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In this Oct. 28, 2008 file photo, taken with a night vision scope, U.S. Special Operations forces are seen during a joint operation with Afghan National Army soldiers targeting insurgents operating in Afghanistan's Farah province. Small teams of U.S. special operations forces arrived at American embassies throughout North Africa to set up a new counterterrorist network months before militants killed the U.S. ambassador in Libya. But officials say the network was too new to stop the Benghazi attack. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
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Libyan followers of the Ansar al-Shariah Brigades burn the U.S. flag during a protest in front of the Tibesti Hotel in Benghazi, Libya, on Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. Small teams of U.S. special operations forces arrived at American embassies throughout North Africa to set up a new counterterrorist network months before militants killed the U.S. ambassador in Libya at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, but officials say the network was too new to stop that attack. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)
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Libyans celebrate the raiding of the Ansar al-Shariah Brigades compound after hundreds of Libyans, Libyan military forces and police raided the brigades base in Benghazi, Libya, on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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** FILE ** Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk (left) introduces his son and successor, King Norodom Sihamoni, upon their arrival at Phnom Penh airport in Cambodia in 2004. (AP Photo/Andy Eames)
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Army Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley is fighting back, appealing a negative performance evaluation. (U.S. Army)
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A police officer sits in a guard post outside a Paris synagogue. Recent attacks have unsettled Jews, many of whom thought that anti-Semitism had faded. (The Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this photo taken Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, demonstrators throw stones during a protest against the anti-Islam film "Innocence of Muslims" outside the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia, as police respond with tear gas. Leaked conversations in which alcohol bans and the imposition of religious law were mentioned have raised fears Tunisia’s new government may not be moderate at all, especially in the context of mob attacks on the U.S. Embassy that coincided with the American ambassador’s killing in neighboring Libya. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)
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In this photo provided by Turkish Prime Minister's Press Service, Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Arab League Secretary General Nabil al Arabi shake hands before a meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012. Erdogan and al Arabi expected to discuss Syria. Turkey’s prime minister sharply criticized the U.N. Security Council on Saturday for its failure to agree on decisive steps to end the 19-month civil war in Syria. (AP Photo/Kayhan Ozer)
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Daniya Kozhonaliyev, daugther of former military prosecutor Kubatbek Kozhonaliyev who was arrested last week in connection with protests that the Kyrgz government have branded at attempted coup, on hunger strike outside the White House government building in Bishkek. October 10, 2012. (Mattia Beggi/Special to The Washington Times)
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U.S. troops in May 2009 walk near the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Congressional Republicans have expressed new suspicions that the Obama administration intends to move Guantanamo detainees to Thomson Correctional Center, a currently unused facility in Illinois. (Associated Press)
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Elite police officers and riot police (left) guard on Wednesday a parking lot in Torcy, east of Paris, where police found bomb-making material after police broke up a suspected terrorist cell last week. Potassium and sulfur were recovered. (Associated Press)