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Volunteers push the dead body of a passenger on a stretcher at a local hospital in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The passenger jet carrying 152 people crashed into the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital amid rain Wednesday, officials said. (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)

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A Pakistani man mourns the death of his family member who was killed in a plane crash at Karachi airport in Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The passenger jet carrying 152 people crashed into the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital amid poor weather Wednesday, officials said. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

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In this April 29, 2010, file photo, Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks during a press conference, in Phoenix. Without the benefit of their state's strict new immigration law, Arizona officers from Maricopa County helped deport more than 26,000 immigrants from the U.S. through a federal-local partnership that has been roundly criticized as fraught with problems. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

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Karen Cunagin Sypher, second from left, walks with two unidentified women and her attorney James Earhart as she leaves the federal courthouse in Louisville, Ky., Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010. Sypher was convicted of extortion for demanding millions of dollars from Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino to keep their tryst at a restaurant secret. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, centre, delivers a statement to the media outside the High Court, London, after his release on bail, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. Assange is swapping a Victorian prison cell for an English country mansion after a judge granted bail to the WikiLeaks founder wanted in Sweden for questioning on sex-crimes allegations. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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In this undated photo released by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines in Tokyo, Japan's shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines' tanker M. Star is shown. The Japanese shipping company said Wednesday, July 28, 2010, an explosion, suspected to be an attack, has damaged the oil tanker near the mouth of the Persian Gulf, causing one minor injury but did not cause an oil leak. (AP Photo/Mitsui O.S.K. Lines)

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Nazi guards pose at the Belzec death camp in occupied Poland in 1942. Samuel Kunz, 90, has been charged in the murder of 430,000 Jews at the Belzec camp, where he served as a guard from January 1942 to July 1943. (AP Photo/Yad Vashem Photo Archive)

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Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino, right, is accompanied by an unidentified man as he arrives at the federal courthouse to testify in the trial of Karen Cunagin Sypher in Louisville, Ky., Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Sypher is charged with trying to extort cash, cars and a house to stay quiet about a sexual liaison. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke)

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Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich talks with Darrell Murphy as he arrives at federal court Tuesday for closing arguments in his corruption trial. The case now is in the jury's hands. (AP Photo)

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Warren Jeffs was "deprived ... of the fair trial to which all are entitled under our laws," a justice wrote in the unanimous decision. (Associated Press)

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Marine Gen. James Mattis, named to head U.S. Central Command, arrives Tuesday on Capitol Hill to testify at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Central Command Commander-nominee Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, left, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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U.S. Central Command Commander-nominee Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, center, smiles on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, prior to testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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U.S. Central Command Commander-nominee Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Former U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix arrives to give evidence at the Iraq War Inquiry in London on Tuesday, July 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich talks with Darrell Murphy as he arrives at federal court for closing arguments in his federal corruption trial on Tuesday, July 27, 2010, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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California's Attorney General Jerry Brown speaks during a press conference in Los Angeles on Monday, July 26, 2010. Mr. Brown said he has subpoenaed hundreds of records from the city of Bell, a Los Angeles suburb under investigation for sky-high salaries paid to its leaders. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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Khmer Rouge victim Hong Savath, 47, weeps Monday in Phnom Penh after the bloody regime's chief jailer, Kaing Guek Eav, was sentenced to 35 years in prison, which likely will keep him jailed just 19 years, for overseeing the deaths of up to 16,000 people. (Associated Press)

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Kaing Guek Eav, aka Duch, is the first senior Khmer Rouge leader ever to be convicted. He ran a top-secret detention center for the state's worst "enemies." (Extraordinary Chambers in the courts of Cambodia via Associated Press)