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**FILE** Palestinian men inspect the damage following Israeli airstrikes on a smuggling tunnel at the border with Egypt in Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on Sept. 5, 2010. One Palestinian was killed, a second was wounded and three more were missing, Hamas security officials said Sunday, as Israeli aircraft bombed the tunnel in retaliation for Hamas shooting attacks that killed four Israelis last week. (Associated Press)
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1st Lt. Jay Park participates in pre-deployment cognitive testing at Fort Campbell, Ky., in June. Soldiers from the Army's 52nd Ordnance Group, based at Fort Campbell, have undergone hours of exhaustive cognitive testing in the military's first-of-its-kind study of mild traumatic brain injury. This focus on the soldiers who find and destroy the powerful and deadly weapons is part of a larger effort by the military this year to better track and treat mild brain injuries. (AP Photo/Josh Anderson)
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In this image made from television, Iraqi Defense Minister Abdul-Qadir al-Ubaidi (center), accompanied by soldiers, inspects the site of a suicide bombing at a military headquarters in Baghdad on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/APTN)
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U.S. Army soldiers secure a road at the scene of a suicide attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. At least three people were killed and 11 wounded in the car-bomb attack on a U.S. Army convoy, according to local hospitals. NATO said there were no injuries to coalition forces or damage to their vehicles. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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A suicide car bomber attacked a Russian base in the city of Buinaksk in the violence-plagued republic of Dagestan on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. A spokesman for the republic's Interior Ministry said the driver of the explosives-laden small Zhiguli automobile smashed through a gate of the base and headed for an area where soldiers are quartered in tents, but soldiers opened fire on him before he reached the center of the base. The spokesman said the driver rammed the car into a military truck, at which time it exploded. (AP Photo/Abdula Magomedov, News Team)
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U.S. soldiers of the Fort Campbell based 1-75 Cavalry fire 122 mm mortars at a nearby Taliban position at Forward Operating Base Wilson in Kandahar Province, Southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/ Todd Pitman)
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A protester demonstrates outside Eason book store in Dublin, Ireland, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared for a public book signing at the Eason book store as anti-war protesters hurled shoes and eggs at him as he arrived for his first public signing of his fast-selling memoir. (AP Photo/Peter Morrison)
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FILE - In a March 10, 2003 file photo,Dr. Thomas Butler leaves the Mahon Federal Building in Lubbock, Texas, after a federal judge sentenced him to 24 months in federal prison, fined $15,000, and ordered to pay $38,000 in restitution after Butler's report of missing plague-causing bacteria caused a bioterrorism scare. A senior law enforcement official said Friday, Sept. 3, 2010 that officials decided to shut down much of Miami International Airport Thursday after a database showed Butler, a scientist with a suspicious item in his luggage, had once been charged with illegally transporting bubonic plague. (AP Photo / Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Jim Watkins, File)
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In this photo released by Mexico's secretary of Defense, a soldier walks past a pickup truck and seized weapons near the town of Ciudad Mier in northern Mexico, Thursday Sept. 2, 2010. According to the secretary of Defense, gunmen opened fire on soldiers after an airborne patrol detected armed men guarding a home near this town. At least 25 gunmen were killed, two soldiers were injured and three people held captive were freed. (AP Photo/SEDENA)
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates participates in an award ceremony for a group of soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, at combat outpost Senjaray outside Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)
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Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, right, shakes hands with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates during a joint press conference at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)
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In this June 9, 2009, file photo, Iranian opposition leader Mahdi Karroubi attends a press conference in Tehran. Pro-government militiamen attacked Mr. Karroubi's home with homemade bombs and beat one of his bodyguards unconscious Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, an opposition website reported, in an apparent attempt to keep him from attending the annual state-sponsored rally known as Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
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Associated Press Rep. Michael N. Castle, Delaware Republican, is taking his GOP rival for the nomination for Senate more seriously after a Republican senator was denied renomination by an insurgent in Alaska.
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Associated Press photographs Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a Kashmir separatist leader, addresses protesters in Srinagar, India, on Wednesday. Dozens of people have died in anti-India demonstrations and clashes between security forces and Muslim protesters in Kashmir since June.
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Kashmiri protesters throw stones at Indian policemen after police seek to disperse people playing in the street during curfew hours in Srinagar, India, on Monday.
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** FILE ** Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton hosts the relaunch of peace talks at the State Department in Washington on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sits with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as she hosts the re-launch of direct negotiations, Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Arrested Taliban suspects and confiscated arms and ammunition are shown to the media at a police compound in Ghazni, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad)
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, is greeted by top NATO commander Gen. David Petraeus as he arrives in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim Watson, Pool)
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This 2005 photo released by the White family on May 27, 2010, shows Marine and Iraq war veteran Andrew White of Cross Lanes, W. Va., in Iraq. White died at his family home in his sleep on Feb. 12, 2008, while taking a powerful antipsychotic prescribed to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. (AP Photo/The White Family) NO SALES.
