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**FILE** Gene Sperling, director of the Economic Council, stands on the South Lawn of the White House before President Obama observes a moment of silence on Sept. 11, 2013, as they mark the 12th anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks. (Associated Press)

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Afghan security personnel assist an injured police after a suicide car bombing and a gunfight near the U.S. Consulate in Herat Province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)

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** FILE ** This file image from video the AP obtained Feb. 12, 2012, from the SITE Intel Group, an American private terrorist threat analysis company, shows al Qaeda's leader Ayman al-Zawahri in a web posting by al Qaeda's media arm, as-Sahab, calling on Muslims across the Arab world and beyond to support rebels in Syria who are seeking to overthrow President Bashar Assad. Al-Zawahri marked the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by calling on Muslims to strike inside the United States, using any opportunity they can to "bleed" America financially, speaking in an audio message released Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/SITE Intel Group, File)

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Mourners carry a coffin draped with an Iraqi flag of a man killed Wednesday in a double bomb attack on a Shiite mosque during a funeral procession in Kasra neighborhood in northern Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013. A suicide attacker staged a double bombing near a Shiite mosque in northern Baghdad as worshippers were leaving after evening prayers on Wednesday, according to Iraqi authorities. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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Omar Shafik Hammami, a jihadi from Alabama whose nom de guerre was Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki, or "the American," ascended the ranks of Somalia's al-Qaeda-linked militant group al-Shabab high enough to attract a $5 million U.S. government bounty. He was killed on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013, in an ambush ordered by the militant group's leader, militants said. (AP Photo/FBI)

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Members of a U.N. investigation team take samples from sand near a part of a missile that is likely to be a chemical-weapons rocket, according to activists, in the Damascus countryside of Ain Terma, Syria, on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/United Media Office of Arbeen) ** FILE **

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A Syrian government solider aims his weapon during clashes with Free Syrian Army fighters (not pictured) in the ancient, predominantly Christian village of Maaloula, Syria, northeast of the capital, Damascus, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. Heavy fighting flared as government troops tried to flush out rebel units, including two that are linked to al Qaeda, from the hilltop enclave that they broke into last week. (AP Photo/SANA)

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Lengths of paper are rolled up after etching names at the south tower of the September 11 Memorial during ceremonies marking the 12th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013 (AP Photo/Chris Pedota, Pool)

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry departs Andrews Air Force Base, Md. for a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Geneva to work on a Russian proposal for international inspectors to seize and destroy Syria's chemical weapons stockpile, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)