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I apoligize for my PIX disappearing but the photo hosting site I have been using is don today.:confused::( Hopefully it will be back on line today.

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HRENSKO, CZECH REPUBLIC - DECEMBER 17: Guard-boats of the Czech Republic (R) and of Germany (L) patrol on the Elbe river days before the opening of the Czech-German border on December 17, 2007, in Hrensko, Czech Republic. When the Czech Republic and other new member states join the Schengen agreement on December 21, 2007, these border control posts will be decommissioned. (Photo by Radim Beznoska/isifa/***** Images)

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Afghan security guards of the Parliament stage an arrest of a demonstrator during a ceremony of the handing over of training diplomas by experts of the French police in Kabul, 16 December 2007. Security guards of the Parliament first brigade received their diplomas after a few weeks of training provided by the French police project team. AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/***** Images)

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Lebanese army troops patrol a street leading to the Lebanese parliament in downtown Beirut 17 December 2007. Lebanon's presidential election was postponed for a ninth time today to December 22, despite intense international efforts to convince rival parties to strike a deal and end a dangerous political vacuum. The delay, the ninth since September, comes amid intense efforts by the United States and other countries to convince Lebanon's pro- and anti-Syrian factions to proceed to a vote and avoid plunging the country into further chaos.AFP PHOTO/JOSEPH BARRAK (Photo credit should read JOSEPH BARRAK/AFP/***** Images)

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AFP (Armed Forces Philippines) Army Sergeant Rica Flores views a model of a house during a housing fair for military personnel, 17 December 2007 at the Armed Forces headquarters in Manila. The fair aims to offer different kinds of affordable housing solutions to all military personnel this Christmas. Armed Forces chief General Hermogenes Esperon Jr. also said said that no coup attempt would spoil the Christmas season because rebel soldiers who tried to oust the government last month do not have the support of the troops. AFP PHOTO / LUIS LIWANAG (Photo credit should read LUIS LIWANAG/AFP/***** Images)

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BASRA, IRAQ - DECEMBER 16: Iraqi security forces march during a handover ceremony on December 16, 2007, in Basra, 340 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq. Britain formally handed over security control in Southeastern province of Basra to Iraqi forces on Sunday, December 16, 2007. (Photo by Khaldoon Zubeir/***** Images)
 

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These PIX of the Hmong shocked me. I thought most had migrated out of hiding. These Hmong still fight on...

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Ethnic Hmong relatives of C.I.A. Secret War veterans walked through the jungle in the Vientiane province of Laos. The C.I.A. operation, from 1961 until 1975, became known as the Secret War because the fighting to prevent a Communist takeover in Laos was done by the C.I.A.'s mercenaries, most of whom were from the Hmong, a hill-dwelling ethnic minority. Today, thousands of Hmong veterans and their families remain in the jungle.
Photo: Tomas Van Houtryve for the International Herald Tribune

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"If I surrender, I will be punished,"Â said Xang Yang, a 58-year-old veteran. He said his group has been attacked by the Lao People's Army twice this year. Human rights groups and United States diplomats say that Laotian troops have been involved in numerous attacks by veterans of the Secret War and their families.
Photo: Tomas Van Houtryve for the International Herald Tribune

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The State Department's annual human rights report, released in March, said there have been increased efforts by security forces to eliminate scattered pockets of Hmong fighters.
Photo: Tomas Van Houtryve for the International Herald Tribune
 

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A Somalia government soldier displays components of a remotely controlled landmine with a mobile phone, which was found near a road in Bal'ad in the north of Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2007. Attackers usually detonate handmade landmines like this by remote control as government vehicles pass by, along the main roads in Mogadishu. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)​

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An Indonesian marine stands guard near USS Port Royal, guided missile cruiser during a port call in Jakarta, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2007. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)​

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In this photo provided by Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force officers monitor screens at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii, during a Japanese military's missile defense test in the water off the island Monday, Dec. 17, 2007. A Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) launched from the Japanese Aegis Destroyer JS Kongo at sea shot down a mid-range ballistic missile fired from the U.S. Navy facility as a target Monday, becoming the first U.S. ally to shoot down a mid-range ballistic missile with an interceptor fired from a ship. (AP Photo/Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, HO)​

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A total of 325 Philippine police and military personnel are seen at the National Police Headquarters, as they wait to be deployed, 18 December 2007 in Manila. The police and military personnel will be fielded in tandem to different malls and railway stations to protect the citizens against criminal activity during the official start of the Christmas season. AFP PHOTO/LUIS LIWANAG (Photo credit should read LUIS LIWANAG/AFP/***** Images)
 

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Gents..I removed those post where the PIX had disappeared to clean up this thread! Enjoy the PIX!

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A Palestinian policeman loyal to Hamas movement walks next to a blood stained stretcher outside the al-Aqsa hospital in the central Gaza Strip refugee camp of Maghazi, 20 December 2007. The Israeli army killed at least three militants in the central Gaza Strip today in the latest military operation in the Hamas-run territory, Palestinian medics said. AFP PHOTO/ SAID KHATIB (Photo credit should read SAID KHATIB/AFP/***** Images)

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Israeli soldiers help a wounded comrade at an army base near Kibbutz Kisufim during an Israeli army operation in Gaza Strip, 20 December 2007. The Israeli army killed four militants in the central Gaza Strip today in the latest military operation in the Hamas-run territory, Palestinian medics said. AFP PHOTO/DAVID BUIMOVITCH (Photo credit should read DAVID BUIMOVITCH/AFP/***** Images)

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Israeli soldiers evacuate a wounded comrade at an army base near Kibbutz Kisufim during an Israeli army operation in the Gaza Strip, 20 December 2007. The Israeli army killed four militants in the central Gaza Strip today in the latest military operation in the Hamas-run territory, Palestinian medics said. AFP PHOTO/DAVID BUIMOVITCH (Photo credit should read DAVID BUIMOVITCH/AFP/***** Images)

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Residents look at armed soldiers posted outside of the Makati city court in suburban Manila, 20 December 2007 as a group of 29 officers face charges for coup d' etat. The group believed to be the core leaders were among the more than 300 junior officers who took over a luxury apartment hotel in the Makati financial district in July 2003, demanding President Gloria Arroyo step down along with her generals and accusing her of corruption. Meanwhile, military chief General Hermongenes Esperson said 53 military officers who served time in detention for the 2003 mutiny were to be freed 20 December. AFP PHOTO/ROMEO GACAD (Photo credit should read ROMEO GACAD/AFP/***** Images)

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Pakistani paramilitary soldiers load sandbags and other items on a truck in front of The Presidency in Islamabad, 15 December 2007, after the lifting of a state of emergency. Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has lifted a national state of emergency after making last-minute changes to the constitution to strengthen his hand against the courts and parliament. Amid months of political turmoil and the stiffest challenges to his rule since he seized power in a 1999 coup, the government announced his unpopular emergency rule was over and that the constitution was no longer suspended. AFP PHOTO/Farooq NAEEM (Photo credit should read FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/***** Images)
 
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A Palestinian militant takes cover behind a wall bearing the symbol of Hamas' armed wing during an Israeli Army incursion in the central Gaza Strip. Four militants were killed Thursday, Palestinian medics said. (AFP/***** Images photo by Mohammed Abed / December 20, 2007)

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Romanian soldiers stand at attention during ceremonies commemorating the victims of the 1989 bloody anti-communist Romanian revolution, at the Heroes Cemetery in Bucharest December 21, 2007. Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was arrested after the December 1989 popular uprising and executed on December 25, 1989.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy (C) meets French soldiers during his visit to Kabul, 22 December 2007. The international community cannot afford to lose the "war against terrorism" in Afghanistan, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on a quick visit to the insurgency-hit country. The various nations with troops here must be united and committed in their efforts to build Afghanistan so it can withstand insurgents linked with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, Sarkozy told reporters travelling with him. AFP PHOTO/POOL/Eric FEFERBERG (Photo credit should read ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP/***** Images)

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Ivory Coast Armed Forces (FANCI) soldiers prepare to march out of Tieboussou 22 December 2007 to regroup in Yamoussoukro during the regrouping operation of the Defence and Security Forces of Ivory Coast (FDS-CI) and the Defence and Security Forces Army of New Forces (FDS-FAFN). The Ivorian government and ex-rebel forces launched a long-awaited disarmament process considered key to securing a sustainable peace in the troubled, cocoa-rich West African country AFP PHOTO / KAMBOU SIA (Photo credit should read KAMBOU SIA/AFP/***** Images)

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A Thai soldier assits polling agents in setting up a booth on the eve of the general elections in Thailand's southern Yala province, 22 December 2007. Thailand was poised for the first election since last year's bloodless coup, under the close watch of the military and the looming shadow of deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. AFP PHOTO/ Muhammad SABRI (Photo credit should read MUHAMMAD SABRI/AFP/***** Images)
 

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Volunteers with the Awakening movement in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad guard an electrical substation.

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The "Awakening" groups, predominantly Sunni Arab forces recruited to fight Sunni Islamic extremists like Al Qaeda, have been widely credited with turning around the violence-scarred areas where the Sunni insurgency has been based. A member in the Adhamiya neighborhood of Baghdad guards a checkpoint.
Photo: Joao Silva for The New York Times

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A woman waits for permission to enter the Amiriya neighborhood at a checkpoint that is controlled by Iraqi Army troops, right, and members of the Sunni Awakening, left. The United States Army also has a small presence at this checkpoint.
Photo: Joao Silva for The New York Times

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American & Iraqi soldiers watch a boy doing push-ups during a visit to school in Dora, which is guarded by Awakening members. Though the Americans are obtaining biometric data on every Awakening group member to screen out known insurgents, the government and many Shiite citizens say they fear that the movement has spread so quickly that it is impossible to keep track of who has signed up for it.
Photo: Joao Silva for The New York Times

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A volunteer with the Adhamiya Awakening Council sits at the blocked entrance to a bridge that links the Sunni neighborhood to the Shiite Khademiya in Baghdad. Despite the government’s promises, hardly any Awakening members outside Anbar have been moved off the American payroll and into Iraqi government jobs. The Iraqi government believed that almost half of the 65,000 who were already on the American payroll were involved in the insurgency in some way.
Photo: Joao Silva for The New York Times

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Afghan guard waits for Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi as it snows at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 23, 2007. Prodi arrived in Kabul on Sunday to meet with President Hamid Karzai and to visit Italian troops based in western Afghanistan, an official at the presidential palace said.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)​

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Burunidan soldiers line up to exit from a military transport plane after their arrival in Mogadishu's International airport 23 December 2007. Around 100 Burundian soldiers arrived in Somalia on Sunday as part of an African Union peacekeeping force trying to stabilise the war-torn country, an AU official said. The tiny central African country has pledged to deploy a total of 1,700 soldiers to Somalia to join some 1,600 Ugandan soldiers based in the volatile capital Mogadishu. .Since February some 600,000 civilians have been displaced and thousands of others killed in relentless violence that intensified with the January ouster of an Islamist movement, according to the United Nations. AFP PHOTO/AFRICAN UNION/HO (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/***** Images)

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A French soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) plays the guitar beside a Christmas tree at Camp Warehouse in Kabul, 23 December 2007. France has about 1,600 troops serving with NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) that is involved in efforts to defeat a Taliban-led insurgency and build Afghanistan's security forces. AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/***** Images)
 

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Merry Christmas to ALL!!!

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Government troops inspect the scene where a bomb ripped through a barber shop (background) in the southern Philippine city of Cotabato on the eve of Christmas 24 December 2007, wounding two people including a local official, police said. One of the injured escaped unharmed from a similar attack in the same place earlier this year. Cotabato, a mixed city of Roman Catholics and Muslims, is at the centre of a decades-old separatist rebellion by a large Islamic minority in this southern Mindanao region. Violence connected to the Islamic insurgency, extortion and petty crimes have rocked Cotabato. AFP PHOTO/MARK NAVALES

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Kurdish village guards take a break during a patrol Sunday on a road in the Hakkari province of southeastern Turkey. Turkey's military said it attacked Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq Saturday for the third time in less than a week. (STR, AFP/***** Images photo / December 23, 2007)

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Chinese and Indian soldiers jump into mud during a joint anti-terrorism military training in Kunming, southwest China, December 22, 2007. The Chinese and Indian armies kicked off the first joint anti-terrorism military training Friday morning. The two armies each dispatched about 100 ground troops for the training, code-named "Hand-in-Hand 2007". The training will run until December 27, Xinhua News Agency reported. Picture taken December 22, 2007.
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An Israeli police explosives expert lifts the remains of a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza after it landed in a field near Kibbutz Mefalsim, just outside the northern Gaza Strip, December 23, 2007.
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A U.N. peacekeeper from Spain decorates an armoured personnel carrier for Christmas at their base near Marjayoun village in south Lebanon December 23, 2007.
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Indian policemen are seen resting during a standoff with suspected militants held up in a mosque in Pallun, 75 km (46 miles) south of Srinagar, December 24, 2007. A more than 36 hour long standoff between security forces and three militants continues after militants took five civilians as hostages inside a mosque in the village of Pallun, police said.
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An Iraqi policeman looks at a burning U.S. vehicle after a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad December 26, 2007. Iraqi police said that there were no civilian casualties in the attack which targeted a U.S. patrol. The U.S. military forces did not comment on the attack.
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Security personnel walk at the site of a plane crash in Almaty airport December 26, 2007. A small German-owned private jet crashed during take-off from Almaty airport on Wednesday, killing its only passenger, Kazakhstan's Emergency Ministry said.
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Indonesian soldiers and villagers dig into mud to search for landslide victims in Karang Anyar district near Solo, Indonesia's Central Java province, December 26, 2007. Landslides and floods caused by torrential rains overnight have left up to 81 people dead or missing in Indonesia's Central java province, police and rescue officials said on Wednesday.
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Francesca Lewis is carried on a stretcher off a military helicopter after being rescued in the town of David, west of Panama City, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007. Francesca, a 12-year-old U.S. girl who was the only survivor of a weekend plane crash, was found Tuesday walking near the wreckage of the plane in the 3,500-feet (1,067-meter) high, jungle-laden flanks of the Baru. The crash of the Cessna 172 on Sunday killed Francesca's friend Talia Klein, 13, Klein's father, Michael Klein, 37, of Santa Barbara, California, and Panamanian pilot Edwin Lasso, 23.(AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)​

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Iraqi soldiers guard blindfolded detainees at an army headquarters in the restive city of Baquba, 45 kms northeast of Baghdad, 26 December 2007. Some 12 suspected insurgents were arrested by the Iraqi army during a raid in Baquba today, an Iraqi Army officer said. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read -/AFP/***** Images)
 

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A road worker looks at OMON, riot police, officers patrolling in the Chechnya's capital Grozny, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2007. Large-scale fighting has ended in the North Caucasus region, but a small number of surviving militant separatists continue to stage hit-and-run attacks on law enforcement and federal troops. (AP Photo/Musa Sadulayev)​

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A police officer,center right, asks for a citizen's ID outside Villavicencio's airport, south of Bogota, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007. Colombia agreed Wednesday to allow Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez's planes and helicopters to land into its territory, in order to pick up three hostages who have been held for years by leftist rebels and who will allegedly be released within hours. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

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Members of a regional special action unit of the Philippine National Police patrol a busy street in downtown Manila, 26 December 2007. Philippine security forces went on full alert on Christmas Day amid fears of communist guerrilla attacks despite a holiday truce in effect across the country, a military spokesman said. The New People's Army (NPA) mother organisation, the Communist Party of the Philippines, marked its 39th founding anniversary on 26 December. AFP PHOTO / JES AZNAR (Photo credit should read JES AZNAR/AFP/***** Images)

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Members of the Awakening 'al-Sahwa' group control traffic at a checkpoint in al-Adhamiyah, a Sunni district in north Baghdad, 27 December 2007. Hundreds of Sunni Arabs in Adhamiyah who were former insurgents have turned into neighbourhood guardians with the support of the US military to fight Al-Qaeda and also to thwart attacks from Shiite militias. AFP PHOTO / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE (Photo credit should read AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/***** Images)

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Turkish soldiers patrol in an armoured vehicle on a road near Yuksekova, southeastern Turkey near the border with Iraq, 26 December 2007. Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets along the Turkish border in northern Iraq 26 December 2007, the Turkish military said, confirming Kurdish reports of a fresh air strike. The raid was undertaken after "it was determined that a large group of terrorists, who have been watched for a long time, are preparing to pass the winter in eight caves and hideouts in the Zap region," the general staff said in a statement on its web site. AFP PHOTO STRINGER (Photo credit should read -/AFP/***** Images)

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With the State Historical Museum in the background, OMON, riot police officers, stand near the Okhotny Ryad underground shopping mall in downtown Moscow, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007, after a fire cracker exploded outside the mall. Thousands of holiday shoppers were evacuated from a shopping center next to the Kremlin on Thursday after a loud bang resounded, but police said there were no reports of injuries and suggested it was caused by fireworks. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)​

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Israeli Air Force planes perform an acrobatic display at a graduation ceremony for new pilots at the Hatzerim Air Force Base near the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)​

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An Iraqi soldier sits behind a machine gun in front of the entrance to the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf, 160 kms (100 miles) south of Baghdad, 27 December 2007, on the eve of Eid Al-Ghadir. Iraqi Shiites celebrate Al-Ghadir Day, which marks the day Prophet Mohammed designated his cousin and son-in-law Imam Ali as his successor. AFP PHOTO/QASSEM ZEIN (Photo credit should read QASSEM ZEIN/AFP/Getty Images)

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Iraqi soldiers gather around the wreckage of a car in al-Hedid, 10 kms away from the restive city of Baquba, 45 kms northeast of Baghdad, 26 December 2007. Iraqi forces found 17 unidentified bodies alledgedly killed by al-Qaeda fighters. AFP PHOTO/STR (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

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Turkish soldiers patrol on a road near Yuksekova, southeastern Turkey near the border with Iraq, 26 December 2007. Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets along the Turkish border in northern Iraq 26 December 2007, the Turkish military said, confirming Kurdish reports of a fresh air strike. The raid was undertaken after "it was determined that a large group of terrorists, who have been watched for a long time, are preparing to pass the winter in eight caves and hideouts in the Zap region," the general staff said in a statement on its web site. AFP PHOTO STRINGER (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai (L) and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi inspect a guard of honour in the falling snow prior to a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, 23 December 2007. Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi visited Afghanistan for talks with President Hamid Karzai and Italian troops taking part in an international effort against a growing and deadly insurgency. Prodi's Christmastime visit follows that of the leaders of France and Australia, who also have troops in NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) working against the intensifying Taliban-led insurgency. AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)

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Belgian Defence Minister Pieter De Crem (R) stands with two Belgian UN soldiers near the memorial statue of their comrades who were killed earlier this year in a car accident, in the southern Lebanese village of Tebnin, 27 December 2007. De Crem is on an official visit to Lebanon to hold talks with Lebanese officials and visit his country's troops serving with the United Nations peacekeeping force monitoring the border with Israel. AFP PHOTO/MAHMOUD ZAYAT (Photo credit should read MAHMOUD ZAYAT/AFP/Getty Images)
 
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