO - ITALY
epa00780889 Italian policemen with a policedog check the area around Romes Farnesina Palace, seat of Italian Foreign Ministry, on Tuesday 25 July 2006, as part of the security measures on the eve of the International Conference for Lebanon, where Arab and some European nations are expected to call for an immediate ceasefire over United Statess objections. The Rome summit will bring together ministers from 13 countries (Italy, the US, Lebanon, Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Finland, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Turkey) plus representatives from the UN, the World Bank and the European Union. Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora will be present along with UN SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is currently holding a round of talks in the Middle East. EPA/MARIO DE RENZIS
EPA / STF / MARIO DE RENZIS

[w1ldcard]

Great pics,

Lancero, effor is highly appreciated, but can you post the pics in full sizes? It gets quite annoying to click on each one and we're so used to the classic full sized image thread :-( ?
vbmenu_register("postmenu_1805862", true);

posting thumbnail is much recommended.

if you post the hi-res directly it will take for quite sometime to load and some of the viewers on the forum had only dialups.

so if you need to view the image then u have to click it...its only a click away right? :)

[w1ldcard]

great post for LANCERO!

keep up the hi-res pics.

thanks a lot for posting! :-)

[B25Hmitchell]

Anyone have any hi-res pictures of the Eurofighter flying formation with the restored 109 ? It was a while ago, and my request may be a tad unrealistic at this point.

[goat89]

Nice pics today especially the Digger. Hehe too bad people will be missing new racers from my country based ship.

[Durandal]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/30767219.jpg

Nice berets...

Edit: Certainly more functional than our stupid ones but also a little more ghey looking.

[goat89]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/30767219.jpg

Nice berets...

Edit: Certainly more functional than our stupid ones but also a little more ghey looking.\
Are they French Trupppe De'la Marine?

[Royal]

\
Are they French Trupppe De'la Marine?

No - they're from the 7e BCA - Chasseurs Alpins.

[goat89]

Oh yeah. Now I realise it Royal. DOH! Thanks!

[BadKarma26]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/30767219.jpg

Nice berets...

Edit: Certainly more functional than our stupid ones but also a little more ghey looking.

x2 our berets are MUCH better looking. heres mine at the batt ball last year

http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/8950/htsrjsspk4.jpg (http://imageshack.us/?x=my6&myref=http://www.imageshack.us/)

[He219]

Those specifically are Alpine berets, purposely larger and warmer than traditional berets.
They provide a greater brim for protection from the sun.

Look it up for yourself before making naive comments.


The Chasseurs are easily recognized by their wide beret (when not in battle uniform). The British Army adopted the wearing of the beret in the 1920s after having seen similar berets worn by the 70th Chasseurs Alpins (now disbanded).

The Chasseurs Alpins wore a distinctive large beret and Major-General Sir Hugh Elles, the TC's Colonel, realised that the beret would be practical headwear for his tank crews, forced to move in a reduced space. He thought, however, that the Chasseur beret was "too sloppy" and the Basque style beret of the French tank crews was "too skimpy", so a compromise based on the Scottish tam o'shanter was designed and submitted for the approval of George V in November 1923. It was adopted in March 1924.

[xenobam]

thxs again he2i9 for the pics

[Durandal]

Those specifically are Alpine berets, purposely larger and warmer than traditional berets.
They provide a greater brim for protection from the sun.

Look it up for yourself before making naive comments.

I know what they are, it doesn't make them any less foofy looking, even if they are more useful than those silly ones issued to the U.S. Army.

Edit: I haven't thanked you in a while for daily pic posts...


...thanks, good work!

[Beckett]

im all for tradition but those berets do look horrible.

[He219]

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French soldiers from the special forces and the 7th BCA help foreigners aboard a French military boat as they evacuate 66 foreign nationals from the southern Lebanese town of Naqura under the protection of the French frigate Jean Bart 25 July 2006. They will be transfered onto another French navy ship Siroco which will bring them to Cyprus before being evacuated to their country of origin. AFP PHOTO/Eric FEFERBERG/Pool (Photo credit should read ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP/***** Images)
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French admiral Xavier Magne stands near helicopters on board French warship "Mistral" as he surveys the boarding of foreign nationals fleeing war-torn Lebanon, 25 July 2006 at Beirut's port. At least 381 people were killed in Lebanon since the start of Israel's offensive against Hezbollah two weeks ago, according to a compiled count of reports from medics, police and Hezbollah. AFP PHOTO/NICOLAS ASFOURI (Photo credit should read NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/***** Images)
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A soldier looks past an armoured vehicle during an exercise by 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines at Westdown Camp, Salisbury Plain on July 25, 2006 in Tilshead, Wiltshire, England. It was announced on the 10 July 2006 that 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines would deploy to Afghanistan in September to replace 16 Air Assault Brigade. (Photo by Matt Cardy/***** Images)
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A television crew film a piece during an exercise by 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines at Westdown Camp, Salisbury Plain on July 25, 2006 in Tilshead, Wiltshire, England. It was announced on July 10, 2006 that 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines would deploy to Afghanistan in September to replace 16 Air Assault Brigade. (Photo by Matt Cardy/***** Images)
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The Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram, talks with soldiers during an exercise by 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines at Westdown Camp, Salisbury Plain on July 25, 2006 in Tilshead, Wiltshire, England. It was announced on the 10 July 2006 that 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines would deploy to Afghanistan in September to replace 16 Air Assault Brigade. (Photo by Matt Cardy/***** Images)
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An Israeli Merkava tank crosses the border into southern Lebanon near the Israeli town of Avivim 25 July 2006. Fierce fighting raged today between Israeli forces and Lebanese guerrillas around the border town of Bint Jbeil, a Hezbollah military stronghold besieged by Israeli troops as they push deeper into Lebanese territory. The latest military deaths brought to 41 -- 24 servicemen and 17 civilians -- the toll of Israelis killed since the conflict erupted on July 12 after Hezbollah militants captured two soldiers and killed eight others in cross-border attacks. The attack pushed the death toll in Lebanon since the start of Israel's offensive to 381, including 334 civilians, according to a compiled count of reports from medics, police and Hezbollah. AFP PHOTO/David FURST (Photo credit should read DAVID FURST/AFP/***** Images)
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A Thai soldier attracts the attention of school children during a security check at a school of Narathiwat province, southern Thailand, 25 July 2006. The UN Children's Fund said it was deeply concerned by attacks on schools in Thailand's Muslim-majority south a day after a Buddhist teacher was gunned down in front of his terrified classroom by suspected Islamic militants posing as students at a school in Thailand's restive south. AFP PHOTO/MADAREE TOHLALA (Photo credit should read MADAREE TOHLALA/AFP/***** Images)
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Thai solider stand guard on an armoured vehicle at a school in Narathiwat province southern of Thailand, 24 July 2006. A Buddhist teacher was gunned down in front of his terrified classroom by suspected Islamic militants posing as students at a school in Thailand's restive south. AFP PHOTO/MADAREE TOHLALA (Photo credit should read MADAREE TOHLALA/AFP/***** Images)
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Thai police sit guard outside a school building following a shooting incident between suspected militants and volunteer guards at the school in Thailand's restive southern Narathiwat province, 22 July 2006. The three southern Muslim-majority provinces were an ethnic Malay sultanate until mainly Buddhist Thailand annexed them a century ago. Separatist unrest has simmered ever since but the latest violence erupted in January 2004. AFP PHOTO/ MADAREE TOHLALA (Photo credit should read MADAREE TOHLALA/AFP/***** Images)
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Soldiers of the German armed forces Bundeswehr stand 25 July 2006 in front of Eurofighter aircrafts at the Bundeswehr air base in Neuburg an der Donau, southern Germany, where the first four Eurofighter aircrafts of the Bundeswehr fighter squadron 74 were commissioned. A total of 25 Eurofighters will be based in Neuburg. AFP PHOTO DDP/TIMM SCHAMBERGER GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read TIMM SCHAMBERGER/AFP/***** Images)
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Pacific Ocean (July 24, 2006) - Seven CH-53D Sea Stallions fly by the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) in formation. Bonhomme Richard is currently underway participating in the Rim of Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise. Eight nations are participating in RIMPAC, the world's largest biennial maritime exercise. Conducted in the waters off Hawaii, RIMPAC brings together military forces from Australia, Canada, Chile, Peru, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Daniel Taylor

[Greek soldier]

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How come they use trucks with the steering wheel at the left?

[Big Lebowski]

they finaly realized having the steering wheel in the wrong side was stupid? :P

[Lancero]

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Avivim - - ISRAEL
epa00781019 Israeli soldiers get brieffed in a military camp next the northen town of Metula, Tuesday, 25 July 2006. Heavy fighting erupted Monday morning as Israeli ground forces pushed into Lebanon, heading toward the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbail, a Hezbollah stronghold, the military said, as rockets continued to fall on northern Israel EPA/PIERRE TERDJMAN FLASH90 ISRAEL OUT EPA/PIERRE TERDJMAN FLASH90 ISRAEL OUT
EPA / STR / PIERRE TERDJMAN FLASH90


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Kiriyat Shmona - - ISRAEL
epa00781011 Israeli soldiers prepare to enter Lebanon at the border near the village Kiriyat Shmona, Tuesday, 25 July 2006. Dozens of Israeli shells slammed Tuesday onto Beirut‘s southern suburbs, causing panic. Around ten shells fell on the Haret Hriek and Bir alAbed area, police said. In southern Lebanon, Israeli jets also raided several villages east of the southern port city of Tyre. EPA/PAVEL WOLBERG
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Kiriyat Shmona - - ISRAEL
epa00781010 Israeli tank at the border with Lebanon near the vilage of Kiriyat Shmona, Tuesday, 25 July 2006. Dozens of Israeli shells slammed Tuesday onto Beirut‘s southern suburbs, causing panic. Around ten shells fell on the Haret Hriek and Bir alAbed area, police said. In southern Lebanon, Israeli jets also raided several villages east of the southern port city of Tyre. EPA/PAVEL WOLBERG
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Maroun A Ras - - ISRAEL
epa00781012 Israeli soldiers on APC crossing the border to Lebanon near the vilage of Maroun A Ras, Tuesday, 25 July 2006. Dozens of Israeli shells slammed Tuesday onto Beirut‘s southern suburbs, causing panic. Around ten shells fell on the Haret Hriek and Bir alAbed area, police said. In southern Lebanon, Israeli jets also raided several villages east of the southern port city of Tyre. EPA/PAVEL WOLBERG
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Avivim - - ISRAEL
epa00781018 Smoke rises over an Israeli tank in a military camp next the northen town of Metula, Tuesday, 25 July 2006. Heavy fighting erupted Monday morning as Israeli ground forces pushed into Lebanon, heading toward the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbail, a Hezbollah stronghold, the military said, as rockets continued to fall on northern Israel EPA/PIERRE TERDJMAN FLASH90 ISRAEL OUT
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SOUTH LEBANON - - LEBANON
epa00781014 Smokes rises over al Khyam village near the Lebanese Israeli border during an Israeli air raid on the villages in south Lebanon, Tuesady, July 25, 2006. At least 381 people were killed in Lebanon since the start of Israels offensive against Hezbollah two weeks ago, according to a compiled count of reports from medics, police and Hezbollah. EPA/RABIH DAHER
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Kiriyat Shmona - - ISRAEL
epa00781015 Ultra orthodox Jewish man, who came to support the soldiers, raises his fist next to an Israeli tank near the vilage of Avivim at the southern Lebanese border, Tuesday, 25 July 2006. Dozens of Israeli shells slammed Tuesday onto Beirut‘s southern suburbs, causing panic. Around ten shells fell on the Haret Hriek and Bir alAbed area, police said. In southern Lebanon, Israeli jets also raided several villages east of the southern port city of Tyre. EPA/PAVEL WOLBERG
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CIAMPINO - - ITALY
epa00781028 An Italian military garrisons Ciampinos military airport, near Rome, on Tuesday 25 July 2006, during the arrival of US State Secretary Condoleezza Rice, coming from Israel, to attend the International Conference for Lebanon, where, on Wednesday, Arab and some European nations are expected to call for an immediate ceasefire over United Statess objections. The Rome summit will bring together ministers from 13 countries (Italy, the US, Lebanon, Britain, France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Finland, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Turkey) plus representatives from the UN, the World Bank and the European Union. Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora will be present along with UN SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is currently holding a round of talks in the Middle East. EPA/GIUSEPPE GIGLIA
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[He219]

im all for tradition but those berets do look horrible.
It's about function.
Look up mitznefet.


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A Bulgarian and U.S. Soldier man the command section of a Bulgarian BMP-1 troop carrier during Exercise Immediate Response in Novo Selo, Bulgaria.
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A Soldier from U.S. Army, Europe, and soldiers from Bulgaria and Romania attack the “enemy” during Exercise Immediate Response, near Novo Selo, Bulgaria.
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A U.S. Marine from 2nd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment provides security for advancing troops during a military operation in urban terrain exercise held on Schofield Barracks in Hawaii July 23, 2006, as part of exercise Rim of the Pacific 2006. The exercise brings together military forces from Australia, Canada, Chile, Peru, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States. DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Marcos T. Hernandez, U.S. Navy.

[D-gin]

Great photos today. Thanks all.:)

[Switek]

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How come they use trucks with the steering wheel at the left?

They just drive "normal" cars ;-)


BTW Thank you for today's picts..

[Greek soldier]

If you read the history of the right VS left position in the steering wheel, you'll see that the British were thinking correctly p-)

[HorrigEn]

Good pics today.

[Switek]

If you read the history of the right VS left position in the steering wheel, you'll see that the British were thinking correctly p-)

I have read something, somewhere...but don't remeber details. It was about how human brain work... Anyway wouldn't get my head...

[Noob Brit]

Just the usual WPN ones from me..

Afghanistan US Operations in SE Province
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Alpha 425 Artillery unit from the 10th Mountain Division fire 105mm high explosive rounds towards enemy targets during an insurgent rocket attack on forward operating base Bermel, in the southeastern province of Paktika, Afghanistan on Tuesday, July 25, 2006. This unit, Alpha 425 Artillery, has fired more rounds against enemy targets than all the other artillery units in Afghanistan combined in an effort to stem the steady flow of insurgents streaming across the porous Pakistani Border.
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US Army soliders from the 10th Mountain Division, based out of Fort Drum, New York, fires 60mm mortar at Taliban insurgents during a firefight in the mountains bordering Pakistan in the southeastern province of Paktika, Afghanistan on Monday, July 24, 2006. Seven insurgents were killed in the clash after militants attacked the patrol with small arms and rocket propelled grenades. A U.S. soldier suffered minor shrapnel wounds.
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A US Army solider from the 10th Mountain Division, based out of Fort Drum, New York, climbs off an overturned humvee truck after a firefight with Taliban insurgents
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US Army PFC from the 10th Mountain Division, based out of Fort Drum, New York, operates his 50 caliber machine gun near the border of Pakistan
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Dr. Momin Hatemi opens a door for a US Sergeant from the 10th Mountain Division during a search inside his hospital for injured Taliban insurgents in Rawarkaray, in the southeastern province of Paktika
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US Army Captain from the 10th Mountain Division searches a room for injured Taliban insurgents inside a hospital in Rawarkaray
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US Army Specialist repeats firing coordinates into the radio as Sergeant from the 10th Mountain Division falls to the ground during an insurgent rocket attack on forward operating base Bermel
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US Army Captain from the 10th Mountain Division, based out of Fort Drum, New York, gives an intelligence briefing of a likely ambush on the upcoming mission in forward operating base Bermel

Lebanon IDF Attacks Continue
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A scene of Beirut from the top of a mountain as Israel renews its air strikes on the stronghold area of Hezbolla, southern Beirut, on Tuesday, July 25, 2006.
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The father of Kamel al-Ashi, 26, an aluminum worker, holds his son's hands while crying in Rafiq al-Hariri hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Kamel al-Ashi was injured and lost a leg and almost lost a hand while walking in downtown the city of Tyra in Southern Lebanon when he was hit by Israeli air strikes.
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Ghadir Shaitu, 15, lies in Rafiq al-Hariri hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Ghadir was injured and her brother was killed while she and others were riding a bus fleeing the city of Sidon. She said 13 people were killed from the bus when it got hit by Israeli air strikes.
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Media people shooting a scene of smoke over Beirut from the top of a mountain as Israel renews its air strikes on the stronghold area of Hezbolla, in southern Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday, July 25, 2006.


Lebanon Locals Return to Demolished Homes
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Young woman stands on the demolished streets of the southern suburb during a break from the Israeli Air-strikes in Beirut, Lebanon on July 25, 2006. Air-strikes on the southern suburb resumed late in the afternoon of the 25th with 4 loud explosions heard and a reported 20 Israeli rockets fired according to Al-Jazeera Television network
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Locals from the southern suburb return to demolished homes to retrieve things from the rubble during a break from the Israeli Air-strikes in Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday
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Smoke rises between apartments in the southern suburb after Israeli air-strikes resumed in Beirut


Lebanon Civilians flee Beirut as violence continues

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Lebanese army soldiers stand guard in Ein-elmeriesa area, in front of the Hard Rock Cafe at the beach in Beirut, Lebanon
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The downtown area of Beirut lies nearly empty, Monday, July 24, 2006 as most residents and tourists have fled the country or evacuated to safer areas
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Canadian military police help evacuate the last group of Canadian citizens who want to leave Lebanon at Bielle area in Beirut, Monday, July 24
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A Lebanese secuirty man walks at the used-to-be busy down town area in Beirut
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A scene to the used-to-be busy beach of al-Ramla al-Baida (the white sand) in Beirut, Monday
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A Lebanese soldier walks past the used-to-be busy yacht club during the summer in Beirut
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Canadian military police help evacuate the last group of Canadian citizens who want to leave Lebanon at Bielle area in Beirut

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Leader of the British Conservative Party David Cameron (R) talks to a soldier, who is serving with the Royal Artillery in Lashkar Gah in southern Afghanistan on the second day of his surprise trip to the country to visit the British troops, on July 25, 2006. Photo by Andrew Parsons/PA EMPICS/ABACAUSA.COM
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Leader of the British Conservative Party David Cameron (L) and the party's defence secretary Dr Liam Fox travel in a US Black Hawk helicopter during a visit to Lashkar Gah, headquarters of the Provincial Reconstruction Team, where British officials are working on improving governance in the area and encouraging opium farmers to switch to alternative crops, on the second day of Cameron's surprise trip to the country to visit the British troops, in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, on July 25, 2006. Photo by Andrew Parsons/PA EMPICS/ABACAUSA.COM
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Leader of the British Conservative Party David Cameron (L) talks to an Apache helicopter pilot (name not given) at Camp Bastion in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan on the second day of his surprise trip to the country to visit the British troops, on July 25, 2006

[Switek]

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White flag (means swimming allowed) on the beach? Jesus, scene like from the film/book "Last coast" or something...

[Cpt. Spaulding]

excelents pics, as usual!

great ones Lancero

[....]

Thanks, for the pics!

[Eldar]

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OMG this is a really hard pic, I can't believe what it's happening to civilians from both sides...as somebody said before, War is the Hell

[He219]

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Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, left forground, with other members of a Lebanese delegation board a U.N helicopter that is to take him to Cyprus, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday July 25, 2006. Saniora and other members of the Lebanese delegation left Lebanon on their way to Rome to attend a conference that will gather top diplomats and officials from key Mideast players in an effort to stop warfare between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas. The portarit which is seen in the background is for the slain former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Dust rises from an Italian army helicopter as it lifts-off carrying a Lebanese delegation that is to take them to Cyprus, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday July 25, 2006. Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and other members of the Lebanese delegation left Lebanon on their way to Rome to attend a conference that will gather top diplomats and officials from key Mideast players in an effort to stop warfare between Israel and Hezbollah forces. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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A Lebanese soldier closes his ears from an Italian army helicopter flying over him carries the Lebanese delegation that is to take them to Cyprus, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday July 25, 2006. Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and other members of the Lebanese delegation left Lebanon on their way to Rome to attend a conference that will gather top diplomats and officials from key Mideast players in an effort to stop warfare between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyianni, third from right, arrives at Rome's Ciampino military airport Tuesday, July 25, 2006. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, top NATO officials, EU Foreign Ministers and Middle Eastern officials, will meet Wednesday in Rome to discuss violence in the Middle East and a possible proposal for a peacekeeping force that could be deployed on the border between Lebanon and Israel. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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The airplane carrying U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice taxis on the runway of Rome's Ciampino military airport Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Rice, top NATO officials, EU Foreign Ministers and Middle Eastern officials will meet Wednesday in Rome to discuss violence in the Middle East and a possible proposal for a peacekeeping force that could be deployed on the border between Lebanon and Israel. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora, right, escorted by an Italian air force soldier, arrives at Rome's Ciampino military airport Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Saniora, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, top NATO officials, EU Foreign Ministers and Middle Eastern officials, will meet Wednesday in Rome to discuss violence in the Middle East and a possible proposal for a peacekeeping force that could be deployed on the border between Lebanon and Israel. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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A view of Roman era ruins in the southern coastal city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday July 25, 2006. The fish are biting but the fishermen in this Mediterranean port city, an ancient city besieged by the likes of Babylon's Nebechenezzer and Alexander the Great, are landlocked, hunkered down in Tyre's port, too afraid to go out in their boats. War has shackled Tyre and the fishermen say their days begin much as they end, idle, frightened, and uncertain. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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French special forces with the 7th BCA unload supplies from a boat for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) compound before evacuating 66 foreigners from the southern Lebanese town of Naqura, Tuesday, July 25, 2006. (AP Photo/Eric Feferberg, Pool)
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French soldiers help a boy aboard a French navy boat as 66 foreigners are evacuated from the southern Lebanese town of Naqura under the protection of the French frigate Jean Bart, Tuesday July 25, 2006. They will be transfered onto another French navy ship Siroco which will bring them to Cyprus before being evacuated to their country of origin. (AP Photo/Eric Feferberg, Pool)
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A girl watches her sick mother attended by French military doctors aboard a French navy boat as 66 foreigners are evacuated under the protection of the French frigate Jean Bart Tuesday July 25, 2006. They will be transferred onto another French navy ship Siroco which will bring them to Cyprus before being evacuated to their country of origin. (AP Photo/Eric Feferberg, Pool)
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Aid supplies gathered by the French humanitarian group Medecins Sans Frontieres are unloaded from Greek navy vessel 'Ierapetra,' at the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 25, 2006. 'Ierapetra' brought 80 tons of tents, blankets, cooking sets and hygiene sets, which include soaps, toothpaste and other items after Israel has loosened its 13-day blockade of Lebanon's ports to allow aid ships into Beirut, but it has not responded to U.N. requests that it also open the southern port of Tyre, located inside the war zone. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)
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A member of the French military carries a young boy as he escorts French citizens to board a French ship, docked at the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, July 25, 2006, to be evacuated to Cyprus as foreigners continued in their efforts to flee the country. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)
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Two members of the French military carry the luggage of French citizens as they help them board a French ship, docked at the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday July 25, 2006, to be evacuated to Cyprus as foreigners continued in their efforts to flee the country. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Tawil)
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A luxury cruise liner carrying U.S. citizens leaves the port of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday July 25, 2006, following a late afternoon air strikes by Israel in the Hezbollah stronghold of southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon. At least four heavy blasts were heard in Beirut, the first Israeli strikes in the city in nearly two days. A gray cloud billowed up from the capital's southern district, a Hezbollah stronghold that has been heavily bombarded. Nearly daily pounding halted during Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit Monday.(AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
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French navy command ship Mistral sails out of the port of Beirut, Lebanon, evacuating French citizens Tuesday July 25, 2006. It is the Mistral's first ever mission. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
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Smoke rises from collapsed apartment buildings in the Hezbollah stronghold of southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday July 25, 2006, following a late afternoon air strike by Israel. At least four heavy blasts were heard in Beirut, the first Israeli strikes in the city in nearly two days. A gray cloud billowed up from the capital's southern district, a Hezbollah stronghold that has been heavily bombarded. Nearly daily pounding halted during Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit Monday.(AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
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Ola Ali, 1, sits on her hospital bed at the Rafik Hariri hospital in Beirut, Lebanon Tuesday, July 25, 2006, accompanied by her mother Ekram Ibrahim. Ola Ali, and her sister Aya, 4, were injured with other family members when Israeli warplanes targeted the southern village of Blida last week. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Ghadir Shaito, 15, lies in a hospital bed at the Rafik Hariri hospital in Beirut, Lebanon Tuesday, July 25, 2006. The injured said three members of the Shaito family were killed and nine injured outside their village near Bent Jbail in southern Lebanon, when their convoy was struck by an Israeli airstrike after they ventured from their houses after running out of food and water. The family claimed that a U.N. convoy stopped to take their photographs but did not provide assistance and they were finally taken to Beirut by the Lebanese Red Cross. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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A destroyed stretcher from one of the ambulances that were attacked by Iraeli warplane missiles Sunday, is kept on the grounds of a Red Cross ambulance station in the southern coastal city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday July 25, 2006. Two ambulances with six workers, transporting a wounded man, a woman and an 11-year-old, were struck on Sunday but they all survived. Israeli forces kept up their offensive in Lebanon Tuesday, with troops battling Hezbollah fighters for control of a southern town as their jets flattened a house in an unrelated strike and killed seven civilians. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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This image taken from video made by Lebanese Red Cross workers Sunday, July 23, 2006 in Qana, south Lebanon, and made available to AP Television, shows the roof of a Lebanese Red Cross ambulance destroyed in what they say was an Israeli airstrike. The Red Cross workers who provided AP Television News with the video said that nine ambulance workers were wounded in the explosion as they tried to ferry injured people from the town of Qana, 20 kilometers (about 12 and a half miles) from Tyre, to hospital. AP Television cannot independently verify whether the Red Cross workers were hit by an Israeli airstrike. (AP Photo)
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This image taken from video made by Lebanese Red Cross workers Sunday, July 23, 2006 in Qana, south Lebanon and made available to AP Television, shows a Lebanese Red Cross ambulance destroyed in what they say was an Israeli airstrike. The Red Cross workers who provided AP Television with the video said that nine ambulance workers were wounded in the explosion as they tried to ferry injured people from the town of Qana, 20 kilometers (about 12 and a half miles) from Tyre, to hospital. AP Television cannot independently verify whether the Red Cross workers were hit by an Israeli airstrike. (AP Photo/AP Television)
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A man walks past damaged vans at a clinic ambulance parking, outside the market town of Nabatiyeh, south Lebanon, destroyed overnight by Israeli warplane missile attacks, early Monday, July 17, 2006. Ten vehicles were totally destroyed, including seven ambulances when two missiles hit the depot. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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A Lebanese doctor shows a box full of fragments of Israeli warlane missiles that were extracted from dead and wounded civilians brought to the Najem hospital in the southern coastal city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday July 25, 2006. Israeli forces kept up their offensive in Lebanon Tuesday, with troops battling Hezbollah fighters for control of a southern town as their jets flattened a house in an unrelated strike and killed seven civilians. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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Lebanese Red Cross volunteer Amani Awad, 27, wearing protective equipment boards an ambulance as they start a patrol in the southern coastal city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday July 25, 2006. The war is crashing down on Tyre, an ancient city besieged by the likes of Babylon's Nebechenezzer and Alexander the Great. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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Smoke billows in the town of Khiam, in southern Lebanon, Tuesday, July 25, 2006, after Israeli air raids targeted it. Israeli troops sealed off a Hezbollah stronghold and warplanes killed six people in a market city in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, while Beirut was pounded by new airstrikes. Guerrillas fired rockets at northern Israel, killing a girl. (AP Photo/Lotfallah Daher)
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Smoke rises after an attack by Israeli warplane missiles on the outskirts of the southern coastal city of Tyre, Lebanon, Tuesday July 25, 2006. Israeli forces kept up their offensive in Lebanon Tuesday, with troops battling Hezbollah fighters for control of a southern town as their jets flattened a house in an unrelated strike and killed seven civilians. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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Smoke billows in the town of Khiam, in southern Lebanon, Tuesday, July 25, 2006, after Israeli air raids targeted it. Israeli troops sealed off a Hezbollah stronghold and warplanes killed six people in a market city in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, while Beirut was pounded by new airstrikes. Guerrillas fired rockets at northern Israel, killing a girl. (AP Photo/Lotfallah Daher)
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Israeli soldiers fire artillery from their position near the Lebanese border in northern Israel, Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Israel will carve out a "security zone" in south Lebanon until an international force is deployed there or Hezbollah guerrillas and their rocket launchers are pushed back from the Israeli border, Israel's defense minister said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
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Israeli soldiers on an armored vehicle hold a Lebanese flag taken during fighting in southern Lebanon as they cross over the border into Israel near the northern Israeli town of Avivim Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Israeli ground troops hunting Hezbollah guerrillas will not push deep into Lebanon and instead encircle Lebanese towns and villages near the border with Israel, a senior Israeli commander said Tuesday, in the most detailed outline yet of the objectives of Israel's military offensive. (AP Photo/Yossi Aloni)
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A farmer drives his tractor past Israeli army tanks gathering near the Lebanese border in northern Israel Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Israel will carve out a "security zone" in southern Lebanon until either a multinational force is deployed there or Hezbollah guerrillas are pushed back from the Israeli border in a cease-fire deal, Israel's defense minister said Tuesday.(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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Israeli army tanks gather near the Lebanese border in northern Israel Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Israel will carve out a "security zone" in southern Lebanon until either a multinational force is deployed there or Hezbollah guerrillas are pushed back from the Israeli border in a cease-fire deal, Israel's defense minister said Tuesday.(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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An Israeli soldier prepares to pray next to Israeli army tanks gathering near the Lebanese border in northern Israel Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Israel will carve out a "security zone" in southern Lebanon until either a multinational force is deployed there or Hezbollah guerrillas are pushed back from the Israeli border in a cease-fire deal, Israel's defense minister said Tuesday.(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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Israeli troops gather to listen to their commanding officer as they prepare to cross the border with Lebanon, in northern Israel Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Israel will carve out a "security zone" in south Lebanon until an international force is deployed there or Hezbollah guerrillas and their rocket launchers are pushed back from the Israeli border, Israel's defense minister said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Yaron Kaminsky)
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Israeli troops gather as they prepare to cross the border with Lebanon, in northern Israel, Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Israel will carve out a "security zone" in south Lebanon until an international force is deployed there or Hezbollah guerrillas and their rocket launchers are pushed back from the Israeli border, Israel's defense minister said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Yaron Kaminsky
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An Israeli army convoy of tanks gathers near the border with Lebanon, in northern Israel Tuesday July 25, 2006. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Israeli troops prepare to cross the border with Lebanon in northern Israel Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Israel will carve out a "security zone" in southern Lebanon until either a multinational force is deployed there or Hezbollah guerrillas are pushed back from the Israeli border in a cease-fire deal, Israel's defense minister said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Yaron Kaminsky)
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In this photo made availavle by the Israeli Defense Force, Israeli soldiers prepare for an operation in southern Lebanon, Monday, July 24, 2006. The Israeli army has distributed video-cameras to its fighters in Lebanon, hoping the forces will return from the battlefield with colorful visuals of Hezbollah casualties and their weapons warehouses, the army spokeswoman said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Israeli Defense Force, Abir Sultan, HO)
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Plain clothed police officers talk next to a statue of US President Harry Truman which was pulled down prior to a demonstration in Athens, Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Protesters were planning to march to the embassies of the Unites States and Israel to protest the two-week bombardment of Lebanon. The statue has been pulled down several times during anti-US protests in the past. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)
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In this handout photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, American citizens deboard a military aircraft at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Sunday, July 23, 2006. Approximately 99 American citrizens were evacuated from Lebanon by way of Cyprus. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Stacy L. Pearsall)
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US Ambassador to Germany, William R. Timken, Jr., expresses his thanks to the US Air Force, and other American military branches, for the successful short-notice operation to evacuate U.S Americans from Lebanon during the Israeli-Lebanon hostilities in Ramstein, Germany, Tuesday, July 25, 2006. (AP PHoto/Jim McDonald)
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Police officers escort Eduardo Restrepo Victoria at the National Police headquarters in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, July 25, 2006. Restrepo was arrested on charges of smuggling cocaine to the United States. (AP Photo/William Fernando Martinez)

[Roy Batty]

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Corporal Shudra carries the Tamo'shanter of Cpl Jason Patrick Warren, 29, a reservist with the Black Watch, Royal Highland Regiment of Canada in Montreal during a repatriation ceremony held for Cpl Warren and Corporal Francisco Gomez, 44, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in Edmonton, on July 26 2006 at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.

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Coalition Forces gather on the Airfield in Kandahar, Afghanistan, July 26, 2006 to pay their respects as the remains of Corporal Francisco Gomez, 44, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in Edmonton and Cpl Jason Patrick Warren, 29, a reservist with the Black Watch, Royal Highland Regiment of Canada in Montreal, are carried towards a CC-130 Hercules for Repatriation to Canada

[sgt mike]

English please.(german pics)

[He219]

English please.(german pics)

http://cache.*****images.com/xc/71513503.jpg?v=1&c=MS_GINS&k=2&d=08A8BA3C818346D0B97C4E9E4E8B2DA4

Eurofighter aircrafts overfly 25 July 2006 the German armed forces Bundeswehr air base in Neuburg an der Donau, southern Germany, where the first four Eurofighter aircrafts of the Bundeswehr fighter squadron 74 were commissioned. A total of 25 Eurofighters will be based in Neuburg. AFP PHOTO DDP/TIMM SCHAMBERGER GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read TIMM SCHAMBERGER/AFP/***** Images)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/ksk_01_420.jpg

Germany's Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung tours KSK (German SOF) training center ..

[goat89]

http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/6938/is20060401hi0.jpg


http://img68.imageshack.us/img68/94/is20060403vw3.jpg
Rest In Peace Canucks. You did your duty well, your country proud and helped in helped the people of A-stan.

[iGrooCk]

hmmm Medican personel being bombed by Israiles is not looking too well...so they just bomb everything they see?

[Eddy]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/30768059.jpg


Stop the war LOL !

[Roy Batty]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/30768059.jpg

Stop the war LOL!
As a father let me say; NOT FU@KING FUNNY!

[Eldar]

sad news from A-stan, Rest In Peace, Canadian Soldiers...:( what did happen to them?

[goat89]

I think a car bomb or a RPG hit their G-wagon.

[....]

Are (with the Italians) those MP5s with B&T ump stocks or UMPs? Great pics, guys!

[Combatbookworm]

sad news from A-stan, Rest In Peace, Canadian Soldiers...:( what did happen to them?
Suicide bomber hit their convoy 30 km out base. They where coming back from 20 days in the field, facing some of the most intense fighting that the Canadians have seen. They where both 3 weeks away from finishing their tour. They had taken no casualties though all that fighting, and suicide bomber got them 2 hours from home base.
RIP

[He219]

Are (with the Italians) those MP5s with B&T ump stocks or UMPs? Great pics, guys!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/30768854.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/30769180.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/30769169.jpg

Not quite certain;
looks like MP5 (http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/944/italian0001rn9.jpg) ...

[AFJROTC55]

i can tell you for ALMOST certain, that those are UMPs, if not, well, one more for the gun book, cause the only HK i've seen those stocks on are UMPs, and the one guy has vertical grip, MPs take a little bit of retrofitting, depending on the rail system to attach vertical, UMPs can come with one attached

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[Royal]

http://cache.*****images.com/xc/71514255.jpg?v=1&c=MS_GINS&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF19390335F8FA9CA92A639C31156AF4D267C591E7EC1A351FC8B

How come they use trucks with the steering wheel at the left?

Historically it's because we had alot of troops based in Germany with NATO - they all used left hookers.

We've kept up a large LHD fleet because most places we operate nowadays drive on the wrong side of the road...




both sides of the road....






off the road....





and anywhere else they fancy.

[juju]

It looks like an MP5K fitted with a collapsible stock.

[AFJROTC55]

negative, folding stock.

1*

thats why im skeptical to say MP5

[AFJROTC55]

that linked pic, it goes w/out sayin is an MP5, but all the ones pictured are UMP in a .45

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[mladina]

[quote=Keveaton_05]http://cache.*****images.com/xc/71513018.jpg?v=1&c=MS_GINS&k=2&d=08A8BA3C818346D04D9E0C79E64D6BE5

I am a bit surprised that thai marine recons(note the shoulder patch) conduct security operations on south of Thailand and not SF..

[Royal]

It looks like an MP5K fitted with a collapsible stock.

Folding not collapsible (which would probably make it a PDW if it was an MP5)...

Looks more like a UMP to me

http://www.hkpro.com/ump.jpg


Not quite certain; http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/944/italian0001rn9.jpg
looks like MP5 ....

Though that is an MP5.

[AFJROTC55]

do you know if there is any way to tell just by looking if a UMP is chambered .45 or .40, just out of curiosity.

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[AFJROTC55]

i am now 100% positive that those are UMPs, apparently they have curved mags now, the jury rests, UMPs.

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[Royal]

i am now 100% positive that those are UMPs, apparently they have curved mags now, the jury rests, UMPs.

9mm do.

.40 and .45 don't.

[dacanadianbomb]

RIP to the 2 Canadians.

[baifrank]

http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/944/italian0001rn9.jpg

look like Germany BDU

[Eldar]

Suicide bomber hit their convoy 30 km out base. They where coming back from 20 days in the field, facing some of the most intense fighting that the Canadians have seen. They where both 3 weeks away from finishing their tour. They had taken no casualties though all that fighting, and suicide bomber got them 2 hours from home base.
RIP


sad news, it's quite ironic, only 3 weeks left to return home...

[Big Lebowski]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/30764765.jpg
look it got a big fat red cross on it. lets bomb the **** out of it! :roll:

[noFlooder]

look it got a big fat red cross on it. lets bomb the **** out of it! :roll:

gotta admit, you could mistake it with a bulls eye :roll:

[Big Lebowski]

heh yeah they planted it nicely in the middle. nice shot!

[Hydro]

Just to throw some more fuel on the fire reference the Italians, H&K's MP5 PDW is now offered with a UMP style stock.

[Hawkeye]

Those specifically are Alpine berets, purposely larger and warmer than traditional berets.
They provide a greater brim for protection from the sun.

Look it up for yourself before making naive comments.


x2!

In Belgium, we also have an infantry unit (Chasseurs Ardennais) that has similar berets, but in green.

[NimDod]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/30764765.jpg

strange.
I'v seen pictures of vehicles getting hit by anti tank missile - ususally not much is left of them.
in this case, the van doesnt that bad.

as an Israeli, I'm biased, but still. something smells fishy in that picture. what is the chance for a missle to hit directly in the missle of the red cross?

*edit.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/30764750.jpg

This image taken from video made by Lebanese Red Cross workers Sunday, July 23, 2006 in Qana, south Lebanon and made available to AP Television, shows a Lebanese Red Cross ambulance destroyed in what they say was an Israeli airstrike. The Red Cross workers who provided AP Television with the video said that nine ambulance workers were wounded in the explosion as they tried to ferry injured people from the town of Qana, 20 kilometers (about 12 and a half miles) from Tyre, to hospital. AP Television cannot independently verify whether the Red Cross workers were hit by an Israeli airstrike. (AP Photo/AP Television)
hmm...
doesnt look like it was hit by a HellFire or a Spike. if it was, it woudlnt be one piece. if it had fuel in it, it should have burned.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/30768212.jpg
a stretcher was inside an unarmored ambulance that was hit by an AT missle, and thats all the damage it recived? and why was the picture taken next to a wall with red cross marks on it if the vehicle was hit 20 kilometers away from the hospital? how did the ambulance get there?

[Big Lebowski]

think the stretcher was brought by another ambulance maybe it was used to carry the wounded workers into this van?
http://cache.*****images.com/xc/71509793.jpg?v=1&c=MS_GINS&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF19390335F8FA9CA92A689654C018CFD028CC7631F868A8C7D54

and about the red cross vans damage heres another van hit by a missile still in one peice and not burning with simaler damage

GRAPHIC IMAGE
http://cache.*****images.com/xc/71506016.jpg?v=1&c=MS_GINS&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF19390335F8FA9CA92A69C4D49DD947E201D4EF3EA9A178B7582

[NimDod]

think the stretcher was brought by another ambulance maybe it was used to carry the wounded workers into this van?

if people were wonded, then why bother taking a destroyed strtcher with them? show and tell?



and about the red cross vans damage heres another van hit by a missile still in one peice and not burning with simaler damage

first time I see that picture.
still. doesnt look like it was hit by a Hellfire missle. must have been something else

[Durandal]

I don't think any of these vehicles were actually BLOWN up by an ATGM, artillery shell, or bomb.

Explosions though fairly predictable do weird things. A bomb could have impacted above the vehicle (line in the upper story of a building) and a combination of shrapnel and over pressure tore the van up.

It could have been a cannon attack as well...

[Macs.]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/ksk_01_420.jpg

He ist the man ! woot

[Mr. Nielsen]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/30764765.jpg

Could it be the 30mm canon of an apache?
Does anyone have a picture of a similar softskinned vehichle that was hit by 30mm fire?

[Royal]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/dailypix/30764765.jpg

As an Israeli, I'm biased, but still. something smells fishy in that picture. what is the chance for a missle to hit directly in the missle of the red cross?

Clearly you're both biased and stupid.

It's shrapnel damage.


if it had fuel in it, it should have burned.

This isn't Hollywood - this is life.

Vehicles don't explode in a ball of fire, they don't even catch fire all that often.


Could it be the 30mm canon of an apache?

No.

Some other examples of shrapnel damage for the armchair heroes out there...

http://www.angelfire.com/scary/geobat/Pictures/IED_damage.JPG
http://miklas.bad-hosting.com/albums/album171/capt_sge_tbk99_010105135926_photo00_photo_default_384x256.jpg
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1030000/images/_1032466_shrapnelap150.jpg
http://www.diggerz.org/~adaa/shrapnel.jpg
http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2003/03/26-inside-baghdad.jpg

[Durandal]

ANd this also....

http://image40.webshots.com/40/4/77/12/365247712qPwUpH_ph.jpg

[yasotay]

And it could be a Hellfire. Remember that it is an Anti-Tank missile with a shaped charge warhead. So when the missile hits 2 tons vice 50+ tons it tends to go through it fast. The shaped charge expends itself into the ground when the missile detonates. So other than the explosion to get the plasma jet going there is not a lot of bang.

Regardless I have to think this is not a direct hit as it appears that the shrapnel pattern is "down" not "out". So I have to go with the external explosion theory with overpressure.

Remember in war one of the first casualties is truth. Staging things is part of the game.

[For_israelis]

IDF videos from today.
ISN attacking in Lebanon:
http://www1.idf.il/SIP_STORAGE/DOVER/files/5/55075.wmv
IAF attacking in Lebanon:
http://www1.idf.il/SIP_STORAGE/DOVER/files/4/55074.wmv

[NimDod]

Clearly you're both biased and stupid.

It's shrapnel damage.

This isn't Hollywood - this is life.

Vehicles don't explode in a ball of fire, they don't even catch fire all that often.


other cars that were hit by IAF gunships:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39160000/jpg/_39160902_car_ap203body.jpg
no much was left of this car.

http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2003/08/21-hamas-inside.jpg
and this one did catch fire.

http://i.cnn.net/cnn/2003/WORLD/meast/09/01/mideast/story.gaza.strike.jpg
they don't even catch fire all that often?

http://www.aljazeerah.info/News%20photo%20negatives/2003%20news%20phot%20negatives/June%2003/DAWLL030611-5.JPG

http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper410/stills/2u7i21we.jpg

Palestinians turn over the wreckage of a car hit in an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City´s center Sunday. An Israeli airstrike killed Islamic Jihad´s top leader in southern Gaza and another militant on Sunday night as he drove along a coastal road in Gaza City, signaling a return to Israel´s policy of targeted killings, Palestinian and Israeli officials said.

http://www.thedailystar.net/2004/10/23/2004-10-23__inter01.jpg
real life. not hollywood

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/rdonlyres/A3D20559-4854-41FD-B218-0F94C1F1696C/49310/95A773A265784C14AB25806CAAA7DD46.jpg
see the difference?

you can google these pictures like I did. none of the cars that were hit by AT missiles recived so little damage.

maybe Im biased, by these pictures really cry out "proprganda".

[Royal]

you can google these pictures like I did. none of the cars that were hit by AT missiles recived so little damage.

maybe Im biased, by these pictures really cry out "proprganda".

Where exactly did anyone claim that the ambulance was hit by an AT missile?

Your own quote:


shows a Lebanese Red Cross ambulance destroyed in what they say was an Israeli airstrike.

Airstrike on what? A road junction? A bridge? A building? An infrastructre site? It doesn't really matter. The dead are dead. The wounded are wounded. There is no way to roll back time whether the IAF targetted that particular ambulance (unlikely) or something near it with no care for the collatoral consequenses (likely).

[NimDod]

Where exactly did anyone claim that the ambulance was hit by an AT missile?

what else could it be?
anything bigger would leave a much bigger hole.



Airstrike on what? A road junction? A bridge? A building? An infrastructre site? It doesn't really matter.
I dont know. I wasnt there.
the picture came with this quote:

This image taken from video made by Lebanese Red Cross workers Sunday, July 23, 2006 in Qana, south Lebanon, and made available to AP Television, shows the roof of a Lebanese Red Cross ambulance destroyed in what they say was an Israeli airstrike. The Red Cross workers who provided AP Television News with the video said that nine ambulance workers were wounded in the explosion as they tried to ferry injured people from the town of Qana, 20 kilometers (about 12 and a half miles) from Tyre, to hospital. AP Television cannot independently verify whether the Red Cross workers were hit by an Israeli airstrike. (AP Photo)
pictures and report were given by Lebenese, so I dont take it for granted. as said before, propeganda is part of this war.



The dead are dead. The wounded are wounded. There is no way to roll back time whether the IAF targetted that particular ambulance (unlikely) or something near it with no care for the collatoral consequenses (likely).

AP Television cannot independently verify whether the Red Cross workers were hit by an Israeli airstrike. (AP Photo)

you can belive in what you like. I dont take everything that is reported by AP for granted.

[Royal]

what else could it be?
anything bigger would leave a much bigger hole.

A piece of concrete? other falling debris?


the picture came with this quote:

pictures and report were given by Lebenese, so I dont take it for granted. as said before, propeganda is part of this war.

you can belive in what you like. I dont take everything that is reported by AP for granted.

It was also filmed by the BBC. Not exactly a perfect source either - but a hell of a lot better than some biggoted kid fighting from the safety of his PC in Tel Aviv (or wherever).

[NimDod]

A piece of concrete? other falling debris?

thats quite a hit for a flying piece of concrete. right in the middle of the red cross. thats quite a symbol for a western who sees this picture.
and what about the small sharpenal holes on the buttom of the picture?
Im not an expert for explosives - just a 26 year old tank commander (in reseves), but even lil' I can see that these were not done by debris.



It was also filmed by the BBC. Not exactly a perfect source either
I couldnt agree more.

I know IDF sometimes hit civilians by accident, and I wouldnt say a thing if this ambulance looked like other non-militery vehicles that were hit by IAF in the past.
Maybe they use a weapon that I dont know of that leaves less collateral damage then the Hellfire or the Spike, because there's no way in hell that these ambulances were hit by these missiles, and Its very unlikely that IAF F16's are bombing Lebanon with laser guided concrete bricks.

[Royal]

thats quite a hit for a flying piece of concrete. right in the middle of the red cross. thats quite a symbol for a western who sees this picture.

Very true. Another Isreali inflicted propaganda victory for Hizballah.


and what about the small sharpenal holes on the buttom of the picture?
Im not an expert for explosives - just a 26 year old tank commander (in reseves), but even lil' I can see that these were not done by debris.

Maybe from shrapnel? Comes from a variety of munitions - as a tankie you've probably used them on various things...


because there's no way in hell that these ambulances were hit by these missiles, and Its very unlikely that IAF F16's are bombing Lebanon with laser guided concrete bricks.

Hallelujah - I'm getting through to you at last.

Nobody claimed that they were hit by missiles.

As to the guided bricks, you're lucky that your part time career doesn't seem to have introduced you to the concept of blast debris moving at high velocity

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/8062/00780839mf0.jpg

Try opening the turret hatches once in a while - the fresh air is lovely :roll:

[NimDod]

Very true. Another Isreali inflicted propaganda victory for Hizballah.

propaganda victory for Hizballah - yes.
Isreali inflicted - I dont think so, but again, Im biased.



Maybe from shrapnel? Comes from a variety of munitions - as a tankie you've probably used them on various things...
...
As to the guided bricks, you're lucky that your part time career doesn't seem to have introduced you to the concept of blast debris moving at high velocity


I think its very unlikely that a debre smacked right in the middle of the UN red cross ambulance. its "too good to be true".
I could be wrong, though - Im not an expert on these things, but it looks to me like something did explode in there - but its just too small to be any missile that I know of, and If it was an airstrike aimed at the two ambulances as the Lebenese men clamied, I cant think of anything else that could have hit them like that.

this war has more propeganda then real fighting in it and once in a while, one is able to spot madeup/fake photos like this one (well, at least I belive its fake). Im just supprised no one else said anything about it.

we Israelies have along experience with BBC "reporting". ever heard of the "Jenin Massacre"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jenin_2002
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1957862.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1937048.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1937387.stm

dont roll u'r eyes too much - you might get dizzy.

[Royal]

Im just supprised no one else said anything about it.

'Cos most of us are able to open our eyes and admit that we **** up occasionally rather than blindly believing the propaganda that our own side spouts about the supposed monsters and subhumans who make up the population of the countries we have to live with.

[NimDod]

'Cos most of us are able to open our eyes and admit that we **** up occasionally rather than blindly believing the propaganda that our own side spouts about the supposed monsters and subhumans who make up the population of the countries we have to live with.

we Israelies f**k up much more then occasionally, specially after what happened yesterday at the UN base, but in this particular case - I dont think this was Israeli work.
It reeks of propeganda.

[Royal]

we Israelies f**k up much more then occasionally, specially after what happened yesterday at the UN base, but in this particular case - I dont think this was Israeli work.
It reeks of propeganda.

Having seen the video of the wounded ICRC workers who were with it I'm inclined to think it was.

[Swedish Chef]

i am now 100% positive that those are UMPs, apparently they have curved mags now, the jury rests, UMPs.

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Do your homework before saying you're 100% positive. They're, as seen below, ALL MP5's.
http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/8517/italy01bir4.jpg

http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/3503/italy02bsf1.jpg

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/1682/italybfh8.jpg

And as for there not being an UMP style stock for the MP5K, not true:
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/7183/mp5kside3si2.jpg

[Royal]

And as for there not being an UMP style stock for the MP5K, not true:
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/7183/mp5kside3si2.jpg

Strictly speaking it's an MP5 PDW not an MP5K.

[Irish]

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[Macs.]

Strictly speaking it's an MP5 PDW not an MP5K.

How ? I thought only the PDW has a flashhider and the MP5k doesn't has one.

[Swedish Chef]

Strictly speaking it's an MP5 PDW not an MP5K.
They use the same reciever as does the SP89 which the above weapon started out as. ;)

But here's a real MP5K PDW with the folding stock:
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/1030/philippinenavy01lx5.jpg

[Royal]

How ? I thought only the PDW has a flashhider and the MP5k doesn't has one.

Sorry I'm confusing myself and not looking at Swedish Chef's pic.

This

http://img108.imageshack.us/img108/8517/italy01bir4.jpg

however is a PDW

[He219]

Thanks Royal,

Phew, good thing we got that all cleared up.
p-)


Thanks for those nice sharpened images, Chef.

[Swedish Chef]

It is indeed a PDW, however the third pic could be a standard MP5. And just to clarify one more thing, the PDW does not have flashhider. It has a "three-lug" threaded barrel to which you can attach a flashhider (or suppressor).

I'll stop boring the heck out of everyone now. :oops:

[AFJROTC55]

swedish chef, thanks much for putting me in check, i dont have the best eyes and i have no idea how to enhance pictures, i was hedging it on the stock, the only PDWs i've shot had the old stock, cause they were older PDWs, i've yet till now seen the new stock on those, one thing that irked me from lookin at the pictures were, on MP5s, the chamber, at the rear, is rounded as you can see even from the outside of the weapon, its tubular at the rear, from what i understand, the UMP doesnt have that, the rear upper reciever is just straight and square throughout.

thankyou for the heads up,

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[Swedish Chef]

Glad I could help AFJROTC55,. If I wasn't able to increase the gamma, i wouldn't have been able to say for sure.