The photos were posted on the Facebook website by a support group at Fairchild Air Force Base called Mom2Mom.

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They include Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj, held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after his arrest in Pakistan, and Jawed Ahmad, a journalist with Canada's CTV who is at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, according to the group.

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Mr Panetta took the opportunity to announce a delayed timeframe for planned cuts to the Lajes Air Base in Portugal's Azores, a group of nine volcanic islands located almost 1, 000 miles (1, 600km) west of the Iberian peninsula.

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In response, Mr Zelaya led a group of supporters to an air force base where they carted off the ballots.

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Timothy Conley, deputy director of the 88th Communications Group at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio estimates there are about 30 public websites maintained at the base - including pages for the United States Air Force Museum and the USAF Institute of Technology.

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