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Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawwa and founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, talks with the Associated Press in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. The United States has offered a $10 million bounty for the Pakistani militant leader, who allegedly orchestrated the 2008 Mumbai attacks and has been directing an anti-American political movement in recent months. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
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Syrian activists prepare signs for upcoming protests at a house in Damascus, Syria, on April 3, 2012. Syrian activists say there have been explosions and clashes in several parts of the country even as the government claims it has started to withdraw troops from some cities in compliance with an international cease-fire plan. (Associated Press)
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Rep. Chris Coons, Delaware Democrat, accompanied by Sen. Robert Menendez, New Jersey democrat, talks about the Palestinian effort to seek U.N. recognition of statehood, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**
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Ward 8 resident Teresa Stuart wears her views on a T-shirt after casting her vote at New Image Baptist on Tuesday. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Ward 7 D.C. Council member Yvette M. Alexander and challenger Tom Brown chat with voters arriving at St. Timothy's polling station, in Southeast Washington. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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A poster promoting D.C. Council member Marion Barry, Ward 8 Democrat, is visible Tuesday behind volunteers for one of his challenger, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Sandra Seegers, outside New Image Baptist Church on Alabama Avenue in Southeast. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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D.C. Council member Yvette Alexander, Ward 7 Democrat, casts her vote at the Randle-Highlands Elementary School precinct in Southeast on Tuesday. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Delegate David L. Englin, Alexandria Democrat, is considered a rising star in the party. So his decision not to seek a fifth term disappointed other party members. (Associated Press)
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Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (right) talks with Thein Sein, Myanmar's president, in Phnom Penh on Monday before the welcome dinner ahead of the 20th ASEAN Summit slated for Tuesday and Wednesday in Cambodia. (Associated Press)
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Democratic state Sen. Robert J. Garagiola, who is running for U.S. House in the 6th District, talks with a voter at a polling place in Potomac on Tuesday. Mr. Garagiola has been in a tight race with primary opponent John K. Delaney. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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At the same 1968 Olympic games during which George Foreman waved an American flag to celebrate his victory, U.S. sprinters Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos (right) stirred controversy when they gave a Black Power salute on the medals stand to protest racial injustice. (AP Photo)
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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets people during a campaign stop at a Cousins Subs fast food restaurant, in Waukesha, Wis., Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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Actor Tom Hanks, seen here on Jan. 18, 2009, addressing a pre-inaugural gathering at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington two days before the inauguration of President Obama, recently narrated Mr. Obama's long-form 2012 re-election campaign ad. (Associated Press)
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U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Baucom, commander of Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, says his personnel are committed to providing American troops in the Middle East with all they need to observe their religious beliefs at Easter and Passover. (Defense Dept. photo)
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Gio Gonzalez gave a bouquet and a kiss to his mother, Yolanda Cid-Gonzalez, when he was introduced as a member of the Washington Nationals in January. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Washington Nationals pitchers Ryan Mattheus (left) and Brad Lidge (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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John Delaney (center), a Democratic candidate for Congress in Maryland, shakes hands with a voter outside of Flower Valley Elementary School in Rockville, Md., as Rep. Donna F. Edwards (left) watches on April 3, 2012, the day of Maryland's primary election. Delaney has been in a tight race with state Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Garagiola. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Maryland Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Garagiola, Montgomery County Democrat and candidate for Congress, is interviewed by a television crew at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Md., on April 3, 2012, the day of Maryland's primary election. Garagiola has been in a tight race with opponent John Delaney. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Mobile Patriot missile launchers are unloaded off Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's 8,900-ton transport ship Osumi on April 3, 2012, after its arrival in Miyakojima island in Okinawa Prefecture in southwestern Japan. (Associated Press/Kyodo News)
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Joyce Reed of Ward 8 casts her vote at Precinct 116 inside the New Image Baptist Church on Alabama Avenue Southeast in Washington on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
