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Today's Pix - Monday, December 19th, 2005
An Afghan man stands in front of an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) armored vehicle near the compound of National Assembly building in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 19, 2005. Afghanistan's first popularly elected parliament in more than three decades convened Monday, marking a major step toward democracy following the ouster of the hardline Taliban. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
Some soldiers from Afghan Rapid Reaction Troops guard in front of the parliament building in Kabul Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005. (AP Photo / Xinhua, Zabi Tanna)
Afghan youths hold the country flags near the National Assembly building after its inauguration session in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 19, 2005. Afghanistan's first popularly elected parliament in more than three decades convened Monday, marking a major step toward democracy following the ouster of the hardline Taliban. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
Parliament members attend the inaugural session of the National Assembly before swearing over the holy book, Quran, at the National Assembly building in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 19, 2005. Afghanistan's first popularly elected parliament in more than three decades convened Monday, marking a major step toward democracy following the ouster of the hardline Taliban. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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[IMG]http://cache.*****images.com/comp/56453092.jpg?x=x&dasite=*****Images&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=3E536B94163317E924CC8D6286343A29781CF461BB6606AD[/IMG]Afghan President Hamid Karzai (C) speaks during the opening session of the country's first parliament in three decades in Kabul, 19 December 2005. Afghanistan has risen from the ashes of invasion and conflict with the opening of its first parliament after three decades of war, President Hamid Karzai said in an emotional address to the assembly. The new parliament is a crucial step towards securing the future of the war-ravaged country, Karzai said, after swearing in the new legislators in a ceremony attended by US Vice President **** Cheney and other foreign guests. AFP PHOTO/ SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/***** Images)
[IMG]http://cache.*****images.com/comp/56453272.jpg?x=x&dasite=*****Images&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=3E536B94163317E91424D590403D74BA781CF461BB6606AD[/IMG]Afghan member of parliament, Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayaf or "Ustad Sayaf" (2R) speaks outside the parliament building after the opening ceremony of its first parliament in three decades in Kabul, 19 December 2005.
[IMG]http://cache.*****images.com/comp/56449304.jpg?x=x&dasite=*****Images&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=3E536B94163317E9DECE5D85EDF7EE98781CF461BB6606AD[/IMG]US soldiers stand guard outside the parliament building during the opening session of the country's first parliament in three decades in Kabul, 19 December 2005.
[IMG]http://cache.*****images.com/comp/56453281.jpg?x=x&dasite=*****Images&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=3E536B94163317E9CCBFBAA3B505069E781CF461BB6606AD[/IMG]US soldiers of the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) patrol near the site of the Parliament Building in Kabul, 18 December 2005. Afghanistan's first parliament after nearly three decades of brutal occupation, war and harsh Taliban rule is due meet 19 December in the final step of a transition to democracy launched four years ago. AFP PHOTO/ FARZANA Wahidy (Photo credit should read FARZANA WAHIDY/AFP/***** Images)
[IMG]http://cache.*****images.com/comp/56441020.jpg?x=x&dasite=*****Images&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=3E536B94163317E90C8CC07E8A8C1D43781CF461BB6606AD[/IMG]Portugese soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) guard the parliament building during the opening session of the country's first parliament in three decades in Kabul, 19 December 2005.
[IMG]http://cache.*****images.com/comp/56440716.jpg?x=x&dasite=*****Images&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=3E536B94163317E9C9F0C78BEF56535A781CF461BB6606AD[/IMG]Afghan people walk on the street while a NATO helicopter uses flares to avoid potential heat-seeking missiles in Kabul, 16 December 2005. A bomb exploded near the building, where Afghanistan's parliament is due to convene 19 December for the first time in three decades, killing an apparent suicide attacker and wounding two passers-by.
[IMG]http://cache.*****images.com/comp/56441069.jpg?x=x&dasite=*****Images&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=3E536B94163317E966064CE1ECBEC2BC781CF461BB6606AD[/IMG]Afghan policemen and [Pop Quiz: identify this] ISAF soldiers walk past the remains of a suicide bomber as a helicopter hovers overhead in Kabul, 16 December 2005. A bomb exploded in Afghanistan's capital, near the site of the parliament due to meet for the first time next week, killing an apparent suicide attacker and wounding two passers-by, officials said. AFP PHOTO/FARZANA Wahidy (Photo credit should read FARZANA WAHIDY/AFP/***** Images)
[IMG]http://cache.*****images.com/comp/56449947.jpg?x=x&dasite=*****Images&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=3E536B94163317E9AAD02AB1DA32DEFB781CF461BB6606AD[/IMG][Pop Quiz: Identify these] International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) members standing guard near the site of an explosion in Kabul, 16 December 2005. A bomb exploded near the building, where Afghanistan's parliament is due to convene 19 December for the first time in three decades, killing an apparent suicide attacker and wounding two passers-by. AFP PHOTO/ FARZANA Wahidy (Photo credit should read FARZANA WAHIDY/AFP/***** Images)
[IMG]http://cache.*****images.com/comp/56449697.jpg?x=x&dasite=*****Images&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=3E536B94163317E94A9936CA95E551EF781CF461BB6606AD[/IMG]French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie speaks during a press conference at the Kabul Military Airport, 18 December 2005. Alliot-Marie announced that France will probably send "a couple of hundreds" additional soldiers in Afghanistan in 2006. France currently has about 800 soldiers in Afghanistan, mainly in Kabul. AFP PHOTO/ FARZANA Wahidy (Photo credit should read FARZANA WAHIDY/AFP/***** Images)
[IMG]http://cache.*****images.com/comp/56446305.jpg?x=x&dasite=*****Images&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=AB27D050201094215C0E64DE43E5D06959A453C130096FE44D18EEFDB4ADCA68[/IMG]UN humanitarian coordinator Jan Vandemoortele (R), flanked by Pakistan's military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan, walks following their arrival in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, 18 December 2005. The United Nations has appealed for immediate funds to protect some 1.9 million Pakistani earthquake survivors facing the bitter Himalayan winter. The devastated earthquake which hit the region 08 October killed more than 73,000 people and left 3.5 million others homeless. AFP PHOTO/Arif ALI (Photo credit should read Arif Ali/AFP/***** Images)
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Students of Xu Xiangyang Education and Training Workroom, also known as the" Walking School", undergo physical training on December 16, 2005 in Suining of Sichuan Province, China. The Xu Xiangyang Education and Training Workroom is a special boarding school which enrolls problem children, who are considered bad students in ordinary schools and regarded as uneducable by their parents. The school has adopted a quasi-military management and designed special programs to educate students. All the students travel from one province to another with their teachers and learn through training given throughout the tour, sleeping in trucks and eating in the open. The training is severely strict and mostly aims at cultivating the children's patience, concentration, perseverance and the ability of self-dependence in daily life. The program includes physical training, writing, dictation, audition and calculating training. (Photo by China Photos/***** Images)
[IMG]http://cache.*****images.com/comp/56450200.jpg?x=x&dasite=*****Images&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=AB27D0502010942195534B1B9E10FCFBB6AA086CBFDB0ECBAC9EDBE4E6F952F6[/IMG]In this photo released by the pro-North Korea agency Korea Central News Agency in Tokyo Monday, Dec. 19, 2005, women soldiers of a North Korean troop exercise an anti-aircraft weapon in Pyongannam-do, north of Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2005. (AP Photo/Korea News Service)
[IMG]http://cache.*****images.com/comp/56450040.jpg?x=x&dasite=*****Images&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=3E536B94163317E9C27DE0220D4F7BBF781CF461BB6606AD[/IMG]A U.S helicopter flies over the site of a failed suicide car bomb on December 18, 2005 in Baghdad, Iraq. A suicide car bomb exploded near a police check point, wounding a policeman. Only the suicide bomber was killed in the attack. Violence returned to Baghdad as authorities eased security imposed for the country's parliamentary elections which passed peacefully December 15. (Photo by Wathiq Khuzaie/***** Images)
A soldier places a Santa Clause puppet at the entrance of one of the buildings of the US military base in Kirkuk 18 December 2005. At least 17 Iraqis were killed as violence flared today after Sunni Arab and Shiite politicians appealed for unity and warned against sectarian divisions following a landmark election. AFP PHOTO / Filippo MONTEFORTE (Photo credit should read FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/***** Images)
US Vice President **** Cheney arrives at Al-Asad Air Base 18 December, 2005 in Iraq. Cheney, who made an unannounced visit to the region also met with Iraqi leaders and US Military Command to discuss security and the latest elections during his surprise visit. AFP PHOTO/POOL/Lawrence Jackson (Photo credit should read Lawrence JACKSON/AFP/***** Images)
[IMG]http://cache.*****images.com/comp/56451344.jpg?x=x&dasite=*****Images&ef=2&ev=1&dareq=AB27D0502010942195534B1B9E10FCFBE86FEFCA2942BCC7AC9EDBE4E6F952F6[/IMG]U.S. Vice President **** Cheney greets an Iraqi soldier with the 9th Mechanized Infantry Division of the Iraqi Army, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005, at the Taji Air Base, in Iraq. Cheney also met with Iraqi leaders and U.S. Military Command to discuss security and the latest elections during his surprise visit. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, Pool)
In this handout picture released by the U.S army U.S. Vice President **** Cheney (L) and U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey shake hands with U.S. and Iraqi soldiers at Taji Military Base on December 18, 2005 in Taji, Iraq.
U.S. Vice President **** Cheney addresses the Marines at Al-Asad Air Base, Sunday, Dec 18, 2005, in Iraq. Cheney also met with Iraqi leaders and U.S. Military Command to discuss security and the latest elections during his surprise visit. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, Pool)
This image taken from video posted Monday Dec. 19, 2005 on various extremist Islamic Web sites, including almeer.net and muslm.net, and reportedly released by the Islamic Army of Iraq, purports to show a man being shot. At the left of the split screen, is the purported passport of Ronald Allen Schulz, an American hostage held in Iraq. The video did not show a face, and it was impossible to identify the person. (AP Photo/ via APTN )
Ingrid Hala, mother of released German hostage Susanne Osthoff, toasts with her husband Guenter Hala in Rott am Inn, southern Germany, Monday, Dec. 19, 2005, one day after the release of her daughter, Susanne Osthoff, who had been held in Iraq for three weeks. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher)
Standing next to pictures of freed hostage Susanne Osthoff, Martin Esterl , mayor of Glonn, southern Germany, holds a sign in front of the town hall Monday, Dec. 19, 2005. Glonn is the hometown of Osthoff, who had been held in Iraq for three weeks. Sign reads "Susanne Osthoff is free again! Thank you!". (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher)
Police guard the Hadassa hospital in the outskirts of Jerusalem shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was rushed there Sunday Dec. 18, 2005. Sharon was taken to Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital after nightfall Sunday, a hospital spokeswoman said, after feeling unwell while working in his office. Sharon was awake and undergoing medical tests, a hospital official said.(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Bolivian presidential candidate Evo Morales is greeted by coca farmers and supporters upon his arrival at coca farmers federation in Cochabamba, Bolivia on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005. Socialist coca farmer Evo Morales led his conservative rival by more than 10 percent in Bolivia's presidential race Sunday night, an unexpectedly wide margin that means Congress will likely declare him the country's first Indian president, according to independent exit polls. (AP Photo/Dado Galdieri)
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Senior Master Sgt. Matt Rossoni learns how to use an assault rifle used by Australian forces deployed here. Sergeant Rossoni is deployed from the 18th Security Forces Squadron at Kadena Air Force Base, Japan. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Scott Campbell)
ONBOARD USS ALABAMA (AFPN) -- Airmen with the 22nd and 23rd Special Tactics squadrons quickly descend from a helicopter rope onto the deck of this submarine in the Pacific Ocean during an exercise. The exercise tested special operations infiltration and rescue tactics. (U.S. Navy photo by Master Chief Petty Officer Daniel J. Niclas)
Airmen with the 22nd and 23rd Special Tactics squadrons launch an inflatable boat into the Pacific Ocean during an exercise. The exercise tested special operations infiltration and rescue tactics. The joint effort also tested the capabilities of the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines, which enter service next year. The submarines are being converted from ballistic missile submarines to guided missile submarines with new capabilities. (U.S. Navy photo by Master Chief Petty Officer Daniel J. Niclas)
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thanks to all that contribute to these just awesome pics
Thanks for the excellent photos He219.
Conducting special operations infiltration and rescue tactics on a submarine armed with 24 Trident ICBM's? This is a very very frightening, nightmare scenario.ONBOARD USS ALABAMA (AFPN) -- Airmen with the 22nd and 23rd Special Tactics squadrons quickly descend from a helicopter rope onto the deck of this submarine in the Pacific Ocean during an exercise. The exercise tested special operations infiltration and rescue tactics. (U.S. Navy photo by Master Chief Petty Officer Daniel J. Niclas)
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Great pics, thx He219. One of my best friends here in Germany is from Afghanistan. His parents had to flee from there in the early 80ies when the USSR invaded the country. They came to Germany after an odyssey over Pakistan. His whole family got separeted all over the world (US, Australia, Netherlands etc). Now he is more German that Afghan, because he grew up here. But his place of origin is Afghanistan. I hope that some day no one needs to flee from his home in order to be safe from persecution. It is a great sign that things are going well there.
Iraqi soldiers ride in the back of a pickup truck while on a patrol with soldiers from the U.S. Army in Diyala province, Iraq, Sunday Dec. 18, 2005. Elsewhere, U.S. Vice President **** Cheney made a surprise visit to Iraq today, and watched Iraqi troops training. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)
General Dynamics Land Systems, Inc. mechanic Heriberto Melendez cleans a seal of the commander's hatch of an Army Stryker vehicle, Friday, Dec. 16, 2005, at Fort Lewis Wash. After logging thousands of miles during their first two years in Iraq, the Army's Stryker vehicles, an eight-wheeled armored vehicle, are getting an overhaul before being sent back with soldiers. They were used for a year in Iraq by the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, then another year with their successors from the 1st Brigade, 25th Infantry Division. (AP Photo/The News Tribune, Lui Kit Wong)
Young hopefuls participate in a physical test being conducted to recruit new soldiers for the Indian army at Jammu, India, Monday Dec. 19, 2005. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
A young candidate expands his chest as it is measured during a recruitment drive by the Indian Army at Jammu, India, Monday, Dec. 19, 2005. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
Palestinians look at a crater left by a missile fired from an Israeli warplane near the village of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip Monday, Dec. 19, 2005. The Israeli air force resumed air strikes against rocket- and mortar launching sites in Gaza on Monday, carrying out two attacks after striking 11 times overnight, the military said. The attacks came after Palestinians fired a rocket that exploded near a power plant outside the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon.(AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
Mit seinem Sohn Julian freut sich Robert Osthoff, der Bruder der freigelassenen Geisel Susanne Osthoff, am Montag, 19. Dezember 2005, in seinem Haus in Grafing, Oberbayern, ueber das glueckliche Ende der Entfuehrung seiner Schwester. Susanne Osthoff war vor drei Wochen im Irak entfuehrt worden und war am Sonntag freigekommen. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher) ----Robert Osthoff, brother of released German hostage Susanne Osthoff, and his son Julian are all smiles as they display German magazine reporting on this sister in his home in Grafing, southern Germany, Monday, Dec. 19, 2005. Susanne Osthoff had been held hostage in Iraq for three weeks. Magazine spread shows Osthoff at work as an archeologist in Iraq. (AP Photo/Diether Endlicher)
Der als NS-Kriegsverbrecher und Massenmoerder angeklagte Ladislav Niznanksy, rechts, unterhaelt sich mit seinem Anwalt Steffen Ufer am Montag, 19. Dezember 2005, vor dem Landgericht in Muenchen. Der Prozess gegen den 88-jaehrigen, der im Zweiten Weltkrieg Kommandeur der Partisanenabwehrgruppe "Edelweiss" war, dauerte 15 Monate und endete mit einem Freispruch. Nach einem 15 Monate langen Prozess hielt das Muenchner Schwurgericht die Schuld fuer nicht erwiesen. (AP Photo/Uwe Lein) ---Ladislav Niznansky from Slovakia talks to his lawyer Stefan Ufer, left, as they await the verdict in a Munich, southern Germany, courtroom on Monday, Dec 19, 2005. A German court acquitted an 88-year-old man of murder Monday in three Nazi massacres in Slovakia at the end of World War II. Ladislav Niznansky showed no reaction as his acquittal on 164 counts of murder was announced in the Munich state court. The charges related to massacres in early 1945 after a failed uprising against Slovakia's Nazi puppet government. (AP Photo/Uwe Lein)
British Photographer David Gillanders and German UNICEF patron Eva Luise Koehler, right, poses with a photo showing Jana, a street child pictured in Odessa, Ukraine, in Berlin, Monday, Dec. 19, 2005. Gillanders' photo was awarded UNICEF-Photo of the Year 2005. 87 photographers of 20 countries participated in the international contest. (AP Photo/Franka Bruns)
Thai soldiers ride on a truck on a flooded street in Pattani province, southern Thailand, Monday, Dec. 19, 2005. The death toll from flooding has risen to 27 in southern Thailand where thousands of people stranded in remote villages are sick from flood-related diseases, officials said Monday. (AP Photo)
Turkish Defense Minister Vecdi Gonul, left, and his French counterpart Micele Alliot-Marie, 3rd from left, inspect a military honour guard in Ankara, Monday, Dec. 19, 2005. Alliot_Marie is in Turkey to discuss defense cooperation between the two countries. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
British soldiers serving in the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo show Christmas gifts sent by the British Ministry of Defence for them in Kosovo's capital in Pristina on Monday, Dec. 19, 2005. (AP Photo / Visar Kryeziu)
Maybe, but the cars in the back looks like Mercedes/Peugeot, Italians have the Defenders.Originally Posted by catalyst
Thanks very very much to all contributors, especially He219, you are my daily window on the world.
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Vice President **** Cheney visits the 9th Mechanized Infantry Division Headquarters at Taji Air Base to greet Iraqi troops and view tanks and armored vehicles they have refurbished into working fighting vehicles, Dec. 18, 2005. White House photo by David Bohrer
Kiel, 14.12.2005.
U-Boote vom Typ 212A sind einzigartig auf der Welt. Sie sind mit einer Brennstoffzelle ausgerüstet. Daher ist es möglich, unabhängig von der Außenluft mehrere Wochen lang auf „Schleichfahrt“ zu gehen. Der besonders gedämmte Dieselmotor und die neu konstruierte Schiffsschraube machen das Boot lautlos und unsichtbar.
Eckernförde, 12/19/2005, Maik Herrmann (Redaktion Marine).
Am Freitag läuft U15 nach längerem Einsatz im Mittelmeer wieder im Marinestützpunkt Eckernförde ein.
Der Weihnachtsmann begrüßt die Besatzung
Tsunami - One year later: Hubschrauberträger JEANNE D’ARC vor dem Versorgen in See am 18. Januar 2005 nördlich von Sumatra
Spangdalen, 16.12.2005, Marcus Willner (Redaktion Marine).
Die Deutsche Marine gibt nach zwei Jahren den Wachauftrag für die amerikanische Air Base in Spangdahlem bei Trier wieder ab.
German Marineschutzkräfte reliquishes base protection duties.
Rheine - Nach 34 Jahren Dienst in der Luftwaffe kommt nun das Aus für den Fliegerhorst Hopsten. Der Fliegerhorst hat seit seinem Bestehen viele Flugzeuge starten und landen gesehen. Die Geschichte des Flugplatzes begann im Jahre 1938. Damals wurde er als Feldflugplatz für im Münsterland stationierte Jagdverbände genutzt.
Nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg wurde der Fliegerhorst 1961 von der Luftwaffe wieder in Betrieb genommen. Das Jagdbombergeschwader 36 (JaboG 36) war geboren. Die ersten Flugzeuge, welche das stolze Westfalenross als Verbandswappen zierten, waren vom Typ Republic F-84F "Thunderstreak".
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Spc. Louie O. Bedea, from 4th Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 2nd Marine Division, posts security near his Stryker vehicle at Rawah, Iraq
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Estonian Sergeant 1st Class Jarmo Johkem (center), a squad leader with "Stone" Platoon, talks with Platoon Leader Cpt. Sergei Gushelnikov (right), and their interpreter during a joint patrol with U.S. troops from the Fort Riley, Kan., based 2nd Battalion, 70th Armor Regiment, in the Shiha sector of Baghdad, Nov. 26, 2005.
Spc. Jeremy D. Crisp
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Vice President **** Cheney, alongside Lt. Gen. Martin Dempsey, shakes hands with U.S. and Iraqi troops during a surprise visit to Taji, Iraq. Photo by Lt. Col. Frederick Wellman.
A Marine readies to man a gun turret for an early morning convoy in Husaybah.
An Iraqi army soldier peers out from behind a wall during operations in Karmah.
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-- Pararescuemen from the 306th and 48th Rescue Squadrons prepare to fast rope from an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter in an exercise here. The combined training exercise simulated the rescue of "wounded hostages" from an enemy forces' location. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Veronica Pierce)
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12/14/05 - U.S. Air Force pararescuemen from the 306th and 48th Rescue Squadron fast rope from an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter to retrieve simulated wounded hostages from an enemy forces location during a combined training exercise on Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., Dec. 14, 2005. The rescue units are training in preparation for a real world deployment situation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Veronica Pierce)
Heb je dit al eens gezien? Ga dan maar kijken bij de foto van 5 december.
Brigadier General J.A. Bautis Otero, Spanish Army, Commander, Land Component Command, NATO Disaster Relief Team in Pakistan is pleased with the work of Task Force Elephant, Italian Heavy Engineers in NATO Disaster Relief Team in Pakistan, and congratulates the Italian construction site officer, Lieutenant Fratolillo during the General’s visit on 13 th December 2005. Task Force Elephant removes debris from the by the earthquake on 8 th October 2005 totally destroyed Pakistani electrical company.
Brigadier General J.A. Bautis Otero, Spanish Army, Commander, Land Component Command, NATO Disaster Relief Team in Pakistan, visit the construction site were Task Force Elephant, Italian Heavy Engineers in NATO Disaster Relief Team in Pakistan, remove debris of an by the earthquake on 8 th October 2005 totally destroyed office building of an Pakistani electric company in Bagh, Pakistan, province Azad Kashmir, on 13 th December 2005
Polish 1st ENG Brigade cleans up the debris from the of Public Work Department Colony area in Bagh.
Photo by Polish PIO
A Pakistani construction site worker frees recyclable iron from the debris of a totally destroyed office building of a Pakistani electrical company in Bagh, Pakistan, province Azad Kashmir on 13 th December 2005. In the background is an Italian backhoe of Task Force Elephant, Italian Heavy Engineers in NATO Disaster Relief Team in Pakistan, loads a dumper.
Team from Polish ENG COY install retaining-wall footings while working on the road from Arja to Bagh. Photo by Polish PIO
Polish ENG Company moving up the temporary construction for a school for girls in Bagh. Photo by Polish PIO
The lessons at the Islamic Boy School in Bagh, Pakistan, province Azad Kashmir are held open air, since an earthquake destroyed the Islamic Boy School on 8 th October 2005. In the background are trailers of the Task Force Elephant, Italian Heavy Engineers in NATO Disaster Relief Team in Pakistan, which brought heavy machines to Bagh, in order to support the NATO’s earthquake relief mission with debris removal.
Trucks from a convoy of Task Force Elephant, Italian Heavy Engineers in NATO Disaster Relief Team in Pakistan, find their way through the mountains of the Himalayan on 12 th December 2005. The trucks are on their way to Arja, a village in the operational area of NATO’s Disaster Relief Mission in Pakistan, 100 km north of Islamabad were the Task Force Elephant support NATO and has it’s field camp
A driver of an Italian IVECO truck of Task Force Elephant, Italian Heavy Engineers in NATO Disaster Relief Team in Pakistan, waves back to some children at the road during the convoy trip to Arja, a town in the operational area of NATO Disaster Relief Team Pakistan.
A corporal distributes MREs (meals ready to eat) to the members of Task Force Elephant, Italian Heavy Engineers in NATO Disaster Relief Team in Pakistan, after the convoy passed the half way mark to Arja in the mountains of the Himalayan on 12 th December 2005
The chef’s recommendation today: Tortelini alla pomodoro out of the MRE (meal ready to eat) box. The convoy of the Italian Task Force Elephant stopped for lunch after having passed the half way mark to Arja, Pakistan, on 12th December 2005, where Task Force Elephant, Italian Heavy Engineers in NATO Disaster Relief Team in Pakistan, has its camp.
A soldier of a convoy from Task Force Elephant, Italian Heavy Engineers in NATO Disaster Relief Team in Pakistan, distributes cans of his MRE (meal ready to eat) to Pakistani pupils coming home from school, whilst the convoy head to Arja on 12 th December 2005 in the mountains of Kashmir.
Don't you just feel so good when you help somebody like these Pakistan children? Just look how happy they are.
good ones today
Spanish police operation against yihadist network (Al Qaeda-like) in Spain. The second or third of that type in the last weeks:
GOES agents in the following photo (Sevilla):
The detentions took place in several points of Spain:
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Norwegians?
maybe, but the helicopter is 99% italian
Romanian soldiers march during the turn-over ceremony in the Iraqi city of Kut December 19, 2005
Ukrainian soldiers march during the turn-over ceremony in the Iraqi city of Kut December 19, 2005.
Ukrainian soldiers hold their medals during the turn-over ceremony in the Iraqi city of Kut December 19, 2005
Ukrainian soldiers applaud during a turn-over ceremony in the Iraqi city of Kut December 19, 2005. More than 900 Ukrainian troops stationed in Iraq since 2003 are leaving and Polish, Romanian and Kazakhstan soldiers will take over the camp in Kut. *******/Erik de Castro
Romanian soldiers walk on the tarmac next to a MiG-29 aircraft at the Mihail Kogalniceanu Airbase 250 km (155 miles) east of Bucharest December 19, 2005. The airbase was indicated by Human Rights Watch as a possible location for a covert prison allegedly used by the CIA in Romania to interrogate terrorist suspects. Ex-US secretary of state Colin Powell on Sunday accused European leaders of being insincere when denying knowledge of the practice of rendition of terror suspects to countries where they are not protected by US anti-torture laws. *******/Bogdan Cristel
Standing near a Christmas tree, people watch fireworks during a celebration of the country's EU candidacy status, on the main square in Macedonia's capital Skopje, on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2005. Macedonia prepared a celebration late Saturday in Skopje to mark what it called "historic" EU decision to grant the tiny Balkan's state candidacy for membership. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)
Mothers and children citizens of Nice, join in the 61th Christmas bathe in Nice [looks like Cannes to me], southern France, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005. Some 200 swimmers took part in the celebration. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
A man in a Santa Claus costume joins the citizens of Nice, in the 61th Christmas bath in Nice, southern France, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2005. Some 200 swimmers took part in the celebration. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)
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