POLICE WITH RIOT GEAR TAKE UP POSITIONS A FEW BLOCKS FROM THE WHITE HOUSE PRIOR TO...

As a pedestrian looks on, Washington police carrying riot gear prepare to take up positions a few blocks from the White House, prior to anti-globalization protest marches, in Washington September 28, 2002. A raggle-taggle bunch of protesters are gathering in the city Saturday, opposing everything from the World Bank's involvement in oil and gas projects to the need for more debt relief for poor countries. The demonstrators are expected to only number a few thousand after police depleted their ranks with more than 600 arrests in scattered street skirmishes on Friday. The number of protesters outside paled in comparison to the crowds in April 2000, when tens of thousands of anti-globalization demonstrators turned the streets near the IMF's headquarters into something of a siege zone. REUTERS/Gregg Newton GN/HB