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**FILE** Dust rises over Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 13, 2011, as Taliban insurgents fire rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital. (Associated Press)

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An Afghan soldier takes position near the building which is occupied by militants in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 13, 2011. Taliban insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital in a brazen attack two days after the United States marked the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. (Associated Press)

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Smoke and dust rises from a building, unseen in distance, which is occupied by Taliban insurgents during a coordinated assault in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. Taliban insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital Tuesday while suicide bombers struck police buildings. The U.S. Embassy and NATO reported no casualties. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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A former Libyan rebel fighter walks inside a community center at the northern gate of Bani Walid, Libya, on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)

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Chuvit Kamolvisit's pose in a coffin during a news conference in 2005 was to signify that his old life as Thailand's "Massage Parlor King" was over. Now a member of parliament, he is rooting out police corruption. (Associated Press)

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THE 'EXPERT': Former massage parlor owner Chuvit Kamolvisit, elected to parliament in July, is fighting the kind of crime he used to promote. He speculates that "100 percent" of Thailand's illegal casinos pay bribes to the police. (Associated Press)

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Protesters in Santiago, Chile, throw stones at police Sunday after a march marking the 38th anniversary of Chile's military coup. Police arrested 280 people and 45 people were injured, including a teenager who is in critical condition. (Associated Press)

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Michael Lehrman, executive managing director of Cantor Fitzgerald and Co., bows his head at one of two memorial pools at ground zero in New York on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. More than 600 employees from Cantor Fitzgerald lost their lives in the attacks on the World Trade Center's twin towers. (AP Photo, Carolyn Cole, Pool)

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An American flag is unfurled Sunday near the Eiffel Tower in Paris to mark the decennial of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. From Moscow to Manila and elsewhere around the globe, somber observances paid tribute to those who lost their lives 10 years ago. (Associated Press)

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Kosovars light candles in remembrance in the southeast European nation's capital of Pristina, Kosovo, on Sunday. Elsewhere, Kosovar youths sported T-shirts commemorating 9/11 as U.S. peacekeepers secured the area during a military band concert in Urosevac. (Associated Press)

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Lt. Col. Daniel Wilson lights a candle Sunday at Forward Operating Base Bostick in Kunar province, Afghanistan, in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the attacks and the soldiers his Hawaii-based unit has lost since then in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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Egyptian soldiers guard the shattered entrance of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo on Sunday, two days after protesters stormed the building, prompting the evacuation of nearly the entire staff from Egypt in the worst crisis between the countries since their 1979 peace treaty. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Air Force Lt. Col. Tim Richter, chief of radiologiy at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, describes what he is seeing on the center's high-tech diagnostic equipment for treating wounded troops.

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A lot of hands help a wounded U.S. soldier out of a bus in August at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany. Landstuhl has treated more than 13,000 combat injuries and some 64,000 noncombat injuries from Afghanistan and Iraq.

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The 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks is observed at the Pentagon in Washington on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Soldiers lay wreaths at the Pentagon Memorial on the benches bearing the names of the victims during the 10th-anniversary ceremony of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon outside Washington on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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A woman pays her respects during a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, outside the World Trade Center site in New York. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

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An American flag adorns the edge of the south pool of the Sept. 11 memorial in the World Trade Center site in New York Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the trade center. (AP Photo/Aaron Showalter, Pool)

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Metal beams taken from the World Trade Center stand in front of an American flag during a memorial ceremony to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington D.C. Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, at Parc Sans Souci in downtown Lafayette, La. (AP Photo/Leslie Westbrook September 11, 2011

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A police officer pays his respects at a waterfall pool during a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, at the National September 11 Memorial at the World Trade Center site Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)