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A stray dog takes a suspected bomb as a bomb disposal robot is about to defuse the material in front of Prime Minister Office in Kathmandu, Nepal, 29 December 2007. Later on, the security personnel found that the bag was filled with stone and wrapped up of black plastic and electric wire. This came a day after Nepal lawmakers formally approved in parliament to abolish the centuries old monarchy and declare the country a republic.
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Members of the Palestinian security forces march in formation while training in the West Bank city of Hebron December 29, 2007
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Israeli soldiers stand near a military vehicle in the West Bank village of Beit Kahel near Hebron after a shooting attack December 28, 2007. Palestinian militants shot dead two Israeli hikers on Friday near the West Bank city of Hebron, Israeli rescue services and a Palestinian militant group said
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Palestinian security officers inspect a weapon found with one of three Israelis detained in in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, 29 December 2007. Palestinian security forces arrested two Israeli men and a woman, one of them armed, outside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Palestinian and Israeli officials said. An Israeli army spokeswoman confirmed the incident, adding that one of the men was an off-duty soldier carrying an army-issued M-16. AFP PHOTO/MUSA AL-SHAER (Photo credit should read MUSA AL-SHAER/AFP/***** Images)
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Israeli soldiers patrol the site where two off-duty comrades and a Palestinian man were killed in the West Bank village of Halhul near Hebron, 28 December 2007. The soldiers, Ahikham Amichai and David Rubin, and Palestinian Basel al-Natshe were killed in an exchange of fire in the south of the Israeli-occupied West Bank today, the Israeli army said. AFP PHOTO/MARCO LONGARI (Photo credit should read MARCO LONGARI/AFP/***** Images)
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Palestinian protesters throw stones at an Israeli army watchtower along a section of Israel's controversial separation barrier during a demonstration in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, 28 December 2007. Israel says its 650-kilometre (410-mile) "security barrier" is needed to stop potential attackers. The Palestinians say the "apartheid wall" is part of a land grab aimed at undermining the viability of their promised state. AFP PHOTO/MUSA AL-SHAER (Photo credit should read MUSA AL-SHAER/AFP/***** Images)
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I found these PIX at ABC news..they may be dated but are awesome none the less!
This Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle, or MRAP, either drove by -- or more likely drove over -- a large improvised explosive device, or IED. Despite the wreckage that resulted, all of the crew members survived. The large reddish splotch to the left of the vehicle appears to be transmission fluid or another vehicle fluid.
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Blasting technician Thomas Gesk shows the two fuses he removed as he kneels in front of a 10-centner WWII bomb in Hanover, Germany, 30 October 2007. The defusing of a WWII bomb called for the evacuation of some 14,000 inhabitants from their homes in Hanover. The explosive device was discovered in a densely inhabited area at a depth of 7.5 m underneath a supermarket parking lot following the analysis of aerial pictures
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A Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) is launched from the Japanese AEGIS Destroyer JS Kongo enroute to an intercept of a target missile launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii December 17, 2007. The $55 million test was a "major milestone" in growing U.S.-Japanese cooperation, said Rear Adm. Katsutoshi Kawano of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and Lt. General Henry Obering, head of the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency. Picture taken December 17, 2007.
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An Israeli air force jet takes part in an aerobatics display during a graduation ceremony at the Hatzerim base in southern Israel December 27, 2007
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A handout photograph provided on 29 December 2007 by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) show a sniffer dog at work at an undisclosed border crossing point in the West Bank on an undisclosed date and shows sacks confiscated, which the army says were filled with some 6.5 tons of Potassium Nitrate. The Potassium Nitrate was disguised in bags marked that they were humanitarian sugar aid from the EU, and were intended for Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. Potassium Nitrate is a banned substance in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank due to its use by militants in the manufacture of explosives and Kassam rockets
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