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The Decade in Pictures

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It's time to bid farewell to what could be termed as the most eventful decade, the first of the 21st century (2000-2009). An attempt to visually portray this decade

reveals that dreadful wars and natural calamities take center stage. A close look prompts one to think about the growing complexities in the world one lives in. Click

through and see for yourself.NOTE: Some images in this post contain graphic content.

A Kenyan boy screams as he sees Kenyan policeman with a baton approach the door of his home in the Kibera slum of Nairobi 17 Jan. 2008. Hundreds of police who

had earlier clashed with supporters of Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga at the entrance of the slum moved into the shantytown and did a house to house search

for protesters. (Walter Astrada, AFP / Getty Images)

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A hijacked commercial plane approaches the World Trade Center shortly before crashing into the landmark skyscraper 11 Sept. 2001 in New York. (Seth McAlisster,

AFP / Getty Images)

A person falls from the north tower of New York's World Trade Center in this Sept. 11, 2001 photo, after terrorists crashed two hijacked airliners into the World Trade

Center and brought down the twin 110-story towers. (Richard Drew, AP)




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Air France Concorde flight 4590 takes off with fire trailing from its engine on the left wing from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on July 25, 2000. The plane crashed

shortly after take-off, k illing all the 109 people aboard and four others on the ground. A Japanese businessman took t his photo from inside another plane while he was

on a business trip and offered it to a Japanese newspaper after returning home. (Toshihiko Sato, AP)

Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is seen in this picture sent to news media organizations by his kidnappers. Pearl, a 38-year-old American, was abducted in

Karachi, Pakistan Jan. 23, 2002 by a group calling itself "The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty." U.S. President George W. Bush said

Feb. 1, 2002 that his administration will follow all leads that may lead to the Pearl's rescue. (CNN, Getty Images)




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Debris from the space shuttle Columbia streaks across the sky over Tyler, Texas, Feb. 1, 2003. Pieces of the shuttle were scattered over East Texas with some

debris falling in downtown Nacogdoches, Texas. Columbia disintegrated 39 miles over Texas as it returned from a 16-day mission. (Dr. Scott Lieberman, AP)

An Iraqi man, bottom right, looks at Cpl. Edward Chin, of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines Regiment, cover the face of a statue of Saddam Hussein with an American flag

before toppling the statue in downtown in Bagdhad, April 9, 2003. Moments later the American flag was removed. (Jerome Delay, AP)




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US President George W. Bush meets pilots and crew members of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as they return to the US after being deployed in the Gulfregion 01 May 2003. (Hector Mata, AFP / Getty Images)

Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is being dragged out of his hiding following his capture by US troops 13 Dec. 2003 in an underground hole at a farm in the village of ad-

Dawr, near his hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq. The picture is one of a series of images of the deposed dictator unauthorized for release by the US army that has

been circulating in recent days on the internet. (AFP / Getty Images)




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Children attend ballet lessons wearing masks to protect themselves from severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS, in Hong Kong, April 27, 2003. (Vincent Yu, AP)

Members of the military honor guard stand on duty by the casket of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, June 10, 2004 in Washington, DC. (Stephan Savoia, AP)




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Local girls look at a U.N. workers unloading ballot kits from a U.N. helicopter in Ghumaipayan Mahnow village, some 256 miles northeast of Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct.

4, 2004. By air is the only way to deliver the electoral material in the inaccessible areas of the Badakhshan province. (Emilio Morenatti, AP)

A 9-year-old Iraqi girl recovers from a skull fracture and two broken legs in the 31st Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 9, 2004, as hospital staff x-ray a

Marine injured in Fallujah in the background. A U.S. Army Bradley fighting vehicle crashed into her family's car, according to her parents. The hospital is considered

the busiest American combat trauma hospital in the world. (John Moore, AP)




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An Iraqi man celebrates atop a burning U.S. Army Humvee in the northern part of Baghdad, Iraq, April 26, 2004. An explosion leveled a building in northern Baghdad,

setting four U.S. Humvees nearby on fire. At least one U.S. soldier and several Iraqis were wounded. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known.

(Muhammed Muheisen, AP)

World Press Photo of the year 2004 by Indian photographer Arko Datta of the Reuters news agency showing an Indian woman in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, India, Dec.

28, 2004, mourning the death of a relative who was killed in the Asian tsunami catastrophe. (Arko Datta, Reuters / AP)




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Bodies of adults and children lie in mass grave near Wat Bang Muang, Jan. 7, 2005, in Takuapa, Thailand. More than 5,000 people are listed dead in Thailand following

a massive tsunami that struck the popular tourist area in southern Thailand on Dec. 26, 2004. (David Longstreath, AP)

From left, US President George W. Bush, his wife Laura, his father former US President George H.W. Bush, former President Bill Clinton, and US Secretary of State

Condoleezza Rice, kneel by the body of late Pope John Paul II inside St. Peter's Baslica, at the Vatican, April 6, 2005. (Danilo Schiavella, AP)




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Paul Dadge, right, helps injured tube passenger Davinia Turrell away from Edgware Road tube station in London following an explosion, July 7, 2005. A series ofdeadly explosions in London claimed 52 lives and injured hundreds of others. The woman wears a special dress ing for the treatment of burns. The dressing is coated

with a special gel which is designed to prevent infection and reduce skin temperature from the burn. (Jane Mingay, AP)

The body of a victim of Hurricane Katrina floats in flood-waters in New Orleans 01 Sept., 2005. (James Nielsen, AFP / Getty Images)




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A British soldier makes his way out of a burning Warrior fighting vehicle in Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Sept. 19, 2005. British forces and

demonstrators exchanged gunfire in the southern c ity of Basra leaving two c ivilians dead after two Brit ish men were arrested for allegedly gunning down an Iraqi police

officer. (Nabil al-Jurani, AP)

A Jewish settler struggles with an Israeli security officer during clashes that erupted as authorities evacuated the West Bank settlement outpost of Amona, east of the

Palestinian town of Ramallah, Feb. 1, 2006. Thousands of troops in riot gear and on horseback clashed with hundreds of s tone-throwing Jewish sett lers holed up

behind barbed wire and on rooftops in this illegal West Bank settlement outpost, after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the demolition of nine homes at the site.(Oded Balilty, AP)

A photo taken 09 July 2006 shows French midfielder Zinedine Zidane (L) gesturing after head-butting Italian defender Marco Materazzi during the World Cup 2006 final

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A woman takes her dead son into her arms, as she grieves for her six-year-old son, Dhiya Thamer, who was killed when their family car came under fire by unknown

gunmen in Baqouba, capital of Iraq's Diyala province, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 16, 2007. The boy's ten-year old brother, Qusay, was

injured in the attack as the family returned from enrolling the children in school, where Dhiya was to begin his first year. (Adem Hadei, AP)

Survivors flee a bomb blast attack on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Dec. 27, 2007 following a campaign rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The opposition leader




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officials have been quoted as saying. (John Moore, Getty Images)

A Pakistani lawyer runs away from tear gas fired by police officers outside the residence of the country's deposed chief justice Iftikhar Mahmood Chaudhry during a

protest in Islamabad, Pakistan on March 9, 2008. (Emilio Morenatti, AP)

A grieving mother looks back at the body of her child as she is escorted away from a temporary morgue after identifying the body at a sports center, after a 7.8

magnitude earthquake hit the town of Hanwang in Sichuan Province, on May 15, 2008. China's biggest earthquake for a generation left tens of thousands dead,

missing or buried under the rubble of crushed communities, plunging the nation into an all-out aid effort. Troops and rescue teams struggled by air, land and water to

reach areas of southwestern China stricken by the huge quake that demolished schools, homes and factories. (Mark Ralston, AFP / Getty Images)




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Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., center, is covered in the hands of supporters after his primary election night speech in St Paul, Minn.,

June 3, 2008. (Chris Carlson, AP)




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Artists perform during the Closing Ceremony for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on Aug. 24, 2008 in Beijing, China. (Clive Rose, Getty Images)

In this handout image provided by NASA, Hurricane Ike is seen on Sept. 10, 2008 from aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The center of the hurricane was

near 23.8 degrees north latitude and 85.3 degrees west longitude, moving 300 degrees at 7 nautical miles per hour. The sustained winds were 80 nautical miles per

hour with gusts to 100 nautical miles per hour and forecast to intensify, according to NASA. The eye of the hurricane is expected to make landfall at Galveston Island

early on Sept. 13 morning. (NASA via Getty Images)




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Fish remain stuck in a fence as flood waters caused by Hurricane Ike recede, in West Orange, Texas, Sept. 15, 2008. (Eric Gay, AP)

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Richard S. Fuld Jr., wearing tie, is heckled by protesters as he leaves Capitol Hill in Washington after testify before the

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Oct. 6, 2008, on the collapse of Lehman Brothers. (Susan Walsh, AP)




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Protegee, carrying her sibling on her back, cries as she looks for her parents through the village of Kiwanja, 90 kms north of Goma, eastern Congo, Nov. 6, 2008. A

fragile cease-fire in Congo appeared to be unraveling as the U.N. said battles between warlord Laurent Nkunda's rebels and the army spread to another town in the

volatile country's east. (Jerome Delay, AP)

Pigeons fly as the Taj Hotel continues to burn in Mumbai, India, Nov. 27, 2008. Teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals

and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India's financial capital, killing at least 82 people and taking Westerners hostage, police said. A previously

unknown group, apparently Muslim militants, took responsibility for the attacks. (Gautam Singh, AP)




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A gunman identified by police as Ajmal Qasab walks through the Chatrapathi Sivaji Terminal railway station in Mumbai, India, Nov. 26, 2008. Qasab, the only gunman

captured after a 60-hour terrorist siege of Mumbai said he belonged to a Pakistani militant group with links to the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir. The militant

group suspected in the Mumbai attacks is widely believed to have been established by Pakistan's military two decades ago to fight India in the disputed region of

Kashmir. (Sebastian D'souza, Mumbai Mirror / AP)

Airline passengers wait to be rescued on the wings of a US Airways Airbus 320 jetliner that safely ditched in the frigid waters of the Hudson River in New York, after a

flock of birds knocked out both its engines, Jan. 15, 2009. The audio recordings of US Airways Flight 1549, released on Feb 5, 2009 by the Federal Aviation

Administration, reflect the initial tension between tower controllers and the cockpit and then confusion about whether the passenger jet went into the river. (Steven

Day, AP)

Barack Obama stands for a moment in a crowded hallway at the U.S. Capitol moments before walking out to be sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts as the 44th

president of the United States on the West Front of the Capitol on Jan. 20, 2009 in Washington, D.C. Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected to the

office of President in the history of the United States. (Charles Ommanney, Getty Images)




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Pakistani men pray next to a bullet-ridden vehicle parked in the compound of radical Lal Masjid or Red mosque as the chief cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz, not seen, talks

to his supporters during Friday prayers, in Islamabad, Pakistan, April 17, 2009. (Emilio Morenatti / AP)

Seven-month-old Alexa Zuniga wears a surgical mask at the airport in Tijuana, Mexico, April 28, 2009. In Mexico, more than 150 deaths were believed to have been

caused by swine flu. (Guillermo Arias, AP)




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A demonstrator c limbs the Freedom Tower, as hundreds of thousands of supporters of leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who c laims

there was voting fraud in the presidential election, turn out to protest the result of the election at a mass rally in Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2009.

(Vahid Salemi, AP)

Michael Jackson's daughter Paris Michael Katherine Jackson is comforted by the brothers and sisters of Michael Jackson including Marlon and Randy Jackson at thememorial service for the King of Pop at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on July 7, 2009. (Gabriel Bouys, AFP / Getty Images)




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U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marines sleep in their fighting holes inside a compound where they stayed for the night, in the Nawa district of

Afghanistan's Helmand province, July 8, 2009. (David Guttenfelder / AP)

A US Marine of 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade runs to safety moments after an IED blast in Garmsir district of Helmand Province in Afghanistan on July 13, 2009.

Two US Marine soldiers were killed when the explosion occured as they tried to clear a route into the Taliban heartland of southern Helmand province. About 4,000 US

Marines are battling insurgents in a massive offensive launched in the south early July to c lear Taliban militants out of st rongholds ahead of presidential and provincial

council elections scheduled for Aug. 20. (Manpreet Romana, AFP / Getty Images)




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Palestinian bride Kholood Al Zaaneen sits inside a tent built after her family's house was destroyed during Israel's latest military offensive in Gaza, during her wedding

ceremony in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip, July 22, 2009. (Adel Hana, AP)




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Aerial view of an area deforested for catt le ranching within the "Legal Amazon", the name given to the area originally covered by the rainforest, seen on Sept. 2, 2009 in

the northern region of Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Deforestation and forest fires are responsible for 75 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions in Brazil. (Rodrigo

Baleia, LatinContent / Getty Images)

This photo provided by the French Army shows French soldiers arresting suspected pirates off Somalia, in this Nov.12, 2009 file photo. (French Army, ECPAD / AP)

A young girl and her dog looks out from a vehicle as she and her family wait for security clearance at a checkpoint on the outskirt of Bannu, a town on edge of the

Pakistani tribal region of Waziristan, Oct. 22, 2009 as they flee a military offensive in South Waziristan. Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles in

Waziristan, a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border in an operation, with both sides claiming early victories in an army campaign that could shape the future of the

country's battle against extremism. (Ijaz Muhammad, AP)




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#1 Rao 08:03:13 Jan 07 2010 Report This

Cool eye catching pics...

#2 Kayane 12:40:48 Jul 25 2010 Report This

These are s tunning and go straight to the heart.

Unforgettable moments, definitely.

#3 Doug Rosbury 16:48:13 Jul 25 2010 Report This

we come here to earth for the experiences necess ary

to our self mas tery. The tragedies we see here are

swallowed up in the process of gaining the necessary

intelligent self mastery for our glory to come.

What happens on earth such as these situations we see here will go to contribute to that glory

which we look forward to according to our faith. Doug

Rosbury.

#4 st 00:13:05 Jul 26 2010 Report This

Morbid much?

This photo set should be titled "The Decade of Apocalypse in Pictures."

FAIL

#5 Peter Mayer 17:35:17 Jul 25 2010 Report This

We are born on earth, and our experiences lead to our self mastery, yes. But, the glory to

come is not in the next world but in our own. I look forward to a future where we can overcome

our horrid past and remember these im ages as those of a bygone era. Heaven is what we

make it, glory is there for humanity if we choose to obtain it.

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