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Opposition protesters react while listening to speakers during a rally in Moscow on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. The first major protest against President Vladimir Putin after a summer lull drew tens of thousands of people, determined to show that opposition sentiment remains strong despite Kremlin efforts to muzzle dissent. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

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Pope Benedict XVI waves to the crowd from his popemobile upon his arrival to celebrate an open-air Mass for hundreds of thousands on the waterfront of Beirut on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Afghans burn the U.S. flag in Herat, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012, during a protest against an Internet video mocking the Prophet Muhammad that many fear could further aggravate Afghan-U.S. relations. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)

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Supporters of a Insaf Student Federation burn an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama and a representation of a U.S. flag demonstration in Karachi, Pakistan, on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

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Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies stand down the street from a suburban Los Angeles home believed to be that of filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. Federal authorities have identified Nakoula, a self-described Coptic Christian, as the key figure behind "Innocence of Muslims," a film denigrating Islam and the Prophet Muhammad that ignited mob violence against U.S. embassies across the Middle East. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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Los Angeles Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore speaks to media outside the home of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula on Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012, in Cerritos, Calif. Nakoula, has said that he helped with logistics for the filming of "Innocence of Muslims," which mocked Muslims and the prophet Muhammad and may have inflamed mobs that attacked U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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Afghans burn an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest in Khost, south-east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. A few hundred of university students protested against an anti-Islam film which depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a madman, in Khost, shouting "death to America." (AP Photo/Nashanuddin Khan)

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Members of the Moon family, including grandson Shin Jun, left, and Kwon Jin Moon, one of the sons of the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon, carrying a portrait of the reverend, process out of the stadium at the end of the Seonghwa, or ascension, ceremony, for the reverend Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012 at the Cheong Shim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, Korea. Lining the walkway in yellow are members of second-generation Unification Church families. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Members of the Moon family, including grandson Shin Jun, left, and Kwon Jin Moon, one of the sons of the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon, carrying a portrait of the reverend, process out of the stadium at the end of the Seonghwa, or ascension, ceremony, for the reverend Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012 at the Cheong Shim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, Korea. Lining the walkway in yellow are members of second-generation Unification Church families. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Family members of the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon walk up on stage to offer flowers during the reverend's funeral service on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012 at the Cheong Shim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, Korea. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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The Seonghwa, or ascension, ceremony, known as the traditional funeral in western terms, for the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon was held Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012 at the Cheong Shim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, Korea. Thousands of mourners from countries around the world came to witness the event and say goodbye to the head of the Unification Church. Some 15,000 fit into the stadium, where the funeral was held, with another 10,000 to 15,000 expected to be watching live simulcasts around the complex. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Hyung Jin Moon, son of the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon and new international president of the Unification Church, wipes his eyes while giving the Seonghwa address during his father's funeral on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012 at the Cheong Shim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, Korea. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Two girls watch the video honoring the life of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon during the reverend's funeral at the Cheong Shim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, Korea on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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A man watches the video honoring the life of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon during the reverend's funeral at the Cheong Shim Peace World Center in Gapyeong, Korea on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)