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03-28-2004, 05:58 PM
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Chinook helicopters fly over the Paktia's mountains province near the Pakistani border Saturday March 27, 2004 near Khost, about 200 km (120 miles) southeast of Kabul. The porous and mountainous border area between Pakistan and Afghanistan has been the subject of an intensifying search for al-Qaida and Taliban fugitives crossing the border into Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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The newly-established base of Lwana in Afghanistan (news - web sites), about 30 kilometres (18 miles) west of the Pakistan border, is believed to be the fourth US base in Paktika province after Shkin, Urgun and Sharan(AFP/File/Erik De Castro)

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Japanese Army armored vehicles kick up sand as the final group of 120 troops arrive from Kuwait to their new base near the southern Iraq (news - web sites) city of Samawa March 27, 2004. *******/Mohammed Ameen

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A Japanese Army soldier waves in a truck as the final group of 120 troops arrived from Kuwait to their new base near the southern Iraq (news - web sites) city of Samawa March 27, 2004. *******/Mohammed Ameen

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Japanese Army soldiers form up for inspection as the final group of 120 troops arrived from Kuwait to their new base near the southern Iraq (news - web sites) city of Samawa March 27, 2004. *******/Mohammed Ameen

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SAMAWA, IRAQ: A Japanese soldier (L) looks at his watch as a local resident enjoy the atmosphere of a mild evening at the Japanese base of Samawa, 290 km south of Baghdad 28 March 2004. A final batch of some 120 Japanese soldiers entered Iraq from Kuwait yesterday, on their way to help with the humanitarian mission in the southern part of the country, a military spokesman said. AFP PHOTO / Nicolas ASFOURI (Photo credit should read NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/***** Images)

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A US Marine from the 1st Marine Division, deploys in the town of al-Nasr Wa al-Salam near Fallujah. A British national was killed in fresh violence, as US overseer Paul Bremer delivered the keys of the first ministry to Iraqi officials as part of a gradual handover of power by June 30.(AFP/Patrick Baz)

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A U.S. Army Stryker armoured vehicle blazes on a hillside road in the northern Iraq city of Mosul March 28, 2004 after it was hit by a rocket propelled grenade, which struck slat armour and then set a fuel can alight, according to the U.S. military. *******/Namir Noor-Eldeen

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U.S. Army troops in Stryker vehicles, sporting anti-missile cages, seal off an area in the northern Iraq (news - web sites) city of Mosul March 28, 2004. *******/Namir Noor-Eldeen

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U.S. troops inspect the site of a roadside bomb that exploded in Baghdad Sunday, March 28, 2004. Shrapnel from the explosion damaged a nearby school, wounding the headmaster. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Iraqi children look at the car of Sadr City police chief Col. Hussein Abdul Wahed after his house was targetted by a bomb in Baghdad, Sunday, March 28, 2004. No one was injured in the early morning explosion. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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An Iraqi man pushes his bicycle as he passes by a check point set up by U.S. Army and the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps in Baghdad's Kazimiya neighborhood, Iraq (news - web sites), Sunday, March 28, 2004. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)

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U.S. Army troops and Iraqi police officers recover a home-made rocket launcher fixed to a cart, after Mosul's city hall was attacked March 27, 2004. Guerrillas fired rockets at the city hall in Mosul on Saturday, killing two people and wounding 13, in another deadly attack on Iraqis working with U.S.-led occupation forces. *******/Namir Noor-Eldin

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A roadside bomb and a rocket attack killed two people and wounded at least 18 in Iraq (news - web sites), Iraqi police and the U.S. Army said. A roadside bomb exploded in Baghdad, wounding at least five people and badly damaging a vehicle and in the northern city of Mosul, insurgents fired two rockets at the city hall killing two civilians and wounding 13 others including a child, police said. An Iraqi police officer looks at an electronic device used to fire the rockets that struck Mosul's city hall. (*******)

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Iraqi police in Mosul, inspect the site where four Iraqis, including a 13-year-old girl, were killed and 19 wounded during an attack using a Katyusha rocket on the provincial governor's office, 460 km north of Baghdad.(AFP/Mujahed Mahammed)

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Schoolchildren stand in the courtyard of a primary school after it was hit by a rocket in Mosul, Sunday March 28 2004. A Katyusha rocket, apparently aimed at the city hall, missed and hit a nearby primary school for boys, but failed to explode, according to the principal, Abdul-Wahhab Mahmoud. (AP Photo/Karam Hussein)

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Civil servants look at the damage caused by a rocket which hit a wall of Mosul's city hall, March 27, 2004. Police said that insurgents fired two rockets at the city hall, killing two civilians and wounding 13 others, including a child. The sign reads in Arabic, "Province of Nenowa," the area in which Mosul lies. *******/Namir Noor-Eldin

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U.S. Army soldiers attend the scene where a truck and another car crashed March 26, 2004 next to an unlit military checkpoint on a highway outside Baghdad in the early morning. Two civilians were injured in the crash. *******/Akram Saleh

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Iraqi girls wave to a US Marine from the 1st Marine Division, patrolling the town of al-Nasr Wa al-Salam near Fallujah.(AFP/Patrick Baz)

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Leather and canvass gun holsters are on display at a leather goods shop in downtown Baghdad. Britain is spending millions of pounds hiring private bodyguards, armed escorts and security advisers to protect its civil servants in Iraq (news - web sites), a London newspaper said.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)

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British soldiers take cover behind their anti-riot shield while unemployed Iraqi protestors try to calm down their comrades in Amara.(AFP/Hani Al-Obeidi)

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A British soldier twists the arm of an unemployed Iraqi protestor, after confiscating the bottle he was holding in Amara 28. A British national was killed in fresh violence, as US overseer Paul Bremer delivered the keys of the first ministry to Iraqi officials as part of a gradual handover of power by June 30.(AFP/Hani Al-Obeidi)

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Israeli Members of Parliament, left to right, Ehud Yatom, Yuval Steinitz, and Haim Ramon, who helped lead an eight-month inquiry into pre-war Israeli intelligence on Iraq (news - web sites), pause while presenting some of their findings during a news conference, in Jerusalem, Sunday, March 28, 2004. Erroneous Israeli warnings about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction ahead of last year's U.S.-led invasion were based on speculation, not fact, parliamentary investigators said Sunday. But they stressed that intelligence agencies had not deliberately misled the public or the country's Western allies. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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An Israeli soldier points his rifle at Palestinian stone throwers in this photo. Israel overestimated Iraq (news - web sites)'s military capabilities but the miscalculation in no way influenced the U.S. decision to topple Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), a parliamentary inquiry found on March 27, 2004. It was rare public criticism of the secret services in Israel, issued even as Britain and the United States -- partners in the Iraq invasion -- conduct their own investigations into intelligence failures which preceded the war. Photo by Loay Abu Haykel/*******

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Israeli troops secure the Rafidya neighborhood of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, during a search operation, Sunday March 28, 2004. The forces arrested Palestinian Tamer Khwayreh, 16, after storming into his house, who was apparently missing the last two days triggering fears he had been planning an attack. The incident comes only days after a 16-year-old was arrested near a Nablus checkpoint carrying an exposives-belt. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

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A bodyguard stands behind Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) during a meeting in Jerusalem in this Tuesday March 23, 2004 file photo. Israel's state attorney recommended Sunday March 28, 2004 that Ariel Sharon be indicted for bribe-taking, officials said, in what is seen as a major _ but not final _ step toward the prime minister's possible resignation. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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A Pakistani soldier watches Afghans entering Pakistan in the western border city of Chaman on March 27, 2004. Al Qaeda-linked militants have executed eight Pakistani soldiers taken hostage in fighting near the Afghan border, officials said, raising the temperature in an offensive on Islamic radicals. President Pervez Musharraf said his government was determined to act strongly against al Qaeda fighters, blaming them for a spate of attacks across the country including two attempts on his life in December. (*******)

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A Pakistani government official, center, smiles, as he is surrounded by tribal elders after being released by foreign militants linked with al-Qaida, in Wana, Pakistan on Sunday, March 28, 2004. Pakistani troops began withdrawing from some parts of western Pakistan on Sunday after militants agreed to release captured soldiers and politicians, but officials said soldiers will remain in the area while tribal leaders negotiate the handing over of foreign militants. (AP Photo)

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WANA, PAKISTAN: Plainclothes Pakistani paramilitary soldiers (C) climb downstairs as they vacate a building for the lodging of army soldiers (FRONT) following the arrival of the soldiers in Wana from Azam Warsak in South Waziristan, some 300 kms southwest of Islamabad, 28 March 2004. Pakistani troops began to pull out of tribal areas near the Afghan border declaring a successful end to a 12-day offensive to capture Al-Qaeda militants and their local supporters. AFP PHOTO/Tariq MAHMOOD (Photo credit should read TARIQ MAHMOOD/AFP/***** Images)

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WANA, PAKISTAN: Pakistani army soldiers ride on trucks, following their withdrawal from Azam Warsak,arrive in Wana in South Waziristan, some 300 kms southwest of Islamabad, 28 March 2004. Pakistani troops began to pull out of tribal areas near the Afghan border declaring a successful end to a 12-day offensive to capture Al-Qaeda militants and their local supporters. AFP PHOTO/Tariq MAHMOOD (Photo credit should read TARIQ MAHMOOD/AFP/***** Images)

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrives along with security personnel for a press conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul(AFP/Shah Marai)

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrives for a news briefing in Kabul March 28, 2004. Afghanistan (news - web sites)'s presidential and parliamentary elections, originally set for June, will be held in September, Karzai said. Photo by Ahmad Masood/*******

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BUERGENSTOCK, SWITZERLAND: Members of Swiss military police stand on guard under the Burgentstocks hotels, where will be held the Cypriot reunification talks, 28 March 2004. Greece and Turkey are joining expanded Cypriot reunification talks with UN General Secretary Kofi Annan and Greek and Turkish prime ministers at the resort of Burgenstock from Monday. AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK (Photo credit should read ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/***** Images)

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BUERGENSTOCK, SWITZERLAND: As a local cameraman works, a Swiss military helicopter checks the territory of Buergenstock, between the mountains near Lucerne 28 March 2004. Greece and Turkey are joining expanded Cypriot reunification talks with UN General Secretary Kofi Annan and Greek and Turkish prime ministers at the resort of Burgenstock from Monday. AFP PHOTO / ATTILA KISBENEDEK (Photo credit should read ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/***** Images)

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Standing at attention : A pigeon looks for some food in front of the soldiers of the Austrian guard of honour who were lined up near Stefan's Dome Catholic Church during the funeral of the eldest Austrian Cardinal Dr. Franz Koenig. (AFP/Joe Klamar)

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Slovenian soldiers take part in military exercises outside of Ljubljana. The former Yugoslav republic will be seeking when it joins the North Atlantic Treaty Orgnization on Monday to regain the sort of military muscle it has lacked since declaring independence in 1991(AFP/File)

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Ljiljana Stajic, 20, and her friends Mladjan Vasic, center, and Bojan Bogdanovic, 21, talk about their sadness at the recent violence in Kosovo while standing near the bridge in the divide city of Kosovska Mitrovica on March 25, 2004. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

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Brig. Gen. Anders Braenstroem raises his fists to describe how people taking part in recent mob violence in Kosovo attacked peacekeepers who had raised riot shields over their heads during an interview at the NATO (news - web sites) base in Pristin on March 25, 2004. Braenstroem pledged that the alliance would get tough on anyone who attempted to create trouble in Kosovo.

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Finnish soldier look through the rubble of the burned Orthodox Church of St. Nikola in Kosovo's capital Pristina on Monday, March 22, 2004, days after riots that targeted Serb minority left 28 dead and injuring more than 600. Peackeepers throughout Kosovo are tightening security to prevent more violence. (AP Nikolas Giakoumidis)

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Police chief Yapo Koouassi prepares to read a communique in Abidjan.(AFP/Georges Gobet)

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Weapons shown to the media and claimed to be from those engaged in an alleged coup attempt are shown to the media in the Congolese capital Kinshasa, Sunday, March 28, 2004. Government forces defeated what diplomats called a coup attempt against President Joseph Kabila on Sunday, battling attackers at military installations and television headquarters in the Congolese capital. (AP Photo/Eddy Isango)

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Ugandan soldiers display weapons taken from rebels March 28, 2004 in Barlonyo, northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance Army rebels massacred 121 people in February. President Yoweri Museveni vowed revenge for one of the country's worst massacres in years, saying he would hunt down the rebels behind the attack. *******/Patrick Olum

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A Nigerian Army officer, deployed to keep peace during the local government elections, guards a street in Warri, in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria, Saturday, March, 27, 2004. Very few people came out to vote in Warri for fear of violence. (AP Photo/George Osodi)

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TUNIS, TUNISIA: A Tunisian special forces soldier guards the venue of the upcoming Arab summit in Tunis 27 March 2004. Arab foreign ministers sought to prevent the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from sidelining their plans for political reform, amid fears that Washington is trying to set the agenda for democratic change. AFP PHOTO/Marwan NAAMANI (Photo credit should read MARWAN NAAMANI/AFP/***** Images)

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Tunisian policemen stand in front of the closed gate of the entrance to the venue where the Arab summit was to be held in Tunis.(AFP/Marwan Naamani)

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Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiar al-Zibari (C), flanked by heavy security, arrives at an Arab League foreign ministers meeting in Tunis March 27, 2004. Arab governments have been preparing for next week's Tunis meeting for months but have failed to agree on common positions either on internal reform of the Arab League or on how to respond to a U.S. campaign for Middle East democracy. *******/Aladin Abdel Naby

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A doorman holds a car door for an unidentified official who leaves the hotel which hosted the delegations of the Arab League in Tunis, Tunisia, Sunday March 28, 2004. A meeting of the Arab League which was to have taken place in Tunis Congress Palace, visible in background, on March 29 -30 was cancelled Saturday night. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

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A Chinese man climbs out from a toppled gun post along the mainland coast facing Taiwan's Kinmen island near Xiamen, southeastern China, Sunday, March 28, 2004. Just a few kilometers away from the Xiamen coast, the small Kinman island saw fighting between China and Taiwan in the 1949 civil war. China and Taiwan separated during the war, but Beijing claims the island as its own territory and rejects the notion of Taiwan's leader as a national president. Beijing has threatened to capture Taiwan by force. The mainland government hinted at that threat on Friday, saying it would not "look on indifferently" if the election situation there spun out of control. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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Indian Air Force paratroopers exhibit their skills during a demonstration in Suratgarh, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, Saturday, March 27, 2004. The demonstration was part of the golden jubilee celebrations of the One-O-Four Fire Birds squadron of the Air Force. (AP Photo/Ajit Kumar)

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A member of an Afghan tank crew prepares to move his tank to a U.N. supervised heavy weapons containnment area Saturday March 27, 2004, in Kabul, Afghanistan. More than a dozen tanks were collected from various warlords in a continuing effort to demilitarize the population, a problem which has contributed to recent factional fighting. (AP Photo/Ed Wray)

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A member of an Afghan tank crew offers his afternoon prayers prior to moving to a UN supervised heavy weapons cantonment area Saturday March 27, 2004 in Kabul, Afghanistan. More than a dozen tanks were collected from various warlords in a continuing effort to demilitarize the population, a problem which has contributed to recent factional infighting in Herat. (AP Photo/Ed Wray)

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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: An Italian soldier of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stands guard in front of a tank loaded on a transporter in Kabul, 27 March 2004. Heavy weapons such as this tank, have been collected in the Afghan capital and are enroute to a containment area in a programme initiated by the Afghan Ministry of Defence in an attempt to gather all heavy artillery and weapons from across the country. AFP PHOTO/ SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/***** Images)

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An Afghan officer directs weapon carriers during the latest phase of heavy weapons cantonment in Kabul March 27, 2004. The redeployment and cantonment of heavy weapons is an initiative of the Afghanistan (news - web sites) Ministry of Defense. *******/Ahmad Masood

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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: A Canadian soldier of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stands guard in front of a tank loaded on a transporter in Kabul, 27 March 2004. Heavy weapons such as this tank, have been collected in the Afghan capital and are enroute to a containment area in a programme initiated by the Afghan Ministry of Defence in an attempt to gather all heavy artillery and weapons from across the country. AFP PHOTO/ SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/***** Images)

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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: A US forces soldier stands guard beside a tank loaded on a transporter in Kabul, 27 March 2004.

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KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: A Canadian soldier stands guard beside a column of tanks loaded onto transporters as they travel along a road in Kabul, 27 March 2004. Heavy weapons such as these tanks, have been collected in the Afghan capital and are enroute to a containment area in a programme initiated by the Afghan Ministry of Defence in an attempt to gather all heavy artillery and weapons from across the country. AFP PHOTO/ SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/***** Images)

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Armed police patrol the streets at Pokhara, a resort town about 200 kilometers (125 miles) west of Nepalese Katmandu, Nepal, Saturday, March 27, 2004. Hundreds of government soldiers patrolled to thwart any attempt by Maoist rebels to disrupt a huge public reception for Nepals King Gyanendra on Sunday. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)

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KATHMANDU, NEPAL: Nepal's King Gyanendra (C) is welcomed by dignitaries upon his arrival at a civic reception in Pokhara some 225 kms west of Kathmandu 28 March 2004. Gyanendra announced that general elections will be held in Nepal before mid-April 2005. The civic reception was held on behalf of the people of the western region. AFP PHOTO/DEVENDRA M SINGH (Photo credit should read DEVENDRA M SINGH/AFP/***** Images)

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KATHMANDU, NEPAL: Nepalese soldiers pay their last respects as they stand by the funeral pyre of Lieutenant Dhan Bhadar Thapa who was killed by Maoist rebels, during his cremation at Aryaghat on the bank of Bagmati river in Kathmandu 28 March 2004. Thapa was gunned down by the Maoist rebels on 27 March. AFP PHOTO/Devendra M SINGH (Photo credit should read DEVENDRA M SINGH/AFP/***** Images)

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A Thai soldier examines the debris from a motorcycle in the southern Thai town of Sungai Kolok, 1,300 km (812 miles) south of Bangkok March 28, 2004. A bomb hidden in a motorcycle exploded outside a bar in Thailand's largely Muslim south on Saturday, wounding about 30 people, including seven Malaysian tourists, a police spokesman said. *******/Sukree Sukplang

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A Haitian police officer receives a rifle from a civilian as a French soldier looks on during a handover of weapons in La Saline, a stronghold of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, March 27, 2004.(AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

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Locals look at weapons handed over by residents to authorities in La Saline, a stronghold of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, March 27, 2004. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

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PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND - MARCH 27: Ex-Royal Navy frigate The Scylla is towed from Plymouth bound for Whitsands Bay, on March 27, 2004 in Plymouth, Devon, England. The ship will be sunk to provide an artificial barrier reef for the marine life and will also become a dive site. (Photo by Carl De Souza/***** Images)

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PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND - MARCH 27: Ex-Royal Navy frigate The Scylla is towed from Plymouth bound for Whitsands Bay, on March 27, 2004 in Plymouth, Devon, England. The ship will be sunk to provide an artificial barrier reef for the marine life and will also become a dive site. (Photo by Carl De Souza/***** Images)

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A decommissioned Royal Navy warship is sunk by controlled explosions off the coast of southwest England March 27, 2004 to create Britain's first artificial diving reef. The 2,500-ton frigate Scylla was imploded in a series of blasts in Whitsand Bay, about one kilometer off the coast of Cornwall, disappearing into the water under plumes of grey smoke in less than five minutes.It is hoped the warship, built in 1968 and taken out of service in 1993, will attract a variety marine life and also lure tourists and divers to the area. *******/Jim Fenwick/Fleet Photographic Unit/CROWN COPYRIGHT NO ARCHIVE NO SALES

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WHITSANDS BAY, ENGLAND - MARCH 27: Conservationist David Bellamy watches as Ex-Royal Navy frigate, The Scylla, is sunk amidst explosions March 27, 2004 off Whitsands Bay, Cornwall, England. The ship will be sunk to provide an artificial barrier reef for the marine life and will also become a dive site. (Photo by Carl De Souza/***** Images)

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A modified Pegasus rocket ignites moments after release from a B-52B, beginning the acceleration of the X-43A over the Pacific Ocean on March 27, 2004. The unmanned 12-foot-long vehicle, part aircraft and part spacecraft, was dropped from the wing of a modified B-52 aircraft, boosted to nearly 100,000 feet altitude by a booster rocket and released over the Pacific Ocean to briefly fly under its own power at seven times the speed of sound, almost 5,000 mph. FOR EDITORIAL US ONLY NO SALES *******/Jim Ross/NASA/HO

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mustamato
03-28-2004, 06:07 PM
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A U.S. Army Stryker armoured vehicle blazes on a hillside road in the northern Iraq city of Mosul March 28, 2004 after it was hit by a rocket propelled grenade, which struck slat armour and then set a fuel can alight, according to the U.S. military. *******/Namir Noor-Eldeen

A fuel can carried externally?

gorg
03-28-2004, 06:12 PM
Yes, I live for this threads!
Which sounds quite sad when you say it out loud...

He219
03-28-2004, 06:21 PM
Thanks, gorg!
:D

Mustamato: The Stryker had a couple of Jerry Cans mounted externally, not uncommon at all. Our Humvees usually carry a couple of Jerry Cans of both Fuel and Water. It does seem a bit voulnerable though, considering what just happened to that Stryker. I'm glad the crew made it out ...

Another example of externally mounted fuel containers:

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Two 200-liter auxiliary fuel drums can be fitted on the rear of the hull

memphiz
03-28-2004, 06:27 PM
Thanks He :)


Leather and canvass gun holsters are on display at a leather goods shop in downtown Baghdad. Britain is spending millions of pounds hiring private bodyguards, armed escorts and security advisers to protect its civil servants in Iraq (news - web sites), a London newspaper said.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)
So Britain has millions to spend on body guards but they cant pay their SAS ?

George W. Bush
03-28-2004, 06:29 PM
Kind of dumb to have a Stryker roll thru unescorted by dismounts who can actually see the RPG trail and kill the attackers.

khukuri
03-28-2004, 06:45 PM
mustamato swedish terrain cars "11" also carrys fuel externally at the back. So does strv 103.

seventy6er
03-28-2004, 06:49 PM
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What's the story behind the Italian soldier using an AK?

Operation Ivy
03-28-2004, 07:05 PM
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Awsome photo woot , and RIP Styker :(

Falco
03-28-2004, 07:06 PM
Good pics woot

MaDuce
03-28-2004, 07:17 PM
What's the story behind the Italian soldier using an AK?

They have been known to use Galil's so why not AK's?

Stavka
03-28-2004, 07:26 PM
What's the story behind the Italian soldier using an AK?

Chicks dig AKs. Totally.

SerbPVO
03-28-2004, 07:47 PM
Maybe because AKs are , in certain conditions, far better than most other infranstry assault weapons?

After all, it wasn't uncommon for US soldiers in Vietnam to throw away their M-16s and use AK-47s.

squeak
03-28-2004, 07:53 PM
Thanks He :)


Leather and canvass gun holsters are on display at a leather goods shop in downtown Baghdad. Britain is spending millions of pounds hiring private bodyguards, armed escorts and security advisers to protect its civil servants in Iraq (news - web sites), a London newspaper said.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)
So Britain has millions to spend on body guards but they cant pay their SAS ?

Can't pay the SAS. What are you on about?

ALBANIAN
03-28-2004, 07:55 PM
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What's the story behind the Italian soldier using an AK?


he's not italian!

MaDuce
03-28-2004, 07:55 PM
Thats becuase the old Vietnam M-16's used ammo with crappy powder ergo all the carbon buildup. It has been improved alot since.....who cares any way when the XM8 is on the way.

dumdidum
03-28-2004, 08:04 PM
mustamato swedish terrain cars "11" also carrys fuel externally at the back. So does strv 103.

strv 103 (strv = mbt) did carry external fueltanks, it was taken out of service in the eighties. The external fuel tanks was retrofitted if I remeber correctly, and not all 103s carried them.

And allterrain car "11" is about to be phased out also.

memphiz
03-28-2004, 08:06 PM
Thanks He :)


Leather and canvass gun holsters are on display at a leather goods shop in downtown Baghdad. Britain is spending millions of pounds hiring private bodyguards, armed escorts and security advisers to protect its civil servants in Iraq (news - web sites), a London newspaper said.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)
So Britain has millions to spend on body guards but they cant pay their SAS ?

Can't pay the SAS. What are you on about?
theres been tons of threads on how the SAS arent properly paid and are leaving to go work in Iraq.

He219
03-28-2004, 08:16 PM
Puppy Guide Dogs Train At Newark International Airport
Last Updated: 27 Mar 2004 03:06 PM

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NEW YORK - MARCH 27: Student guide dogs queue up to pass through the security area during their training program March 27, 2004 at New Liberty International airport in New Jersey. These training sessions are created by The seeing Eye, Inc., a philanthropic organization that helps visually impaired adults achieve mobility through the use of guide dogs. (Photo by Stephen Chernin/***** Images)


Afghanistan:

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Russia:

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VALDIVOSTOK, RUSSIAN FEDERATION: The crew of the Russian Nadezhda ship stands in front of the boat in Vladivostok as it returned from a 14-month round-the-world voyage 28 March 2004, with 187 crew members on board. After it left Vladivostok last year, Nadezhda sailed around Asia into the Indian Ocean, entered the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal, rounded Europe's western shores and ended up in Russia's second city of Saint Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland in May 2003, in time for the city's 300th anniversary celebrations. In Saint Petersburg it changed its student crew and sailed down through the Atlantic Ocean, rounded South America's tip at Cape Horn and headed north through the Pacific back toward Vladivostok. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read -/AFP/***** Images)


Belarus:

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VERKHNEDVINSK, BELARUS: Rescuers help Lyubov Myasoyedova, 81, to save her chickens from the flood in the town of Verkhnedvinsk, some 330 kms north from Minsk, 28 March 2004, as the river Drissa has overflowed. AFP PHOTO/ VIKTOR DRACHEV (Photo credit should read VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/***** Images)


India:

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BOMBAY, INDIA: The Indian Navy's Captain Arvind Shiggon (R) leads Defence Minister of the Republic of China, General Cao Gangchuan (2-R) and his delegation as they take a tour of the 'INS Delhi' at the Naval Dockyard in Bombay, 28 March 2004. General Gangchuan, who is on a five-day state visit to India heading a high level eighteen member delegation,visited the frontline indigenous warships INS Delhi and INS Prabal fitted with state of the art weapons and sensors. AFP PHOTO/Sebastian D'SOUZA (Photo credit should read SEBASTIAN D'SOUZA/AFP/***** Images)

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BOMBAY, INDIA: Defence Minister of the Republic of China, General Cao Gangchuan (R) takes a tour of the 'INS Delhi' at the Naval Dockyard in Bombay, 28 March 2004. General Gangchuan, who is on a five-day state visit to India heading a high level eighteen member delegation,visited the frontline indigenous warships INS Delhi and INS Prabal fitted with state of the art weapons and sensors. AFP PHOTO/Sebastian D'SOUZA (Photo credit should read SEBASTIAN D'SOUZA/AFP/***** Images)

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BOMBAY, INDIA: Defence Minister of the Republic of China, General Cao Gangchuan (2-R) talks with India's Chief of Western Naval Command Adminiral Madanjit Singh (R) as Captain Arvind Shiggon (L) looks, on board the 'INS Delhi' at the Naval Dockyard in Bombay, 28 March 2004. General Gangchuan who on a five-day state visit to India is heading a high level eighteen member delegation,visited the frontline indigenous warships INS Delhiand INS Prabal fitted with state of the art weapons and sensors. AFP PHOTO/Sebastian D'SOUZA. (Photo credit should read SEBASTIAN D'SOUZA/AFP/***** Images)

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BOMBAY, INDIA: Defence Minister of the Republic of China,General Cao Gangchuan walks around on board the 'INS Delhi' at the Naval Dockyard in Bombay, 28 March 2004. General Gangchuan who is on a five-day state visit to India heading a high level eighteen member delegation, visited the frontline indigenous warships INS Delhi and INS Prabal, fitted with state of the art weapons and sensors. AFP PHOTO/Sebastian D'SOUZA. (Photo credit should read SEBASTIAN D'SOUZA/AFP/***** Images)

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BOMBAY, INDIA: Defence Minister of the Republic of China, General Cao Gangchuan (C) takes a look at the 'INS Delhi' at the Naval Dockyard in Bombay, 28 March 2004. General Gangchuan who is on a five-day state visit to India heading a high level eighteen member delegation, visited the frontline indigenous warships INS Delhi and INS Prabal, fitted with state of the art weapons and sensors. AFP PHOTO/Sebastian D'SOUZA (Photo credit should read SEBASTIAN D'SOUZA/AFP/***** Images)


China:

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BEIJING, CHINA: One of the seven Chinese activists deported by Japan without charge, after they were arrested on a disputed Senkaku or Diaoyu islands which lie between Taiwan and Japan, and causing a diplomatic row, greeted on arrival at the Beijing Capital airport 28 March 2004. A group of Chinese protesters Sunday said it had postponed a trip to a disputed island chain controlled by Japan due to increased tensions in the Taiwan Strait. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/***** Images)


Georgia:

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TBILISI, GEORGIA: Georgian soldiers leave a voting booth at a polling station in Tbilisi, 28 March 2004 during parliamentary elections. Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili reaffirmed Sunday that he intended to steer this strategic Caucasus nation on a Western course as he voted in a parliamentary election. AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read -/AFP/***** Images)

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BEIT LIQYA, : Israeli soldiers watch mainly Palestinian youth during a protest against the construction of the controversial "security barrier" by Israel at Beit Liqya on the edge of the West Bank 28 March 2004. Some 100 protestors, including leftwing Israelis and foreign activists, gathered in an olive grove close to where the fence construction is taking place to protest the ongoing building. AFP PHOTO/Menahem KAHANA (Photo credit should read MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/***** Images)


Philippine MILF (Moro Islamic Liberation Front):
No fancy ideas there ...
p-)

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BULIOK, PHILIPPINES - MARCH 28: A few Filipino marines patrol a river near where the Moror Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) soldiers congregated, on March 28, 2004 in Buliok, on the southern island of Mindanao, Philippines. More than 2000 armed MILF fighters briefly re-occupied their former headquaters for a meeting with an advance team of Malaysian military observers who are paving the way for a larger group of international peace monitors. Peace talks are set to resume next month which both sides hope will settle the nearly 30 year conflict between muslim fighters and the government. (Photo by David Greedy/***** Images)

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BULIOK, PHILIPPINES - MARCH 28: Moro Islamic Liberation Front soldiers await peace observers at the Islamic Center in Buliok, on March 28, 2004 on the southern island of Mindanao, Philippines. More than 2000 armed MILF fighters briefly re-occupied their former headquaters for a meeting with an advance team of Malaysian military observers who are paving the way for a larger group of international peace monitors. Peace talks are set to resume next month which both sides hope will settle the nearly 30 year conflict between muslim fighters and the government. (Photo by David Greedy/***** Images)

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BULIOK, PHILIPPINES - MARCH 28: Moro Islamic Liberation Front commander Samir greets Armed Forces of the Philippines Vice Chief of Staff Rodolfo Garcia at the Islamic Center in Buliok, on March 28, 2004 on the southern island of Mindanao, Philippines. More than 2000 armed MILF fighters briefly re-occupied their former headquaters for a meeting with an advance team of Malaysian military observers who are paving the way for a larger group of international peace monitors. Peace talks are set to resume next month which both sides hope will settle the nearly 30 year conflict between muslim fighters and the government. (Photo by David Greedy/***** Images)

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BULIOK, PHILIPPINES - MARCH 28: Soldiers of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front gather around a .50 cal machine gun at a camp in Tolitay, on March 28, 2004 on the southern island of Mindanao, Philippines. More than 1000 armed MILF fighters briefly re-occupied their former base for a meeting with an advance team of Malaysian military observers who are paving the way for a larger group of international peace monitors. Peace talks are set to resume next month which both sides hope will settle the nearly 30 year conflict between muslim fighters and the government. (Photo by David Greedy/***** Images)

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"Viva!"

BULIOK, PHILIPPINES - MARCH 28: Soldiers of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) cheer at the Islamic Center in Buliok, on March 28, 2004 on the southern island of Mindanao, Philippines. More than 2000 armed MILF fighters briefly re-occupied their former headquaters for a meeting with an advance team of Malaysian military observers who are paving the way for a larger group of international peace monitors. Peace talks are set to resume next month which both sides hope will settle the nearly 30 year conflict between muslim fighters and the government. (Photo by David Greedy/***** Images)

George W. Bush
03-28-2004, 08:20 PM
HAHAHAH!! MILF FIGHTERS!

MaDuce
03-28-2004, 08:26 PM
HAHAHAH!! MILF FIGHTERS!

Isn't that a **** site

Bulkowski
03-28-2004, 08:28 PM
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ATTENTION!

mustamato
03-28-2004, 08:31 PM
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One interesting thing with MILF is that they produce their own RPG-2 launchers
and rockets, still effective against government M113īs (etc), bunkers and so forth

Some destroyed government armour: http://www.luwaran.com/Walid-Mia.htm

RuSoKaR
03-28-2004, 08:34 PM
http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20040327/i/r4104608746.jpg

Can anyone tell me what is that and where do they make them?

He219
03-28-2004, 08:35 PM
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20040327/capt.sge.cbl79.270304232708.photo00.default-384x218.jpg

ATTENTION!

http://img33.photobucket.com/albums/v101/He219/austrians.jpg
p-)

Operation Ivy
03-28-2004, 08:41 PM
rofl That belongs in the photoshop section

He219
03-28-2004, 08:43 PM
http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20040327/i/r4104608746.jpg

Can anyone tell me what is that and where do they make them?

It's Japan's Light Armoured Combat Vehicle - Made in Japan p-)

http://www.militech.sownet.gliwice.pl/inne/_Japan%20LACV.jpg

http://www.yuri.sakura.ne.jp/~right/equipment/jgsdf/infantry/lamv/lamv.html

Gordon
03-28-2004, 09:04 PM
Kind of dumb to have a Stryker roll thru unescorted by dismounts who can actually see the RPG trail and kill the attackers.

And you know they were unescorted how?

mustamato
03-28-2004, 09:11 PM
Kind of dumb to have a Stryker roll thru unescorted by dismounts who can actually see the RPG trail and kill the attackers.

And you know they were unescorted how?

And also "see the RPG trail" :D

Undo
03-28-2004, 09:16 PM
Kind of dumb to have a Stryker roll thru unescorted by dismounts who can actually see the RPG trail and kill the attackers.

And you know they were unescorted how?

And also "see the RPG trail" :D

RPG trail is easy to see. Provided you are still around to see it.

mustamato
03-28-2004, 09:19 PM
Kind of dumb to have a Stryker roll thru unescorted by dismounts who can actually see the RPG trail and kill the attackers.

And you know they were unescorted how?

And also "see the RPG trail" :D

RPG trail is easy to see. Provided you are still around to see it.

Yeah, I meant more, "hey ****, there comes a RPG, letīs stand here and try
to trace it backwards so that we might see where the gunner is!!". I assume
itīs easier to just see the dust that kicked up when the gunner fired the RPG.

redhawk_six
03-28-2004, 09:29 PM
Here's novel idea in dealing with the RPG threat, buy an APC that can actully stand to take a hit. The stryker is over-rated. It's too lightly armoured for real combat. One RPG is all it takes to take out a stryker, extrenal fuel cases or not. All it has to do is avoid that cage, and boom! No more stryker.

Seoulstriker
03-28-2004, 09:55 PM
rofl That belongs in the photoshop section

indeed!

nice job, He219! :D

csqnsas
03-29-2004, 01:54 AM
DUMMDIDUM wrote:


strv 103 (strv = mbt) did carry external fueltanks, it was taken out of service in the eighties. The external fuel tanks was retrofitted if I remeber correctly, and not all 103s carried them.

Err no it did not. Take a look at

http://armor.kiev.ua/Tanks/Modern/STRV/

you will see that the strv 103 had 10 jerry cans welded onto its sides to act as 'stand-off' armour to detonate incoming HEAT round. The poor mans ERA. They could also be filled with water to reduce the spalling effect. Also look at the front and see the rebar welded onto the whole frontal arc. Again stand off for HEAT rounds. Just like the Strykers cage.

Yard Ape
03-29-2004, 12:53 PM
http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20040328/i/r4064757565.jpg

A U.S. Army Stryker armoured vehicle blazes on a hillside road in the northern Iraq city of Mosul March 28, 2004 after it was hit by a rocket propelled grenade, which struck slat armour and then set a fuel can alight, according to the U.S. military. *******/Namir Noor-Eldeen

A fuel can carried externally?Yes, because it is better than having that fire inside the LAV. There are brackets to hold jerries on either side of the rear ramp. Each holds 2 (for a total of 4 jerries).

http://americas-army.4players.de/Forum/gallery/pics/pic-9811.jpg

MapleLeafInfantry
03-29-2004, 01:09 PM
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20040304/capt.sge.pzj73.040304162455.photo02.default-417x245.jpg

resembles a cougar a we bit
mli

Argyll
03-29-2004, 01:22 PM
Thanks He :)


Leather and canvass gun holsters are on display at a leather goods shop in downtown Baghdad. Britain is spending millions of pounds hiring private bodyguards, armed escorts and security advisers to protect its civil servants in Iraq (news - web sites), a London newspaper said.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)
So Britain has millions to spend on body guards but they cant pay their SAS ?

They are not funded by the Government.unlike the SAS ;)

dumdidum
03-29-2004, 01:24 PM
Err no it did not. Take a look at

http://armor.kiev.ua/Tanks/Modern/STRV/

you will see that the strv 103 had 10 jerry cans welded onto its sides to act as 'stand-off' armour to detonate incoming HEAT round. The poor mans ERA. They could also be filled with water to reduce the spalling effect. Also look at the front and see the rebar welded onto the whole frontal arc. Again stand off for HEAT rounds. Just like the Strykers cage.

First of all I dont get what it is you dont agree with.

Second the jerry cans were not welded to the tank, the first reason to that, is that it would be a little hard to get them of when you wanted to use the fuel. :) And also the jerry cans on the "103" are made out of plastic, not metal.

edit: was it that I wrote fueltank instead of jerry cans? In that case, bad on me for poor choise of words. I was reffering to the jerry cans.

memphiz
03-29-2004, 01:37 PM
Thanks He :)


Leather and canvass gun holsters are on display at a leather goods shop in downtown Baghdad. Britain is spending millions of pounds hiring private bodyguards, armed escorts and security advisers to protect its civil servants in Iraq (news - web sites), a London newspaper said.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)
So Britain has millions to spend on body guards but they cant pay their SAS ?

They are not funded by the Government.unlike the SAS ;)
oooh ok...
thanks Argyll

theres an Argyll road in Edmonton ;)

Yard Ape
03-29-2004, 01:40 PM
http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20040304/capt.sge.pzj73.040304162455.photo02.default-417x245.jpg

resembles a cougar a we bit
mliThat is because it is second generation LAV, an evoloution of the AVGP and forerunner to the LAV III/Stryker.

EvanL
03-29-2004, 03:32 PM
Thanks He :)


Leather and canvass gun holsters are on display at a leather goods shop in downtown Baghdad. Britain is spending millions of pounds hiring private bodyguards, armed escorts and security advisers to protect its civil servants in Iraq (news - web sites), a London newspaper said.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)
So Britain has millions to spend on body guards but they cant pay their SAS ?

They are not funded by the Government.unlike the SAS ;)
oooh ok...
thanks Argyll

theres an Argyll road in Edmonton ;)
Theres on in Ottawa as well.

memphiz
03-29-2004, 03:38 PM
Thanks He :)


Leather and canvass gun holsters are on display at a leather goods shop in downtown Baghdad. Britain is spending millions of pounds hiring private bodyguards, armed escorts and security advisers to protect its civil servants in Iraq (news - web sites), a London newspaper said.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)
So Britain has millions to spend on body guards but they cant pay their SAS ?

They are not funded by the Government.unlike the SAS ;)
oooh ok...
thanks Argyll

theres an Argyll road in Edmonton ;)
Theres on in Ottawa as well.
interesting

Trigger
03-29-2004, 05:12 PM
http://cache.*****images.com/comp/3148498.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE2AABAC796D80FC902E95B8A734633464
"Kerry/Fonda 2004!"

EvanL
03-29-2004, 05:35 PM
http://cache.*****images.com/comp/3148498.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE2AABAC796D80FC902E95B8A734633464
"Kerry/Fonda 2004!"
MILF MILF MILF MILF

DixieDude
03-29-2004, 06:44 PM
http://home.graffiti.net/uisairsoft/capt.sge.cbl79.270304232708.photo00.default-384x218.jpe


The new president of Austria......Animalism is spreading :lol:

cut
03-29-2004, 07:18 PM
Thanks He :)


Leather and canvass gun holsters are on display at a leather goods shop in downtown Baghdad. Britain is spending millions of pounds hiring private bodyguards, armed escorts and security advisers to protect its civil servants in Iraq (news - web sites), a London newspaper said.(AFP/File/Sabah Arar)
So Britain has millions to spend on body guards but they cant pay their SAS ?

Can't pay the SAS. What are you on about?
theres been tons of threads on how the SAS arent properly paid and are leaving to go work in Iraq.

try two threads quoting the same discredited source.

Wilco
03-29-2004, 07:37 PM
http://cache.*****images.com/comp/3148597.jpg?x=x&dasite=MS_GINS&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=E2399169AC85D6DE37D260EC8BD1392AB54E0049DA4462F4
*Crayola Crayon tips enlarged and made to hold explosives for fighters of MILF.*

George W. Bush
03-29-2004, 07:45 PM
So the Filipino military can be called MILF hunters? What about the chicks in the back of the previous photos, I see no MILFs there? :|

Maybe they hide the MILFs for fear of discovery by the MILF hunters.