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Actor Sean Penn lights a cigarette during a newsconference at al Rasheed Hotel in Baghdad, Sunday Dec. 15 , 2002. In his statement to the media Penn said ' my trip here is to personally record the human face of the Iraqi people so that their blood along with that of American soldiers would not be invisible on my own hands'. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)



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Georgian soldiers vow loyalty to Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze during the ceremony to mark the first Georgian battalion graduating from U.S. anti-terrorism training in Tbilisi, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2002. Washington's US$64 million 'train and equip' program for Georgia was launched to help Tbilisi form its own anti-terrorist units for action against militants believed to be linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network and holed up in the rugged border region near Russia's breakaway republic of Chechnya. (AP Photo/ Shakh Aivazov)



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A Palestinian holds a rock as an Israeli tank releases a smoke screen during clashes in the West Bank town of Nablus on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2002. Israeli tanks tightened their chokehold on Nablus, the West Bank's biggest city, and battles raged at nearby refugee camps between the troops and hundreds of Palestinian gunmen. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)



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High school seniors Danielle Cheatom, left, and Rachel Urban talk Thursday, Dec. 12, 2002, about the selection of two girls as 'Cutest Couple'. The selection touched off a drama last month at Crete-Monee High School in Crete, Ill. Urban, 17, said 'If 15- and 17-year-olds are mature enough to handle this, the rest of the country can.' (AP Photo/Stephen J. Carrera)



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Members of the United States military load the bodies of five U.S. soldiers killed in a routine training mission helicopter crash in Santa Cruz de Yojoa, Honduras, into a transport helicopter, December 12, 2002. The UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter crashed late December 11, killing five members of the 228th Aviation Regiment based in Soto Cano, northeast of Tegucigalpa. The cause of the accident is under investigation. REUTERS/Stringer