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Rebel fighters belonging to the Liwa Al-Tawhid group keep an eye on their enemy's position as they prepare to open fire as mortar explosions and gunshots are heard in the nearby battlefield in the Karm al-Jabel neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Syria's air force fired missiles and dropped barrel bombs on rebel strongholds while opposition fighters attacked regime positions, flouting a U.N.-backed cease-fire that was supposed to quiet fighting over a long holiday weekend but never took hold. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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A rebel fighter poses for a photo holding handcuffs in the front-line neighborhood of Bustan Al-Pasha in Aleppo, Syria, shortly after an army jet hit the rebel position in the city's northwest. Syria's air force fired missiles and dropped barrel bombs on rebel strongholds while opposition fighters attacked regime positions, flouting a U.N.-backed cease-fire that was supposed to quiet fighting over a long holiday weekend but never took hold. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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A rebel fighter throws a homemade grenade toward Syrian army troops on the front line in the Bustan Al-Pasha neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Syria's air force fired missiles and dropped barrel bombs on rebel strongholds while opposition fighters attacked regime positions, flouting a U.N.-backed cease-fire that was supposed to quiet fighting over a long holiday weekend but never took hold. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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An apartment destroyed by tank shelling is seen in the Karm al-Jabel neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012, after several days of intense clashes between rebel fighters and the Syrian army. Syria's air force fired missiles and dropped barrel bombs on rebel strongholds while opposition fighters attacked regime positions, flouting a U.N.-backed cease-fire that was supposed to quiet fighting over a long holiday weekend but never took hold. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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A street of shattered buildings is viewed partially through a mirror used by rebel fighters to keep an eye on their enemy's positions in the Karm al-Jabel battlefield in Aleppo, Syria, on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Syria's air force fired missiles and dropped barrel bombs on rebel strongholds while opposition fighters attacked regime positions, flouting a U.N.-backed cease-fire that was supposed to quiet fighting over a long holiday weekend but never took hold. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

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** FILE ** This Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012, file image made from video released by the Israeli Defense Forces shows the downing of a drone that entered Israeli airspace in southern Israel. (AP Photo/Israeli Defense Forces via AP video, File)

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens gather next to cars that were destroyed by a car bomb, at Jaramana neighborhood, in Damascus, Syria, Monday Oct. 29, 2012. A Syrian government official says a car bomb in a Damascus suburb has killed 10 people. The official said the blast on Monday in Jaramana also wounded 41 people and caused heavy damage. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. (AP Photo/SANA)

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney applauds as he watches the Oak Ridge Boys perform as he campaigns at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the Marion County Fairgrounds in Marion, Ohio, on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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A lone man wearing a rain poncho walks past the White House in Washington on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, during the approach of Hurricane Sandy. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Election commission officials count ballots in Ukraine's parliamentary elections at a polling station in Kiev on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

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President Obama greets supporters as he arrives for a campaign event at the Elm Street Middle School in Nashua, N.H., on Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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President Obama deplanes from Air Force One after arriving at Orlando International Airport in Orlando, Fla., on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

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President Obama, after a briefing on Hurricane Sandy with Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Craig Fugate (right), said, “My message to the governors, as well as to the mayors, is: ‘Anything they need, we will be there.’ (Associated Press)