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In this undated handout file photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, an MQ-9 Reaper, armed with GBU-12 Paveway II laser guided munitions and AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, is piloted by Col. Lex Turner during a combat mission over southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Lt. Col.. Leslie Pratt, US Air Force, File)

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Three British Muslims — (from left) Irfan Khalid, Irfan Naseer and Ashik Ali, all from Birmingham, England — were found guilty on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, of plotting terrorist bombings that prosecutors said were intended to be bigger than the 2005 London transit attacks. (AP Photo/West Midlands Police)

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Amanda Bowden stands with her public defender as she is arraigned at Superior Court in Milford, Conn., Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013. She is accused of threatening to commit a suicide bombing and mass shooting at Gateway Community College in New Haven. (AP Photo/New Haven Register, Rich Scinto)

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Duke’s Sport Shop in New Castle, Pa., on Friday had five used military rifles left in a rack that usually holds more than 20 new models. Store manager Mike Fiota returns one to the rack. (Associated Press)

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associated press A Malian soldier takes cover during exchanges of gunfire with jihadists in Gao, a key city recently reclaimed with the help of the French army from the grip of Islamic extremists.

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** FILE ** The commander of a tribal militia, Maulvi Faqir Mohammed center, flanked by his bodyguards, speaks to journalists at Wana, the main town of Pakistan's tribal region of South Waziristan, along the Afghan border. (Associated Press)

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The building housing “Unit 61398” of the People’s Liberation Army is seen in the outskirts of Shanghai, Tuesday Feb. 19, 2013. Cyberattacks that stole information from 141 targets in the U.S. and other countries have been traced to the Chinese military unit in the building, a U.S. security firm alleged Tuesday. (AP Photo)