British Royal Air Force pilot Flt Lt Mike Rutland checks a Maverick
laser guided missile on his Harrier GR7 on its base in Kuwait before
his mission over Iraq March 27, 2003. Britain said on Thursday is was
almost certain that two dead soldiers whose bodies were shown on
Qatar-based al-Jazeera television were indeed British, as the station
claimed. REUTERS/Russell Boyce

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