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**FILE** Free Syrian Army fighters are seen Oct. 14, 2012, in a storage room in the Karmal Jabl district of Aleppo, Syria. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A Free Syrian Army fighter stands Oct. 14, 2012, in rubble in a storage room in the Karmal Jabl district of Aleppo, Syria. (Associated Press)

Lakhdar Brahimi, U.N. Arab League deputy to Syria, speaks Oct. 17, 2012, during a press conference at the government palace in Beirut after meeting Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A Syrian youth cries Oct. 11, 2012, outside Dar al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, while standing next to the truck holding the body his brother, who was killed by Syrian Army shelling. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A Syrian child, wounded by Syrian Army shelling, lies in a truck bed after being treated by doctors at Dar al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, on Oct. 11, 2012. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A Syrian nurse at Dar al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, treats Oct. 10, 2012, a girl wounded by Syrian Army artillery shelling. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Syrian medics hold a dead child at the Dar al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, on Oct. 13, 2012. The boy was killed by government forces shelling. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A Syrian man cries Oct. 11, 2012, near Dar al-Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, while holding the body of his brother, who killed by Syrian Army shelling. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A Syrian man cries Oct. 3, 2012, near Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, while holding the body of his son, who was killed by the Syrian Army. Regime forces unleashed shelling on rebel-held areas and fired machine guns from aircraft, according to an Associated Press journalist in the city, following three suicide car bombs earlier in the day, in a government-controlled area of Aleppo. (Associated Press)

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In this Feb. 23, 2007, file photo, President Bush, center, listens to Dave Vieau, President and CEO of A123 Systems, right, as he is shown a Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid car utilizing a lithium power battery during a demonstration of alternative fuel automobiles on the South Lawn of the White House. Short of cash and hurting from slow sales of electric cars, battery maker A123 Systems Inc. sent its U.S. operations into bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, and quickly sold its automotive assets. The filing is likely to stoke the debate in Washington over the Obama administrationÃs funding of alternative energy companies. In 2009, A123 got a $249 million Department of Energy grant to help it build U.S. factories. Republicans have accused Obama of wasting stimulus money on the companies after the failure of politically connected and now-bankrupt solar power company Solyndra LLC, which left taxpayers on the hook for $528 million. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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In this April 30, 2010, file photo, from right, A123 Systems, President and Chief Executive Officer David Vieau, A123 Systems electrical engineer James Fenton and A123 Systems design engineer Antonio Biundo, stand next to President Barack Obama, as he speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Short of cash and hurting from slow sales of electric cars, battery maker A123 Systems Inc. sent its U.S. operations into bankruptcy protection on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, and quickly sold its automotive assets. The filing is likely to stoke the debate in Washington over the Obama administrationÃs funding of alternative energy companies. In 2009, A123 got a $249 million Department of Energy grant to help it build U.S. factories. Republicans have accused Obama of wasting stimulus money on the companies after the failure of politically connected and now-bankrupt solar power company Solyndra LLC, which left taxpayers on the hook for $528 million. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)