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Libyan rebel vehicles with mounted missile launchers park next to a road sign that reads, in Arabic, "Sirte," on the front line, 86 miles from Sirte, Libya, on Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. Rebels have been converging from the east and west on Sirte, 250 miles east of Tripoli, preparing to battle forces loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi, whose tribe is based in the city. (AP Photo/Gaia Anderson)

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Members of the 192nd Engineer Battalion of Army National Guard from Stratford, Conn., clear debris from beach front property in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene in East Haven, Conn., Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

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Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry heard loud applause at the Veterans of Foreign Wars 112th National Conference on Monday when he said only U.S. officers should be leading American troops in missions abroad. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** In this photo from July 24, 2010, Turkish soldiers march after a funeral ceremony for captain Ibrahim Baris Yurtseven, an army officer who was killed by Kurdish rebels in Hakkari at Turkey-Iraq border, at the Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara, Turkey. (Associated Press)

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Mustafa Abdul-Jalil (left), head of the Libyan rebels' National Transitional Council, and Major Gen. Hamad bin Ali al-Attiyah, Qatari chief of staff, look on during NATO talks in Doha, Qatar, on Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

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**FILE** This undated file photo reportedly shows the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar. (Associated Press)

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United Nations Special Representative Ad Melkert speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. Top UN envoy in Iraq Ad Melkert discussed the challenges Iraqis have ahead in his last interview before leaving the country after two years in Baghdad. (AP Photo / Karim Kadim)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS U.N. envoy Ad Melkert discusses the challenges Iraqis have ahead before leaving the country after two years in Baghdad.

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A man tells British police about rioters trying to vandalize a shop this month in London's Hackney area. Youths set fire to stores and vehicles in several neighborhoods in the city — which will host the 2012 Summer Olympics — and often were able to flee before police arrived. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing but released on compassionate grounds, is seen below a portrait of Moammar Gadhafi as he is visited by African parliamentarians at Tripoli Medical Center.

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U.N. envoy Ad Melkert gives an interview to the Associated Press in Baghdad on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011. The top U.N. diplomat in Iraq, Mr. Melkert discussed the challenges Iraqis have ahead in his last interview before leaving the country after two years there. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro (center) arrives on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011, to inspect the damaged U.N. office in Abuja, Nigeria, after a car bombing there on Friday killed 23 people. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

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Libyan rebels are seen on the road out of Misrata, Libya, 118 miles from Col. Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte, on Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Gaia Anderson)

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Rebel supporters burn Green books in the main square of the Qasr Bin Ghashir district in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. Libyan rebel leaders say they have taken control of a strategic border crossing with Tunisia, but are still meeting resistance from regime loyalists along the coastal road between the border and the capital. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

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Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is pictured in 1968, the year he was assassinated. (AP Photo)

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Libyan rebel fighters hug on Green Square after Friday Muslim prayer in Tripoli, Libya, Friday, Aug. 26, 2011. British warplanes struck a large bunker Friday in Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte, his largest remaining stronghold, as NATO turned its attention to loyalist forces battling advancing Libyan rebels in the area.(AP Photo/Francois Mori)

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A portrait of Moammar Gadhafi on a wall covers by bullets marks is displayed on a building in the Abu Salim district, in Tripoli, Libya, Friday, Aug. 26, 2011, where rebels had battled Gadhafi's fighters holed up in residential buildings for most of the previous day. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)