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Iraqi and Lebanese Shiite fighters from a group called the Hussein Brigade use a helmet to draw a sniper into view during clashes between the Sunni-dominated Free Syrian Army and government soldiers loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, supported by Iraqi and Lebanese fighters, in the town of Hejeira, which Syrian troops captured, in the countryside near Damascus, Syria, on Friday, Nov. 22, 2013. A leading Shiite Muslim cleric widely followed by Iraqi militants has issued the first public religious edict permitting Shiites to fight in Syria’s civil war alongside Mr. Assad’s forces. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)
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FILE- In this Dec. 1, 2013 file photo, emergency personnel respond to the scene of a Metro-North passenger train derailment in the Bronx borough of New York. Metro-North trains are equipped with an automatic breaking system that might have prevented the crash, but the system was in place to regulate the distance between trains, not to control speeds as trains approached curves, or passed over hills and bridges. Since the crash, the speed limit was lowered on the approach to the curve, plus an alarm will sound and an automatic braking system will engage is a train approaches the bend too fast. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
