Smart Group has no Country choice

AddressBook Smart Groups let you select people by Address, State, City, etc., but not by Country (at least my AB 4.0.3 version). Is there a way to add this to the choices?
I can get most of what I want by selecting Address, but sometimes a country name appears in an unintended part of the address (e.g., selecting Israel yields people whose work address is Beth Israel Hospital).
Thanks!
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Hi!
I think that I did what you meant with "enabling", i.e. I opened the AppleScript Utility, which now states:
+Default Script Editor = "Script Editor (2.2.1)+
+GUI Scripting = "Enable GUI Scripting" is UNCHECKED+
+"Show Script menu in menu bar" is CHECKED+
+"Show Computer scripts" is CHECKED+
+Show application scripts at = bottom+
Moreover, I saved your script as *Contacts with No Pictures.scpt*
under */Library/Scripts/Address Book Scripts*
Now, I see the scripts Icon on the +right part+ of the Finder Menu, so that all the Scripts are available whatever Application I am just in.
I have had many Itunes Scripts in the past, and they all appeared under a special Menu Item of Itunes Menu (i.e. on the left part) with the specific Script Icon.
Can I get something similar now, that is hence only available from within Address Book?
Thank you for your patience!

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*See emphasis below* -
Importing and exporting vCards
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