U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment open fire on a car approaching their position in Ramadi, Iraq (news - web sites), Friday Oct. 22, 2004. Other Marines had just come in contact with enemy fire nearby, but there were no casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)


U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment search for insurgents in Ramadi, Iraq (news - web sites), Friday Oct. 22, 2004. Other Marines had just come in contact with enemy fire nearby. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)


U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment take a rooftop position in Ramadi, Iraq (news - web sites), Friday Oct. 22, 2004. Other Marines had just come in contact with enemy fire nearby, but there were no casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)


U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment take a rooftop position in Ramadi, Iraq (news - web sites), Friday Oct. 22, 2004. Other Marines had just come in contact with enemy fire nearby, but there were no casualties. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)


U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment search for insurgents in Ramadi, Iraq (news - web sites), Friday Oct. 22, 2004. Other Marines had just come in contact with enemy fire nearby. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)


U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment search for insurgents in Ramadi, Iraq (news - web sites), Friday Oct. 22, 2004. Other Marines had just come in contact with enemy fire nearby. (AP Photo/Jim MacMillan)


US soldiers secure a neighbouhood of Samarra, north of Baghdad. US officials are beginning to assemble a new portrait of the insurgency in Iraq (news - web sites), showing that it has significantly more fighters and far greater financial resources than had been estimated(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)


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BASRA, IRAQ: A Danish soldier stands guard at the scene following a blast 22 October 2004, close to the southern city of Basra, 500 Kms south of the capital. Three Danish soldiers were wounded when two roadside bombs exploded next to their vehicles in separate incidents, Danish military officials said. The first incident occurred about eight kilometers (five miles) from the Sheiba Log Base, the Danish headquarters southwest of Basra. A third soldier was injured later in a blast that occurred as his Danish patrol was returning to Camp Danevang, also southwest of Basra. Denmark has deployed about 500 troops to the Basra region where they serve under British command. AFP PHOTO/Essam AL-SUDANI (Photo credit should read ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/Getty Images)


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BASRA, IRAQ: A Danish soldier is seen securing the area following a blast 22 October 2004, close to the southern city of Basra, 500 Kms south of the capital. Three Danish soldiers were wounded when two roadside bombs exploded next to their vehicles in separate incidents, Danish military officials said. The first incident occurred about eight kilometers (five miles) from the Sheiba Log Base, the Danish headquarters southwest of Basra. A third soldier was injured later in a blast that occurred as his Danish patrol was returning to Camp Danevang, also southwest of Basra. Denmark has deployed about 500 troops to the Basra region where they serve under British command. AFP PHOTO/Essam AL-SUDANI (Photo credit should read ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/Getty Images)


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BASRA, IRAQ: An Iraqi boy holds the hand of a British soldier patrolling the streets of the southern city of Basra, 500 kms south of Baghdad 22 October 2004. Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair's decision to redeploy British troops into a US-controlled volatile area of Iraq could mark the "tipping point" of his mandate, former minister Robin Cook wrote today in British daily newspaper, The Guardian. AFP PHOTO/Essam AL-SUDANI (Photo credit should read ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/Getty Images)


Masked gunmen take up position in Buhriz, outside Baqouba, 60 km north east of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), during a battle with U.S. troops, Friday, Oct. 22, 2004. Armed gunmen and U.S. troops battled near Buhiz, exchanging gun, rocket and artillery fire as U.S. forces scoured palm groves in search of hidden rebel weaponry, the military said. (AP Photo/Sami Aburaya)


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BASRA, IRAQ: A militant from radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr's Mehdi Army stands with his automatic rifle as he guards worshippers at a mosque during Friday noon prayers in the southern city of Basra, 500 kms from Baghdad 22 October 2004. About 4.5 million dollars has been handed out so far in a weapons buyback programme in Sadr City district of Baghdad said Prime Minister Iyad Allawi yesterday. The buyback, started after Sadr called on his militiamen in Baghdad to hand over their weapons in return for an amnesty for his fighters and the release of some of his movement's members from US-run prisons in Iraq. AFP PHOTO/Essam AL-SUDANI (Photo credit should read ESSAM AL-SUDANI/AFP/Getty Images)


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GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP - OCTOBER 22: Palestinian militants walk with mourners as they carry the body of Adnan al-Ghoul, a senior member of the Hamas militant group and a master bombmaker who has been on Israel's wanted list for more than 15 years, during the funeral at Al-Shaty refugee camp, October 22, 2004 in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. Israel killed Adnan al-Ghoul and another gunman in an airstrike on their car in Gaza on Thursday October 23, days before a key parliamentary vote on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza pullout plan.The army had no immediate comment on the attack, but medics said the missile slammed into the vehicle and killed Adnan al-Ghoul. (Photo by Ahmad Khateib/Getty Images)


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JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - OCTOBER 22: (ISRAEL OUT) A Palestinian girl walks past Israeli border policemen as they stand guard outside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the second Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan October 22, 2004 in east Jerusalem, Israel. Israel killed a military leader of the radical Hamas group in the Gaza Strip, risking a new flare-up in violence, just days ahead of a critical Israeli parliamentary vote on the evacuation of Gaza Strip. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)


Two Egyptian soldiers stand guard near the pyramids in Giza. Israel has agreed to let Egypt step up its military presence along its border with the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) ahead of an Israeli withdrawal from the Palestinian territory set for next year.(AFP/File)


Indian troops have killed two Muslim rebels in Kashmir (news - web sites) as a hunt was launched for militants suspected of murdering a former state minister(AFP/File/Tauseef Mustafa)


A Russian soldier walks past a woman holding her baby in the Chechen region's capital Grozny, October 22, 2004. The Interfax agency quoted Chechen President Alu Alkhanov as saying that the increased number of military casualties in Chechnya (news - web sites) recently can be explained by the increased law enforcement activity in the republic. REUTERS/S.Dal



Costa Rican prison guard awaits the arrival of former Costa Rican President Rafael Angel Calderon at La Reforma Penitentiary, in San Antonio de Belen, October 22, 2004. The San Jose criminal court ordered 55 year-old Calderon, Costa Rican president from 1990 to 1994, be held for nine months of preventive detention ahead of his trial on corruption charges. REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate


Four of 22 arrested suspected gang members are guarded by a police officer duing an anti-gang operation east of the capital of San Salvador (news - web sites), El Salvador (news - web sites) Friday Oct. 22, 2004. They were later taken for the police station and presented to the media. (AP Photo/Luis Romero)


Members of the Salvadoran police prepare to enter the home of a suspected gang member during an anti-gang operation called 'The Super Hard Hand,' in the city of Ilopango, 12 kms west of San Salvador (news - web sites), October 22, 2004. El Salvador (news - web sites)'s police is establishing better contacts with their counterparts in the U.S. state of California to gain leverage against gangs in an effort to curtail rampant violent crimes and juvenile gangs in both countries. REUTERS/Luis Rivera


Members of the Salvadoran police prepare to take part in an anti-gang operation called 'The Super Hard Hand,' in the city of Ilopango 12 kms west of San Salvador (news - web sites), October 22, 2004. El Salvador (news - web sites)'s government is establishing better contacts with their counterparts in the U.S. state of California to gain leverage against gangs in an effort to curtail rampant violent crimes and juvenile gangs in both countries. REUTERS/Luis Rivera

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