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MEDITERRANEAN SEA (March. 19, 2011) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 52) launches a Tomahawk missile in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn on March 19, 2011. This was one of approximately 110 cruise missiles fired from U.S. and British ships and submarines that targeted about 20 radar and anti-aircraft sites along Libya’s Mediterranean coast. Joint Task Force Odyssey Dawn is the U.S. Africa Command task force established to provide operational and tactical command and control of U.S. military forces supporting the international response to the unrest in Libya and enforcement of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1973. (U.S. Navy photo by Interior Communications Electrician Fireman Roderick Eubanks/Released)

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U.S. Soldiers assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 525th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade look at a sheep during a mission to the Shorabak district center of Kandahar province, Afghanistan, March 26, 2011. The purpose of the mission was to conduct a site survey of the Zone 3 Afghan National Police station to see what improvements are necessary. (DoD photo by Sgt. Canaan Radcliffe, U.S. Army/Released)

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U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Brandon Bamford, left, with 2nd Cavalry Regiment, and another Soldier participate in a 12-mile foot march during the U.S. Army Europe's Expert Infantryman Badge qualification at Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Aug. 29, 2012. (DoD photo by Markus Rauchenberger, U.S. Army/Released)

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Black columns of smoke rise from heavy shelling in the Jobar neighborhood, east of Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. Syria reached an agreement with the United Nations on Sunday to allow a U.N. team of experts to visit the site of alleged chemical weapons attacks last week outside Damascus, state media said. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

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A man inspects the aftermath of a bomb attack at a coffee shop in the northeastern Shaab neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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D.C. police Officer Ken Collins stands behind the left shoulder of Martin Luther King Jr. as King delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech Aug. 28, 1963. (associated press)

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** FILE ** An Israeli border police officer argues with an Israeli left-wing activist as she holds a protest sign during a ceremony to mark the resumption of the construction of housing units in an east Jerusalem neighborhood on Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

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Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (seated), 85, is escorted by medical and security personnel into an ambulance to be taken by helicopter ambulance from Maadi Military Hospital to the Cairo Police Academy for trial on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013, in Cairo. Mr. Mubarak, under house arrest after being released from detention last week, is being retried on charges of complicity in the killings of protesters during the 2011 Egyptian uprising. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

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Several bodies are buried during a funeral in a suburb of Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. A senior Obama administration official said on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013, there is “very little doubt” that a chemical weapon was used by the Syrian regime against civilians in an incident that killed at least a hundred people last week, but added that President Obama had not yet decided how to respond. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network)

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A wanted poster for Kenan Adams-Kinard, 16, who is being sought by police in connection with the beating death of an 88-year-old World War II veteran outside an Eagles lodge in Spokane Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Spokane Police)