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Notre Dame wide receiver Michael Floyd scored a touchdown and had 121 yards receiving in the Irish's 56-14 win over Navy on Saturday. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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Bosnian special police units get ready to check the personal ID of the residents on the road towards Bosnian village of Gornja Maoca, 200 kms north from Sarajevo, on Saturday,Oct. 29, 2011. Special police units raided homes Saturday in a Bosnian village linked to the gunman who fired an automatic weapon at the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo in what authorities called a terrorist attack. The raids came as 17 suspected associates of the shooter, all said to be members of the ultraconservative Wahhabi Muslim sect, were briefly detained in Serbia. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

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Campaign buttons for Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain are seen on sale as he campaigned in Talladega, Ala., Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

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U.S. soldiers, right, carry a body from the site of a suicide car bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. A suicide car bomber struck a NATO convoy on the outskirts of Kabul on Saturday, causing casualties among the NATO service members and Afghan civilians, the U.S.-led coalition said. Afghan officials said three civilians and one policeman were killed. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

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** FILE ** In this Sept. 8, 2011, file photo President Barack Obama speaks to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, as Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner listen. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Washington Capitals' Sean Collins, Joel Ward, and Jason Chimera celebrate a goal by teammate Karl Alzner (not shown) against the Edmonton Oilers in Edmonton, Alberta, on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Ian Jackson)

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**FILE** Two Syrian regime women supporters hold a banner with a sarcastic caricature on it in Umayyad Square in downtown Damascus, Syria, on Oct. 26, 2011. Tens of thousands of Syrians packed the square in a show of support for embattled President Bashar Assad, a few hours ahead of a visit by senior Arab officials probing ways to start a dialogue between the regime and the opposition. (Associated Press)

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REMINDER: Now-retired Lt. Col. Max Bowers, Special Forces ground commander, advises Northern Alliance warlords in Afghanistan in November 2001. He was carrying with him a piece of the World Trade Center at the time. (Army Special Operations Command)

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Kyrgyz Interior Ministry special force soldiers with their dogs march on Oct. 25, 2011, during a rehearsal ahead of presidential elections in Bishkek. Kyrgyzstan's presidential elections are scheduled for Oct. 30. (Associated Press)

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REMINDER: Now-retired Lt. Col. Max Bowers, Special Forces ground commander, advises Northern Alliance warlords in Afghanistan in November 2001. He was carrying with him a piece of the World Trade Center at the time. (Army Special Operations Command)

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President Obama answers questions about the European debt deal as he meets with Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas on Oct. 27, 2011, at the White House. (Associated Press)

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Afghan Northern Alliance warlords lead an excursion on horseback, advised by U.S. Special Operations Forces, in November 2001. Lt. Col. Max Bowers, their Green Beret ground force commander, brings up the rear. (Army Operations Special Command)

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INSPIRATION: Commandos from that post-9/11 mission in Afghanistan chat with sculptor Douwe Blumberg in Norman, Okla., Monday, sharing stories pertinent to the monument to Special Operations Forces near ground zero. (Alex Quade/Special to The Washington Times)

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"We want to fight, talk and build all at the same time,"Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday about terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan. (T.J. KIRKPATRICK / THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

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Republican presidential candidate Gary E. Johnson vows to submit a balanced budget his first year in the White House, a budget he said would amount to a 43 percent spending cut. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Screens show graphs of stocks on the uptick at the Athens Stock Exchange on Thursday after a new European debt relief deal was hailed by embattled Socialist government as a major breakthrough. In the U.S., the Dow Jones industrial average gained 339 points, closing above 12,000 for the first time in nearly three months. (Associated Press)