War_Conflict

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** FILE ** Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner, a U.S. military spokesman, speaks near a poster of senior Lebanese Hezbollah operative Ali Mussa Daqduq during a press conference in July 2007 in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Wathiq Khuzaie, Pool, File)

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas waves to supporters upon his arrival at the government compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011. Mr. Abbas received a hero's welcome, triumphantly telling his people the "Palestinian Spring" has begun following his historic speech to the United Nations on Friday. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 66th session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Friday, Sept. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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Anti-government protesters react to tear gas fired by riot police Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, in Jidhafs, Bahrain. Bahrain's Sunni rulers are practicing "fake democracy," the Gulf kingdom's leading Shiite cleric said Friday as opposition groups called for a boycott of weekend parliamentary elections and stepped up protests for greater rights. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (left) addresses the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters on Sept. 23, 2011. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the assembly shortly after Abbas. (Associated Press)

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas holds a letter requesting recognition of Palestine as a state as he addresses the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 23, 2011, at U.N. headquarters. (Associated Press)

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (left) poses for a picture with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon after giving him a letter requesting recognition of Palestine as a state during the 66th session of the General Assembly at United Nations headquarters on Sept. 23, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Former Libyan rebel fighters relax next to a tank in Wadi Dinar, Libya, on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

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Security was beefed up Wednesday at the Georgia prison where death-row inmate Troy Davis was scheduled to be executed Wednesday night. Davis, who has always maintained his innocence, has been on death row since 1991. The crowd outside the prison swelled to more than 500 as night fell. (Associated Press)

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Rose Gottemoeller, assistant secretary of state for verification, has said that "we are committed to continuing a step-by-step process to reduce the overall number of nuclear weapons." (Associated Press)

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Soldiers and police block off a main road near a busy shopping mall in Veracruz, Mexico, where suspected drug traffickers dumped 35 bodies under an overpass during rush hour as gunmen stood guard. (Associated Press)

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy (left) and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meet Tuesday at a New York hotel during the U.N. General Assembly session. Mr. Sarkozy has proposed a one-year timetable for establishing a Palestinian state. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Uzbek emergency workers and volunteers pass traditional flat bread to ethnic Uzbek refugees from Kyrgyzstan near the Uzbek village of Jalal-Kuduk on June 14, 2010. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS A tear in a campaign banner for Sawsan Taqawi, a candidate in Bahrain's special parliamentary elections, show anti-government protesters in Muqsha, Bahrain. The election is being held Saturday to fill 18 seats vacated by Shiite lawmakers protesting the government's response to a spring uprising.

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Yemeni anti-government protesters carry an injured fellow demonstrator from the site of clashes with security forces in Sanaa, Yemen, on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

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**FILE** This photo from Jan. 21, 2002, shows Burhanuddin Rabbani, former president of Afghanistan sitting in his office in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** This Friday, Nov. 23, 2001, file photo shows former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani as he emerges from the Pul-e-Khishti mosque after Friday prayers, surrounded by United Front bodyguards and supporters, in the capital Kabul, Afghanistan. A Kabul police official said Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011, that Mr. Rabbani was killed by a suicide bomber who had explosives in his turban. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)