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Flag bearers parade during the Closing Ceremony at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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Photographs by U.S. Army via the Associated Press U.S. Army, Col. Val Keaveny Jr., commander of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, pins Herbert Suerth II, a World War II veteran of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, as a Distinguished Member of the Regiment during a ceremony at Fort Campbell, Ky.
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U.S. Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters arrive to pick up soldiers during an exercise at Fort Campbell, Ky., for Week of the Eagles. (Image: U.S. Army) ** FILE **
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Egyptian Defense Minister Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi (left), President Mohammed Morsi (center) and Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Sami Annan attend a medal ceremony at a military base east of Cairo last month. The president ordered the retirement of the defense minister and chief of staff on Sunday. (Associated Press)
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Afghans inspect the wreckage of a vehicle after a roadside explosion on the outskirts of Laghman province east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday. The bomb killed a district chief and three of his bodyguards. (Associated Press)
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Afghans push parts of a damaged vehicle off a hill after a roadside explosion on the outskirts of Laghman province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012. A provincial spokesman said a roadside bomb killed a district chief in eastern Afghanistan and three of his bodyguards. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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Palestinians walk toward the Egyptian border crossing with Gaza, which temporarily has been reopened but only to allow the passage of Palestinians back to Gaza, in Rafah, Egypt, on Friday Aug. 10, 2012. (AP Photo)
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In this photo from Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, Fatoum Obeid, 50, stands in a pile of trash left by Syrian soldiers who occupied her home in Atarib, Syria. In recent months, rebels have seized a huge swath of territory in northern Syria, giving them a freedom to move and organize unprecedented in the 17-month conflict. (AP Photo/Ben Hubbard)
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** FILE ** An Afghan man who was wounded in a suicide attack lies in a hospital in Samangan province north of Kabul Afghanistan, Saturday, July, 14, 2012. (AP Photo/Jawed Dehsabzi)
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**FILE** Egyptians stand Aug. 5, 2012, outside the El Arish hospital, after an attack which Egypt and Israel blamed on Islamist militants from the Hamas-run Gaza Strip in Egypt's northern Sinai Peninsula. (Associated Press)
