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Afghan policemen search a vehicle after an American aid worker was kidnapped in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008. Gunmen kidnapped a burqa-clad American aid worker and her driver while they were traveling through southern Afghanistan early Saturday, a provincial governor said. The two were stopped by gunmen in the city of Kandahar around 8 a.m. while the woman was being driven to work, said Gov. Asadullah Khalid. He blamed the kidnappings on the "enemy of Islam and the enemy of Afghanistan." (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)​

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Members of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' security force, stand guard at his headquarters, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008, in the West Bank city of Ramallah. In a speech Saturday, Abbas denounced the Hamas takeover of Gaza as a "crime" and said the Islamic militants must reverse these steps if they want to resume talks with him. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)​

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Israeli police officers walk at the scene of a stabbing in the Atarot industrial zone in the outskirts of Jerusalem, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008. An Israeli border police officer was wounded by a Palestinian who stabbed him during a patrol at an industrial zone in the north of Jerusalem. The stabber was shot by other border police officers and is reported to be in critical condition, a police spokesman said. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)​

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An Iraqi Army soldier mans a checkpoint in the center of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008. A series of explosions thundered in the Iraqi capital Saturday morning, including one from a mortar round that hit the U.S.-controlled Green Zone. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)​

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Pakistan's army troops move towards the area of Dara Adam Khel, where the army launched an operation against militants, near Peshawar, Pakistan, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008. Thousands of panicked people fled two tribal regions in northwestern Pakistan where security forces pounded militants' hideouts, killing 30 of them, officials and residents said Saturday. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair)​

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A Pakistani security personnel stands alert, as residents flee their homes for safer places after Pakistan security forces launched a massive operation against tribal militants in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008. (Muhammad Iqbal/Online Network/WpN)

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A Pakistani army soldier carries a gun to fix upon arrival at the lawless town of Darra Adam Khel, in North West frontier Province, 26 January 2008.

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Indian policemen detain separatists of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC), a conglomerate of the separatist groups in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008. In a memorandum to the United Nations, the APHC appealed for the implementation of a resolution asking India and Pakistan to fulfill their international commitments and obligations by allowing self-determination for the people of the restive state of Kashmir. (Javed Dar/Xinhua/WpN) **China Out**

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Iraqi Army soldiers man a checkpoint in the center of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008. A series of explosions thundered in the Iraqi capital Saturday morning, including one from a mortar round that hit the U.S.-controlled Green Zone. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)​

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Old City of Jerusalem, Israel on Jan. 25, 2008. Israeli police on Friday raised their level of alert in the Old City and limited Palestinians' access to al-Aqsa mosque. The tightened vigilance was linked to two attacks on Thursday in Jerusalem, which caused three deaths and three injuries. Al-aqsa martyrs brigades, belonging to Fatah, claimed responsibility to the attacks. (Guo Lei/Xinhua/WPN) **China Out**

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An Israeli soldier hurls a tear gas canister towards Palestinian and foreign demonstrators during a protest against the construction of the controversial separation barrier in the village of al-Khader near the West Bank town of Bethlehem, 25 January 2008

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Police agents captured three individuals identified as Ruben Marmolejo, "El Dragon," Alejandro Nunez, "El Perro", and another identified as "El Mono" by students of the Benito Juarez Autonomous University of Oaxaca, Mexico on Friday, Jan. 25, 2008. (Alberto Velasco/Notimex/WpN)

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The Dutch army builds up a temporal intensive care (IC) on the parking place of the hospital Medisch Spectrum Twente (MST) in Enschede, 25 January 2008. The IC will be used as long as the regular IC of the hospital is closed because of a resitent bacterium, that infected three patients in the IC. AFP PHOTO /ANP PHOTO /ED OUDENAARDEN netherlands out - belgium out (Photo credit should read ED OUDENAARDEN/AFP/***** Images)
 

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A Kenyan police officer on patrol prepares to enter a house that had been set on fire in the rural village of Banita, near Nakuru, Kenya, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008. Ethnic clashes convulsed western Kenya on Sunday as gangs fought with crude weapons and set homes ablaze in this tourist gateway, pushing the death toll from a month of violence over the country's flawed presidential election to nearly 800. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)​

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Residents are protected by the police as they flee during ethnic clashes, Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008 in Naivasha some 100 kilometers from Nairobi, Kenya. Gangs armed with machetes and bows and arrows burned and hacked to death members of a rival tribe in western Kenya Sunday, as the death toll from the latest explosion of violence over disputed presidential elections rose to at least 69. Houses were blazing in the center of Naivasha, a tourist gateway. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)​

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An Afghan policeman stands guard as others check incoming traffic at a check point in Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008. Afghan police tightened security in the southern city of Kandahar on Sunday as officials searched for the group behind the kidnapping of an American aid worker Cyd Mizell of Asian Rural Life Development Foundation and her Afghan driver, Abdul Hadi, the provincial governor said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)​

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Ugandan soldiers march during a parade marking the 22nd Victory Day of the National Resistance Movement ruling party at the Kololo Ceremonial Ground in Kampala, Uganda on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008. (Ronald Ssekandi/Xinhua/WpN) **China Out**

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Members of the anti Al-Qaeda group known as Concerned Local Citizens (CLC), stands before an Iraqi national flag as he secures an area in Al-Jara, on the outskirts of south Baghdad, 27 January 2008. Al-Qaeda is using children as suicide bombers in Iraq, with at least two attacks in the past week committed by 15-year-olds, a US military commander claimed today. AFP PHOTO/JEWEL SAMAD (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)

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Members of the anti-Al-Qaeda group known as Concerned Local Citizens (CLC) search a car at a checkpoint in Baghdad's Bab al-Muazzam neighbourhood, 26 January 2008. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki declared yesterday a major offensive against Al-Qaeda, promising a "decisive battle" after dozens of people including a police chief were killed in bomb attacks in Mosul city. AFP PHOTO/ALI YUSSEF (Photo credit should read ALI YUSSEF/AFP/Getty Images)
 

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On the last page, in the series of pics with the French and Afghan soldiers on a raid, you can see that on of the guns they sized was a Soviet WWII LMG. I wonder how that gun came to be there? If it was in America, Russia, Europe or really anywhere else it would be a museum piece. It's a testament to the ruggedness of Russian firearms and military hardware in general that it still works.
 

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No matter what you or I may think of the New York Times political views they always have excellent PIX!

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A female member of Yemen's counterterrorism unit during training. The unit, which operates under the supervision of the Interior Ministry, added 15 female combat troops to foil Al-Qaeda's tactic of using womens dress to evade capture since the searching of women by male troops is strictly forbidden in Yemen.
Photo: Bryan Denton for The New York Times

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Members of the unit during exercises at a training facility outside of Sana'a. The Yemeni government argues that its approach to fighting terrorism is in keeping with Yemen's deeply conservative society, where Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein remain popular figures.
Photo: Bryan Denton for The New York Times

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Although the American-trained commando unit has regularly captured and killed hard-core terrorists, officials say they must also show restraint with prisoners to avoid a violent backlash.
Photo: Bryan Denton for The New York Times

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The special unit of female combat troops train alongside their male counterparts, knocking down doors and storming suspected hideouts.
Photo: Bryan Denton for The New York Times

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Members of the unit practiced detaining suspects.
Photo: Bryan Denton for The New York Times

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The female unit during a training exercise.
Photo: Bryan Denton for The New York Times

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Target practice at a firing range outside of Sana'a. Photo: Bryan Denton for The New York Times

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New recruits lined up for drills on the women's police academy's grounds in Sana'a.

"The strategy is fighting terrorism, but we need space to use our own tactics, and our friends must understand us," said Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi, Yemen's interior minister.
Photo: Bryan Denton for The New York Times
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Kenyan policemen walk past a burning blockade in Nakuru, Kenya on Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008. Machete wielding gangs hacked and burned to death dozens of rival tribe members in Western Kenya, as the death toll following the disputed presidential election neared 800.

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A Kenya soldier removes a burning tyre that had been used to block a section of the road 27 January 2008 in Naivasha

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An Egyptian soldier uses barbed wire to close a section of the border between the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah and Egypt, 28 January 2008.

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An anti-Qaeda 'Awakening' group fighter, known as Concerned Local Citizens (CLC), scans an area at the entrance of a village on the southern outskirts of the Diyala provincial capital Baquba, norhteast of Baghdad, 28 January 2008. The US military launched on January 8 Operation Phantom Phoenix, a major countrywide assault on Al-Qaeda. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read -/AFP/***** Images)

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Anti-Qaeda 'Awakening' group fighters, known as Concerned Local Citizens (CLC), scan an area at the entrance of a village on the southern outskirts of the Diyala provincial capital Baquba, norhteast of Baghdad, 28 January 2008

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Indonesian soldiers carry the coffin of former Indonesian president Suharto during the funeral at Astana Giribangun cemetary in Tawang Mangu, 28 January 2008.
 

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just have a quick comment about the picture titled "yemeni target practice" -- that target silhouette looks like it's less than 20 yards away.
 

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just have a quick comment about the picture titled "yemeni target practice" -- that target silhouette looks like it's less than 20 yards away.

True enough. But much combat takes place in tight enviroments.
 
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The Worlds military & police stay on duty 24/7!

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Police rush Cesar Saguijon, center, to a hospital after he was wounded following the fatal shooting of former Philippine mayor Reynaldo Yap, at the Manila City Hall Tuesday Jan. 29, 2008, in Manila, Philippines. A gunman disguised as a policeman fatally shot the former mayor outside a courtroom in the Philippine capital on Tuesday, sending panicked employees fleeing the building, officials said. (AP Photo)​

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Serbian President Boris Tadic, top, waits for his Romanian counterpart Traian Basescu to arrive, prior to reviewing a guard of honor in Belgrade, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. Pro-Western President Boris Tadic is facing a tough runoff election on Sunday against ultranationalist Tomislav Nikolic, an ally of late autocratic President Slobodan Milosevic who has seen his popularity buoyed by Serbs' anger over international backing for Kosovo's bid for independence. (AP Photo/Srdjan Ilic)​

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Suharto, the former Indonesian dictator, was buried at his family mausoleum near Solo. He died on Sunday at the age of 86. The current president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, presided over the state funeral with full military honors.
Photo: Justin Mott for The New York Times

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An Egyptian riot police officer stops Palestinians from crossing over to Egypt, at the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. Egyptian border guards began repairing another section of the destroyed Gaza Strip border wall Tuesday, slowing limiting Palestinians from entering Egypt a week after they first rushed into the Egyptian border city after parts of the border fence was blown up. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)​

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A Palestinian child wears a headband reading Save our Childhood, as she poses for the photographers, whilst she hands flowers to Egyptian forces at the breached border wall between Gaza and Egypt, during a demonstration in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday Jan. 29, 2008.​

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Egyptian soldiers installed a wire fence to try to close a section of the border between Rafah, a town in the southern Gaza Strip, and Egypt. The flow of Palestinians crossing into Egypt from Gaza slowed as security forces tried to seal the border blown up by militants six days ago.
Photo: Mahmud Hams/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images

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China unveiled its National Aquatics Center, the blue bubble-wrapped structure in Beijing better known as the "water cube." It will be the site of swimming events for the Olympic Games in August. Covered by an outer membrane of tough plastic that resembles bubbling water, the aquatics center took four years to build and reportedly cost about $200 million, financed largely by donations from Chinese living overseas.
Photo: Frederic J. Brown/Agence France-Presse Getty Images

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A dog with a European Union flag on its harness Austrian soldiers will take part in the EU's long-awaited peacekeeping force for Chad and the Central African Republic.

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A Pakistani police officer and troops of the paramilitary force take position outside an alleged terrorists' hide out in Karachi, Pakistan Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. Police and security forces clashed with a heavily armed group of Islamic militants which left two police officers three militants killed. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)​

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A Palestinian Hamas security officer holds his gun as he directs traffic on the Egyptian side of the border between Gaza and Egypt, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2008. Egyptian border guards began repairing another section of the destroyed Gaza Strip border wall Tuesday, slowly limiting Palestinians from entering Egypt a week after they first rushed into this city. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)​
 
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