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bd popeye · May 31, 2009

Georgian soldiers participate in
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training exercises on May 30, 2009, at the military base of Vaziani, 30 km from Tbilisi. Russia has sternly criticized NATO for carrying out exercises this month in the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia, saying such activity less than a year after Russia and Georgia fought a war was highly destablizing.

Indian police beats a protester during a protest against the killing of two women at Shopian, some 40 miles (60 kilometers) south of Srinagar, India, Saturday, May 30, 2009. Massive protests and clashes erupted in Indian Kashmir on Saturday after the bodies of two young women were found amid claims that they were raped and murdered by Indian soldiers, officials and locals said.

Nicaragua's anti-drug soldiers guard boxes containing cocaine seized at the Bluefields port May 29, 2009. About 1 ton of cocaine was confiscated by army troops during an anti-drug raid on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua.

Turkish soldiers dressed in Ottoman Janissary outfits take part in a ceremony to mark the 556th anniversary of the conquest of the city by Ottoman Turks, in Istanbul May 29, 2009. "The Conqueror", Ottoman
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Mehmet II, captured Istanbul in 1453 which led to the end of the Byzantium Empire.

Hungarian Air Force JAS 39 Gripen fighter jet flies in formation with a Russian-made Lisunov Li-2 aircraft (top) during an airshow in Szolnok 89km ( 55 miles) east from Budapest May 30, 2009.

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gunmen arrive for a news conference in Gaza City May 31, 2009. Six people were killed on Sunday when forces loyal to Palestinian President
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raided a Hamas hideout, just days after Abbas promised in Washington to fulfill his security commitments. The violence erupted when police encircled a house in the West Bank town of Qalqilya where a top Hamas field commander and his deputy had taken refuge, witnesses and security officials said.

bd popeye · Jun 2, 2009

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A South Korean Marine tank moves in a drill against possible North Korea's attack at the South Korea's western Yeonpyong Island, near the disputed sea border with communist North Korea, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. (AP)

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South Korean Marines patrol on the beach at South Korea's western Yeonpyong Island, near the disputed sea border with communist North Korea, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. (AP)

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South Korean army soldiers on a coast defence ship patrol off Samcheok on the east coast, about 290 km (180 miles) east of Seoul June 1, 2009. (Reuters)

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Japan's Blue Impulse Air Self Defense Force aerobatics team perform over the port of Yokohama, west of Tokyo on June 1, 2009 as part of the 150th port-opening anniversary. The event was the latest in a series by the city marking 150 years after the port of Yokohama was opened as a result of a trade agreement signed between the Tokugawa shogunate and the US, Britain, Russia, France and the Netherlands. (KAZUHIRO NOGI / AFP / ***** Images)

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Sri Lankan soldiers march during a rehearsal of the National Victory Ceremony in Colombo, June 01, 2009. (Reuters)

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Sri Lankan soldiers march during a rehearsal for the National War Celebration parade in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, June 1, 2009. Sri Lanka will celebrate its military victory over Tamil tiger rebels in its three decade long civil war next Wednesday.

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Sri Lankan women sailors march during a rehearsal ahead of the National Victory Ceremony in Colombo June 1, 2009. (Reuters / Stringer)

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Sri Lankan troops operate multi-barrel rocket launchers during a rehearsal ahead of the National Victory Ceremony in Colombo June 1, 2009. (Reuters / Stringer)

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Sri Lankan army soldiers take part in a rehearsal ahead of the National Victory Ceremony in Colombo June 1, 2009. (Reuters / Stringer)

bd popeye · Jun 7, 2009

Republic of Korea F-15 K Strike Eagle

North Korea successfully conducted nuclear tests, and test-fired medium-range missiles. In order to cope with unexpected events, the Republic of Korea armed forces on high alert. South Korean Air Force recently sent out the strongest increase in F-15K fighters linked to the advanced AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile(SLAMMER) to deter North Korea engaged in combat exercises.

bd popeye · Jun 7, 2009

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South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak (C) poses with US and South Korean pilots as he visits the Air Force headquarters in Osan, south of Seoul on June 6, 2009. South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak (C) inspects a fighter jet as he visits the Air Force headquarters in Osan, south of Seoul on June 6, 2009.

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South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak (C) inspects a fighter jet as he visits the Air Force headquarters in Osan, south of Seoul on June 6, 2009. President Lee Myung-Bak said South Korea would not make any compromises in the face of North Korea's nuclear threats and called for Pyongyang to return to six-party disarmament talks. The UN Security Council is considering new sanctions against North Korea after Pyongyang carried out its second nuclear test last month.

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US President Barack Obama, centre left, seen during an arrival ceremony with French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Prefecture, in Caen, France, Saturday, June 6, 2009. US President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy will attend ceremonies Saturday marking the 65th anniversary of the Allied D-Day landings in Normandy. (AP / Gerald Herbert)

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Soldiers watch as supporters of the Lebanese Free Patriotic Movement tour a street waving flags in Beirut, on June 5, 2009. The country is holding its election over the weekend. (Reuters / Mohamed Azakir)

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Sanaa, Yemen - A policeman mans a weapon on a police vehicle as he secures the vicinity of a state security court in Sanaa during the trial of suspected Shiite rebels June 6, 2009. The court on Saturday began the trial of 12 suspected Shiite rebels charged with battling government forces in May 2008 in the Bani Hushaish district near the capital Sanaa in support of the Shiite rebellion in the restive northwestern province of Saada. (Reuters)

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Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama shakes hands with French police as he arrives at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris June 6, 2009. (Reuters)

bd popeye · Jun 7, 2009

After completing a convoy security course, Iraqi Special Operations Forces soldiers demonstrate their heightened skill level in a live-fire demonstration during a graduation ceremony in Baghdad on May 31.
(Photo by Sgt. Jeffrey Ledesma : Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force - Arabian Peninsula)

SteelBird · Jun 7, 2009

Post #949, first picture with S.K president standing with other air-force officers in triangle formation. The two guys in yellow suits, they look like spacesuits more than aircraft suits to me. Do they have to wear like that? According to what I know, only pilots who fly at extremely high attitude, like the the SR-71, would need to wear heavy suits like that.

bd popeye · Jun 7, 2009

SteelBird said:
Post #949, first picture with S.K president standing with other air-force officers in triangle formation. The two guys in yellow suits, they look like spacesuits more than aircraft suits to me. Do they have to wear like that? According to what I know, only pilots who fly at extremely high attitude, like the the SR-71, would need to wear heavy suits like that.

Maybe it's just for the media presentation of the new Strike Eagle. Just my opinion.

bd popeye · Jun 8, 2009

Police officers inspect baggage belonging to Indians, who had taken refugee in a nuns' house, prior to being transported to their villages by authorities, in Bagua Chica, Peru, Monday, June 8, 2009. Peru's President
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accused Amazon Indians of 'barbarity' Sunday in the killing of 22 members of a paramilitary police force sent to break up anti-development protests. Indian leaders say police attacked them unprovoked.

Police officers patrol during a curfew imposed by the government after clashes with natives in Bagua province June 7, 2009. Peruvian troops searched for missing police and patrolled towns in the Amazon on Sunday after 60 people died in clashes with Indian tribes opposed to President
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's plans to mine and drill oil in the jungle. An indigenous leader said 40 protestors were killed and the government said 23 members of the security forces perished in two days of battles over Garcia's push to lure billions of dollars in foreign investment to the rainforest.

Federal Police forensic officers prepare a container for the arrival of bodies found during search operations of the missing Air France jet, in Fernando de Noronha island airport, off the northeast coast of Brazil, Monday, June 8, 2009. A U.S. Navy team was flying to Brazil on Monday with high-tech underwater listening devices to help the search for the black boxes from an Air France plane that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean.

A hooded Indian female police officer watches Muslim Khwateen Markaz, or Muslim Women's Organization Chairperson Zamrooda Habib, unseen, shouting freedom slogans along with other activists during a protest in Srinagar, India, Monday, June 8, 2009. Forensic reports show that the two young women whose deaths sparked a week of protest in Indian Kashmir were raped, police said, increasing the potential for unrest among demonstrators who blame Indian troops for the killings.

A veiled activist of Muslim Khawateen Markaz (MKM), a women's separatist party, scuffles with an Indian policewoman (L) after police stopped a MKM protest march in Srinagar June 8, 2009. Indian troops in Kashmir's main city sealed off residential areas on Monday to stop the protest march, demonstrating over the alleged rape and murder of two Muslim women, from approaching Shopian in south Kashmir, police and witnesses said. Residents say two Muslim women, aged 17 and 22, were abducted, raped and killed by security forces on May 29 in Shopian town, 60 km (37 miles) south of Srinagar. Indian authorities denied the killing and say the women drowned in a stream.

Policemen and soldiers inspect the wreckage of an army vehicle after a bomb attack by suspected Muslim militants occurred on a roadside in southern Thailand's Narathiwat province, June 8, 2009. A 20 kg (44 lb) bomb was detonated on Monday, injuring 9 soldiers who were patrolling the province, police said. No deaths were reported.

Israeli soldiers sit atop tank in its position along the border with Gaza Strip, Monday, June 8, 2009. Israeli troops battled Palestinian gunmen early Monday in a flare-up of violence along the tense frontier between Israel and
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-controlled Gaza. A group of around 10 gunmen were trying to cross the border fence into Israel when they were spotted by troops, according to Palestinian security officials.

Israeli soldiers patrol along the border with the Gaza Strip on June 8, 2009. At least four Palestinian militants were killed in a gunbattle with Israeli soldiers along the border, the deadliest such incident in months, medics said.

Pakistani army soldiers and tanks stop over during curfew break in the Dir district, where troops launched an offensive against militants June 8, 2009. Pakistani villagers enraged with the
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after the bombing of a mosque battled the militants on Monday, underscoring a shift in public opinion away. from the hardline Islamists. The military has been fighting the Taliban in the Swat valley, northwest of the capital, for more than a month after the militants took advantage of a peace pact to conquer new areas.

South Korean Army soldiers board a military truck during a military exercise against a possible attack by North Korea in Paju, near the border village of Panmunjom which separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in South Korea, Monday, June 8, 2009. North Korea has warned fishermen and boat captains to stay away from the country's east coast, Japan's coast guard said Monday, in another sign the regime is planning to fire medium-range missiles in the area.

South Korean soldiers stand on self-propelled armored vehicles during a military drill at a shooting range near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, about 45 km (28 miles) north of Seoul, June 8, 2009.

A Thai soldier holds a bullet-proof jacket and a helmet after inspecting an overturned pick-up truck which was hit by a road-side bomb planted by suspected Muslim militants in Thailand's restive southern province of Narathiwat on June 8, 2009. Suspected separatists detonated the road-side bomb as Thai soldiers were patrolling, injuring nine of them. More than 3,700 people have been killed and thousands more wounded in five years of separatist violence across the three restive provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat.

Iraqi Army soldiers gather around thousands of morter rounds found in southern Baghdad on June 8, 2009. The Iraqi military displayed a
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-era weapons cache comprising thousands of mortars south of Baghdad.

Lebanese army soldiers secure the area around a polling station in the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli on June 7, 2009. Lebanese voters cast their ballots in a high-stakes general election pitting a Western-backed coalition against an Iranian-backed alliance led by the
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militant group.

Police officers patrol the highway after clashes with native people in Bagua province June 7, 2009. Indigenous protesters and Peru's army refused to back down and a truce looked distant on Saturday, after two battles in the Amazon jungle killed some 50 people in the worst crisis of President
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's term. Protesters said 30 of their own have died and the government said 22 security forces have perished in two days of clashes over the president's drive to bring foreign companies to the rainforest to open mines and drill for oil.

A plane equipped with an 'airborne warning and control system' (Awacs) radar is pictured on June 7, 2009 at the French Air Base in Dakar as French military crew prepared for its take off. French and Brazilian planes are scouring waters to make visual sweeps for wreckage of the Air France
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A330 that plunged into the Atlantic six days ago. The Airbus A330 was carrying 228 people -- most of them French or Brazilian -- when it came down early on June 1, four hours into its 11-hour voyage from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

bd popeye · Jun 10, 2009

Pakistani army soldiers are seen next to the debris of the Peshawar Pearl Continental hotel after a portion of the building collapsed following Tuesday's suicide bombing in Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday, June 10, 2009.

Iraqi soldiers carry artillery shells they have discovered in a farmland area south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June 10, 2009. The shells were most likely buried by the
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's army before the invasion in 2003.

South Korean Army soldiers aim their weapons during an anti-terrorism exercise at a hotel in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, June 10, 2009. The exercise is one of several disaster prevention drills led by the South Korean military as tensions increase on the peninsula over the North's recent nuclear and missile tests.

South Korean Army soldiers ride in self-propelled artillery vehicles during a military drill at a shooting range near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, about 45 km (28 miles) north of Seoul, June 9, 2009. Relatives of two U.S. journalists sentenced to 12 years hard labour in North Korea called on the reclusive state to show compassion, while U.S. President
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's spokesman said the two were innocent and should be freed.

Federal policemen stand guard after State police officers (not pictured) threatened them with their weapons during an operation to break a road blockade in Monterrey, northern Mexico June 8, 2009. Police from the municipalities of San Nicolas and Escobedo tried to stage a blockade in support of their colleagues, who had been arrested in the past few days by the army for what the army said was their involvement with organised crime.

Federal policemen (R) guard a police officer of the municipality of Escobedo detained during an operation to break a road blockade in Monterrey, northern Mexico June 8, 2009.

bd popeye · Jun 11, 2009

Re: US Military Pictures thread

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South Korean military officers watch a South Korea's pilotless helicopter S-100 during a demonstration at a military base in Daejeon, south of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, June 11, 2009. (AP)

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South Korean soldiers conduct military drill near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating North Korea from South Korea in Paju, about 45 km (28 miles) north of Seoul, June 11, 2009. World powers moved closer to punishing North Korea with new sanctions for its nuclear test while envoys from the reclusive communist state held talks with South Koreans on Thursday over a troubled joint factory park. (Reuters)

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South Korean soldiers patrol near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating North Korea and South Korea in Paju, about 45 km (28 miles) north of Seoul, June 11, 2009. (Reuters)

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South Korean Marines aboard a tank, participate in a drill at South Korea's western Yeonpyong Island, near the disputed sea border with North Korea, Wednesday, June 10, 2009. (AP)

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South Korean soldiers a conduct military drill near the demilitarized zone separating North Korea from South Korea in Paju, about 45 km (28 miles) north of Seoul, June 10, 2009. (Reuters)

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A picture made available on 10 June 2009 shows a NATO silhouetted helicopter during a military show of KFOR marking the 10th
anniversary of NATO troops entering Kosovo, in Pristina, 09 June 2009. NATO plans to scale down its 15,000-strong KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo to 10,000 by January 2010 because security and political conditions have improved, a U.S. official said on 08 June 2009. KFOR marking 10-th anniversary of NATO troops entering Kosovo. (EPA / Valdrin Xhemaj)

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A Pakistani police officer stands next to U.N. car damaged by Tuesday's suicide blast at the Peshawar Pearl Continental hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan on Wednesday, June 10, 2009. Investigators searched a wrecked luxury hotel in northwestern Pakistan for evidence Wednesday after a brazen suicide bombing killed 11 people, including aid workers, in what the U.N. condemned as a "heinous terrorist attack." (AP / Emilio Morenatti)

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A policeman searches through the wreckage outside the Pearl Continental Hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan, the morning after a truck bomb destroyed the hotel, killing at least 16 people. June 10, 2009. (Reuters)

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