FA-18A Australian Air Force planes await mid-air refuelling during a training exercise over the Australian outback in this Defence Force picture taken on September 3, 2001. Australian officials shrugged off a Taliban dismissal of Canberra's contribution to the US-led campaign against Afghanistan, a day after 150 Special Air Service troops left to join American troops. Australia will deploy a total of 1,550 personnel in the war against terrorism, along with four long-range FA-18A attack planes and mid-air refuelling planes, such as those seen in this photo. —REUTERS