World Armed Forces Pictures Thread

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Nepalese Riot police took position near the Narayanhity Royal Palace to attempt to control the pro-republican protesters, who tried to install the flag of the new republic on the grounds of the palace.
Photo: Brian Sokol/Rapport

The day after Nepal's newly elected assembly officially abolished the country's monarchy, protesters took to the streets to urge King Gyanendra to leave his palace in the capital, Katmandu.
Photo: Saurabh Das/Associated Press

Chinese Paramilitary police tried to contain the smoke of a chemical reaction caused by the mixture of bleaching powder and disinfectant being used in cleanup efforts near a refugee camp in earthquake-hit Leigu, in Sichuan Province, China. A rainstorm caused the materials to mix overnight.

A Palestinian demonstrator uses a sling-shot to hurl a stone at Israeli troops while others run to avoid rubber bullets during a protest against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Nilin.

A soldier stands guard next to Thai Muslim families who gather to watch activities at a naval festival in Thailand's restive southern Narathiwat province on May 30, 2008. More than 3,000 people have been killed since separatist unrest broke out in January 2004 in the south, which was an autonomous Malay Muslim sultanate until mainly Buddhist Thailand annexed it in 1902, provoking decades of tension. AFP PHOTO / Madaree TOHLALA (Photo credit should read MADAREE TOHLALA/AFP/***** Images)

An Israeli soldier directs a tank as it rolls into Israel from the Sufa crossing just outside the southern Gaza Strip at the end of a Palestinian demonstration near the border on May 30, 2008.

A British soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) arrives at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul on May 29, 2008. A suicide attacker blew up a car bomb near a US-led coalition convoy in Kabul causing no serious injuries to the troops but killing three Afghan civilians, police and the coalition said. AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/***** Images)

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Italian carabinieri march on Via dei Fori Imperiali avenue in Rome during a military parade marking the country's Republic Day. Italian armed forces celebrate the 62th anniversary of Italy's birth as a Republic.

high-school students are apprehended by the police during a rally outside a Paris school on June 2, 2008 as Prime Minister Francois Fillon, Education minister Xavier Darcos and Justice minister Rachida Dati visited the premises. They were among the 150 demonstrators outside the school, which Fillon had chosen to highlight the government's education policies. France has faced months of protests and strikes over government plans to cut 22,900 civil servant jobs including 11,200 in education this September and another 35,000 next year, mostly by not replacing retiring staff. AFP PHOTO / MARTIN BUREAU (Photo credit should read MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/***** Images)

Pakistani government employees scuffle with police during a demonstration in Lahore on June 2, 2008 to protest against the government for increasing fuel, food prices and low salaries. Anger is mounting among the country's 160 million people over shortages of food and other commodities, coupled with frequent power outages, factors that contributed to the defeat of Musharraf's backers. The new government has said that economic targets cannot be met because the previous administration "fudged" its figures, with the economy set to grow by six percent this fiscal year instead of the 7.2 percent originally forecast. AFP PHOTO/Arif ALI (Photo credit should read Arif Ali/AFP/***** Images)

Riot-police arrests a fan of Deportivo Saprissa as his team celebrates their national championship victory after defeating Liga Deportiva Alajuelense at the Alejandro Morera Soto Stadium in Alajuela on June 01, 2008. Saprissa won 2-0. AFP PHOTO/ Yuri CORTEZ (Photo credit should read YURI CORTEZ/AFP/***** Images)

Police officers secure the site of a shooting at a polling station in a primary school in Skopje on June 1, 2008, as the country holds early elections where two separate shootings left one person dead and three wounded. The State Election Commission said voting had been suspended in eight polling stations in Aracinovo. Shootings that led to one death and several injuries, and reports of stolen ballot boxes and ballot stuffing have forced elections officials to suspend voting in at least 17 polling stations, marring the start of Macedonia's early parliamentary election. AFP PHOTO/ROBERT ATANASOVSKI (Photo credit should read ROBERT ATANASOVSKI/AFP/***** Images)

A demonstrator is arrested by Turkish riot police after a rally in which several thousands, mostly Kurdish demonstrators took part in the Kadikoy district of Istanbul on June 1, 2008.

Russian police forces arrest a far-right activist during a banned gay rally in Moscow on June 1, 2008. Russian gays defied a ban by city authorities and demonstrated for greater public acceptance, demanding the resignation of Moscow's mayor, Yury Luzhkov. Moscow police detained at least one gay activist and several far right youths who came to oppose the demonstration, hurling eggs and in one case punching a gay demonstrator, AFP reporters observed. AFP PHOTO / DMITRY KOSTYUKOV (Photo credit should read DMITRY KOSTYUKOV/AFP/***** Images)

Indian police use a water canon to disperse Gujjar protesters during a protest in New Delhi on June 1, 2008. Agreeing to the demand of the Gujjars, the Rajasthan government permitted the post-mortem of 16 Gujjars, who died in police firing at the agitation sites of Pilupura, Sikandra and Sawai Madhopur district's Kushalipura in the western state of Rajasthan. After receiving a letter from the Rajasthan Gujjar Arakshan Sangarsh Samiti patron Kirori Singh Bainsla in this regard, the state health department permitted autopsy in the temporary tents erected at the sites, S. N. Thanvi, special envoy at Pilupura, told PTI over telephone. AFP PHOTO/ Manpreet ROMANA (Photo credit should read MANPREET ROMANA/AFP/***** Images)

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An image showing works at the excavation site where more human remains have been found during excavation of a possible World War I mass grave in Fromelles near Lille, north of France, 03 June 2008. The site is alleged of being a World War I mass grave of some 400 Australian and British soldiers.



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Lower Saxonian fire fighters and Red Cross staff mourn during the commemorations for the tenth anniversary of the ICE train disaster in Eschede, Germany, 03 June 2008. On 03 June 1998 an ICE high-speed train crashed in postwar Germany's most tragic train accident killing 101 people and injuring 105 people









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Geneva police officers confront mock fans during the security exercise 'Module Tre' as part of preparations for the EURO 2008 in the public viewing zone on Plainpalais, Geneva, Switzerland, 03 June 2008



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Afghan National Army soldiers practice weapons discipline May 21, 2008, at Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan. The Afghan National Army Air Corps is being trained by the U.S. Air Force Combined Air Power Transition Force. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Andy Dunaway/Released)





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Thai muslim villagers volunteer to train use rifles provided by Thailand's army in Yala province on June 03, 2008. More than 3,000 people have been killed since separatist unrest broke out in January 2004 in the south, which was an autonomous Malay Muslim sultanate until mainly Buddhist Thailand annexed it in 1902, provoking decades of tension. AFP PHOTO/MUHAMMAD SABRI (Photo credit should read MUHAMMAD SABRI/AFP/***** Images)



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Nepalese police detain a female Tibetan activist during an anti-Chinese demonstration in front of the consular section of the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu on June 3, 2008. Police detained more then 30 Tibetan protesters who had gathered outside a building housing China's consular and trade offices. AFP PHOTO/Prakash MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/***** Images)




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U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is welcomed by Lt. Gen Alexander M. Yano, chief of staff, Armed Forces of the Philippines, to General Headquarters, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Manila, Republic of the Philippines, June 2, 2008. Mullen is on an eight-day tour visiting Asian Pacific nations, their leaders and troops assigned to the region. Defense Dept. photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley



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Republic of the Phillipines Brig. Gen. Romeo Espino welcomes U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, upon his arrival in the Phillipines, June 2, 2008. Espino is camp commander, Camp Aguinaldo, General Headquarters, Armed Forces of the Philippines. Mullen is on an eight-day tour visiting Asian Pacific nations, their leaders and troops assigned to the region. Defense Dept. photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley



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U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, honors the 17,202 troops who lost their lives in New Guinea and the Philippines during World War II and are buried in the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, Republic of the Philippines, June 2, 2008. Mullen is on an eight-day tour visiting Asian Pacific nations, their leaders and troops assigned to the region. Defense Dept. photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley

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Police and bomb disposal officials inspect the Danish embassy after a bomb blast in Islamabad June 2, 2008. A bomb went off outside the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital on Monday killing at least four people and wounding several, officials said. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed (PAKISTAN)

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Pakistani police stand at the site of a blast outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad June 2, 2008. A bomb went off outside the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital on Monday killing at least four people and wounding several, officials said. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed (PAKISTAN)

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People gather at the site of a blast outside the Danish embassy in Islamabad June 2, 2008. A bomb went off outside the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital on Monday killing at least four people and wounding several, officials said. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed (PAKISTAN)

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ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - JUNE 2: Police cordon off areas around the Danish Embassy following an explosion on Monday June 2, 2008 in Islamabad, Pakistan. A suspected car bomb exploded outside the embassy at midday, killing at least 8 people and wounding more than a dozen, according to reports. It is not yet known who bears responsibility for the blast, though militant Islamic groups have threatened Danish embassies around the world with retribution for the publications of cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed, first printed in September 2005. (Photo Warrick Page/***** Images)

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Cambodian soldiers look at U.S. M35A2 GMC cargo trucks during a handing over ceremony at Cambodia air base June 2, 2008. The U.S. donated 31 M35A2 GMC cargo trucks to the Royal Cambodia Arm Force (RCAF). The U.S. foreign ministry financing program has pledged $413.000 to deliver a total of 60 cargo trucks ,said U.S embassy spokesman Jeff Daigle. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea (CAMBODIA)

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Italy's NOCS special police agents march during the Republic Day military parade in Rome June 2, 2008. REUTERS/Dario Pignatelli (ITALY)

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Soldiers carry an injured man out of a train window at Xiamen Railway Station, Fujian province June 1, 2008. The train carrying 202 people injured in the May 12 earthquake that hit southwest China's Sichuan province arrived in Xiamen on Sunday night, China Daily reported. Picture taken June 1, 2008. REUTERS/China Daily (CHINA). CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.

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Mass destruction of illegal weapons; Australian International Stabilisation Force (ISF) Military Police with United Nations Police from Brazil and Portugal with a stockpile of Illegal weapons due for destruction in Dili, Timor-Leste. www.defence.gov.au Hires

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Holy Church; Father 'Gil' looks on from his newly painted church as International Stabilisation Force (ISF) troops from the Timor-Leste Aviation Group (TLAG) move the newly made cross in to his church with (Left to Right) Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) Corporal Will Taylor, Australian Army Aviation (AAAvn) Trooper Joshua Parton, RNZAF Sergent Dwayne Reynolds and AAAvn Captain Fiona Macinante. www.defence.gov.au Hires

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Sergent Peter “Mitch” Mitchell, a proud Pioneer with 2nd Royal Australian Regiment, going through his safety checks prior to his Platoons demolition training at High Range in Townsville. www.defence.gov.au Hires

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Dog tired: Sapper Shaun Laing and dog "Que" take a short rest after a long shift preparing defensive positions. www.defence.gov.au Hires

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A Reconstruction Task Force 4 soldier patrols the Green Zone north of Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. www.defence.gov.au Hires

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Corporal James Hintz helps sight the 50. Calibre machine gun in an over watch position north of Tarin Kowt, Afghanistan. www.defence.gov.au Hires

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with military honours at the chancellory in Berlin, Germany, 05 June 2008. Russia's new president visits Germany for the first time



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Accompanied by Norway's King Harald (left) Vietnamese president Nguyen Minh Treet inspects a guard of honour at the Royal Palace in Oslo June 5th 2008 at the start of a two day state visit



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An U.S. trooper jogs at the tent city which makes up the legal complex of the U.S. Military Commissions, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, in Cuba, Wednesday, June 04, 2008. Almost seven years after hijackers used airliners as missiles to kill 2,973 people, five men who allegedly plotted the attacks face a military tribunal June 05





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Algerian gendarmes and police secure the site of the blast carried out by a suicide bomber in front of the gate of the republican guard’s barracks in the eastern Algiers suburb of Bordj El Kiffan on 04 June 2008. A suicide bomber blew himself up near a police barracks on the outskirts of Algerian capital, wounding several people



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A young demonstrator is arrested by the Chilean police on 04 June 2008, during a university and school students' protest opposing the General Education Law that the Congress is studying in Santiago de Chile, Chile. Several people were arrested during the strike summoned by the Professor College union, along with hundreds of students



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Austrian policemen walk past giant stone sculptures in the shape of soccer balls near the Ernst Happel stadium in Vienna, Austria, 04 June 2008. Vienna will be the host of the final match of the Euro 2008 soccer tournament on 29 June 2008

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A Belarus Interior Ministry troop breathes in fresh air after crawling through tear gas in an obstacle course during rigorous physical examinations for the "Madder Beret" outside Minsk in Volovshchina on June 5, 2008. Troops who pass the examinations receive a burgundy colored Madder Beret and become members of the special forces.



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A Pakistani police officer stands guard near a suspected militant, who was injured in a gunbattle with police, at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan on Thursday, June 5, 2008. Police raided a suspected militant hideout in Noshera, a city in northwestern Pakistan, triggering a shootout that wounded one police driver and one militant.



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Police arrest a protesting Tibetan in front of the Chinese Embassy Visa Section in Kathmandu June 5, 2008. Tibetans in Nepal have been protesting regularly since the March crackdown on protests in Lhasa by the Chinese authorities. Beijing has urged Kathmandu to do more to prevent the demonstrations



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Police moves away Tibetian activists staging a protest at the entrance to an Athens hotel where the International Olympic Committee executive board holds talks on June 5, 2008. Activists demand the IOC to drop plans of passing through Tibet with the Olympic Torch





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A student is arrested by riot police during a rally in Santiago June 4, 2008. Groups of students clashed with Chilean riot police on Wednesday to protest against a proposed education reform. The graffiti on the wall reads: "Bachelet lies", referring to Chile's President Michelle Bachelet.

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Israeli soldiers patrol during Palestinian stone-throwing demonstrations in the West Bank village of Beit Ummar, near Hebron 05 June 2008. Four Palestinians . two of them women . were wounded by Israeli gunfire in clashes in Beit Omar. A military spokesman said the soldiers opened fire after Palestinians hurled petrol bombs at them







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Israeli Border Police beat a Palestinian man who screams for help as they force him into a jeep on the oputskirts of Jerusalem near the Shuafat Refuee Camp on 05 June 2008. A group of Palestinians were seen trying to enter Jerusalem at this time. This man was detained by the police and placed in the jeep where he was beaten. He managed to escape from the moving jeep and tried to stop traffic to help him but the police detained him forcibly and drove off with him





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A Genevan police officer shows the interior of a provisonal Euro 2008 prison cell, at the Palexpro centrr in Geneva, Switzerland, during a press presentation, 05 June 2008. Twenty provisional prison of the Geneva Police are set up to keep in custody arrested hooligans during the European Soccer Championships





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Israeli soldiers run to take position during a demonstration at the Bet Eba Checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus. 05 June 2008. Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas has called for a national dialogue toward reconciliation between his Fatah party and Hamas. An Israeli was killed when a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a kibbutz in southern Israel. The armed wing of Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack

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Interesting, usualy LEO, especialy in footbal, dont carry their handguns while on cooperation mission on a foreign country.

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Austrian (blue uniform) and German police (green) from Munich gather for a briefing in the fan zone at Residenz Platz (Residence square) in Salzburg, Austria, 06 June 2008 ahead of the start of the EURO 2008. The fan zones in the four Austrian host cities open on 07 June 2008





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Britain's Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu performing a parachute jump with the Parachute Regiment Red Devils display team at Langar Airfield in Langar, Nottingham on Friday June 6, 2008, to raise money for the Afghanistan Trust, a charity raising money for the families of soldiers killed or injured in Afghanistan. The Archbishop famously cut up his dog collar on national television last year in protest to the situation in Zimbabwe. Dr Sentamu is not wearing it today and will not until Robert Mugabe is ousted.



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An Israeli looks at the schrapnel damage to a car in the parking lot of Sappir College on the outskirts of the southern town of Sderot, Israel, 06 June 2008, after a Kassam rocket, fired by Palestinians militants inside the northern Gaza Strip, exploded meters away. Israeli Prime Ministers Ehud Olmert said upon his return to Israel from the US that Israel is close to deciding what to do about the Gaza Strip as rocket barrages continue. Some 10 rockets were fired on 06 June into southern Israel.











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An individual is winched from the sea by a Cyprus police helicopter during exercises off the southern coast of the island, 6 June 2008. Cyprus, Greece and France concluded a week of joint manoeuvres in the eastern Mediterranean on Friday which focused on providing humanitarian aid in events of disaster and responding to militant threats



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Indian policemen stand guard during a twelve hours general strike called by Bengal opposition party Trinamool Congress in Calcutta, India on 06 June 2008. A 12-hour shutdown called by opposition Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, against the hike in petroleum products prices began 05 June. Life in India's eastern state of West Bengal and southern Andhra Pradesh was disrupted on 06 June after opposition parties called a daylong shutdown to protest a hike in fuel prices, officials said. Opposition parties like the Bharatiya Janata Party and communist parties also called for a statewide strike

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Tradgey in Japan!! Seven dead in stabbing rampage in Toyko...

Policemen inspect the site where a man stabbed pedestrians in a street at Tokyo's Akihabara electronnic district on June 8, 2008. A man went on a stabbing spree in a Tokyo neighbourhood famed for comic-book subculture, killing at least seven people and leaving around a dozen injured in Japan's deadliest crime in years. The assailant, who later told police he was "tired of living," swerved a truck into a crowd of pedestrians shortly after noon in Tokyo's bustling Akihabara area before jumping out, and screaming and stabbing strangers. The assailant was identified as Tomohiro Kato, 25, from central Shizuola prefecture. He first said he was a gangster before retracting his story. AFP PHOTO / YOSHIKAZU TSUNO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/***** Images)

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Soon to be Portuguese frigate "NRP Bartolomeu Dias", F333, (former "Hr. Ms Van Nes", F833) leaves dock in Den Helder naval base

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An Iraqi soldier stands guard watching suspected insurgents after they were arrested during a military operation in Baquba, Iraq, 08 June 2008



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Iraqi soldiers display confiscated weapons and ammunition at a Military base in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, 08 June 2008, following a military operation in the outskirts of the city



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Abdullah Saleh al-Kuhali, 26, is taken to a court in the northern Yemeni city of Amran June 8, 2008. The court began on Sunday to hear the case against al-Kuhali, who was charged with opening fire outside a village mosque in northern Yemen after Friday prayers on May 30, killing at least seven people



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Israeli border police scuffle with Palestinians and international peace protesters during a demonstration against the construction of the controversial Israeli barrier in the West Bank village of Nilleen near Ramallah, June 8, 2008.















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United States first lady Laura Bush (R) watches a traditional New Zealand arrival dance with Afghanistan's first woman provincial mayor of Bamiyan Province Habiba Sarabi (L) after arriving at the Bamiyan Provincial Reconstruction Team Base controlled by the New Zealand military during a surprise visit to Bamiyan, Afghanistan, June 8, 2008





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Irish military vehicles from the European Union Force (EUFOR) head out on patrol near the eastern Chadian town of Gos Beida June 8, 2008. EUFOR has deployed a force of about 3,000 troops in Chad to help secure the lawless border region near Sudan, where cross-border violence from Darfur has uprooted nearly 400,000 Chadians and Sudanese living in the area.



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Chinese soldiers work on military trucks loaded with pontoon boats parked by a road in Jiuli County of Mianyang, 60 kilometers (37 miles) downstream of the Tangjiashan quake lake, China's southwest Sichuan province, Sunday, June 8, 2008.







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Britain's Prince Charles salutes to troops outside Buckingham Palace in London, during a review of Trooping The Colour, Saturday June, 7, 2008. The review is a rehearsal for next weeks annual Trooping The Colour, which is a military parade held to mark the monarch's "official" birthday.

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An Iraqi soldier searches the ground where an arms cache has been found during a house-to-house search just south of the northeastern city of Baquba some 45 kms from Baghdad on June 8, 2008. Seven men were arrested and a cache of weapons was found during the raid. AFP PHOTO / STR (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/***** Images)

An Iraqi Army soldier displays a cache of weapons seized in a raid in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad on Monday, June 9, 2008. (AP Photo)

An Iraqi policeman stands at the site where a parked car bomb killed four people in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 9, 2008. Police say the bomb targeted a passing police patrol in the Karrada neighborhood around 11:15 a.m. Monday. An army lieutenant was among the dead. At least seven other people were wounded, and many cars and shops were damaged. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)

An Iraqi policeman carries his fallen comrades' body armor after a parked car bomb killed four people in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 9, 2008. Police say the bomb targeted a passing police patrol in the Karrada neighborhood around 11:15 a.m. Monday. An army lieutenant was among the dead. At least seven other people were wounded, and many cars and shops were damaged. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)

A Senegalese police officer stands guard alongside an unfinished sculpture portraying the map of Africa, during the opening ceremony of a two-day commemoration for seminal African filmmaker Ousmane Sembene, in Dakar, Senegal Monday, June 9, 2008. Sembene, who died last year at age 84, is considered the father of Senegalese cinema and one of the pioneers of the art in Africa. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

A French gendarme walks past a Portuguese truck damaged by Spanish truckers at the border between Spain and France, at Biriatou, southwestern France, Monday June 9, 2008. Tens of thousands of Spanish truckers began an indefinite strike over soaring fuel costs that could bring the country to a standstill. The stoppages are part of Europe-wide protests against rising prices. (AP Photo Bob Edme)

Russian special police officers with a sniffer dog, block an entrance to the central Department Store ( GUM ) at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Monday, June 9, 2008. Police got an anonymous warning call about an explosive device in the supermarket, but the Information was false. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

A police officer supervises the training of Iraqi female police trainees on weapon handling in a field in Kerbala, southwest of Baghdad, June 7, 2008.
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A security guard smokes near sandbags piled up against the glass wall to a bank in Mianyang, southwestern China's Sichuan province, Monday, June 9, 2008. A quarter of a million residents have been ordered to higher ground as precaution against the bursting of the Tangjiashan quake lake. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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EURO 2008

Eurofighter over Vienna Stadion (IRIS-T missiles)


Eurofighter over Innsbruck Stadion


Saab 105 and two Eurofighter during stadium low pass


Black Hawk in Vienna City


MEDEVAC Helicopter


all pics (c) Bundesheer

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What are these 4.5 gen fighters doing with Euro 2008? Do you think somebody would use missile or fighter to bomb the stadium?

However, yesterday France and Italy both performed poorly. The potential winner this year might be Germany.

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A school boy walks past an armed policeman in Vavuniya June 10, 2008. A little known Sri Lankan rebel group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for recent bomb attacks on transport vehicles as revenge for what it said were government attacks and aerial bombings on innocent Tamil civilians.





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An Indian Army officer (R) trains a cadet of National Cadet Corps (NCC) during their training at a NCC camp in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh June 9, 2008. The NCC, created in 1948, is a voluntary training service for Indian school and college students, that aims to create a human resource of organised, trained and activated youths for all walks of life including the armed forces. During India's 1965 and 1971 wars with Pakistan, NCC cadets formed the second line of defence.




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Malaysian armed forces march during Malaysia's King Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin's royal parade in conjunction with king birthday celebration in Kuala Lumpur June 7, 2008











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Members of the military wing of the Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees take position in the early hours of June 10, 2008 in the fields east of Gaza City, on the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, as part of their stand guard on alert for a possible Israeli incursion . Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is to hold talks today with Defence Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni on a possible Gaza offensive, public radio had reported. It said the meeting would decide on whether Israel mounts a large-scale assault against rocket-firing Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip or agree to a truce with the Islamist movement Hamas which controls the territory.

A policemen watches through the fence as the Austrian national soccer team trains for the Euro 2008 championships in Stegersbach June 10, 2008.
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Activists from the India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party try to cross a barrier set up by police during a protest against the hike in fuel prices in New Delhi June 10, 2008.
REUTERS/Danish Ismail

Indian police officers detain a Kashmiri government employee during a protest against fuel price rises in Srinagar. Indian police used water cannons and batons in Kashmir to disperse hundreds of government employees protesting fuel price rises, while a general strike also shut down the northeastern state of Assam.
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Nepalese police detain a Tibetan activist during an anti-Chinese demonstration in front of the consular section of the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu.

A school boy walks past an armed policeman in Vavuniya,Sri Lanka. June 10, 2008.
REUTERS/Str/sri Lanka