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In this photo taken on Tuesday, July 6, 2010, in Oe-sillo, 14 kilometers (9 miles) west of Oe-cusse town, East Timor, leprosy patient Quirobina Safe, 63, tries on a brand new pair of sandals she received from the Leprosy Mission. East Timor is one of just two places worldwide where leprosy is still widespread, and the country has now declared war on the age-old scourge. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

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In this photo taken on Wednesday, July 7, 2010, a leprosy patient who has lost some of his vision waits to be examined by his doctor in Hauana, East Timor, south of Oe-cusse town. East Timor is one of just two places worldwide where leprosy is still widespread, and the country has now declared war on the age-old scourge. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

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In this photo taken on Tuesday, July 6, 2010, leprosy patient Mario Cau, 66, is reviewed by his doctor at a health center, in Oe-sillo, 14 kilometers (9 miles) west of Oe-cussi town, East Timor. East Timor is one of just two places worldwide where leprosy is still widespread, and the country has now declared war on the age-old scourge. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

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In this photo taken on Thursday, July 8, 2010, former leprosy patient Adelino Quelo, 68, sits inside his hut in Malelat, West Oe-cusse, overlooking the East Nusa Tengara province of Indonesia. His fingers, toes and parts of his hands and feet are missing. Only stubby knobs remain, keeping him from standing, gripping and bathing himself. East Timor is one of just two places worldwide where leprosy is still widespread, and the country has now declared war on the age-old scourge. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

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In this photo taken on Thursday, July 8, 2010, former leprosy patient Adelino Quelo, 68, waves from his hut in Malelat, West Oe-cusse, overlooking the East Nusa Tengara province of Indonesia. His fingers, toes and parts of his hands and feet are missing, only stubby knobs remain, keeping him from standing, gripping and bathing himself. East Timor is one of just two places worldwide where leprosy is still widespread, and the country has now declared war on the age-old scourge. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

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In this photo taken on Thursday, July 8, 2010, the hands of former leprosy patient Adelino Quelo, 68, are seen as he crouches outside his hut in Malelat, West Oe-cusse, overlooking the East Nusa Tengara province of Indonesia. His fingers, toes and parts of his hands and feet are missing. Only stubby knobs remain, keeping him from standing, gripping and bathing himself. East Timor is one of just two places worldwide where leprosy is still widespread, and the country has now declared war on the age-old scourge. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

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In this photo taken on Thursday July 8, 2010, former leprosy patient Adelino Quelo, 68, crouches outside his hut in Malelat, West Oe-cusse, overlooking the East Nusa Tengara province of Indonesia. His fingers, toes and parts of his hands and feet are missing. Only stubby knobs remain, keeping him from standing, gripping and bathing himself. East Timor is one of just two places worldwide where leprosy is still widespread, and the country has now declared war on the age-old scourge. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

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Kidnapped British aid worker Linda Norgrove may have been killed by her American rescuers rather than her Taliban captors. (AP Photo/U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

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NATO fuel tankers enter Afghanistan through Pakistan's border crossing in Torkham, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday. Pakistan reopened the key border crossing to NATO supply convoys, ending an 11-day blockade that was imposed after a U.S. helicopter strike mistakenly killed two Pakistani soldiers. (Associated Press)

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Pararescuemen from the U.S. Air Force 46th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron rush out of a helicopter to pick up a wounded Afghan soldier and a wounded Taliban detainee as they land on the battled field in Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Friday. The helicopter was flown by pilots from the 26th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron supporting ongoing military operations in southern Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is greeted by (from left) Senior Col. Nguyen Hong Quang, Maj. Gen. Nguyen Huu Manh and 2nd Lt. Nguyen Thang Anh as he deplanes from a U.S. military aircraft upon his arrival at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on Sunday. Mr. Gates is in Vietnam to reassure jittery Southeast Asian nations this week that the United States won't cede its longtime role as the pre-eminent military power in the Pacific as Chinese naval ambitions expand. (AP Photo)

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A southern Sudanese pro-secession demonstrator is held by security forces on Saturday at a rally in Khartoum, Sudan. (Associated Press)

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Serbian riot police gather as a gay price parade goes moves along a street in Belgrade, Serbia, on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. More than 140 people were hurt and more than 200 arrested, officials said, as police clashed with hundreds of far-right protesters who tried to disrupt the march. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

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** FILE ** Malian troops and soldiers from other African countries train with U.S. Special Forces in the Sahara Desert near the town of Gao in northeastern Mali in May 2010. The United States and other Western militaries are providing help to the Sahara region's weak armies, which face growing threats from al-Qaeda-linked militants and drug traffickers. (AP Photo/Alfred de Montesquiou)

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An Afghan police officer gestures for an oil tanker carrying fuel for NATO forces to enter Afghanistan through Pakistan's border crossing at Torkham on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. Pakistan reopened the key border crossing to NATO supply convoys on Sunday, ending an 11-day blockade imposed after a U.S. helicopter strike killed two Pakistani soldiers. (AP Photo/Qazi Rauf)

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** FILE ** This Oct. 14, 1950, file picture shows Gen. Douglas MacArthur, left, and President Harry Truman in an automobile during a meeting on Wake Island to discuss the Korean War. Truman later told reporters the atomic bombing of North Korea was under consideration. MacArthur had a plan to drop 30 to 50 of the bombs, the general told journalists after the war. Sixty years after the start of the Korean War, recently released declassified documents have helped fill in the history of U.S. nuclear threats against North Korea over the decades. (AP Photo/WA, File)

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Local residents look to burning oil tankers after a militant attack in Mithri, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) east of Quetta, Pakistan, on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. Gunmen armed with a rocket torched 29 NATO oil tankers in southwestern Pakistan before dawn Saturday, the latest attack on the supply line for international troops in Afghanistan since Pakistani authorities closed a key border crossing amid a dispute with the United States. (AP Photo)

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Sgt. Bill Myers, from Phoenix, Ariz., from Bravo Company 2-502 Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, prepares to patrol after a break near Forward Operation Base Howz-e-Madad, Zhari district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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Palestinian supporters of the Islamic group Hamas raise their right index fingers in the air as a sign of loyalty during a rally to protest the killing of two Hamas militants in Hebron, in the Jebaliya refugess camp, northern Gaza Strip, Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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Afghans shout anti-American slogans during a protest in Khost, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. Firing from NATO helicopters in an eastern province Friday killed six Afghan militiamen who purportedly shot at the aircraft, an Afghan official said. (AP Photo/Nashanuddin Khan)