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In this photo provided by the International Security Assistance Force Regional Command (South), U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates meets with service members at Forward Operating Base Walton on Sunday, June 5, 2011, in Kandahar, Afghanistan. (Photo/US. Navy, Lt. j.g. Haraz N. Ghanbari)

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Palestinians run from tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers (not seen) during a demonstration in the West Bank village of Dir Al-hatab, near Nablus, on Sunday, June 5, 2011. The Palestinians were marking the anniversary of the Arab defeat in the 1967 Mideast war. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

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Combat helicopters are readied on the deck of the French navy vessel BPC Tonnerre in the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday, June 4, 2011, before British Apache and French attack helicopters struck targets for the first time in NATO's campaign in Libya. (AP Photo/Arnaud Roine/ECPAD)

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A supporter of the Pakistani religious party Jamaat-e-Islami shouts during a rally against drone attacks Saturday, June 4, 2011, in Karachi, Pakistan. Ilyas Kashmiri, a top al Qaeda commander and possible replacement for Osama bin Laden who is accused of the 2008 Mumbai massacre, was killed in an American drone-fired missile strike close to the Afghan border, a fax from the militant group he heads and a Pakistani intelligence official said Saturday. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

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A young boy holds a weapon given to him by a rebel fighter as he poses for a portrait after Friday prayers in Benghazi, Libya, June 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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A man walks past a burning vehicle belonging to Yemeni security forces that was set on fire by anti-government protestors during clashes in Taiz, Yemen, Friday, June 3, 2011. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was wounded when opposition tribesmen determined to topple him hammered his palace in Sanaa with rockets Friday in a major escalation of nearly two weeks of fighting with government forces. (AP Photo/Yemen Lens)

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**FILE** In this photo from May 31, 2011, President Obama speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House. Republicans and Democrats scolded Obama on June 3, 2011, for dispatching U.S. forces against Libya without getting congressional approval. (Associated Press)

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Relatives and friends of tribesmen loyal to Sheik Sadeq al-Ahmar, the head of the powerful Hashid tribe, who were killed in clashes with Yemeni security forces carry their bodies during their funeral procession in Sanaa, Yemen, on June 3, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Former Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic removes his hat in the courtroom during his initial appearance at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Friday, June 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, Pool)

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** FILE ** Abdullah Abdullah, a former foreign minister and Afghanistan presidential candidate, has said the Taliban now 'deny themselves the reason for their existence.' (Associated Press)

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Ghulam Farooq Wardak, Afghanistan's education minister and a member of a peace council in charge of reconciliation efforts with the Taliban, sees a post-bin Laden opportunity for accord. (Official Presidential Palace Photo)

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"The minute the Taliban give up on the idea of establishing an Islamic emirate, they deny themselves the reason for their existence. This fundamental issue has to be understood while discussing the idea of reaching out to the Taliban." - Abdullah Abdullah, a former foreign minister and Afghanistan presidential candidate (Official Presidential Palace photo)

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South Korean investigators and technicians conduct a ground-penetrating radar survey Thursday looking for traces of Agent Orange at Camp Carroll, a U.S. Army logistics base in South Korea. The joint investigation comes after American veterans said they buried large amounts of the highly toxic defoliant there in 1978. (Associated Press)

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Lt. Gen. John D. Johnson, commander of the 8th Army in South Korea, talks with investigators while technicians conduct the search at Camp Carroll. (Associated Press)

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A World War II portrait of Mr. Shafer is displayed next to bottles of his vineyard's merlot, which he donated and poured as part of the Vintners for Veterans program.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Col. Moammar Gadhafi's portrait hangs behind a window that reflects people gathering this week at the dictator's Bab al-Aziziya compound, a regular target of NATO airstrikes in Tripoli, Libya.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Soldiers accused of rape and crimes against humanity sit through a military tribunal in the town of Baraka, Congo. A Congolese court sentenced an army colonel to 20 years in prison in the highest-profile sexual violence case ever tried in this nation, where thousands are brutally raped each year. The February trial held in a torridly hot makeshift courtroom marks the first time a commanding officer has been tried for such a crime.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Col. Moammar Gadhafi's portrait hangs behind a window that reflects people from several African countries gathering this week at the dictator's Bab al-Aziziya compound, a regular target of NATO airstrikes in Tripoli, Libya.

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"What became pretty obvious with [bin Laden's] death is that he was pretty irrelevant," said Australian Maj. Gen. Michael G. Krause, deputy chief of staff of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.

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KYODO NEWS VIA ASSOCIATED PRESS China has responded to more than a week of surprising protests in Inner Mongolia with its well-honed strategy: deploy overwhelming force, keep potential protesters from gathering and pledge to address at least some grievances.