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MAZAR-E-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN - MARCH 8: A German ISAF troops patrol the Marmal foothills March 8, 2008 in Mazar-e- Sharif, Afghanistan. German Chancellor Angela Merkel reaffirmed the need for public support of Germany's military mission in Afghanistan. The German led Camp Marmal is the forward support base for Regional Command North, which consists of the 9 northern provinces of Afghanistan. Germany has deployed around 3,500 soldiers in northern Afghanistan and Kabul as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). The Germans are also employed with the various Provincial Reconstruction teams ( PRT's ) located in Mazar-e-Sharif, Kunduz, Faisabad. The German government has also faced huge pressure by the US and Britain to dispatch troops to the front lines of southern Afghanistan where NATO forces are battling the Taliban and al-Qaeda insurgents. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

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MAZAR-E-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN - MARCH 8: A German Tornado reconnaissance jet takes off from Camp Marmal on a two and a half hour mission March 8, 2008 in Mazar-e- Sharif, Afghanistan.

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US and South Korean marines participate in a joint military drill at a shooting range in Pocheon, near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas on March 8, 2008. The exercise is part of a joint "Key Resolve" exercise between US and South Korean troops. North Korea has condemned the exercise as preparations for an attack on the communist country. AFP PHOTO/JUNG YEON-JE (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)

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Pakistani police commandos escort an armored vehicle carrying five suspected militants accused of plotting to kill former premier Benazir Bhutto, after a hearing an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi on March 10, 2008. A Pakistani anti-terrorism court presented charge sheets to five suspected militants accused of involvement in the assassination of Bhutto. The five men were all arrested in the weeks following former premier Bhutto's slaying at a political rally in Rawalpindi on December 27 and last appeared at the court in the garrison city adjoining Islamabad a week ago. AFP PHOTO/Aamir QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)

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A Thai soldier rides past a bird market during a security check in Yala province on March 10, 2008. Five people have been killed in separate shootings across Thailand's insurgency-torn Muslim south, with two of the victims' bodies set ablaze, police said March 10. AFP PHOTO/Muhammad SABRI (Photo credit should read MUHAMMAD SABRI/AFP/Getty Images)

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Thai soldiers stand guard during a security check in Yala province on March 10, 2008.

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Nepalese riot police arrest a Tibetan protester (C) during a clash with police at Boudha in Kathmandu on March 10 2008. Hundreds of Tibetan activists clashed with police in the Nepalese capital when protesters tried to march to the Chinese embassy. Around 3,000 Tibetans had gathered in Boudha, a Tibetan temple complex, to mark the 49th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's escape to India after an abortive anti-Beijing uprising. AFP PHOTO/Prakash MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images)

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Israeli President Shimon Peres (2nd L) reviews the troops next to French Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie (L) on March 10, 2008, upon his arrival at the Paris-Orly airport, on the first of his four-day state visit in France. Peres will open the Paris book fair, this year honouring the Jewish state, during his visit. POOL AFP PHOTO MARTIN BUREAU (Photo credit should read MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images)

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A Greek police officer prevents a pro-Tibet protester, dressed in traditional Tibetan costume from participating in a flame lighting ceremony at Ancient Olympia, outside of the archeological site, the birthplace of the ancient Olympic games, on Monday, March 10, 2008. The event was held ahead of the official flame lighting ceremony for the Beijing Olympics on March 24, to highlight the opposition to Chinese rule of Tibet and commemorate the 49th anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising Day. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis)​

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Soldiers stand guard at the site of an explosion in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, March 10, 2008. A bomb planted in a flower pot alongside a major road in Colombo exploded early Monday, killing one person and injuring several others, authorities said. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

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Nepalese police officers detain a Tibetan protester, left, in Katmandu, Nepal, Monday, March 10, 2008. Monday marks the anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet that forced the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, into exile in 1959. Protesters marked the day with demonstrations in New Delhi, India, and Katmandu, Nepal, where 10 activists were detained after hundreds clashed with police. (AP Photo/Binod Joshi)

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A paramilitary police unit surrounds a China Southern Airlines passenger plane during an anti-hijack drill in Harbin, in China's northeastern Heilongjiang Province, in this Saturday, April 28, 2007 file photo. China said on Sunday March 10, 2008, a flight crew prevented an apparent attempt to crash a China Southern flight from Urumqi, in the country's western Xinjiang region, on Friday. (AP Photo/EyePress)

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A soldier looks at the body of a victim at the site of an explosion in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, March 10, 2008. A bomb planted in a flower pot alongside a major road in Colombo exploded early Monday, killing one person and injuring several others, authorities said. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

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Sri Lankan soldiers search the bags of police officers and election officials at the main entrance of the counting centre in Batticaloa March 10, 2008. Residents in Sri Lanka's war-ravaged east voted for the first time in more than a decade on Monday, but with armed former Tamil Tiger rebels seen as the likely poll winners, peace remains precarious. REUTERS/Buddhika Weerasinghe (SRI LANKA)

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Right-wing Israeli activists scuffle with police during a protest in Jerusalem March 9, 2008. According to Israeli media reports, several right-wing activists were arrested by Israeli police after attempting to march towards the house of a Palestinian gunman who killed eight Jewish seminary students on Thursday.

REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

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ASHKELON, ISRAEL - MARCH 09: Grieving relatives and friends, many in uniform, accompany the flag-draped coffin of Israeli army Staff Sergeant Liran Banai during his military funeral March 9, 2008 in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. Banai died earlier in the day of wounds sustained last Thursday, on March 6, 2008, when his jeep was blown up by a Palestinian roadside bomb while patrolling Israel's border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. (Photo by David Silverman/***** Images)

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A soldier explains to children about the 105mm howitzer canon during a show by Philippine Army in Marikina city suburban Manila on March 9, 2008. The Army is holding a caravan of awareness campaign showing their skills and weapons around Metro Manila to culminate during their anniversary on March 22. AFP PHOTO/Jay DIRECTO (Photo credit should read JAY DIRECTO/AFP/***** Images)

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A child touches one of the weapons on display at a show by Philippine Army in Marikina city suburban Manila on March 9, 2008.

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British soldiers are working with the Afghan National Army (ANA) in the Kabul Mountains to help train new recruits. Making the best use of the environment in the rigorous winter conditions at the Kabul Military Training Centre, Afghan Army recruits are being put through their paces on a ten-week training programme.

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Afghan police officers and Canadian soldiers of the International Security Force inspect the site of an explosion in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 12, 2008. A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of Canadian troops Wednesday in the southern city of Kandahar, killing a passing civilian and wounding two soldiers.(AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)​

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Canadian soldiers of the International Security Force stand near a group of Afghan civilians who are being held for questioning near the site of an explosion in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 12, 2008. A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of Canadian troops Wednesday in the southern city of Kandahar, killing a passing civilian and wounding two soldiers.(AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)​

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clergyman, centre, reacts while being surrounded by demonstrators and police forces, as they push to the entrance of Denmark Embassy in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, March 12, 2008. Hundreds of angry students staged a protest in front of the Danish embassy in Tehran on Wednesday to condemn the reprinting of a cartoon deemed insulting of the Prophet Muhammad in the Nordic country's newspapers. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

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An Iranian boy chats with riot policemen following an anti-Danish protest in front of the embassy of Denmark in Tehran

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas walks past a line of Senegalese soldiers as he arrives for the Organization of the Islamic Conference summit, at the airport in Dakar, Senegal, Wednesday, March 12, 2008. More than 40 heads of state will convene in Dakar on Thursday and Friday. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)​

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Snipers were posted on a mosque while Muslim separatist rebels from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front held a gathering at Camp Bushra in Butig, a town on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. The meeting is the biggest show of strength since the liberation front began talks with the Philippine government in 2003, and it raised doubts that a peace agreement could be completed this year. The front has been waging a separatist rebellion in Mindanao that has claimed 150,000 lives since 1978.
Photo: Jason Gutierrez/Agence France-Presse -- ***** Images

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A Romanian special forces takes aim during a joint practice session involving Interior Ministry troops on the outskirts of Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, March 12 2008. The exercise is part of preparations by all branches of the Romanian security services for the upcoming NATO Summit that will take place in Bucharest between April 2-4 2008. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Striking garbage collectors hurled trash at riot police during a labor protest in Athens, on Wednesday, March 12, 2008. Some 5,000 protesters marched to protest an overhaul of Greece's pension funds planned by the conservative government. The country's largest labor union, the GSEE, called a three-hour work stoppage to coincide with a debate on the reforms by lawmakers at committee level. (AP Photo/Phasma, Giorgos Nikolaidis)​

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Police officers frisk young soccer players coming for training at a sports arena in Grozny, Chechnya, southern Russia, Thursday, March 13, 2008. Security remains tight in Chechnya as rebels continue to mount regular raids against federal troops and local authorities. At right in the background is a portrait of Chechnya's first pro-Moscow president, Akhmad Kadyrov, who was assassinated in 2004. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)​

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An Afghan police officer patrols near the site after a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 13, 2008. A suicide car bomber struck an armored vehicle carrying U.S. troops near the city's airport Thursday. The blast killed at least six Afghan civilians and wounded up to 20 others, officials said. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)​

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Pakistani police officers stand guard next to the Danish Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, as supporters of the Pakistani Islamic student group, Islami Jamait Tulaba, not seen, demonstrate against the reproduction of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers, Thursday, March 13, 2008. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)​

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Iraq police officers demonstrate their riot control skills during a police academy graduation ceremony in Basra, Iraq, Thursday, March 13, 2008.(AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)​

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Indian police detain Tibetan protestors at Dehra, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Kangra district boundary that surrounds Dharmsala, the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile in India, Thursday, March 13, 2008. Police detained more than 100 Tibetan exiles marching in northern India to Tibet in protest of China's Olympic Games early Thursday morning, organizers and officials said. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)​

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Iraqis enrolled in the first Iraqi army HMMWV training course demonstrate their skills during their graduation ceremony at the Taji National Depot Complex in the outskirts of Baghdad on March 13, 2008. Around 45 Humvees were transferred today from the US military to the Iraqi army during the graduation ceremony of the first HMMWV training course. AFP PHOTO/ALI YUSSEF (Photo credit should read ALI YUSSEF/AFP/***** Images)

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A former Maoist rebel stands guard at the residence in Katmandu of Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) Chairman Prachanda who is leaving on his trip to southwest Nepal Thursday, March 13, 2008. The leader of Nepal's former communist rebels said Thursday that he will accept the results of upcoming elections and that the peace process will continue, even if his party fares poorly at the polls.(AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)​

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A Romanian special forces sniper reloads his weapon during a joint practice session involving Interior Ministry troops on the outskirts of Bucharest Romania Wednesday March 12 2008. The exercise is part of preparations by all branches of the Romanian security services for the upcoming NATO Summit that will take place in Bucharest between April 2-4 2008. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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A police officer holds a weapon during a protest of doctors to demand salary raises in Santo Domingo, Wednesday, March 12, 2008.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Men arrested guarding a huge arms and ammunition cache squat blindfolded and tied near Youssifiyah, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, March 15, 2008. (AP Photo)​

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Indian police detain a Tibetan protester outside the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi, India, Saturday, March 15, 2008. Dozens of protesters in India launched a new march to Tibet on Saturday, days after more than 100 Tibetan exiles were arrested by authorities during a similar rally. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)​

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Nepalese policemen clash with protesting Tibetan exiles during an anti-China demonstration at Boudha in Kathmandu on March 14, 2008.

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A Tibetan activist in exile clashes with policewomen during a protest in front of the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi on March 15, 2008, after protests in the Tibetan capital Lhasa erupted, the biggest against Chinese rule in two decades. A group of 50 Tibetan exiles were arrested in New Delhi after trying to storm the Chinese embassy in the Indian capital for the second day running, police said. The Indian government said earlier this week it "does not permit Tibetans to engage in anti-China political activities in India" and that "any activity which causes disruption would be dealt with in accordance" with Indian law. India is home to at least 100,000 Tibetan exiles and refugees, as well as the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader. AFP PHOTO/RAVEENDERAN (Photo credit should read RAVEENDRAN/AFP/Getty Images)

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Opposition Singapore Democratic Party secretary-general Chee Soon Juan (R) and his party members are led into a police van after being arrest during march down the street to protest against the prices hike in Singapore on March 15, 2008. Singapore police on Saturday arrested 10 people, including pro-democracy activist Chee Soon Juan, for holding a rally without a permit to protest against rising living costs, witnesses said. AFP PHOTO/ROSLAN RAHMAN (Photo credit should read ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images)

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Two policemen observe commuters as they look for the escaped alleged Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militant leader Mas Selamat bin Kastari at an underground train station in Singapore on March 12, 2008. Singaporean authorities have received more than 1,100 tips from the public in its manhunt for an alleged terrorist leader who escaped jail two weeks ago, police said. AFP PHOTO/ROSLAN RAHMAN (Photo credit should read ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP/Getty Images)

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bd popeye said:

Mods note>> the unrest in Tibet is troubling however>>>>No political discussion please!!.

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SteelBird said:

Hi, BD: I know Tibet is unrest in the last week and that has caused casualty of about 10 lives. You have posted quite a lot of pix about that, but they all happened outside China. Now, if possible I would request some pix inside China, though I have seen some on BBC website.

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BERGEN, GERMANY - MARCH 17: Members of the German Bundeswehr who will participate in the Quick Reaction Force (QRF) in northern Afghanistan put on a demonstration for the media at a Bundeswehr training facility on March 17, 2008 in Bergen, Germany. The German troops, part of ISAF, will replace outgoing Norwegian troops in escorting convoys in a part of Afghanistan where clashes with the Taliban are likely. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

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