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From right to left, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Robert Menendez, D-N.J., Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the ranking member, Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., listen to testimony from Secretary of State John Kerry, and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel at a hearing on President Obama's request for congressional authorization for military intervention in Syria, a response to last month's alleged sarin gas attack in the Syrian civil war, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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From left, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to advance President Obama's request for congressional authorization for military intervention in Syria, a response to last month's alleged sarin gas attack in the Syrian civil war, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Secretary of State John Kerry (left) and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to advance President Obama's request for congressional authorization for military intervention in Syria, a response to last month's alleged sarin gas attack in the Syrian civil war, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Sept. 3, 2013. Lawmakers are returning a week early from recess for the first public hearing about U.S. plans for military action to punish Syrian President Bashar Assad as President Obama seeks to convince skeptical Americans and their representatives to act following the deadly gas attack outside Damascus. (Associated Press)

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Palestinian supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine wave their red flags in Rafah Refugee Camp, southern Gaza Strip, on Sept. 3, 2013, while holding Syrian flags and pictures of late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel-Nasser and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during a protest against a possible military attack by the United States on Syria, . Arabic on placards reads, "America and France are the enemies of the Arab nations, greetings from Gaza to the master of the Lebanese resistance, the leader Hassan Nasrallah and greetings to the Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian resistance." (Associated Press)

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House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks to reporters outside the White House on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, following a meeting between President Obama and congressional leaders to discuss the situation in Syria. Mr. Boehner said he will support the president's call for the U.S. to take action against Syria for alleged chemical weapons use and said his Republican colleagues should support the president, too. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In a Jan. 26, 2005, file photo, visitors walk under the notorious "Arbeit Macht Frei" — Work Makes (You) Free — sign at the entrance gate of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp in Oswiecim, southern Poland. The special prosecutors' office that investigates Nazi war crimes said Tuesday Sept. 3, 2013, it is recommending charges against dozens of alleged former Auschwitz guards, opening the possibility of a new wave of trials almost 70 years after the end of World War II. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski/file)

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** FILE ** Egyptians security forces escort an Islamist supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood out of the al-Fatah mosque, after hundreds of Islamist protesters barricaded themselves inside the mosque overnight, following a day of fierce street battles that left scores of people dead, near Ramses Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Tallal)

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Syrian refugees arrive at the Turkish Cilvegozu gate border, Monday, Sept. 2, 2013. Routine prevailed at a U.S.-Turkish airbase in southern Turkey on Monday, a day after the U.S. alleged that sarin gas was used in an August chemical weapons attack in Syria. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)