War_Conflict

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An Israeli soldier sits in a tank along the border between Israel and southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, April 9, 2011. Palestinian militants fired more than a dozen rockets at southern Israel on Saturday, and Israeli warplanes killed four militants in the Gaza Strip in the most intense fighting since Israel's 2008-09 offensive in the Hamas-ruled territory. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Libyan rebel fighters retreat from Ajdabiya, Libya, during an advance by forces loyal to Col. Moammar Gadhafi on Saturday, April 9, 2011. Government soldiers and rebel gunmen battled in the streets of the key front-line city after the Libyan military used shelling and guerrilla-style tactics to open its most serious push into opposition territory since international airstrikes began. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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FILE - In this April 6, 2011 file photo, Bob Dylan performs with his band in Beijing. After nearly five decades of singing about a war that continues to haunt a generation of Americans, Dylan is finally getting his chance to see Vietnam at peace. The iconic folk singer and songwriter was set to play a special concert in the former Saigon on Sunday evening, where he's expected to belt out some of his classic anti-war tunes, nearly 36 years after the Vietnam War ended. (AP Photo/File) CHINA OUT

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Filmmaker Ken Burns looks at a book of Civil War draft records during a news conference at the National Archives in Washington, Wednesday, April 6, 2011, in conjunction with Ancestry.com, making newly digitized Civil War records available online. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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A protester chants slogans while riding on another man's shoulders following an attack by security forces in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, April 9, 2011. Soldiers beat hundreds of protesters with clubs and fired heavy volleys of gunfire into the air as part of a pre-dawn attack to clear away an overnight demonstration in Cairo's central Tahrir Square, in the latest sign of tensions between Egypt's ruling military and the country's protest movement. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid)

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In this image made from television, a dust cloud is seen following the explosion of a missile, outside the strategic oil port of Brega, Libya, Thursday, April 7, 2011. An apparent NATO airstrike slammed into a rebel combat convoy Thursday, killing at least five fighters and sharply boosting anger among anti-government forces after the second bungled mission in a week blamed on the military alliance. (AP Photo/National Transitional Council in Libya via AP Television News)

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Israeli soldiers inspect a school bus hit by an anti-tank missile fired from the Gaza Strip near the border between southern Israel and Gaza at Sa'ad, Israel, on Thursday, wounding two people, including one child critically, Israeli officials said, prompting a fierce Israeli retaliation. (Associated Press)

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A Libyan rebel reacts Thursday after hearing claims that a NATO airstrike had hit rebel forces accidentally, killing at least two and injuring more than a dozen. (Associated Press)

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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates talks with troops from the Army's 25th Infantry Division from Hawaii and answers their questions during a visit at Camp Victory on Thursday in Baghdad. Mr. Gates is meeting with military and civilian leaders during what he described as possibly his last trip to Iraq as defense secretary. (Associated Press)

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An unidentified man is detained by police officers near a planned protest site in Shanghai, China. Anonymous calls online for pro-democracy protests in China have prompted the government to launch a sweeping campaign of repression to keep the "Jasmine Revolution" from reaching its shores. (Associated Press)

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Libyan rebels, at the west gate of Ajdabiya, Libya, express their anger on hearing claims from fellow fighters that a NATO airstrike further up the road toward Brega had hit rebel forces, killing at least five and injuring more than 20 others, on Thursday, April 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns told an audience at the National Archives in Washington on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, that he, too, found a family connection in the archives for the Civil War. It turns out his great-great-grandfather Abraham Burns was a member of the horse artillery. In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, the National Archives and Ancestry.com announced Wednesday that Civil War archives now will be available online outside the archives. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns (right) and TV journalist and author Cheryl Wills look at a book that contains Civil War draft registration records at the National Archives in Washington on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, following the announcement that Civil War records such as these will now be available online at Ancestry.com. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns (right) talks with TV journalist and author Cheryl Wills following an announcement on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at the National Archives in Washington that Civil War documents will now be available online outside the archives. The document seen here lists draft registrations for the war. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Cheryl Wills, a TV journalist and author of the book "Die Free," holds up a copy of the discharge record she found for her great-great-great-grandfather Sandy Wills, who served from 1863 to 1865 in the Union Army. Ms. Wills was on hand at the National Archives in Washington on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, as the archives announced that Civil War documents now will be made available online at Ancestry.com. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Paper conservator Annie Wilker, who works at the National Archives in Washington, unveils a volume that contains a register of Civil War draftees during an announcement on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, at the archives that Civil War documents such as this will now be made available online outside the archives. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Andrew Carnegie (Line 15) is among those whose names are recorded in this volume of Civil War draft registrations, which is housed at the National Archives. In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, the National Archives and Ancestry.com announced on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, that Civil War archives such as this will be made available online outside the archives. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns told audience members at the National Archives in Washington on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, that he, too, found a family connection in the archives for the Civil War. It turns out his great-great-grandfather Abraham Burns was a member of the horse artillery. In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, the National Archives and Ancestry.com announced Wednesday that war archives now will be available online outside the archives. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Grover G. Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform is scheduled to join with NAACP officials and business and education leaders at National Press Club to discuss an alternative way of dealing with nonviolent felons, rather than just incarcerating them. (The Idaho Statesman via Associated Press)