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Kyrgyzstan's interim government leader Roza Otunbayeva, right, speaks to a wounded ethnic Kyrgyz citizen in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. She is vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Kyrgyz Presidential Press Service, Sagyn Alchiyev, pool)

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President Obama waves as he boards Air Force One at Port Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, June 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Obama tours a Recovery Act highway project in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, June 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Obama, accompanied by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, left, and others, delivers remarks at the groundbreaking of a road project funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Friday, June 18, 2010, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

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President Obama greets construction workers as he toured a Recovery Act highway project in Columbus, Ohio, Friday, June 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Presidential Committee for the G-20 Summit Chairman Il SaKong, left, chats with South Africa's Minister in the Presidency in charge of the National Planning Commission Trevor Manuel during an opening press conference at the G-20 Finance and Central Bank Governors Meeting in Busan, South Korea, Friday, June 4, 2010. Leaders of G-20 nations will meet in Toronto, Canada June 25-27, 2010. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, second right, and Britain's Prince Charles, right, look at photographs of French President Charles De Gaulle during a visit to London headquarters of the Free French, the fighters led by de Gaulle, who rejected their country's surrender to Nazi Germany, on Friday June 18, 2010. Mr. Sarkozy marked the 70th anniversary of de Gaulle's defiant World War II broadcast from London on Friday, visiting the studio where the leader urged his compatriots to resist the German occupation. (AP Photo/Leon Neal, Pool)

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Kyrgyzstan's interim government leader Rosa Otunbayeva wearing a flak jacket, reacts as she listens to a question during her meeting with local officials after landing by military helicopter on the central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. She is vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Supporters of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party face a water-canon burst as they protest rise in price of essential commodities and fuel in capital New Delhi on Friday, June 18, 2010. (AP Photo)

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Supporters of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party protest rise in price of essential commodities and fuel in capital New Delhi on Friday, June 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

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Supporters of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party carry gas cylinders as they protest rise in price of essential commodities and fuel in capital New Delhi on Friday, June 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

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Supporters of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party face a water-canon burst as they protest rise in price of essential commodities and fuel in capital New Delhi on Friday, June 18, 2010. (AP Photo)

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Supporters of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party face a water-canon burst as they protest rise in price of essential commodities and fuel in capital New Delhi on Friday, June 18, 2010. (AP Photo)

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A military helicopter with Kyrgyzstan's interim President Rosa Otunbayeva on board flies over the statue of of the Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin prepares to land on the central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. Ms. Otunbayeva is vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Kyrgyzstan's interim President Rosa Otunbayeva wearing a flak jacket, reacts as she listens to a question during her meeting with local officials after landing by military helicopter on the central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. She is vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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In this file photo, a young boy leads the hard-line Islamist al-Shabaab fighters as they conduct a military exercise in northern Mogadishu's Suqaholaha neighborhood in Somalia. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Faisal Shahzad, 30, faces up to life in prison if convicted of numerous terrorism-related charges. (Associated Press)

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Vic Rawl, a former South Carolina judge and lawmaker, announces on Monday, June 14, 2010, in North Charleston, S.C., that he formally will protest the results of the June 8 primary for the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat. Mr. Rawl lost to political unknown Alvin Greene. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith)

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Kentucky's John Wall, right, talks with Washington Wizards basketball coach Flip Saunders, second from right, and Wizards team president Ernie Grunfeld, left, during a pre-NBA draft basketball workout for the Washington Wizards, Thursday, June 17, 2010, in Washington. Behind Grunfeld at left is Washington Wizards assistant coach Sam Cassell.

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BP CEO Tony Hayward, left, talks with Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, June 17, 2010, prior to testifying before the House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing on "the role of BP in the Deepwater Horizon Explosion and oil spill. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)