AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

A U.S. soldier tries to control hundreds of Haitians waiting to apply as recruits at new Police Academy in front of the Ministry of Justice in Port-au...

U.S. soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division based in Fort Drum, N.Y. board a chartered Boeing 747 to return home at the International Airport in Port-...

Spc. John Davis of the 10th Mountain Division boards the flight home to Fort Drum, N.Y. As he entered the plane he said

Asma Chekiyeva, 55, holds a piece of shrapnel in front of the wall of her house damaged during a Russian air attack on the village of Arshty, about 37...

78-year-old Mensur Dragnic lies in Sarajevo's Kosevo Hospital, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 1994. He is the only survivor of a Serbian fired shell which exploded...

Indian women listen to instructions on women???s health by the Mexican Army in Amparo Agua Tinta, a village in the Southeastern Mexican State of Chiap...

Two Chechens from the village of Arshty, about 37 miles West of Grozny, on the Chechen border with Ingushetia, make repairs to a window, Wednesday, Ja...

A group of Muslim men pray following the funeral of four women villagers in Arshty, a clump of homes on the Chechen border with Ingushetia, some 37 mi...

A Indian family walks along a road near Larrainzar, in the Southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas while an army patrol stands watch on Tuesday, Jan. 3,...

Sham khan and Aslaan Bitiyev, father and son, defenders of the palace of President Dudayev on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1995 in Grozny. (AP Photo/Anatoly Malte...

An armed Chechen woman defender waits in a bunker within the presidential palace in Grozny on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1995. Four days of ferocious street fig...

Chechen fighters listen to a commander at the Presidential Palace in central Grozny on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1995. Dispirited by the failure to seize the p...

As a comrade scans the distance with binoculars, a Chechen fighter, using a sniper rifle and scope, tries to locate a Russian sniper firing on the pre...

Residents of Las Margaritas, Mexico, in the southern state of Chiapas, struggle to reach food being handed out by the army, Monday, Jan. 2, 1995. The...

An elderly Chechen fighter washes his face after fighting in Grozny, the capital of the breakaway Chechen republic on Monday, Jan. 2, 1995. Chechen re...

A Chechen fighter stands next to a building destroyed during clashes between Chechen separatist forces and the Russian army in Central Grozny, Russia,...

Chechen fighters peer down a street in the center of the Chechen capital of Grozny, while searching for Russian snipers on Monday, Jan. 2, 1995 in Gro...

A Chechen fighter replaces the chain on a colleague???s bicycle, in the Chechen capital of Grozny on Monday, Jan. 2, 1995. Both sides, the lightly-arm...

A masked Zapatista rebel dances during the rebels celebration of the New Year and the one year anniversary of their uprising, Sunday, Jan. 1, 1995, Gu...

A masked Zapatista guerrilla hands a sparkler to two women on Sunday, Jan. 1, 1995 in Guadalupe Tepeyac, Mexico, stronghold of the Zapatista army. The...

Tojolabal Indian women form inside Zapatista-controlled territory in the Southeastern Mexican State of Chiapas, cheer as the Zaptista soldiers make th...

A Chiapas state policeman with an automatic weapon stands guard at the municipal palace building in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico on Saturday, De...

A Chiapas state policeman with an automatic weapon stands guard at the municipal palace building in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico on Saturday, De...

U.N. special envoy Yasushi Akashi, left, and Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic, sign truce agreement on the New Year???s Eve in Sarajevo on Saturday...

Israeli soldiers charge a group of Palestinian protesters and Jewish peace activists after they stormed an army blockade at a disputed construction si...

An army of dolls that represent the Zapatista rebels wait on a wall in the Santo Domingo Indian market in San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, Dec. 30,...

Argentinean Capt. Pablo Avila, left, a member of International Police Monitors, teaches new police officers aspects of the Haitian constitution at a p...

Indigenous women form the town of Belen in the southeastern Mexican state of Chiapas listen as their new church is dedicated, Dec. 30, 1994. The towns...

A Zapatista rebel unloads bags from a humanitarian aid convoy, Dec. 29, 1994 in Guadalupe Tepeyac, Mexico. Several aid convoys from Mexico and the U.S...

A truckload of Zapatista rebels arrives at Guadalupe Tepeyac, to unload several trucks of humanitarian aid that arrived in an a convoy, Dec. 29, 1994....

Zapatista rebels guard the road to Guadalupe Tepeyac, Mexico, Dec. 29, 1994. The rebels received three aid convoys Thursday and released a statement s...

Several buses and trucks line up in the early morning fog in San Cristobal de las Casas, before departing to bring humanitarian relief aid to communit...

Russian soldiers ride atop an armored personnel carrier loaded with pine trees they felled in a forest for a new year and orthodox Christmas celebrati...

A Mexican soldier checks the documents of one of several humanitarian aid caravan trucks bound for needy communities in rebel-held territory, Dec. 28,...

Volunteers sort and pack donations of food, clothing and toys, Dec. 28, 1994 in San Cristobal de las Casas as part of a relief caravan for communities...

A Mexican army light tank moves along on patrol near Ocosingo, Chiapas, Dec. 28, 1994. The Mexican army present in the southeastern state of Chiapas h...

An OMON (Interior Ministry Special Forces) soldier decorates a fir tree with a star cut out from an ammunition box, for the New Year and orthodox Chri...

Russian Interior Ministry troops jump down from the armored personnel carrier after patrolling a checkpoint near Ordzhonikidzevskaya, 38 miles, west o...

An elderly man steps off a bus as state judicial police watch in Cuxulja, Chiapas, Dec. 28, 1994. In recent weeks state and federal forces have increa...

Chechen volunteers leave Independence Square in front of the Presidential building in Grozny, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 1994. Russian warplanes resu...

A Russian soldier shelters himself behind a concrete wall, during a training alert near Sleptsovskoye, 50 kilometers (38 miles), West of Grozny on Tue...

A woman walks past barbed wire and U.S. armored vehicles positioned near the Haitian army's military headquarters in the capital of Port-au-Prince, Tu...

Robert James Murrell, Jr., who has been homeless off and on for five years, reads a newspaper on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1994 in Washington as a pedestrian...

Robert James Murrell, Jr., who has been homeless off and on for five years, reads a newspaper, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1994 in Washington. Murrell sits on a...

A convoy of Mexican light armored vehicles lines up at Cuxulja, a major crossroads in the highlands of the southeastern state of Chiapas, about 50 mil...

A woman carries her baby across a street in front of a convoy of Mexican Army troops, Dec. 28, 1994 in Ocosingo, Chiapas. In recent weeks the strength...

A truckload of Mexican troops rumbles past the plaza of San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, Dec. 26, 1994. The government made a two-pronged weekend p...

A Russian Special Forces (OMON) officer, wearing a mask to prevent identification, talks to a local Chechen resident, left, near the village of Samash...

Two American soldiers tend to a wounded Haitian soldier after a shooting inside the Haitian army headquarters between ex-soldiers and soldiers, Monday...

In a scene typical of Sarajevo winter street life, a one legged victim of the conflict walks with his family through the uncleared frozen snow on Mond...