Protesters faces police during a demonstration against the expansion of a U.S. military base at the Dal Molin airport, in Vicenza, northern Italy, Saturday, July 4 2009. Thousands of people flocked to this northeastern Italian city on Saturday to protest a planned U.S. military base expansion. Demonstrators wearing helmets and carrying plastic shields threw stones and other objects at police guarding a bridge on the route of the protest. Police fired tear gas canisters and clubbed some demonstrators, but no injuries were immediately reported. AP Photo logo AP Photo 31 months ago

Protesters faces police during a demonstration against the expansion of a U.S. military base at the Dal Molin airport, in Vicenza, northern Italy, Saturday, July 4 2009. Thousands of people flocked to this northeastern Italian city on Saturday to protest a planned U.S. military base expansion. Demonstrators wearing helmets and carrying plastic shields threw stones and other objects at police guarding a bridge on the route of the protest. Police fired tear gas canisters and clubbed some demonstrators, but no injuries were immediately reported.

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