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T-U-P said:

is it me or do those guns held by the 2 at the right look like pump action shotguns with magazine attached?

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A driver eats raw chilli as instructed by a police officer at a highway service station in Chongqing Municipality March 10, 2009. Police in southwest China are spicing up drivers with raw chilli in a bid to stop them falling asleep at the wheel, a newspaper said on Wednesday. Picture taken March 10, 2009.

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A small convoy of military trucks pass through the town of Ping'An near a highway entrance that leads further south to Repkong, or Tongren in Chinese, a town with numerous Tibetan Buddhist monasteries on March 11, 2009 outside the provincial capital of Xining, in northwest China's Qinghai province. China is maintaining a tight security grip across the Tibetan plateau.

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Armed Chinese paramilitary police stand guard at a street corner leading to the Jokhang temple in Lhasa, capital of Tibet, China on Wednesday March 11, 2009.

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Chinese police officers armed with heavy weapons man a checkpoint leading to a street popular with Tibetans in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan province, Wednesday, March 11 , 2009.

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Rings of uniformed and plainclothes police seal off Tiananmen and keep ordinary Chinese and the normal hordes of tourists away for the annual session of the National People's Congress final day in Beijing, China, Friday, March 13, 2009. China's largely powerless legislature closed Friday, with delegates endorsing a hefty stimulus package aimed at keeping the world's third-largest economy robust amid the global downturn.

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Paramilitary police in anti-riot gear patrol near a checkpoint into the Tibetan quarters in Chengdu, southwestern China's Sichuan province, Friday, March 13, 2009. China accused the U.S. Congress on Thursday of damaging relations and meddling in China's internal affairs by passing a resolution recognizing the plight of Tibet's people and their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.

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A police officer armed with a shotgun at a checkpoint into the Tibetan quarters in Chengdu, southwestern China's Sichuan province, Thursday, March 12 , 2009. Heavily armed police officers manned check points and turn away journalists into the area popular with Tibetans in the Sichuan capital during sensitive anniversaries marking the Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule.

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A Chinese military band conductor instructs his members' play during a rehearsal for the closing ceremony of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Thursday, March 12, 2009.

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Paramilitary policemen attend a training session at a military base in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region March 13, 2009.

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Chinese police officers and paramilitary police jointly patrol near a security checkpoint into the Tibetan quarters in Chengdu, southwestern China's Sichuan province Saturday, March 14 , 2009. A year ago, peaceful protests marking the abortive 1959 revolt against Chinese rule, spiraled out of control, resulting in a day of ethnic rioting in Lhasa on March 14, 2008 and widespread demonstrations elsewhere in Tibet and three surrounding provinces.

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Chinese riot police wearing padding and helmets and holding batons, shields, long sticks and guns perform drills on a soccer field at a barracks located on the outskirts of Kangding in Sichuan province in this file picture dated February 24, 2009. China warned the West not to "put its fingers into" Tibet as the restive region, under heavy security and shut off from the outside world, marked on Saturday the anniversary of last year's deadly riots in Lhasa.

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Soldiers from participating countries raise their arms to celebrate the end of the Aman 09 exercises during a flag-lowering ceremony at a port in Karachi March 14, 2009. The multinational Aman 09 military exercises went to a successful end on Saturday.

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KARACHI, Pakistan, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Chinese naval destroyer "Guangzhou" left here Saturday afternoon at the end of ten-day "Peace 09" military exercise at the Arabia Sea off the southern Pakistani port of Karachi.

Military Attache at the Chinese embassy Major General Li Mengyan, Consul-General in Karachi Chen Shanmin and Rear Admiral of the Pakistani navy Kamran were among some 150 Pakistani sailors and Chinese at the port to see off the Chinese ship and its sailors.

Earlier, a flag-lowering ceremony was held at the Pakistan Navy Dockyard, marking the end of Exercise AMAN 09. This is the second exercise of AMAN series. AMAN is an Urdu word meaning "PEACE". Slogan of AMAN exercise is "Together for Peace".

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