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How about a few German Bundeswehr pics?!! Enjoy!!

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German Bundeswehr army soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) monitors the area during a tour for members of the German lower house of parliament Bundestag near Kunduz October 1, 2008. Chancellor Angela Merkel's government hopes to win a parliamentary mandate this month to increase troop numbers in Afghanistan by 1,000 soldiers.
 

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A Brazilian Special Operations Brigade soldiers patrol an area of the shanti town 'El Alemao' in Rio Do Janeiro, 01 October 2008, where several drug-dealing gangs fight to take over the control, days before the municipality elections to be held on 05 October
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Hondurean Police officers clahs with demonstrators in front of Presidencial House in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 01 October 2008. Teachers are demanding from President, Manuel Zelaya's government for the payement of their late salaries of about five thousand teachers. This strike action has left upto two million students out of classes
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A member of Mexican Army helps to evacuate some inhabitants of the city of Tabasco, Mexico, 01 October 2008, due to the overflows of Grijalva River that has already flooded the area perimeter colonies. Dozens of municipalities of Veracruz and Tabasco, east and southwest of Mexico are partially flooded due to the overflow of the rivers from the heavy rains that hit the area.
 

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Brazilian Army soldiers take their positions during an operation at Grota slum in Rio de Janeiro October 1, 2008. Army troops were called on to patrol Rio's slums and guarantee the safety of candidates for the upcoming October 3 elections for the mayor and city council as they wind up their campaigns.

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Brazilian soldiers from the 15th Motorized Battalion guard one of the entrances to the Alemao shantytown on October 2, 2008 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, during the municipal elections' campaign.

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Army soldiers take position during a patrol at the Complexo de Alemao slum in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008. Brazil's military has been called in to help quell violence and voter intimidation in the city's slums ahead of local elections in Oct. 5, 2008.
 

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Albanian miners clash with police forces as they protest in front of the parliament building on October 2, 2008 in Tirana, to press their demands for bigger pay, pension benefits and safer working conditions. Albania is rich in chrome, copper and other mineral ore and the government has granted concessions to foreign companies. Several miners have died this year because of lax security conditions.

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paramilitary soldier checks a garbage bin at a market in the northeastern Indian city of Agartala, October 2, 2008. At least two people were killed and about 100 wounded when four bombs exploded in a town in India's remote northeast on Wednesday, police said.

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A protester kicks a policeman during a march of the 40th anniversary of a student massacre, in Mexico City October 2, 2008. In October 2, 1968 student massacre in Mexico City by soldiers and police.

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A soldier of Pakistan's paramilitary force stands guard at a checkpoint in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008. The U.N. ordered children of its international staff to leave the Pakistani capital and other areas it considered unsafe, raising its security level following the bombing of the Marriott Hotel, the world body said Thursday.

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A Russian soldier mans a checkpoint near the Georgian village of Karaleti, some 80 km (50 miles) west of Tbilisi October 2, 2008. The head of the European Union's monitoring mission to Georgia said on Thursday it would be unrealistic to expect Russian forces to grant the monitors access to breakaway South Ossetia in the near future.

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A soldier walks in front of demobilized leftist rebels at a military base in Cali, Colombia, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008. Six guerrillas, four of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, and two of the National Liberation Army, ELN, surrendered to the army with their weapons.

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Russian soldiers guard a checkpoint outside Karaleti on October 1, 2008. European Union observers began deploying in Georgia on October 1 to monitor a ceasefire and oversee a Russian troop withdrawal after the August 2008 war in the Caucasus state.

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French gendarmes, members of a EU observer contingent are seen on a road near the village of Karaleti on October 1, 2008. European Union observers began deploying in Georgia on October 1 to monitor a ceasefire and oversee a Russian troop withdrawal after the August 2008 war in the Caucasus state.

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Policemen guard the a stadium during the UEFA Cup football match Metalist vs Besiktas in Kharkiv on October 2, 2008. Metalist won 4-1.

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Policemen detain one of violating fans of Croatian soccer team Dinamo Zagreb in Prague Thursday Oct. 2, 2008. Fans brawled with police at Old-Town Square and some of them were injured. Around one thousand Croatian fans are expected to arrive at the stadium for the UEFA Cup first round second leg match between Sparta Prague and Dinamo Zagreb.

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Policemen detain fans of Croatian soccer team Dinamo Zagreb after they confronted them at central Prague's Old Town Square October 2, 2008.

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Mexican soldiers and policemen enter a police station where authorities were presenting to the press three suspects (2nd pic) of murdering two policemen recently in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008. A renewed wave of violence has swept Tijuana leaving behind 24 dead in the past 3 days. Nearly two years ago, President Felipe Calderon launched a nationwide battle against some of the most powerful drug gangs in Mexico and cartels have responded with unprecedented violence, especially along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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A Mexican soldier stands guard outside a police station where authorities were presenting to the press three suspects of murdering two policemen recently in Tijuana, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2008.
 

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9 Platoon soldiers from Combat Team Charlie, ANZAC Battle Group, compare equipment and tactics with US soldiers from the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team before mounting up in US Stryker armoured vehicles to secure a landing zone for the remainder of Combat Team Charlie during Cooperative Spirit 08.
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9 Platoon soldiers from Combat Team Charlie, ANZAC Battle Group, listen in as 2LT Jordan Smith from the US 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team briefs them prior to mounting up in US Stryker armoured vehicles to secure a landing zone for the remainder of Combat Team Charlie during Cooperative Spirit 08.
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Soldiers from 9 Platoon, Combat Team Charlie, ANZAC Battle Group, mount up in US Stryker armoured vehicles of the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team to secure a landing zone for the remainder of Combat Team Charlie during Cooperative Spirit 08.
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(Left to right) CPL Blake Pascoe (8 Platoon) with PTE Stephen Axon, PTE Nicholas Baldwin, PTE Jae Butler-Evans, PTE Timothy Bray and CPL Mark Foster from 7 Platoon, Combat Team Charlie, ANZAC Battle Group receive pre-flight briefings before boarding UH-1H Iroquois helicopters for the Combat Team Charlie air-mobile insertion into their area of operations to kick off the Field Training Exercise (FTX) part of Cooperative Spirit 08.
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Members of Combat Team Charlie, ANZAC Battle Group watch and wait as UH-1H Iroquois helicopters prepare to land for their next sortie for the Combat Team Charlie air-mobile insertion into their area of operations in kicking off the Field Training Exercise (FTX) part of Cooperative Spirit 08.
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Australian soldiers from 9 Platoon, Combat Team Charlie, ANZAC Battle Group, mounted in US Stryker armoured vehicles of the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team provide security for the landing zone as the remainder of Combat Team Charlie conducts an air-mobile insertion during Cooperative Spirit 08.
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Australian soldiers from 9 Platoon, Combat Team Charlie, ANZAC Battle Group, prepare to depart their position in US Stryker armoured vehicles of the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team as UH-1H Iriqois helicopters fly away after their final air-mobile insertion troop sortie during Cooperative Spirit 08.

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LT James Horrigan and PTE Stafford O’Leary from 9 Platoon, Combat Team Charlie, ANZAC Battle Group mounted in US Stryker armoured vehicles of the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team provide orders to their platoon after securing a landing zone during Cooperative Spirit 08.


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A senior Indian army officer aboard a helicopter points towards the mountainous area where the army fought a week-long gun battle with separatist militants in Chhamar Sar, nearly 65 km (40 miles) north of Srinagar, October 3, 2008. A fierce week-long gun battle between Indian troops and Muslim militants on a high altitude mountain top in Kashmir has ended, taking the death toll from the firefight, the longest in recent years, to 14, the army said on Friday. (Reuters Pictures)

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3 October 2008 - A protester blows marijuana smoke into the face of a police officer during the march to remember the 1968 Tlatelolco plaza massacre, in which hundreds of students were killed. (Associated Press)
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3 October 2008 - A protester sprays paint into the face of a police officer during clashes at a march to mark the 1968 Tlatelolco plaza massacre in Mexico City. (Associated Press)
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3 October 2008 - Protesters use an aerosol can and a lighter as a makeshift flame thrower against riot police during clashes that erupted at a march to mark the 1968 Tlatelolco plaza massacre in Mexico City. (Associated Press)
 

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Army Commander Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka (C) attends Sri Lankan army's annual flag blessing ceremony in Anuradhapura October 4, 2008. Fonseka, his senior officers and soldiers on Saturday paid respects and asked for blessings for their organisation and its battle against the Tamil Tiger rebels. (Reuters Pictures)

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Army officers carry military flags during a march to Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi (Buddhist sacred tree) at Sri Lankan army's annual flag blessing ceremony in Anuradhapura October 4, 2008. Fonseka, his senior officers and soldiers on Saturday paid respects and asked for blessings for their organisation and its battle against the Tamil Tiger rebels. (Reuters Pictures)
 

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Residents walk past a damaged armoured vehicle after a mortar attack in Baghdad October 7, 2008. Two blasts struck outside Iraq's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday as visiting U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte prepared to hold a press conference in the Green Zone compound nearby, Reuters reporters at the scene said. Police said two mortars had struck in the area, wounding five civilians.

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Riot policemen charge at anti-government demonstrators protesting outside Parliament after firing tear gas in Bangkok October 7, 2008. Thai riot police clashed with protesters in the capital on Tuesday, injuring 69 people, as campaigners intensified their four-month bid to unseat the government.

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Armed separatist Muslim guerrillas of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) raise their rifles after they declared red alert status around Camp Darapanan, the rebels' base in Maguindanao province, southern Philippines on October 4, 2008. Government has suspended talks with the MILF after they attacked several towns across the southern island of Mindanao in August, killing dozens of civilians and burning more than 100 homes. More than half a million have been affected by the fighting, either indirectly or directly, government said.

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Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Jesus Verzosa breaks a bottle of champagne on one of nine newly-refurbished V150 armoured fighting vehicles during a ceremony where the vehicles were handed over to the Special Action Force unit at the police headquarters in Taguig city, south of Manila, October 7, 2008.

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Visitors look at the Russian BMP-3M armoured infantry vehicle on display at the Defendory International arms fair in Athens on October 7, 2008. On Monday, Russia's state-run weapons exporter Rosoboronexport said Moscow and Athens are drafting a contract for the delivery of 420 Russian tracked armoured infantry vehicles to Greece. The October 7-11 Defendory fair showcasing land, sea and air defence systems at the former airport of Hellenikon includes exhibitors from Britain, China, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Pakistan, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and the United States.
 
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More PIX from Thailand where the action is fast and furious!

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A Thai policeman wearing gas mask holds his hand, after he was shot by an anti-government protester in street battles outside Thai Parliament, in Bangkok, Thailand, 07 October 2008. Thousands of supporters of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) marched on Parliament in an attempt to block the government's reading of a policy statement and launching moves to amend the constitution. Police fired tear gas and battled with protesters through the day with at least one dead and about a hundred injured. A bomb in a car was also detonated killing one and injuring two policemen
 

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Bangkok in turmoil!


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A Thai policeman who was beaten unconscious by angry anti-government protesters is assisted by other police and a medic on the street outside Thai Parliament, in Bangkok, Thailand, 07 October 2008. Thousands of supporters of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) marched on Parliament in an attempt to block the government's reading of a policy statement and launching moves to amend the constitution. Police fired tear gas and battled with protesters through the day with at least one dead and about a hundred injured. A bomb in a car was also detonated killing one and injuring two policemen

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A Thai policeman sits in shock, his leg cut off at the ankle, as another policeman guards him looking at a protester in distance, after the policeman was beaten and ran over by angry anti-government protesters on the street outside Thai Parliament, in Bangkok, Thailand, 07 October 2008. Thousands of supporters of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) marched on Parliament in an attempt to block the government's reading of a policy statement and launching moves to amend the constitution. Police fired tear gas and battled with protesters through the day with at least one dead and about a hundred injured. A bomb in a car was also detonated killing one and injuring two policemen
 
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German Bundeswehr army snipers with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) take position on a shooting range in Kunduz October 7, 2008.

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A German Bundeswehr army soldiers with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) opens fire on a shooting range in Kunduz October 7, 2008
 
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