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    Today's Pix - Sunday, July 9th, 2006




    Mongolian soldiers in traditional warrior outfit prepare to reenact Genghis Khan's legendary conquering hordes in Tov, south of Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Sunday, July 9, 2006. About 500 Mongolian soldiers on horsebacks took part in the event to mark the 800th anniversary of the widely revered Mongolian conqueror. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

    Mongolian President N. Enkhbayar, right, and former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori prepare to open a show which reenacts Genghis Khan's legendary conquering hordes in Tov, south of Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Sunday, July 9, 2006. About 500 Mongolian soldiers on horsebacks took part in the event to mark the 800th anniversary of the widely revered Mongolian conqueror. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)








    Mongolian soldiers in traditional warrior outfit cross scimitars as they reenact Genghis Khan's legendary conquering hordes in Tov, south of Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Sunday, July 9, 2006. About 500 Mongolian soldiers on horsebacks took part in the event to mark the 800th anniversary of the widely revered Mongolian conqueror. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)



    A horse runs away after its rider fell during a reenactment of Genghis Khan's legendary conquering hordes in Tov, south of Ulan Bator, Mongolia, Sunday, July 9, 2006. About 500 Mongolian soldiers on horsebacks took part in the event to mark the 800th anniversary of the widely revered Mongolian conqueror. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)


    Ranking members of the Japanese coalition forces leave a tent after a meeting, Sunday, July 9, 2006, in Samawah, southern Iraq. On Friday, Japan began withdrawing its 600-member military contingent from Iraq. The first group of about 30 soldiers left their garrison in Samawah and flew to Kuwait, Japanese media said. Their departure marked the beginning of the end of Japan's biggest overseas military mission since World War II. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)

    A member of the Japanese coalition forces waves goodbye to an Iraqi vehicle at the checkpoint of the Japan base, Sunday, July 9, 2006, in Samawah, southern Iraq. On Friday, Japan began withdrawing its 600-member military contingent from Iraq. The first group of about 30 soldiers left their garrison in Samawah and flew to Kuwait, Japanese media said. Their departure marked the beginning of the end of Japan's biggest overseas military mission since World War II. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)

    In this photo released by the Navy, the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Mustin is shown underway. The USS Mustin sailed into the port of Yokosuka, home to the Navy's 7th Fleet, with a crew of 300 for permanent assignment to the region on July 8, 2006, 7th Fleet spokeswoman Hanako Tomizuka said. The U.S. Navy now has eight Aegis-equipped vessels at Yokosuka. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, S.C. Irwin)

    Army Spc. David Floyd holds the flag of the Alabama Army National Guard's 1165th Military Police Company as the company receives its Presidential Unit Citation Saturday, July 8, 2006, during a ceremony at Fairhope High School in Fairhope, Ala. (AP Photo/Press-Register, Victor Calhoun)

    One of six members of the 7th Special Forces Group of Fort Bragg places a flag on the cremations of Army Master Sgt. Thomas D. Maholic during a memorial service held in Bradford, Pa., Friday, July 7, 2006. Maholic, 38, of Bradford, Pa., was killed June 24, in Ghecko, Afghanistan when he was hit by enemy small arms fire. He was a member of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg, the military said. (AP Photo/The Bradford Era, Francie Long)

    A member of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group of Fort Bragg, N.C., picks up a flag to present to the son of Army Master Sgt. Thomas D. Maholic during a memorial service held in Bradford, Pa., Friday, July 7, 2006. Maholic, 38, of Bradford, Pa., was killed June 24, in Ghecko, Afghanistan when he was hit by enemy small arms fire. He was a member of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg, the military said. (AP Photo/The Bradford Era, Francie Long)

    A Lebanese army officer, left, salutes, while other soldiers carry the coffin of former Lebanese President Elias Hrawi draped with a Lebanese flag, during his funeral procession in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday July 9, 2006. Hrawi, who helped Syria dominate Lebanon during his nine years in office, died on Friday after a long fight with a chronic illness, a senior Lebanese official said. He was 81. The official said Hrawi died Friday afternoon at the American University Hospital in Beirut, where he had been receiving treatment for weeks. Hrawi was elected by parliament for a six-year term as Lebanon's 10th president in November 1989. His prime mission at the time was to oversee implementation of an Oct. 1989 peace treaty brokered by the Arab League to end Lebanon's 15-year-old civil war, and rebuilding the shattered country.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

    Lebanese army troops surround a cannon carriage carrying the coffin of former Lebanese President Elias Hrawi draped with Lebanese flag, during his funeral procession in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday July 9, 2006. Hrawi, who helped Syria dominate Lebanon during his nine years in office, died on Friday after a long fight with a chronic illness, a senior Lebanese official said. He was 81. The official said Hrawi died Friday afternoon at the American University Hospital in Beirut, where he had been receiving treatment for weeks. Hrawi was elected by parliament for a six-year term as Lebanon's 10th president in November 1989. His prime mission at the time was to oversee implementation of an Oct. 1989 peace treaty brokered by the Arab League to end Lebanon's 15-year-old civil war, and rebuilding the shattered country.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

    Indian army soldiers watch the display of an Agni II missile during the Army Day parade in New Delhi, India, in this Thursday, Jan. 15, 2004 file photo. India test-fired its new nuclear-capable Agni III missile Sunday, a news report said. The launch took place at India's main missile testing center in Orissa state in eastern India. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan, File)

    Colombian soldiers carry the body of one of the commanders of the rebel group Popular Army of Liberation, Jesus Berlain Chiquito Becerra, also known as "Leytor" after he was killed during combat with the army at a military base in Manizales, Colombia, Saturday, July 8, 2006.(AP Photo/John Jairo Bonilla)

    Photo released by the British army on Sunday July 9 2006 of Prince Harry, youngest son of Prince Charles and the late Diana, Princess of Wales, in a Spartan armoured reconnaissance vehicle during his driving and maintenance phase at the Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AFV) Driving and Maintenance School at Bovington in Dorset on Friday July 7 2006. D&M involves learning to drive, command and maintain a tracked reconnaissance vehicle. Prince Harry will be on the D&M course for the rest of this month, and will complete the entire Troop Leaders course in October. As a Troop Leader, the prince will eventually be qualified to command a troop of four armoured vehicles. (AP Photo/ British Army, Steve Dock)

    Photo released by the British army on Sunday July 9 2006 of Prince Harry, youngest son of Prince Charles and the late Diana, Princess of Wales, in a Spartan armoured reconnaissance vehicle during his driving and maintenance phase at the Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AFV) Driving and Maintenance School at Bovington in Dorset on Friday July 7 2006. D&M involves learning to drive, command and maintain a tracked reconnaissance vehicle. Prince Harry will be on the D&M course for the rest of this month, and will complete the entire Troop Leaders course in October. As a Troop Leader, the prince will eventually be qualified to command a troop of four armoured vehicles. (AP Photo/ British Army, Steve Dock)


    A police officer rides a Segway scooter as he patrols the seaside resort of Palanga, Lithuania, in this Friday, June 16, 2006, photo. The battery-powered, two-wheeled scooter, which has a top speed of 25 kph (16 mph), detects tiny shifts in body weight, rolling forward or backward depending on which way its user leans. Computers and gyroscopes allow riders to stay upright and negotiate curbs and ruts. (AP Photo/Martynas Vidzbelis)

    Chechen rebels who turned themselves in, surrender their weapons at an anti-terrorism center in Chechnya's second biggest city of Gudermes, Saturday, July 8, 2006. In another attempt to portray the province as returning to normal, Chechnya's Kremlin-backed prime minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, granted pardon to some 30 rebels who turned themselves in, surrendering their weapons and pledging to return to peaceful life. (AP Photo/Kazbek Vakhayev)


    Chechen paramilitary security forces members stand with a rebel, second left, one of those who turned themselves in, beside surrendered weapon and ammunition at an anti-terrorism center in Chechnya's second biggest city of Gudermes, Saturday, July 8, 2006. In another attempt to portray the province as returning to normal, Chechnya's Kremlin-backed prime minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, granted pardon to some 30 rebels who turned themselves in, surrendering their weapons and pledging to return to peaceful life. (AP Photo/Kazbek Vakhayev)

    Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov speaks with rebels who turned themselves in, at an anti-terrorism center in Chechnya's second biggest city of Gudermes, Saturday, July 8, 2006. In another attempt to portray the province as returning to normal, Chechnya's Kremlin-backed prime minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, granted pardon to some 30 rebels who turned themselves in, surrendering their weapons and pledging to return to peaceful life. (AP Photo/Kazbek Vakhayev)
    ACU, Ramzan Kadyrov likes to collect different camo ...

    Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, right, speaks with rebels who turned themselves in, at an anti-terrorism center in Chechnya's second biggest city of Gudermes, Saturday, July 8, 2006. In another attempt to portray the province as returning to normal, Chechnya's Kremlin-backed prime minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, granted pardon to some 30 rebels who turned themselves in, surrendering their weapons and pledging to return to peaceful life. (AP Photo/Kazbek Vakhayev)
    File photo wearing Swedish C90?-I think, camo ...

    Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, left, and officers of his paramilitary force stand at the body of a killed man whom authorities identified as Chechnen rebel leader Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev, not in the photo, in Tsentoroi, eastern Chechnya, Saturday, June 17, 2006. Sadulayev was killed in his hometown of Argun, the press service of Moscow-backed Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov said, and his body was brought to Tsentoroi where Kadyrov's security force is based. (AP Photo/Kazbek Vakhayev)

    Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, right, and officers of his paramilitary force stand at the body of a killed man whom authorities identified as Chechnen rebel leader Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev, not in the photo, in Tsentoroi, eastern Chechnya, Saturday, June 17, 2006. Sadulayev was killed in his hometown of Argun, the press service of Moscow-backed Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov said, and his body was brought to Tsentoroi where Kadyrov's security force is based. (AP Photo/Kazbek Vakhayev)

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    Australian soldiers chat with East Timorese children at a refugee camp in Dili on July 9, 2006. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jose Ramos-Horta is likely to be sworn in on Monday as East Timor's prime minister, Dili's ambassador to Indonesia said on Sunday. REUTERS/Lirio Da Fonseca (EAST TIMOR)

    Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta (R) waves to journalists after meeting with youth leaders in Dili July 8, 2006. Ramos-Horta is to be East Timor 's new prime minister, President Xanana Gusmao told reporters on Saturday. REUTERS/Lirio Da Fonseca (EAST TIMOR)

    East Timorese Foreign Minister Jose Ramos-Horta, center, inspects militiamen at their camp outside Liquica district, East Timor , in this June 19, 2006 file photo. Nobel Peace Prize winner Ramos-Horta became East Timor's new prime minister Saturday, the president said, announcing the formation of a new government following months of violence and political instability. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File)

    U.S. soldier Sgt. Kenneth Strong (L) and fellow soldiers from the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team conduct a mission near Tal Afar town, near Mosul, about 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, in this handout photo taken July 7, 2006, and released July 8, 2006. (Air Force Staff Sgt. Jacob Bailey/Handout - IRAQ/Reuters)

    An Iraqi soldier inspects the debris following an early morning car bomb explosion, Saturday, July 8, 2006, in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq . The car bomb killed nine and wounded over 50, local police said. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ibrahim)

    An Iraqi army soldier mans a roadblock in Baghdad. Bands of masked gunmen went on a rampage in a predominantly Sunni Baghdad neighborhood, killing at least 42 Sunni Arabs in a gruesome sectarian attack despite a massive security crackdown, witnesses said.(AFP/Wisam Sami)



    A member of the Japanese coalition forces waves goodbye to local Iraqis from an APC, Sunday, July 9, 2006, in Samawah, southern Iraq . On Friday, Japan began withdrawing its 600-member military contingent from Iraq. The first group of about 30 soldiers left their garrison in Samawah and flew to Kuwait, Japanese media said. Their departure marked the beginning of the end of Japan's biggest overseas military mission since World War II. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)

    A member of the Japanese coalition forces takes one of his last patrols through the village of Samawah, southern Iraq , Sunday, July 9, 2006. On Friday, Japan began withdrawing its 600-member military contingent from Iraq. The first group of about 30 soldiers left their garrison in Samawah and flew to Kuwait, Japanese media said. Their departure marked the beginning of the end of Japan's biggest overseas military mission since World War II. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)

    Ranking members of the Japanese coalition forces leave a tent after a meeting, Sunday, July 9, 2006, in Samawah, southern Iraq . On Friday, Japan began withdrawing its 600-member military contingent from Iraq. The first group of about 30 soldiers left their garrison in Samawah and flew to Kuwait, Japanese media said. Their departure marked the beginning of the end of Japan's biggest overseas military mission since World War II. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)

    A member of the Japanese coalition forces takes drink of water from a young Iraqi, Sunday, July 9, 2006, in Samawah, southern Iraq. On Friday, Japan began withdrawing its 600-member military contingent from Iraq. The first group of about 30 soldiers left their garrison in Samawah and flew to Kuwait, Japanese media said. Their departure marked the beginning of the end of Japan's biggest overseas military mission since World War II. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)

    Japanese troops stand guard on a main road, Sunday, July 9, 2006, in Samawah, southern Iraq. On Friday, Japan began withdrawing its 600-member military contingent from Iraq. The first group of about 30 soldiers left their garrison in Samawah and flew to Kuwait, Japanese media said. Their departure marked the beginning of the end of Japan's biggest overseas military mission since World War II. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)

    Japanese troops say their goodbyes to their young Iraqi friends, Saturday, July 8, 2006, in Samawah, southern Iraq. On Friday, Japan began withdrawing its 600-member military contingent from Iraq. The first group of about 30 soldiers left their garrison in Samawah and flew to Kuwait, Japanese media said. Their departure marked the beginning of the end of Japan's biggest overseas military mission since World War II. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)

    A Japanese soldier says goodbye to another member of the coalition forces Saturday, July 8, 2006, in Samawah, southern Iraq. On Friday, Japan began withdrawing its 600-member military contingent from Iraq. The first group of about 30 soldiers left their garrison in Samawah and flew to Kuwait, Japanese media said. Their departure marked the beginning of the end of Japan's biggest overseas military mission since World War II. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)

    Japanese troops enjoy a traditional Iraqi lunch provided by befriended locals, Saturday, July 8, 2006, in Samawah, southern Iraq. On Friday, Japan began withdrawing its 600-member military contingent from Iraq. The first group of about 30 soldiers left their garrison in Samawah and flew to Kuwait, Japanese media said. Their departure marked the beginning of the end of Japan's biggest overseas military mission since World War II. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)

    U.S. Marine Cpl. Chris Doukas, of Vancouver, Wash., sits next to a 50-calibre machine gun in a helicopter above Anbar Province, in western Iraq , Saturday, July 8, 2006. Anbar province, inhabited mostly by Sunni Arabs, is the country's most violent. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)


    U.S. Marine Cpl. Chris Doukas, of Vancouver, Wash., fires a 50-calibre machine gun from a helicopter during target practice in Anbar Province, in western Iraq , Saturday, July 8, 2006. Anbar province, inhabited mostly by Sunni Arabs, is the country's most violent. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

    Specialist Jonathan Hurd (2nd L), of Falkville, Arkansas, Private Brian Foster (R) of Chicago, Illinois, Sergeant Raymond Shawn (L) of Los Angeles, California and Specialist George Greenwell (2nd R) of Evansville, Indiana display their respective rifles, machine guns and grenade launchers while wearing night vision goggles during a deployment ceremony at Schofield Barracks, near Wahiawa, Hawaii, July 7, 2006. About 7,000 troops from Schofield will be leaving Hawaii in the next few weeks and will be deployed to Iraq . This continues the largest deployment of Hawaii-based troops since the Vietnam War. REUTERS/Lucy Pemoni (UNITED STATES)

    Canadian Forces Corporal Anthony Joseph Boneca, seen in this undated handout photo, was killed in Afghanistan July 9, 2006. Boneca, a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan's U.S.-led coalition force was killed in a firefight on Sunday as coalition troops tried to clear Taliban from an area near the main town in the Afghan south

    Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan. A Canadian soldier was killed during an assault on a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan as a Peruvian soldier and 21 rebels died in other weekend violence.(AFP/File/John D. McHugh)

    French soldiers in Kabul. Near-daily battlefield death tolls released in Afghanistan are no measure of the success of US-led operations, can be misleading, and often deflect attention from real achievements in the war-torn country, experts and officials say.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)

    Israeli troops operate in the northern Gaza Strip . Seven Palestinians were killed as Israel pressed on with its bloody offensive in Gaza and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called on the international community to halt the deadly assault.(AFP/POOL/Oded Balilty)

    Israeli soldiers from the Golani Brigades ride atop an armored vehicle as they leave the northern Gaza Strip to a base near Kibbutz Zikim, Israel, Saturday, July 8, 2006. Israel sent troops and tanks into eastern Gaza on Saturday and clashed with militants in a broadened incursion aimed at forcing the release of a captured soldier. The Israeli force entered Gaza early Saturday near the Karni commercial crossing, advancing into Gaza just a quarter mile from the Shajaiyeh and Zeitun neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

    Israeli armored vehicles carrying soldiers from the Golani Brigades leave the northern Gaza Strip to a base near Kibbutz Zikim, Israel, Saturday, July 8, 2006. Israel sent troops and tanks into eastern Gaza on Saturday and clashed with militants in a broadened incursion aimed at forcing the release of a captured soldier. The Israeli force entered Gaza early Saturday near the Karni commercial crossing, advancing into Gaza just a quarter mile from the Shajaiyeh and Zeitun neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

    Palestinian gunmen take a position during an Israeli army incursion in the outskirts of Gaza City's Shajaiyeh neighborhood, Saturday, July 8, 2006. Israel sent troops and tanks into eastern Gaza on Saturday and clashed with militants in a broadened incursion aimed at forcing the release of a captured soldier. The Israeli force entered Gaza early Saturday near the Karni commercial crossing, advancing into Gaza just a quarter mile from the Shajaiyeh and Zeitun neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

    Members of the military wing of Hamas display the ID cards of Israeli soldiers, who left them behind as Israeli tanks withdrew from most of the northern Gaza Strip , during the militant's news conference in north Gaza Strip July 8, 2006. Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Saturday called for Palestinian militants and Israel to halt military operations in Gaza after 11 days of fierce fighting left nearly 40 Palestinians dead. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES)

    Israeli armored vehicles carrying soldiers from the Golani Brigades leave the northern Gaza Strip to a base near Kibbutz Zikim, Israel, Saturday, July 8, 2006. Israel sent troops and tanks into eastern Gaza on Saturday and clashed with militants in a broadened incursion aimed at forcing the release of a captured soldier. The Israeli force entered Gaza early Saturday near the Karni commercial crossing, advancing into Gaza just a quarter mile from the Shajaiyeh and Zeitun neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

    Smoke billows from behind the barrier separating Israel and the Gaza Strip after witnesses said a homemade rocket fired by Palestinian militants landed on the Palestinian side, near the Erez Crossing, just outside the Gaza Strip, Saturday, July 8, 2006. No injuries or damage were reported in the incident. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

    An Israeli shadow soldier is seen on top of a mobile artillery unit next to a machine gun moments after it fired towards the northern Gaza Strip at a military staging are near Kibbutz Nahal Oz in southern Israel .(AFP/Gali Tibbon)

    Israeli soldiers are seen on top of a Merkava III tank as it manouvers near the border fence of the Israeli village of Native Ha'Asara and the Northern Gaza Strip. Three Palestinian family members, including a six-year-old girl, were killed in an air strike in Gaza City as Israel rejected a call by Hamas premier Ismail Haniya for a mutual ceasefire.(AFP/Gali Tibbon)

    An Israeli 155mm mobile artillery piece fires at Gaza from Nahal Oz at the border of Israel and Gaza strip July 9, 2006. Israel said on Sunday it would continue air and ground assaults in the Gaza Strip indefinitely, rebuffing a proposed truce and keeping pressure on militants to free an abducted soldier and halt cross-border rocket attacks. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis (ISRAEL)

    An Israeli soldier runs next to military vehicle as it advances towards the abandoned air port near the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah at a gathering point near kibbutz Kerem Shalom, just outside the Gaza Strip, Sunday, July 9, 2006. Israel will push forward with its offensive in the Gaza Strip until Palestinian militants release a captured Israeli soldier and halt their rocket attacks, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday, rejecting international criticism that the army has used excessive force during a nearly two-week operation in the coastal area. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

    Israeli soldiers get into an armored personal carrier before the drive towards the abandoned airport near the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah at a gathering point near kibbutz Kerem Shalom, just outside the Gaza Strip, Sunday, July 9, 2006. Israel will push forward with its offensive in the Gaza Strip until Palestinian militants release a captured Israeli soldier and halt their rocket attacks, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday, rejecting international criticism that the army has used excessive force during a nearly two-week operation in the coastal area. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

    An Israeli 155mm mobile artillery piece fires at Gaza from Nahal Oz at the border of Israel and Gaza strip July 9, 2006. Israel launched air strikes and artillery shelling against Palestinian targets across the Gaza Strip on Sunday and said it would continue an open-ended offensive after rebuffing a ceasefire proposed by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis (ISRAEL)

    This photo released by the U.S. Marine Corps shows Staff Sgt. Raymond Plouhar handing candy to students at the Al Nabatiya Elementary School, May 9, 2006, near Fallujah, Iraq. Plouhar, 30, of Lake Orion, Mich., who was featured in Michael Moore's antiwar documentary, 'Fahrenheit 9/11,' was killed on June 26, 2006, by a roadside bomb in Anbar province in his second tour of duty in Iraq. (AP Photo/U.S. Marine Corps)

    Sgt. Roland Pacquette of New Mexico, an injured Iraq war veteran, throws out the first pitch of the American League baseball game between the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Devil Rays in St. Petersburg, Florida, July 8, 2006. (Mike Carlson - UNITED STATES/Reuters)

    A Florida National Guard Honor Guard unit waits next to the U.S. Airways flight for the casket of Army Sgt. Bryan Luckey, 25, of Tampa, Saturday, July 8, 2006, in Tampa, Fla. Luckey, died June 29, 2006, in Iraq. (AP Photo/Brian Cassella, Pool)

    Baggage handlers at Tampa International Airport unload the casket of Army Sgt. Bryan Luckey, 25, of Tampa, Saturday, July 8, 2006 in Tampa, Fla. Luckey, died June 29, 2006, in Iraq. (AP Photo/Brian Cassella, Pool)

    Widow Catherine Luckey, rubs her belly while waiting for her husband Army Sgt. Bryan Luckey's casket to be unloaded, Saturday, July 8, 2006, in Tampa, Fla. Luckey, died June 29, 2006, in Iraq. (AP Photo/Brian Cassella, Pool)

    Elizabeth Gray, Miss New Zealand 2006, poses at a hotel in Los Angeles, California, July 8, 2006. The Miss Universe pageant will be telecast to a worldwide audience from Los Angeles July 23.

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    Quote Originally Posted by He219
    File photo wearing Swedish C90?-I think, camo ...
    Nah, it looks more Norwegian than Swedish. But I doubt it's even that.

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    Great Pics, thx

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    I cant believe that the chechens are wearing the new ACU already

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    Sri Lankan peacekeepers stand guard while a young boy listens to music on headphones at the Martissant slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, July 8, 2006. U.N. troops increased patrols in a volatile Haitian slum Saturday, a day after heavily armed gangsters killed at at least 22 civilians, torched houses and forced residents to flee in the worst outbreak of violence in months. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

    A Sri-Lanka U.N. peacekeeper signals as they patrol the streets of the slum Martissant in Port-au-Prince, July 9, 2006. About 20 people died in clashes between rival gangs fighting a turf war in one of the Haitian capital's violent slums, a senior police official said on Friday. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (HAITI)

    A Haitian walks pass U.N. peacekeepers as they patrol the streets of the slum of Martissant in Port-au-Prince, July 9, 2006. About 20 people died in clashes between rival gangs fighting a turf war in one of the Haitian capital's violent slums, a senior police official said on Friday. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (HAITI)

    Portadown Orangemen parade in Portadown, Northern Ireland, Sunday, July, 9, 2006. Police prevented a hard-line Protestant brotherhood from parading Sunday past the main Catholic part of this bitterly divided town for the ninth year in a row, but Orange Order leaders refused to accept defeat. Only about 500 members of the anti-Catholic fraternal group, donning their traditional orange vestments with silver pins, marched from central Portadown to an Anglican church on a hilltop called Drumcree that is the focal point for the annual parade. Orange Order leaders had applied for 2,000 members to march, but most didn't turn up. (AP Photo)

    A Spanish armed forces F-18 Hornet fighter jet follows the aircraft carrying Pope Benedict XVI to Spain, as they pass over the Spanish island of Mallorca July 8, 2006. REUTERS/Chris Helgren (SPAIN)

    Islamic Court's militia on a truck with an anti aircraft gun at a checkpoint during fighting in Mogadishu, Sunday July 9, 2006. Islamic militia fighters on Sunday attacked an enclave of rival clan militiamen supporting a secular warlord who refused to disarm, witnesses and officials said, as the Islamists consolidate their control of the Somali capital. At least 11 people were killed and 16 wounded in the battle between fighters loyal to the Supreme Islamic Courts Council and those from the Sa'ad sub-clan, in the southern Dharkinley District, witnesses and doctors said. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

    An Islamic militiaman, left, stands with a machine gun as Somalis go about their business after fighting died down in Mogadishu, Sunday July 9, 2006.

    French soldiers of the 8th Paratroopers Regiment of the Marine Infantry Corps, who are part of a 1,200-strong rapid reaction force, arrive in Libreville, Gabon to be ready to join a 17,600 UN peacekeaping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo ahead of the 30 July general election, if local situation worsens.(AFP/Kambou Sia)

    Iraqi river police patrol the bank of the Tigris river in Baghdad. Three American soldiers were killed in fighting in Al-Anbar amid reports that senior military officers could be accused of negligence in a probe into the alleged killing of 24 Iraqi civilians by US marines in the same province.(AFP/Patrick Baz)

    Iraqi Army Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Iraqi Army Brigade (2-2 IAB) are seen in the town of Muqdadiyah. Three American soldiers were killed in fighting in Al-Anbar amid reports that senior military officers could be accused of negligence in a probe into the alleged killing of 24 Iraqi civilians by US marines in the same province.(AFP/Ali Yussef)

    A wild cow jumps over a group of revellers after the third running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona July 9, 2006. A pack of fighting bulls run through the centre of the town to the bullring every morning during the week-long festival made famous by U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway. REUTERS/Pablo Sanchez (SPAIN)


    A reveller is tossed by a wild cow after the third running of the bulls of the San Fermin festival in Pamplona July 9, 2006. A pack of fighting bulls run through the centre of the town to the bullring every morning during the week-long festival made famous by U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway. REUTERS/Eloy Alonso (SPAIN)

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    ya it didnt take long at all.

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    Excellent pics today! And He219? Thx for enlighting us on Prince Harry. Have'nt heard about him in Blues and Royals for a while. Good pics about the UN callous!

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    one thing that made Ghenghis Khan's army so effective is that their horses had the best hoofcare they had a sort of thick rawhide slipper so their horses would not come up lame as much as enemy cavalry on the harder terrain which gave his army greater mobility.

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    Thanks for the pic's, gent's!

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    Nice pics from the Japanese today! But thats all for today.. Goodnight!

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    good to see those bulls kicking some ass!

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    Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov wearing norwegian camo? WTF?

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    mongolian cavalry! One of the finest horsemen in the world. They nearly conquered the whole European and Asian continent. Respect for that!

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