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Recent PIX of Aussie Defense Forces in Afghanistan!
Recent PIX of Aussie Defense Forces in Afghanistan!
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The Worlds military forces are always on duty!
The Worlds military forces are always on duty!
An Afghan police officer remonstrates with a taxi driver during a patrol in a local market in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. Security has been tightened in the city after eight people were killed Monday in a blast when militants attacked the Serena Hotel, Kabul's most popular luxury hotel.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
An Afghan army soldier stands guard at a military airport in Kabul, on Thursday.
Afganistan inaguarated its army's air force corps with 22 helicopters given in a grant from the Czech Republic and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) along with four N32 fixed wing tranport aircraft funded by the U.S.
MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Soldiers of the elite Special Task Force arrive at a parking lot to look for explosives in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. Security has been increasingly tight in the city as the country has been hit by a series of attacks in recent weeks, in which the government has blamed the rebels. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
Children run to safety past riot police, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008 during riots in the Mathare slum Nairobi, Kenya. Machete-wielding young slum dwellers in Nairobi hurled stones at police who fired tear gas and gunshots on a second day of opposition protests Thursday. Across most of the East African nation, demonstrations appeared to be losing steam. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
A man screans at a Haitian police officer, while other officers use tear gas to disperse protesters in front of Haiti's agriculture ministry in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Wednesday.
Demonstrators protested against the country's dependence on imported food, which they consider the cause of the ongoing food crisis in Haiti.
ARIANA CUBILLOS/AP
An Afghan army soldier walks in front of an MI-17 helicopter at military airport in Kabul, 17 January 2008. Afganistan inaguarated its army's air force corps with 22 helicopters given in a grant from the Czech Republic and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) along with four N32 fixed wing tranport aircraft funded by the US. AFP PHOTO/MASSOUD Hossaini (Photo credit should read MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP/Getty Images)
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, inspects a refurbished newly arrived Mi-17 helicopter at the military airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. Calling it the "birth of our air force," Karzai opened a new US$22 million (euro15 million) U.S.-funded military hangar on Thursday to house a fleet that is expected to triple in the next three years. (AP Photo/Ahmad Masood, Pool)
Britain's Prince William, left, with his instructor Squadron Leader Roger Bousfield, right, collects a flying helmet and parachute, as they prepare to go flying while training at RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire, England, Thursday.
The prince, an army officer with the Household Cavalry's Blues and Royals, is two weeks into a four-month attachment with the RAF to help William, get to grips with the service's ethos, traditions and military role.
he prince's father, Prince Charles, completed his flying training course at RAF Cranwell from March to August in 1971 and graduated that year as a Flight Lieutenant.
ADRIAN DENNIS/AP
Karbala, Iraq: An Iraqi police commando with hand grenades on his chest
Photograph: Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty Images
A member of a folkloric group performs next to Chilean riot police officers during a rally in downtown Santiago January 16, 2008. The rally was held in support of Patricia Troncoso, a pro-Mapuche activist held in prison who is in the third month of a hunger strike, and in memorial of Matias Catrileo Quezada, a young Mapuche man who died after being shot during clashes with the police in a land dispute in southern Chile.
REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado
Pakistani policemen patrol a street in Karachi, 17 January 2008, on the seventh day of the Shiite Muslim period of mourning, Moharram. Around 17,000 Pakistani army troops have been deployed to maintain law and order in sensitive parts of the country in the holy month of Moharram. AFP PHOTO/Rizwan TABASSUM (Photo credit should read RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP/Getty Images)
Indian army soldiers march on a foggy morning during a rehearsal for India's upcoming 59th Republic Day parade in New Delhi, 17 January 2008. Country-wide preparations are picking up to celebrate India's transition to a Republic 26 January 1950. AFP PHOTO/RAVEENDRAN (Photo credit should read RAVEENDRAN/AFP/Getty Images)
An Israeli soldier shoots tear gas at Palestinian stone throwers during clashes which erupted after Israeli forces ordered Palestinian shop owners to closed their stores near the Jewish settlement of Beit Hadassa in the West Bank town of Hebron, 17 January 2008. The Palestinian Authority today slammed Israel over its deadly raids in Gaza and called on Washington to intervene to preserve renewed peace efforts. AFP PHOTO/HAZEM BADER (Photo credit should read HAZEM BADER/AFP/Getty Images)
A Palestinian man talks to Israeli security officers as he tries to reach his home located near the Jewish settlement of Beit Hadassa during clashes between Israeli border police and Palestinians youth, 16 January 2008 in the West Bank city of Hebron. Clashes broke out after a group of Palestinians shot at Jewish homes in the settlement of Beit Hadassa. Israeli troops killed a top militant in the West Bank today after the bloodiest day in more than a year in the Gaza Strip left 19 Palestinians dead despite renewed peace talks. Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip have launched since yesterday more than 30 rockets into Israel. AFP PHOTO/HAZEM BADER (Photo credit should read HAZEM BADER/AFP/Getty Images)
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Hi LAworkerbee! Dude! Ready for Sunday?? The national sports medai is hating on da' Bolts.I am not expecting another win. BUT>> I "hope" the Chargers put a azz whoopin' on those stinkin' Pats...
Hi LAworkerbee! Dude! Ready for Sunday?? The national sports medai is hating on da' Bolts.I am not expecting another win. BUT>> I "hope" the Chargers put a azz whoopin' on those stinkin' Pats...
Riot police confront demonstrators in Nairobi, Kenya on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2008. Kenya sunk further into violence as police battled with protesters across the country, shooting several, according to witnesses, while opposition leaders vowed to press ahead with the protests.
Israeli soldiers wait for orders near the border of Gaza on Jan. 15, 2008. Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip killed at least 19 Palestinians injured 45 others on Tuesday. (Rafael Ben-Ari/Xinhua/WpN) **China Out**
Pakistani policemen inspect the site after the suicide attack in Peshawar, Pakistan on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2008. A suicide attacker blew himself up at a Shiite Muslim mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on January 17, killing at least five people and wounding 20 others, officials said. (Muhammad Iqbal/Online Network/WpN)
Iraqi army soldiers man a checkpoint in central Baghdad, 17 January 2008. A curfew will be slapped on Baghdad and 10 Iraqi provinces today for the three-day Shiite Muslim festival of Ashura, state television reported yesterday. AFP PHOTO/ALI AL-SAADI (Photo credit should read ALI AL-SAADI/AFP/Getty Images)
.Snow shovels must be in short supply in China!...A Chinese soldier cleans up snow at the Forbidden city in Beijing, 17 January 2008. Snow fell on the city for the second time this winter season as average temperatures in China rose this year to their highest level since 1951. China's economy has boomed at nearly double-digit rates over much of the past 25 years, and it is now one of world's biggest emitters of the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. AFP PHOTO/TEH ENG KOON (Photo credit should read TEH ENG KOON/AFP/Getty Images)
Lebanese soldiers and security forces secure the site of an explosion in Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008. The explosion in Beirut was apparently targeting an American diplomatic vehicle, leaving four dead and an estimated 20 injured
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Thai soldiers salute during a ceremony marking Thailand's Armed Forces Day at a military barrack in Bangkok, Thailand.
An Israeli soldier fires a tear gas canister at Palestinian stone-throwers during clashes in the West Bank city of Hebron January 17, 2008.
REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun
Horse-mounted policemen wait to have their horses blessed in Palma de Mallorca January 17, 2008. Hundreds of pets were brought to the church for the ceremony marking Saint Antoni's festival.
REUTERS/Dani Cardona
A policeman carries a child away during a gun battle in Tijuana, in Mexico's state of Baja California, January 17, 2008. A shootout on Thursday, after police agents moved in on a drug cartel group, left four people injured and forced the emergency evacuation of a school in Tijuana, according to the local media.
REUTERS/Jorge Duenes
A Kenyan man was surrounded by riot police officers in Kibera as they tried to disperse protests by supporters of the opposition. Elsewhere in Kibera, protesters hijacked and looted a freight train bound for Uganda.
Photo: Uriel Sinai/***** Images
A boy runs away from the kick of a Kenyan policeman during clashes between the authorities and protesters in the Kibera slum of Nairobi.
PORT GENTILE, Gabon (Jan. 14, 2008) Gabonese Navy Quartermaster 1st Class Mavoungou Souamy Armstrong climbs a ladder while learning basic visit, board, search and seizure techniques from Africa Partnership Station (APS) Sailors to enhance their regional and maritime safety and security aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43). APS is a multi-national effort to bring the latest training and techniques to maritime professionals in nine West and Central African countries, to address common threats of illegal fishing, smuggling and human trafficking. In addition to maritime training, APS will perform more than 20 humanitarian projects in the region. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class RJ Stratchko (Released)
PORT GENTILE, Gabon (Jan. 14, 2008) Seaman Perry Bishop trains Gabonese Sailors on basic visit, board, search and seizure techniques to enhance their regional and maritime safety and security aboard the Africa Partnership Station (APS), amphibious dock landing ship USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43).
KONAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Jan. 3, 2008) Petty Officer 1st Class Reynaldo S. Datu, right, assigned to ETT 7-2 from Okinawa, Japan, speaks with an Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier assigned to the 3rd Kandak (Armored), 3rd Brigade, 201st ANA Army Corps on a mountain in eastern Konar Province. U.S. Navy photo by Marine Staff Sgt. Luis P. Valdespino Jr. (Released)
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The Kenyan police charged at supporters of the opposition leader Raila Odinga during clashes in the Kibera slum on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. International mediators have tried to unlock political gridlock in this East African nation, where more than 600 people have died in violence touched off by allegations that the incumbent president manipulated the December elections.
Photo: Uriel Sinai/***** Images
Iraqi police officers walk amid the rubble of a mosque destroyed in clashes in Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. The street battles between members of a messianic cult and Iraqi troops raged for a second day in Basra and Nasiriyah as the death toll from the fighting in two predominantly Shiite southern cities rose to at least 68. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
Pakistani paramilitary troops stand guard on the route of Shiite Muslim's procession in Islamabad, Pakistan on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. Authorities boosted security after a suicide bombing in Peshawar which killed 11 people in a Shiite mosque and stoking fears of more attacks during a major Muslim festival over the weekend. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
An Iraqi soldier secures 19 January 2008 the area where a gunfight took place yesterday in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. "Dozens" of members of a doomsday cult were killed yesterday in clashes with Iraqi security forces in the city, a police chief said. AFP PHOTO/ESSAM AL-SUDANI (Photo credit should read ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/***** Images)
Filipino Soldiers carry the casket of the late Catholic priest Father Reynaldo Roda shortly after arriving in his hometown in Cotabato city, 19 January 2008. Roda was killed last 16 January while he struggled to avert a kidnap attempt inside the church in the southern island of Tawi-Tawi. His remains will be buried at the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) cemetery in Tamontaka, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Shariff Kabunsuan. AFP PHOTO/MARK NAVALES (Photo credit should read MARK NAVALES/AFP/***** Images)
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Ukraine and Polish soldiers in training. What common language do the use?? English or maybe Russian??
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Ukraine and Polish soldiers in training. What common language do the use?? English or maybe Russian??
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Ukrainian and Polish soldiers from UKRPOLBAT participate in a joint exercise with Polish weapons.
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A military helicopter flies over the Italian ship San Giorgio(?) during military manoeuvres off the Lebanese coastal town of Naqura 19 January 2008.
A military helicopter flies over the Italian ship San Giorgio(?) during military manoeuvres off the Lebanese coastal town of Naqura, 19 January 2008. UN naval forces deployed after the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah held joint exercises with the Lebanese military off the coast of south Lebanon today. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said the manoeuvres in which French and Italian units are taking part started off in Naqura where UNIFIL is based, close to the border with Israel. AFP PHOTO/ MAHMOUD ZAYAT (Photo credit should read MAHMOUD ZAYAT/AFP/Getty Images)
UN peacekeepers stand guard 19 January 2008 during military manoeuvres off the Lebanese coastal town of Naqura 19 January 2008. UN naval forces deployed after the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah held joint exercises with the Lebanese military off the coast of south Lebanon today.
Italian UNIFIL forces take part in military manoeuvres off the Lebanese coastal town of Naqura 19 January 2008.
A United Nations peacekeepers' personnel carrier is used by French troops during military manoeuvres off the Lebanese coastal town of Naqura 19 January 2008
Pakistani paramilitary troops stand guard on the route of Shiite Muslim's procession in Islamabad, Pakistan on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. Authorities boosted security after a suicide bombing in Peshawar which killed 11 people in a Shiite mosque and stoking fears of more attacks during a major Muslim festival over the weekend. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
Members of the Argentinean Navy prefecture stand a guard at the building of navy enterprise Buquebus, during a protest rally against the opening of Finnish forest industry company Botnia's paper plant at the Uruguayan city of Fray Bentos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 15, 2008. EPA/LEO LA VALLE
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A member of Mexico's Federal Investigative Agency (AFI) arrests a woman on suspicion of possessing drugs during an anti-narcotics operation in Guadalajara in the Mexican state of Jalisco January 19, 2008.
REUTERS/Stringer/mexico
An Israeli soldier carries a blindfolded Palestinian during a protest against Israel's controversial barrier in Zaboba village near the West Bank city of Jenin January 19, 2008.
REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman
PLZEN, CZECH REPUBLIC - JANUARY 19: Czech riot policemen patrol in front of the Great Synagogue on January 19, 2008, in Plzen, Czech Republic. Several hundred Czechs gathered on the 65th anniversary of the first deportation of local Jews to concentration camps in 1943 as hundreds of Czech riot policemen were brought in to prevent a clash with neo-Nazis who had planned a rally at the same place. (Photo by Filip Jandourek/isifa/***** Images)
NAIROBI, KENYA - JANUARY 20: (ISRAEL OUT) Kenyan police patrol during clashes in the Mathare slums January 20, 2008 in Nairobi, Kenya. International mediators have attempted to unlock political gridlock in the East African nation which has lost 600 people in severe post-election violence amid allegations that the incumbent president manipulated the December elections. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/***** Images)
NAIROBI, KENYA - JANUARY 20: (ISRAEL OUT) A Kenyan man is carried away by police after he was injured by other Kenyans during clashes in the Mathare slums on January 20, 2008 in Nairobi, Kenya.
Members of the National Civil Police (PNC) Cobras Special Corps search for weapons at "Las Maquilas" cell block in the Marco Aurelio Soto Central Penitentiary in Tamara, 25 kms north of Tegucigalpa, 17 January, 2008. Authorities found high calibre weapons and a large quantity of explosives that belonged to youth gang "Mara 18" hidden underground only days after discovering human remains in mass graves in the interior of the same prison. AFP PHOTO/ORLANDO SIERRA. (Photo credit should read ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP/***** Images)
A Pakistani paramilitary soldier and army helicopter follow the Shiite Muslims march during the Ashura procession in Quetta, 20 January 2008. Pakistan was on high alert as Shiites observed the Muslim festival of Ashura, a day after security officials said they had foiled plots aimed at causing massive loss of life. AFP PHOTO/Banaras KHAN (Photo credit should read BANARAS KHAN/AFP/***** Images)
A Thai soldier looks at pictures of muslim militants during check security in Narathiwat province, 20 January 2008. More than 2,800 people have died since the rebellion began in January 2004, with killings growing more frequent and brutal, despite promises by the current government to battle the insurgency. AFP PHOTO/Madaree TOHLALA (Photo credit should read MADAREE TOHLALA/AFP/***** Images)
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I've been asked why I post police PIX along with the military. Simple...Most of the Worlds police forces(US excluded) are military or para-military forces.
I've been asked why I post police PIX along with the military. Simple...Most of the Worlds police forces(US excluded) are military or para-military forces.
Iraqi policemen march with the Iraqi country during their graduation ceremony at the town camp in Numaniyah, 120 kilometers (80 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. 45 policemen finished their training and will return back to their base in Ramadi to start their duty. (AP Photo/ Loay Hameed)
An Iraqi soldier guards blindfolded handcuffed detainees that were arrested during a joint US-Iraqi military operation just outside the city of Baqouba, some 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. About 15 men were detained, suspected to be insurgents.(AP Photo)
Kashmiri protesters throw stones at Indian police in Srinagar, India, Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. At least eight people, including three policemen, were injured Monday in running battles between Sunnis and police who fired smoke shells and used batons to quell violence. Youths belonging to the Sunni sect, protesting the alleged assault on them by Shias on Saturday evening, took to the streets and pelted stones at police, according to a news report. (AP Photo/ Mukhtar Khan)
A man and his two boys speak to paramilitary police that protect them, Monday, Jan. 21, 2008 after overnight ethnic fighting in the Mathare slum in Nairobi. An opposition plan to boycott companies linked to President Mwai Kibaki's allies is "illegal sabotage," the government said Monday as weeks of violence since Kibaki's disputed re-election continued. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
A Central Reserve Police Force soldier walks along a mustard field in the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Monday, Jan. 21, 2008. Security has been beefed up in most parts of the country ahead of the Indian Republic Day which will be celebrated on January 26. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)
A Lebanese police stands guard near a damaged car that belongs to the wife of Judge Ahmed Oueidat, in Moseitbeh, a Muslim residential neighborhood of Beirut, Lebanon Moday, Jan. 21, 2008. A grenade explosion set a parked car belonging to the wife of the assistant military prosecutor on fire and damaged several other vehicles in Beirut early Monday but caused no injuries, police said. The latest violence came a day after a parliamentary session to elect a new president was delayed when the Arab League secretary-general failed to break a presidential deadlock after talks with Lebanon's feuding factions and Syrian officials.(AP Photo/Ahmad Omar)
Newly promoted Philippine National Police Superintendent Marvin Marcos cuddles his two-month-old baby "Jam-jam" as his wife Marites places his new rank following a mass oath-taking and pinning of ranks ceremony at police headquarters at Camp Crame, Quezon city, north of Manila Monday January 21, 2008. More than 20,000 police officers nationwide, representing 17 percent of the total police force, were promoted to various ranks in the biggest promotion ever accorded the entire police force. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
Anti-riot police uses their shields to protect themselves from the rain as they prevent protesters from entering the EDSA shrine in Manila, 20 January 2007. Protesting farmers from provinces south of Manila marched for days to the nation's capital to mark the anniversary of Mendiola Massacre where 13 protesters were killed by anti-riot forces 21 years ago. AFP PHOTO/JES AZNAR (Photo credit should read JES AZNAR/AFP/Getty Images)
Belarussian police disperse a demonstration in Minsk, 21 January 2008, of about 2,000 people protesting against new regulation of small businesses. Police beat protesters who had gathered near the presidential palace, then marched to another square near the government headquarters and later back to the presidential palace. AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV (Photo credit should read VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images)
KASHMIR, INDIA - JANUARY 21: Indian police fire tear gas at Kashmiri protesters during a protest after the second consecutive day of sectrarian clashes in Srinagar, Kashmir January 21, 2008. Indian police met the violent clashes between Sunni and Shia Muslims with tear gas, water cannon and batons. (Photo by Yawar Nazir/Scoopt/Getty Images)
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The world is always in conflict. The World militaries are ready
The world is always in conflict. The World militaries are ready
Indian police officers arrested an injured Kashmirian on the second day of clashes between Kashmirian Muslim protesters and the police in downtown Srinagar. The police used tear gas and batons to disperse angry demonstrators after clashes between Shiite and Sunni groups.
Photo: Altaf Qadri/European Pressphoto Agency
A girl with a red flower stood between soldiers in Stavropol, in southern Russia, at a ceremony commemorating the 65th anniversary of Stavropol's liberation from German forces.
Photo: Danil Semyonov/Agence France-Presse -- Getty Images
Visiting Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir (right) and his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul (left) inspect the guard of honor in Ankara, capital of Turkey, Jan. 21, 2008. Al-Bashir arrived in Turkey on Monday for an official visit to the country. (Anatolian News Agency/Xinhua/WPN) **China Out**
Police confront thousands of students and local people. As locals protest against higher price of cooking gas on the road in Kathmandu, capital of Nepal, Jan. 22, 2008. Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) hiked the prices of cooking gas and diesel for the second time in three months. (Bimal Guatam/Xinhua/WPN) **China Out**
An activist is arrested by riot police during a protest in front of La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008, in support of Patricia Troncoso, an activist jailed for setting fire to a farm that once belonged to the Mapuches. Troncoso is on a hunger strike and was taken by prison officials to a hospital as her health deteriorated. (AP Photo/Claudio Santana)
Elderly persons sit and wait for a bus, while French riot police secure a street during a demonstration by some thousands of railway workers in Paris, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. Rail workers are protesting about restructuring, job cuts, pay and pensions scheme, as they demonstrate through the streets of Paris. (AP Photo/Michael Sawyer)
Iraqi police, foreground, tour with U.S. soldiers in the city of Madain, about 20 kilometers (14 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. Iraqi and American troops as well as Awakening militia members started inspecting neighborhoods cleared of al-Qaida militants in the Madein area. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)