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Egyptians sit on a wall as they attend a protest against the deaths of Egyptian security forces killed in a shootout between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants on Thursday in the Sinai, in front of the Israeli embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011. Egypt said Saturday it would recall its ambassador from Israel to protest the deaths, sharply escalating tensions between the neighboring countries, whose 1979 peace treaty is being tested by the fall of Egypt's longtime autocratic leader, Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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President Obama waves as he exits Air Force One at the Cape Cod Coast Guard Station in Bourne, Mass., on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011, on his way to Martha's Vineyard. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)
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Supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad shout slogans and wave their national flag, as they protest to show their solidarity to their president, in Damascus, Syria, on Friday Aug. 19, 2011. Assad, who inherited power from his father in 2000, is facing the most serious international isolation of his rule. On Thursday, the United States and its European allies demanded he step down. Syrian security forces killed at least 20 protesters Friday despite promises by President Bashar Assad that the military operations against the 5-month-old uprising are over. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)
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Rebel fighters, foreground, pray during Friday prayers in the rebel-held town of Benghazi, Libya, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)
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Masoud Shafiei, the Iranian lawyer for two Americans who have been jailed in Iran on charges of espionage, speaks at his office in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, July 30, 2011. Two Americans could be released after a court hearing slated for Sunday, their lawyer said. Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal and Bauer's fiancee, Sarah Shourd, were detained on July 31, 2009, and Iran accused them of illegally crossing the border to spy. Shourd was released last year on $500,000 bail and has said she won't return to Iran for trial. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn. speaks at The Hall at Senate's End, during a stop in Columbia, S.C., Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011, on her bus tour of the Palmetto State. (AP Photo/Brett Flashnick)
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President Obama receives a briefing on Aug. 19, 2011, from Homeland Security and Counterterrorism adviser John Brennan in Martha's Vineyard, Mass. (Courtesy of the White House)
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Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican and presidential candidate, speaks Aug. 18, 2011, at the Hall at Senate's End in Columbia, S.C., during her bus tour of the state. (Associated Press)
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Israeli soldiers secure the area near roads leading to the sites of several attacks in the Arava desert, near the southern Israeli resort town of Eilat on Aug. 19, 2011. (Associated Press)
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President Obama boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011, en route to Martha's Vineyard for a family vacation. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** D.C. Council member Jim Graham (left), Chief of Police Cathy L. Lanier (center) and interim DYRS Director Neil A. Stanley (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)
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Pakistani villagers carry the body of a boy killed in a suicide bombing in Ghundi, in the Pakistani tribal area of Khyber, on Aug. 19, 2011. (Associated Press)
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President Obama arrives Thursday on Marine One in West Tisbury, Mass., for a 10-day family vacation in Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Before leaving Washington, he signed an executive order freezing Syrian assets and banning U.S. imports of petroleum products that originate in Syria. It also bars Americans from investing in Syria. (Associated Press)
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AFTERMATH: Israeli soldiers are treated Thursday after a shooting attack along the border between Israel and Egypt. Assailants armed with heavy weapons and explosives crossed into southern Israel from the Sinai Peninsula, killing eight Israelis and wounding at least a dozen in Eilat. (Associated Press)
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Police officers stop the traffic on a road in the Arava Desert leading to the southern Israeli town of Eilat on Thursday after gunmen crossed from the neighboring Egyptian Sinai Peninsula. They killed six Israelis and wounded at least a dozen in a string of attacks. (Associated Press)
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Pope Benedict XVI mounts the saluting stand next to King Juan Carlos, right, and Queen Sofia of Spain Juan Carlos as he arrives at Barajas Airport in Madrid, Spain, Thursday Aug. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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'MORE SOPHISTICATED': Ron Paul's campaign experience is serving him well this time around as he seeks the GOP nomination for the presidency. (Associated Press)
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This is one of 18 online parody postcards from the Republican National Committee to chide President Obama for taking a vacation and his destination choice. More than 30,000 were sent within the first few hours of their availability. (Courtesy Republican National Committee)
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Job seekers stand in line to enter a job fair in Independence, Ohio, on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
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A passenger bus was damaged when assailants carried out three consecutive attacks in southern Israel near the Egyptian border on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Channel 2 TV)
