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Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force Ships arrive at Pearl Harbor HI....All photos have been released to the public by the US Navy.
Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force Ships arrive at Pearl Harbor HI....All photos have been released to the public by the US Navy.
Re: Worlds Armed Forces Pictures III
Speakin' of Aussie Diggers!
One more Digger pic..This one is Hi-res!
Speakin' of Aussie Diggers!
One more Digger pic..This one is Hi-res!
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Members of Hamas security stand gaurd at the Rafah border, as Palestinian families try to cross to Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip, 01 July 2008. Rafah border was opened this morning, and will be for two days, Palestinians security of Hamas goverment said. Thousands of Palestinians breached the Rafah border in January after months of an Israel blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. The blockade, coming in response to rocket attacks fired from the territory, deprived Palestinians of basic commodities, such as food, medicine and fuel.
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Jammu and Kashmir policemen chase protesters during a demonstration against a government decision to revoke a transfer of land to a revered Hindu shrine, in the Northern Indian city of Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir on 01 July 2008. Authorities reversed a controversial plan to transfer land to a Hindu shrine in Muslim majority Indian administered Kashmir on Tuesday as Muslim and Hindu protesters held massive rallies across the region assailing the state government for its handling of the politically sensitive issue. Indian Kashmir continued to be on boil, as thousands took part in protests across the Himalayan region against what they charged was a government plan to build Hindu settlements in the Muslim-majority region
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Indian ex-soldiers and All India Anti Terrorist Front activists pay homage to Field Marshal Sham Manekshaw, at India Gate war memorial in New Delhi, 01 July 2008. Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji (SHFJ) Manekshaw, according to the defence ministry is 'one of India's greatest war heroes', died from a progressive lung disease aged 94 at the military hospital in the southern Indian town of Wellington, on 27 June 2008. Born on 03 April 1914, Manekshaw was commissioned into the Indian army in 1934 when the country was under British rule. Manekshaw a former Indian army chief led the country to victory against Pakistan in 1971 war that resulted in the formation of Bangladesh
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Riot police swing batons as crowds gather and violence breaks out, at the Mongolian Peoples Revolutionary Party (MPRP) headquarters, Peace Avenue, Ulan Bator, Mongolia, 01 July 2008. As rumours grow of a large victory for the MPRP, political parties are protesting at the MPRP headquarters. This has led to outbreaks of violence and the arrival of riot police.
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Police stand guard in front of the building of the Ankara office of pro-secular Cumhuriyet newspaper in Ankara, Turkey, 01 July 2008. Turkish police on Tuesday took into custody two former generals, the head of the Ankara Chamber of Commerce, journalist Mustafa Balbay, the Ankara representative of Cumhuriyet newspaper and more than a dozen other suspected members of a shadowy group of right-wing nationalists who are accused of plotting to bring down the government, Turkish media reported
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A picture dated 21 June 2008 shows militiamen loyal to the Islamic Courts and Islamist militia al-Shabab leave their camp to patrol the town their of Marergur in the Galgadud region of Somalia where the Somali diaspora has funded those opposed to the transitional government and have taken control of the region. Islamic insurgents vowed to step up their attacks after a US missile strike killed the head of the Islamist al-Shabab militia, Adan Hashi Ayrow, and 24 other people on 01 May 2008. Ayrow was reputed to be the top al-Qaeda commander in Somalia and was linked to attacks on foreign aid workers and journalists
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A picture made available on 01 July 2008 shows Indian soldiers waving towards the Pakistani side of Kashmir, at line of control that divides Kashmir between Pakistan and India, at Neelum river 28 June 2008. Kashmir is disputed himalayan territory between nuclear armed neighbours Pakistan and India who have fought two of their three wars for it since their indpendence from Britian in 1947
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A file photo dated 27 November 2007 shows French Army Chief of Staff, General Bruno Cuche, as he reviews the guard of honour at the Indian Defence Ministry in New Delhi, India. According to a statement issued by the French Presidency General, Cuche has tended his resignation 01 July 2008 due to the incident in which 16 persons were injured by bullets during a military demonstration in Carcassonne, France, 29 June 2008
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Members of Special Detachment 88 perform their skills during a ceremony to mark 62nd anniversary of Indonesia police in Jakarta on 01 July 2008. Special Detachment 88 is the Indonesian counter-terrorism squad, and if the secrecy around it could be lifted, the unit would be one of the prime symbols of Indonesia's transition from military-backed dictatorship to civilian democracy. Formed after the Bali bombings of October 2002 which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, the unit has steadily hammered the jihadi terrorist cells linked to the absolutist Jemaah Islamiah movement based in Central Java.
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Members of Hamas security stand gaurd at the Rafah border, as Palestinian families try to cross to Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip, 01 July 2008. Rafah border was opened this morning, and will be for two days, Palestinians security of Hamas goverment said. Thousands of Palestinians breached the Rafah border in January after months of an Israel blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. The blockade, coming in response to rocket attacks fired from the territory, deprived Palestinians of basic commodities, such as food, medicine and fuel.
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Jammu and Kashmir policemen chase protesters during a demonstration against a government decision to revoke a transfer of land to a revered Hindu shrine, in the Northern Indian city of Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir on 01 July 2008. Authorities reversed a controversial plan to transfer land to a Hindu shrine in Muslim majority Indian administered Kashmir on Tuesday as Muslim and Hindu protesters held massive rallies across the region assailing the state government for its handling of the politically sensitive issue. Indian Kashmir continued to be on boil, as thousands took part in protests across the Himalayan region against what they charged was a government plan to build Hindu settlements in the Muslim-majority region
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Indian ex-soldiers and All India Anti Terrorist Front activists pay homage to Field Marshal Sham Manekshaw, at India Gate war memorial in New Delhi, 01 July 2008. Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji (SHFJ) Manekshaw, according to the defence ministry is 'one of India's greatest war heroes', died from a progressive lung disease aged 94 at the military hospital in the southern Indian town of Wellington, on 27 June 2008. Born on 03 April 1914, Manekshaw was commissioned into the Indian army in 1934 when the country was under British rule. Manekshaw a former Indian army chief led the country to victory against Pakistan in 1971 war that resulted in the formation of Bangladesh
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Riot police swing batons as crowds gather and violence breaks out, at the Mongolian Peoples Revolutionary Party (MPRP) headquarters, Peace Avenue, Ulan Bator, Mongolia, 01 July 2008. As rumours grow of a large victory for the MPRP, political parties are protesting at the MPRP headquarters. This has led to outbreaks of violence and the arrival of riot police.
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Police stand guard in front of the building of the Ankara office of pro-secular Cumhuriyet newspaper in Ankara, Turkey, 01 July 2008. Turkish police on Tuesday took into custody two former generals, the head of the Ankara Chamber of Commerce, journalist Mustafa Balbay, the Ankara representative of Cumhuriyet newspaper and more than a dozen other suspected members of a shadowy group of right-wing nationalists who are accused of plotting to bring down the government, Turkish media reported
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A picture dated 21 June 2008 shows militiamen loyal to the Islamic Courts and Islamist militia al-Shabab leave their camp to patrol the town their of Marergur in the Galgadud region of Somalia where the Somali diaspora has funded those opposed to the transitional government and have taken control of the region. Islamic insurgents vowed to step up their attacks after a US missile strike killed the head of the Islamist al-Shabab militia, Adan Hashi Ayrow, and 24 other people on 01 May 2008. Ayrow was reputed to be the top al-Qaeda commander in Somalia and was linked to attacks on foreign aid workers and journalists
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A picture made available on 01 July 2008 shows Indian soldiers waving towards the Pakistani side of Kashmir, at line of control that divides Kashmir between Pakistan and India, at Neelum river 28 June 2008. Kashmir is disputed himalayan territory between nuclear armed neighbours Pakistan and India who have fought two of their three wars for it since their indpendence from Britian in 1947
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A file photo dated 27 November 2007 shows French Army Chief of Staff, General Bruno Cuche, as he reviews the guard of honour at the Indian Defence Ministry in New Delhi, India. According to a statement issued by the French Presidency General, Cuche has tended his resignation 01 July 2008 due to the incident in which 16 persons were injured by bullets during a military demonstration in Carcassonne, France, 29 June 2008
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Members of Special Detachment 88 perform their skills during a ceremony to mark 62nd anniversary of Indonesia police in Jakarta on 01 July 2008. Special Detachment 88 is the Indonesian counter-terrorism squad, and if the secrecy around it could be lifted, the unit would be one of the prime symbols of Indonesia's transition from military-backed dictatorship to civilian democracy. Formed after the Bali bombings of October 2002 which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, the unit has steadily hammered the jihadi terrorist cells linked to the absolutist Jemaah Islamiah movement based in Central Java.