A man with henna-dyed beard, fleeing a military offensive in South Waziristan, waits with others for handouts at a distribution point for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Dera Ismail Khan, located in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province, November 7, 2009. Security forces consolidated their positions in the Pakistani Taliban's main base of Makeen, in South Waziristan, killing eight militants there and four in a clash in another part of the region, the military said. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN POLITICS CONFLICT)
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