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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush speaks at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials conference in Orlando, Fla., on Thursday, June 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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In this Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012 photo, a Syrian woman walks in front of a destroyed hospital where heavy clashes took place between rebel fighters and the Syrian army to seize control over the area, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. There is a struggle for power among rebel factions in Syria with Islamists rejecting the country's new Western-backed opposition coalition and unilaterally declaring an Islamic state in the key battleground of Aleppo, though all of the groups are fighting to topple President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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A Syrian rebel fighter watches over government troops with a piece of mirror as rebels fire rockets at a government air force compound on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. Islamists have rejected the country's new Western-backed opposition coalition and unilaterally declaring an Islamic state in the key battleground of Aleppo, though all of the groups are fighting to topple President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, photo, Syrian rebel fighters prepare to fire a homemade rocket as they carry out a coordinated attack by hundreds of rebel fighters on a Syrian air force compound during heavy clashes on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. There is a struggle for power among rebel factions in Syria, with Islamists rejecting the country's new Western-backed opposition coalition and unilaterally declaring an Islamic state in the key battleground of Aleppo, though all of the groups are fighting to topple President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, photo, Syrian residents mourn a rebel fighter during his funeral after he was killed by rocket fire on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. Heavy clashes have taken place in the area after rebel groups launched a coordinated attack by hundreds of fighters to seize control over the Syrian army base in the north of the city. There is a struggle for power among rebel factions in Syria, with Islamists rejecting the country's new Western-backed opposition coalition and unilaterally declaring an Islamic state in the key battleground of Aleppo, though all of the groups are fighting to topple President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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In this photo released by the official Syrian news agency, SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad (right) meets with the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Ali Larijani (left), in Damascus, Syria, on Friday Nov. 23, 2012. Mr. Larijani was in Damascus to hold talks with Mr. Assad and other officials before flying on to neighboring Lebanon. (AP Photo/SANA)

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Syrian fighters check a tank they took after storming a military base in Aleppo, Syria, on Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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Syrian fighters celebrate the victory on top of a tank they took after storming a military base in Aleppo, Syria, on Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

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In this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian rebels capture a helicopter air base near the capital, Damascus, after fierce fighting on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. The takeover claim showed how rebels are advancing in the area of the capital, though they are badly outgunned by President Bashar Assad's forces, making inroads where Mr. Assad's power was once unchallenged. Rebels have also been able to fire mortar rounds into Damascus recently. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

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In this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian rebels capture a helicopter air base near the capital, Damascus, after fierce fighting on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. The takeover claim showed how rebels are advancing in the area of the capital, though they are badly outgunned by President Bashar Assad's forces, making inroads where Mr. Assad's power was once unchallenged. Rebels have also been able to fire mortar rounds into Damascus recently. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

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In this Friday, Nov. 23, 2012, photo, Egyptian pro-democracy demonstrators occupy Tahrir Square, birthplace of the Egyptian Arab Spring, in Cairo. The unrest underscored the struggle over the direction of Egypt's turbulent passage nearly two years after a popular uprising toppled Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime. Liberals and secular Egyptians accuse the Islamic Brotherhood of monopolizing power, dominating the writing of a new constitution, and failing to tackle the country's chronic economic and security problems. (AP Photo)

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Protesters hurl stones during clashes between supporters and opponents of President Mohammed Morsi in Alexandria, Egypt, on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. Opponents and supporters of Mr. Morsi clashed across Egypt on Friday, the day after the president granted himself sweeping new powers that critics fear can allow him to be a virtual dictator. Thousands from the two camps threw stones and chunks of marble at one another outside a mosque in the Mediterranean city after Friday's Muslim prayers. (AP Photo/Tarek Fawzy)

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Protesters rush a wounded colleague to a field hospital in Tahrir Square on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. Supporters and opponents of Egyptian Islamist President Mohammed Morsi staged rival rallies Friday after he assumed sweeping new powers, a clear show of the deepening polarization plaguing the country. In a Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012, decree, Mr. Morsi put himself above the judiciary and also exempted the Islamist-dominated constituent assembly writing Egypt's new constitution from judicial review. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

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Protesters storm an office of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood Freedom and Justice Party and set fires in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, Egypt, on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. State TV says Morsi opponents also set fire to his party's offices in the Suez Canal cities of Suez, Port Said and Ismailia. Opponents and supporters of Mr. Morsi clashed across Egypt on Friday, the day after the president granted himself sweeping new powers that critics fear can allow him to be a virtual dictator. (AP Photo/Amira Mortada, El Shorouk newspaper)

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Egyptians carry the body of Gaber Salah, who was killed in clashes with security forces, during his funeral procession in Cairo on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. Thousands marched through Tahrir Square, the birthplace of last year's uprising that toppled authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak, for the funeral of Mr. Salah. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

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Egyptian protesters opposed to President Mohammed Morsi take cover during clashes with Morsi supporters near Tahrir Square in Cairo on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. Opponents and supporters of Mr. Morsi clashed across Egypt on Friday, a day after the president granted himself sweeping new powers that critics fear can allow him to be a virtual dictator. (AP Photo/Mohammed Asad)

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Egyptian security forces (background) clash with protesters near Tahrir Square in Cairo on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2012. Supporters and opponents of Egypt's president are growing more entrenched in their potentially destabilizing battle over the Islamist leader's move to give himself near absolute powers, with neither side appearing willing to back down. (AP Photo/Ahmed Gomaa)

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Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi speaks to supporters outside the Presidential Palace in Cairo on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012. MENA, Egypt's official news agency, says the country's highest body of judges has called the president's recent decrees an "unprecedented assault on the independence of the judiciary and its rulings." In a statement carried by MENA on Saturday, the Supreme Judicial Council said it regrets the declarations Mr. Morsi issued Thursday. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency)