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In this photo from March 25, 2004, Moammar Gadhafi (right) walks with Britain Prime Minister Tony Blair outside Tripoli, Libya. (Associated Press)

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In this photo from March 22, 2005, Syrian President Bashar Assad (left) talks to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi prior the 17th League of Arab States' summit in Algiers, Algeria. (Associated Press)

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Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi holds a baton on Sept. 1, 1987, as he sits to review Libyan troops during the 18th anniversary celebration of Libya's revolution in Tripoli. (Associated Press)

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In this photo from Aug. 20, 1990, Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi gestures during a news conference in Tipoli. (Associated Press)

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In this photo from Jan. 9, 1986, Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi listens to a question during a news conference at his Tripoli headquarters. (Associated Press)

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In this photo from 1969, Col. Moammar Gadhafi (right) salutes as he appears with Egypt Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser in Suez, Egypt. (Associated Press)

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In this photo from October 1969, Col. Moammar Gadhafi (left) appears with Egypt's Prime Minister Gamal Abdel Nasser (right) during his first official visit to Egypt after a military coup in Libya. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Glyn Davies, U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, was named on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, as the new U.S. envoy on North Korea. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

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Rep. Ronald Buxton, D-Dauphin, speaks in favor of a bill aimed at giving Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett the power to force Harrisburg, Pa., into a state-sanctioned plan to deal with its staggering debt, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011, at the Capitol in Harrisburg. The House voted to send the measure to the governor. (AP Photo/The Patriot-News, Christine Baker)

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Lamarque, Pool)

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Revolutionary fighters celebrate the capture of Sirte, Libya, on Oct. 20, 2011. Officials in Libya's transitional government said Col. Moammar Gadhafi was captured and possibly killed Thursday when revolutionary forces overwhelmed his hometown, Sirte, the last major bastion of resistance two months after the regime fell. (Associated Press)

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Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia Democrat (left), talks with witnesses Dr. Jeffrey Kutcher, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan Department of Neurology; Steven Threet (center), a former Arizona State quarterback; and Alexis Ball, a senior at the University of New Mexico, before a hearing Wednesday on sports concussions and the marketing of protective equipment. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray said Wednesday that he has not been summoned to appear before a grand jury investigating allegations of corruption in his mayoral campaign. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry runs to deliver a keynote address during the Western Republican Leadership Conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. (Associated Press)

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Political indicators? "Flip flops" are the most popular Mitt Romney merchandise at online retailer Cafe Press, while positive-theme Herman Cain wearables are best-sellers. (Cafe Press)

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Republican presidential candidate, businessman Herman Cain, speaks with the media after an interview on NBC's Meet the Press at their studio in Washington on Sunday, Oct. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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The departure of State Department special envoy for North Korea Stephen Bosworth highlights a policy split within the Obama administration about how to deal with he rogue communist state. (Associated Press)

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Joseph Kony is the ruthless leader of the Lord's Resistance Army and the biggest target for Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, who has committed thousands of troops to fight militants from al-Shabab, a group with ties from al Qaeda. (Associated Press)

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talks with Sultan Qaboos bin Sa'id at the sultan's palace in Muscat, Oman, on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. Mrs. Clinton personally thanked the sultan for his help in securing the release of three American hikers detained in Iran. She later arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit. (AP Photo/Kevin Lamarque, Pool)

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Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, speaks during a discussion by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions of legislation for the Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization Act, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)