Today's Pix - Tuesday, January 16th, 2007

[Lancero]

LONDON - LONDON - UNITED KINGDOM
epa00904134 Major Erica Bridge, 34 has joined the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery (KTRHA) as its first female Commanding Officer, responsible for 168 soldiers and officers and 120 horses based in their St Johns Wood barracks. Major Bridge comes from a military family. Her mother was a former Army Captain, her father retired as a Royal Navy Commander and she is married to a serving officer in the Kingís Royal Hussars. EPA/Sergeant Mick Howard RLC EDITORIAL USE ONLY EDITORIAL USE ONLY
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MESSINA - - ITALY
epa00904122 Italian firefighters get a close look at the damaged hydrofoil Segesta Jet of Italian Railways, in Messina, on Tuesday 16 January 2007. It crashed with an Antigua container ship in the Strait of Messina between Reggio Calabria and Messina. In the accident four people died and some 60 were injured. EPA/FRANCO CUFARI
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TIKRIT - KIRKUK - IRAQ
epa00904117 Iraqis read lines of the Koran over the graves of Barzan AlTikriti and Awad AlBander, who were executed Monday 15 January 2007 , in Tikrit north of Baghdad, on Tuesday 16 January 2007. Half brother of former dictator Saddam Hussein Barzan AlTikrit and the chief of revolutionary court Awad AlBandr were hanged Monday 15 january 2007, Barzan head was severed during the hanging. EPA/STR
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TIKRIT - KIRKUK - IRAQ
epa00904112 Relatives of former dictator Saddam Hussein brandish their weapons ,as they carry the body of Barzan AlTikriti who was executed Monday, during the funeral in Tikrit north of Baghdad, Monday 15 January, 2007. Half brother of former dictator Saddam Hussein Barzan AlTikrit and the chief of revolutionary court Awad AlBandr were hanged Monday 15 January 2007, Barzan head was severed during the hanging. EPA/STR
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RIO DE JANEIRO - RIO DE JANEIRO - BRAZIL
epa00904091 The first units of elite Brazilian National Public Security Force are ready to be deployed in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday 16 January 2007. The troops are on a mission to crack down on rampant crime that has caused daily bloodshed and challenges the authority of the state. About 500 troopers of the paramilitary National Public Security Force will be deployed in Rio by air and by road and the number will increase to about 7,800. EPA/ANTONIO LACERDA
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WANA - - PAKISTAN
epa00904086 (Files) A photo dated 03 June 2004 shows a Pakistani paramilitary soldier sitting alert in a bunker in Wana, the administrative headquarters of the troubled south of Waziristan bordering Afghanistan. Pakistani security forces on Tuesday 16 Janauary 2007 killed up to 30 militants, including some foreign fighters, in an early morning operation in the South Waziristan tribal district bordering Afghanistan, a military spokesman said. South Waziristan, which borders Afghanistans Paktia province, was the site of an October aerial attack attributed to US aircraft that killed more than 80 people in a madrassa religious school compound. Authorities described all the victims as militants despite claims that innocent students died. EPA/ALLAH NOOR WAZIR
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CHAMAN - BALOCHISTAN - PAKISTAN
epa00904080 Pakistani paramilitary soldiers patrol along the Pakistan Afghan border at Chaman, Pakistan, on Tuesday 16 January 2007. President General Pervez Musharraf on Monday directed installation of the stateoftheart system to records all movement across the PakAfghan border, observance of regulations and documentation of all those who cross the frontier legally and with rightful purposes. Pakistani and Afghan officials often blame each other of not doing much to stop infiltration of militants across the border. EPA/AKHTAR GULFAM
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CHAMAN - BALOCHISTAN - PAKISTAN
epa00904079 Pakistani paramilitary officials display seized Arms and Ammunition at Chaman that borders Afghanistan, on Tuesday 16 January 2007. Pakistani Paramilitary soldiers raided a location at the Chaman border and recovered 50 hand grenades, 2 Light Machine Guns, 2 AK47 Guns and 500 bullet rounds of LMG. According to military officials the Arms were aimed at carrying out terrorist activities in Afghanistan. EPA/AKHTAR GULFAM
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BAGHDAD - BAGHDAD - IRAQ
epa00904076 Iraqis gather at the site of road side bomb explosion at a popular market near the mosque of Sheikh Abdul Kader AlKilany in Baghdad, on Tuesday, January 16, 2007. Several civilians were killed and injured in the blast. EPA/MOHAMMED JALIL
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BUCHAREST - BUCHAREST - ROMANIA
epa00904052 Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi (R) and Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu inspect the honour guard during their meeting in Bucharest, Romania, on Tuesday 16 January 2007. Prodi is the first EU political leader that is visiting Romania after becoming EU member at the begining of 2007. EPA/MAURIZIO BRAMBATTI
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BAGHDAD - BAGHDAD - IRAQ
epa00904010 Iraqi police forces secure the area at the site of road side bomb explosion in Karada district in Baghdad, on Tuesday 16 January 2007. A road side bomb went off while Iraqi bomb experts tried to disarm another one in Baghdad today, Three policemen and one civilian were killed in the blast. EPA/ALI ABBAS
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[He219]

Nice pix Lancero!

Police officers guard Eugenio Montoya Sanchez at the police airport in Bogota, Monday, Jan.15, 2007. Montoya, who is wanted for extradition by a court in Miami for allegedly smuggling cocaine into the United States, was captured Monday

Police officers guard Eugenio Montoya Sanchez at the police airport in Bogota, Monday, Jan.15, 2007. Montoya, who is wanted for extradition by a court in Miami for allegedly smuggling cocaine into the United States, was captured Monday

Isn't an Israeli brigade supposed to be equipped with Tavors by now?
Funny how we se it exported first, but nice nonetheless ...

[Swedish Chef]

Thank you very much, Lancero and He!

[thedamnchampion2]

yeah i saw on "future weapons" on the discovery channel that an Israeli brigade is equipped with Tavors. The Tavors (TAR-21) was distributed to Givati Brigade and used in Operation Defensive Shield.

[Lancero]

Your's too He!

RAS KAAMBOONI - - SOMALIA
epa00903957 A transitional government soldier walks through recovered war materiel on Monday, 15 January, 2007 in Ras Kaambooni, southern Somalia, where Kenya, Somalia and the Indian Ocean meet. Locals report that battles for the last remaining stronghold of the Islamits last week in Ras Kaambooni killed or injured at least 500 Ethiopians and transitional government forces. Ras Kaambooni is also the site where a US warplane attacked high level alQaida suspects. EPA/IBRAHIM ELMI
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RAS KAAMBOONI - - SOMALIA
epa00903956 Ethiopian soldiers tow a destroyed truck off the road on Monday, 15 January, 2007 in Ras Kaambooni, southern Somalia, where Kenya, Somalia and the Indian Ocean meet. Locals report that battles for the last remaining stronghold of the Islamits last week in Ras Kaambooni killed or injured at least 500 Ethiopians and transitional government forces. Ras Kaambooni is also the site where a US warplane attacked high level alQaida suspects. EPA/IBRAHIM ELMI
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BASRA - BASRA - IRAQ
epa00903950 A US Convoy arrives from Kuwait to Iraq across Basra to take part in new security plan that will be launched during few next days, Basra, Monday 15 January 2007. US President George W. Bush announced last week that he will boost the troops in Iraq to decrease the violence operation in Baghdad. EPA/HAIDER ALASSADE
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PURWOKERTO - - INDONESIA
epa00903878 An Indonesian passenger train derailed in Banyumas, Central Java on Tuesday 16 January 2007. An Indonesian Bengawan train plunged into a dry river early Tuesday, killing five people and injuring hundreds of others. EPA/SUMARYANTO
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MANILA - MANILA - PHILIPPINES
epa00903808 Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C) walks infront of the Monument of Philippine National hero Jose Rizal during a wreath laying ceremony in Manila, Tuesday 16 January 2007. China and the Philippines have signed 20 economic agreements involving investments worth billions of dollars, aimed at boosting bilateral ties, officials said Tuesday. EPA/MIKE F. ALQUINTO
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MELBOURNE - VITORIA - AUSTRALIA
epa00903743 Australian police patrol the area during the 2nd day of Australian Open in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday 16 January 2007. Security were tightened around the Melbourne Park for the ongoing Australian tennis Open following a crowd disturbance between Croatian and Serbian tennis fans. EPA/DENNIS M. SABANGAN
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HEBRON - WEST BANK - PALESTINE
epa00904201 Israeli soldier stand guard as a Palestinian woman raises her hands at the entrance to the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron Tuesday, 16 January 2007. EPA/ABED AL HAFIZ HASHLAMOUN
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RIO DE JANEIRO - RIO DE JANEIRO - BRAZIL
epa00904222 A policeman jumps as he tries to put out a fire near Mangueiar shanty town, northern Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday 16 January 2007, after locals set fire to a bus in protest after three alleged drug gang members were killed in a police shootout in the Mangueira slum during an operation to retrieve stolen goods. EPA/Antonio Lacerda
EPA / STR / Antonio Lacerda

Jaca (Huesca) - - SPAIN
epa00904240 Members of the Civil Guard prepare to search the area in which mayor Miguel Grimas car was found, about 12 km away from the place they found his body, Monday 15 January 2007. Grima, the mayor of Fago, a town in Huesca, northern Spain, was found dead last Saturday 13 January. EPA/PABLO OTIN
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[He219]

This undated six picture combo issued, Monday, Jan 15, 2007, by Britain's Metropolitan Police shows from left, top row, Manfu Asiedu, Ibrahim Muktar Said, Ramzi Mohamed and from the left, bottom row, Yassin Omar, Hussain Osman and Adel Yahya who are accused of plotting to bomb London's transport network. Prosecutors were due to begin outlining their case at London's Woolwich Crown Court, Monday, Jan. 15, 2007, against the six men accused of plotting to bomb London's transport network two weeks after suicide attackers killed 52 commuters in the city. The six men deny conspiring to murder and conspiring to cause explosions in connection with the alleged abortive attacks on July 21, 2005.

Pakistani paramilitary troops stand guard outside Miran Shah, the capital of Waziristan, Pakistan, along the Afghanistan border, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007. Pakistan's army destroyed suspected al-Qaida hideouts in an airstrike near the Afghan border killing 10 people, police said. The raid in South Waziristan came days after the U.S. intelligence chief said leaders of both al-Qaida and Afghanistan's former ruling Taliban militia were finding shelter in Pakistan's lawless frontier areas

British Army officers from Operational Mentoring Liaison Training (OMLT) company train Afghan National Army or ANA, soldiers in firearms, near Camp Bastion, southern Afghanistan, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007. OMLT and Lima company of 42 Commandos of British Royal Marines were training some 250 ANA soldiers for different security and combats operations over a period of three weeks during a continuation course

Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, right, hugs Oscar-wnning film director Nikita Mikhalkov during a meeting in Moscow on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007. Mikhalkov was named Tuesday to led the Defense Ministry's Public Council, an advisory body intended to bolster the military's image.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov smiles as he speaks in Moscow on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov on Tuesday confirmed that Russia has sold Tor-M1 air defense missile systems to Iran."We sent Tor-M1 missiles to Iran in accordance with the contract," Ivanov told reporters

** FILE ** Russian Tor-M1 missile system launcher vehicles are seen during military exercises somewhere in undisclosed location in Russia, in this July 28, 2005 file picture. Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2007, confirmed that Russia has sold Tor-M1 air defense missile systems to Iran. Ministry officials have previously said Moscow would supply 29 of the sophisticated missile systems to Iran under a US$700 million (euro615 million) contract signed in December

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures during a visit to the 'Cuba Libre' neighborhood in Managua, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2007.

Nicaragua's Sandanista President Daniel Ortega, right, drives his Mercedes Benz accompanied with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, while leaving the "Cuba Libre" neighborhood in Managua, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2007. As part of his Latin America tour Ahmadinejad will visit Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Ecuador

[zulu261]

What I'm asking myself is, why there are some shoes laying around in nearly every picture of places where something "bad" happened.

[Count Lippe]

those iraqi sandals easily get blown off in an explosion...

[IraGlacialis]

"It was THIS big."

Presidential fishing stories.

[Chounch McGavin]

FN FNC?

[wildheart]

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sutch a shame we (uk) wont be hanging these traitors

[Lancero]

PARIS - ILE-DE-FRANCE - FRANCE
epa00904265 U.S. First Lady Laura Bush is shown the American war cemetery by its superintendent Faqir Hamid (R) in Suresnes, near Paris, Tuesday 16 January 2007. Laura Bush is in France for a threeday visit. EPA/MAYA VIDON
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PARIS - ILE-DE-FRANCE - FRANCE
epa00904268 U.S. First Lady Laura Bush is flanked by the European director of the American battle war memorial commission, BG Steven Hawking (L) and superintendent Faqir Hamid (R) as she holds her hand on her heart during the playing of the French national anthem before laying a wreath during a visit to the American war cemetery in Suresnes, near Paris, Tuesday 16 January 2007. Laura Bush is in France for a threeday visit. EPA/MAYA VIDON
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HEBRON - WEST BANK - PALESTINE
epa00904298 This photograph supplied by the Israeli Government Press Office shows Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert watching screens during his visit to a new border Crossing on the West Bank, Tuesday 16 January 2007. Olmert visited several new checkpoints on the West Bank on Tuesday. EPA/MOSHE MILNER / GPO HANDOUT
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HEBRON - WEST BANK - PALESTINE
epa00904296 This photograph supplied by the Israeli Government Press Office shows Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert studying a map during his visit to a new border Crossing on the West Bank, Tuesday 16 January 2007. Olmert visited several new checkpoints on the West Bank on Tuesday. EPA/MOSHE MILNER / GPO HANDOUT
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HEBRON - WEST BANK - PALESTINE
epa00904299 This photograph supplied by the Israeli Government Press Office shows Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert shaking hands with Deputy Chief of Staff Kaplinsky and Central comander during Olmerts visit to a new border Crossing on the West Bank, Tuesday 16 January 2007. Olmert visited several new checkpoints on the West Bank on Tuesday. EPA/MOSHE MILNER / GPO HANDOUT
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RIO DE JANEIRO - RIO DE JANEIRO - BRAZIL
epa00904305 A policeman guards the area near Mangueiar shanty town, northern Rio de Janeiro, Tuesday 16 January 2007, where locals set fire to a bus in protest after three alleged drug gang members were killed in a police shootout in the Mangueira slum during an operation to retrieve stolen goods. EPA/Antonio Lacerda
EPA / STR / Antonio Lacerda

AMMAN - AMMAN - JORDAN
epa00904321 A Jordanian actor wearing a heritage costume of the Nabtean people, rides a horse ahead of a ceremony for the final leg of the New seven wonders of the World competition, in Petra, southern Jordan, on Tuesday,16 January 2007. The archaeological site Petra, with remarkable structures carved into the rocks, is selected as one of 21 finalists in the New 7 Wonders competition. EPA/JAMAL NASRALLAH
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NEW YORK CITY - NEW YORK - UNITED STATES
epa00904337 Model Naomi Campbell (3R, dark glasses) leaves a court hearing in New York on Wednesday 16 January 2007. Campbell plead guilty to assault charges for throwing a cell phone at her housekeeper. Campbell will do do 5 days community service. EPA/ANDREW GOMBERT
EPA / STR / ANDREW GOMBERT

[Hiroshima]

Why do I think the bloke on the right's carrying some form of stubby anti-tank rifle?

[Chounch McGavin]

Hahaha.. What's up with actors throwing their cell phones at people?

Whatever, great pictures, keep 'em coming

[Lancero]

Why do I think the bloke on the right's carrying some form of stubby anti-tank rifle?

That's ****** Rio. The bad guys have RPG's there...