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An Uzbek man sits as a Uzbek border guard holds his rifle at a check point on the Uzbek-Tajik border in October 2002, at the village of Aybek some 87 miles south of Uzbek capital Tashkent. The border between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan has two faces: one at imposing checkpoint behind an iron fence, manned by stern border guards, customs officers and barking sniffer dogs, the other an unmarked ditch. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo/ str)