War_Conflict

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John O. Brennan returns to a room emptied of spectators to continue his opening remarks, which were interrupted by anti-war protesters as he testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence at a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, on his nomination to head the Central Intelligence Agency. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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A chart with the time line of the Benghazi attacks can be seen next to Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta (right) and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey (left), chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as they testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, on the Defense Department's response to the attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Anti-war protesters yell and hold signs as John O. Brennan arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, to testify before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence regarding his nomination to be director of central intelligence. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Anti-war protesters yell and hold signs as John O. Brennan arrives to testify in front of the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence at a hearing on his nomination to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., Thursday, February 7, 2013. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta (left) and U.S. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrive to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, to answer questions on the Defense Department's response to the attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, in September. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** France's Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian arrives at the Elysee Palace for a Small Defense of council meeting, in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. Hundreds of French troops are involved in an operation at destroyed a command center of Islamic rebels in Mali. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

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Reps. Carolyn B. Maloney (from left), New York Democrat; E. Scott Rigell, Virginia Republican; Patrick Meehan, Pennsylvania Republican; and Elijah E. Cummings, Maryland Democrat, prepare Tuesday to announce legislation to make firearms trafficking a federal crime and stiffen laws against straw buyers. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Palestinian students attend class in a Ramallah, West Bank, school Sunday. A U.S.-funded study released Monday said both Israeli and Palestinian schoolbooks largely present one-sided narratives of the two sides' conflict. (Associated Press)