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Black smoke rises in Tripoli, Lebanon, on Monday from a burning house that was attacked during clashes that erupted between supporters and foes of the Syrian regime. (Associated Press)

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Lebanese Army soldiers remove garbage containers used as a roadblock in a neighborhood after overnight clashes between Sunni and Shiite gunmen in Beirut on Monday. Troops began a big operation in the capital aiming to open all closed roads and to force gunmen out of the streets. (Associated Press)

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In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, a Guantanamo detainee peers through the steel grate in a room as guards prepare to open the door at the Camp 5 detention facility on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. By January, some detainees will have been locked up on this U.S. military base in Cuba for seven years. President-elect Barack Obama has vowed to close the detention center at Guantanamo and is weighing what to do with the roughly 250 foreigners who are being held. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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In this March 30, 2010 photo, made through one way glass, reviewed by the U.S. military, a Guantanamo detainee carries a workbook as he is escorted by guards after the detainee attended a class in "Life Skills," inside Camp 6 high-security detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. The Obama Administration is pushing to close the Guantanamo detention facility, by transferring, prosecuting, or releasing the remaining detainees. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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In this March 30, 2010 photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, a U.S. trooper mans a machine gun in the turret on a vehicle as a guard looks out from a tower in front of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. The Obama Administration is pushing to close the Guantanamo detention facility, by transferring, prosecuting, or releasing the remaining detainees. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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In this March 30, 2010 photo, made through one way glass, reviewed by the U.S. military, a Guantanamo detainee talks with a guard through a fence inside Camp 6 high-security detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. The Obama Administration is pushing to close the Guantanamo detention facility, by transferring, prosecuting, or releasing the remaining detainees. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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** FILE ** In this March 30, 2010, photo reviewed by the U.S. military, a U.S. trooper stands in the turret of a vehicle with a machine gun, left, as a guard looks out from a tower at the detention facility on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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In this March 30, 2010 photo made through one way glass and reviewed by the U.S. military, a Guantanamo detainee carries a workbook while escorted by guards after attending Life Skills class in Camp 6 high-security detention facility on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. The Obama administration is pushing to close the Guantanamo detention facility by transferring, prosecuting or releasing the remaining detainees. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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In this photo, made through one way glass, reviewed by the U.S. military, a shackled Guantanamo detainee reads his materials as he attends a class in "Life Skills," as guards in the background shackle another detainee to the floor after bringing him to the class, inside Camp 6 high-security detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, Tuesday, March 30, 2010. The Obama Administration is pushing to close the Guantanamo detention facility, by transferring, prosecuting, or releasing the remaining detainees. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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In this March 29, 2010 photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, a Guantanamo detainee is transported by guards inside the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. The Obama Administration is pushing to close the Guantanamo detention facility, by transferring, prosecuting, or releasing the remaining detainees. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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In this March 29, 2010 photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, photographed through one-way glass, a Guantanamo guard keeps watch over detainees during recreation time at Camp 5 high-security detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. The Obama Administration is pushing to close the Guantanamo detention facility, by transferring, prosecuting, or releasing the remaining detainees. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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** FILE ** In this May 31, 2009, pool file photo reviewed by the U.S. military and shot through a window, a guard wearing a protective face mask speaks with a detainee through a fence as another paces inside the exercise yard at Camp five detention facility on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)

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In this photo reviewed by the U.S. military, a guard stands in the Camp Six detention facility on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Sunday, May 31, 2009. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, Pool)

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In this photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, guards stand on either side of a line-up of Guantanamo detainees, in white, to perform a search for unauthorized items, at Guantanamo's Camp 4 detention facility, at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba, Tuesday, May 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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In this Jan. 21, 2009 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, a guard talks to a Guantanamo detainee in the open yard in Camp 4 detention center on the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, FILE)

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In this Nov. 18, 2008 file photo, reviewed by the U.S. Military, Guantanamo detainees, in white, and U.S. military guards walk around Camp 4 detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A U.S. appeals court reversed a ruling Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 that would have transferred 17 Guantanamo Bay detainees, none of whom are labeled enemy combatants, to the United States. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

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In this March 29, 2010 photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, photographed through one-way glass, Guantanamo guards keep watch over detainees inside a common area at Camp 6 high-security detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. The Obama Administration is pushing to close the Guantanamo detention facility, by transferring, prosecuting, or releasing the remaining detainees. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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In an image reviewed by the US military, a guard demonstrates the use of a protective face shield for the media during a tour in the Camp Five detention facility on the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008. Camp Five, modeled after a US maxium security facility, houses the most uncooperative detainees, along with those of high intelligence value. (AP Photo/Mandel Ngan, Pool)

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In this March 30, 2010, photo made through a one-way glass and reviewed by the U.S. military, a Guantanamo detainee carries a workbook while escorted by guards who wear rubber gloves and face masks after attending a life skills class in the Camp 6 high-security detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)