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In this Nov. 7, 2010 photo, new Afghan police recruits attend a literary class at Central Training Center on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. According to the NATO training mission, only 11 percent of the enlisted personnel in the army and police can read and write, compared to 35 percent for non-commissioned officers and 93 for the officer corps. About 74 percent of the population is illiterate, but the percentage in the security forces tends to be higher since fewer educated Afghans are willing to sign up. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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In this Nov. 7, 2010 photo, new Afghan police recruits attend a literary class at Central Training Center on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. According to the NATO training mission, only 11 percent of the enlisted personnel in the army and police can read and write, compared to 35 percent for non-commissioned officers and 93 for the officer corps. About 74 percent of the population is illiterate, but the percentage in the security forces tends to be higher since fewer educated Afghans are willing to sign up. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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In this Nov. 7, 2010 photo, new Afghan police recruits attend a literary class at Central Training Center on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. According to the NATO training mission, only 11 percent of the enlisted personnel in the army and police can read and write, compared to 35 percent for non-commissioned officers and 93 for the officer corps. About 74 percent of the population is illiterate, but the percentage in the security forces tends to be higher since fewer educated Afghans are willing to sign up. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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In this Nov. 7, 2010 photo, Khan Agha, a new Afghan police recruit, reads text written on a white board inside a classroom at Central Training Center on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. According to the NATO training mission, only 11 percent of the enlisted personnel in the army and police can read and write, compared to 35 percent for non-commissioned officers and 93 percent for the officer corps. About 74 percent of the population is illiterate, but the percentage in the security forces tends to be higher since fewer educated Afghans are willing to sign up. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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In this Nov. 7, 2010 photo, a new Afghan police recruit attends a literary class at Central Training Center on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. According to the NATO training mission, only 11 percent of the enlisted personnel in the army and police can read and write, compared to 35 percent for non-commissioned officers and 93 for the officer corps. About 74 percent of the population is illiterate, but the percentage in the security forces tends to be higher since fewer educated Afghans are willing to sign up. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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In this photo taken Nov. 7, 2010, new Afghan police recruits leave after attending a literary class at Central Training Center on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan. According to the NATO training mission, only 11 percent of the enlisted personnel in the army and police can read and write, compared to 35 percent for non-commissioned officers and 93 percent for the officer corps. About 74 percent of the population is illiterate, but the percentage in the security forces tends to be higher since fewer educated Afghans are willing to sign up. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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This photo made available by Yad Vashem Photo Archive in Jerusalem shows Nazi guards at Belzec death camp in occupied Poland in 1942. Samuel Kunz, one of the world's most-wanted Nazi suspects who was under indictment on allegations he was involved in killing hundreds of thousands of Jews at a concentration camp in occupied Poland, has died, a Bonn court said Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Yad Vashem Photo Archive)
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Visitors stand at a security fence in front of the Reichstag building, Germany's house of parliament, in Berlin on Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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King Abdullah, center, of Saudi Arabia arrives at his palace in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. The Saudi Press Agency said Abdullah entered a hospital on Friday due to complications in the back pain suffered by them and the doctors advised him to rest. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A passenger is patted down while going through a security checkpoint at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Atlanta.
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U.S. soldiers from First Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division set their positions Sunday in West Now Ruzi village, in Panjwai district, Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
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President Obama gives a media briefing at the end of a NATO summit in Lisbon on Saturday. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** In this photo from Sept. 16, Stephen Bosworth, U.S. special envoy to North Korea, speaks to reporters in Beijing, China. Mr. Bosworth will visit South Korea, Japan and China as fears rise that North Korea is ramping up its nuclear program. South Korea's Foreign Ministry said Stephen Bosworth is to arrive in Seoul on Sunday for a two-day trip aimed at discussing the North's nuclear weapons program. (Associated Press)
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U.S. President Barack Obama, center, walks over to greet Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, right, seated, during the start of the Afghanistan Opening Session at NATO Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2010. Also, sitting at left is United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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President Barack Obama and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen chat, center, as national leaders assemble for a group portrait at the NATO summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on Friday Nov. 19 2010. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochea de Olza)
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Assistant Chief Diane Groomes. (Courtesy of the Metropolitan Police Department)
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In this Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009, file photo, Israeli soldiers return to Israel from the Gaza Strip during the Gaza war. The publication of the names and photographs of two hundred Israeli soldiers on a Web site calling them "war criminals" drew a condemnation Friday from the Israeli military. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)
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Soldiers patrol a street in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo Thursday Nov. 18, 2010, a day after an attempted coup. Soldiers clashed briefly with hundreds of civilians Friday outside a base where dissident military officers have been holed up for three days after the attempted coup. (AP Photo)
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Police equipped with submachine guns and bullet-proof vests guard the main train station in Berlin Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, after German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere raised the country's terrorist threat level on Wednesday, saying intelligence services had received a tip from an unspecified country about a suspected attack planned for the end of November. (AP Photo/Ferdinand Ostrop)
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In this Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009, file photo, F-15 warplanes of the Saudi Air Force fly over the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh during a graduation ceremony at King Faisal Air Force University. A $60 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia was expected to be a done deal at midnight Friday, Nov. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
