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U.S. Army Sgt. Billy Bennett shows Iraqi federal policemen how to walk in a "wedge" formation on patrol during a training exercise on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/Lara Jakes)
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Sheik Ali Mohamud Rage, a spokesman for the al-Shabab militia,Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010, in Mogadishu, Somalia, who said that members of the group's "special forces" had carried out the attack against those "aiding the infidels." Scores of people were killed during the attack. (AP Photo/Mohamed Olad Hassan)
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Somali government forces walk outside the Muna Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday Aug, 24, 2010. A suicide bomber and a gunman stormed the hotel in Somalia's capital on Tuesday, killing more than 30 people, including members of parliament, a military spokesman said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
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**FILE** An improvised explosive device (IED) wrecked a police car and wounded several police officers in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 24, 2010. (Associated Press)
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Hard-line Islamist Al-Shabab fighters conduct military exercises in northern Mogadishu's Suqaholaha neighborhood in Somalia Monday Aug. 23, 2010. The group's senior officials said the young fighters have recently completed training to join what they said to be a global war against the enemy of Allah. (AP Photo/ Farah Abdi Warsameh)
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Rolando Mendoza, a dismissed police officer, talks to negotiators during a standoff where he held hostages in a tour bus. Mendoza was later killed after he wounded a police sharpshooter. (Associated Press)
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Police and SWAT members rush a tourist bus to rescue hostages on Monday in Manila, Philippines. Rolando Mendoza, an ex-policeman armed with an automatic rifle, seized the bus and demanded reinstatement. (Associated Press)
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A medical assistant at Madina Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, tends to a child who was injured by a mortar shell during clashes between Somali insurgents and African Union troops on Monday, Aug. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) executive committee at his headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. Israel and the Palestinians will resume long-stalled direct peace talks in Washington early next month with the aim of reaching a settlement in a year's time, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday.(AP Photo/Atef Safadi, Pool)
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Police and SWAT members assault a tourist bus to rescue hostages at Manila's Rizal Park Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. Rolando Mendoza, a dismissed policeman armed with automatic rifle, seized the bus with 25 people aboard, mostly foreign tourists in a bid to demand reinstatement, police said. Mendoza was killed along with an undetermined number of hostages. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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An Afghan soldier stands guard over arrested Taliban suspects and confiscated arms and ammunition at a police compound in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)
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Hostages peer from the window of a tourist bus during a standoff at Rizal Park Monday Aug. 23, 2010, in Manila, Philippines. Former Police Senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza, a dismissed policeman armed with automatic rifle, seized the bus in Manila Monday with 25 people aboard, mostly foreign tourists in a bid to demand reinstatement, police said. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
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Federal police officers examine one of their vehicles after it crashed during a gunbattle in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Saturday. At least one gunman was killed and three police officers were injured. (Associated Press)
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he decided to ban private security firms in his country because they were contributing to corruption. (Associated Press)
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Demonstrators in favor of the proposed Islamic center near ground zero march on Church Avenue in Lower Manhattan on Sunday. Opponents and supporters of the Islamic cultural center were separated by barricades and police officers as both groups rallied. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS "We continue to see development ... in their ability to conduct operations," Gen. Raymond T. Odierno said of the Iraqi army.
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** FILE ** Hard-line Islamist al-Shabab fighters conduct a military exercise in the northern Suqaholaha neighborhood of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Al-Shabab, which is linked to al Qaeda, is reported to have started ordering parents in the country's south to give a boy from every household to the militants to boost the militia's ranks. Childless families are being forced to pay the militants $50 a month. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)
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U.S. soldiers shield themselves from the rotor wash of a medevac helicopter as it takes off with patients in the Zhari district of Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan on Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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** FILE ** El Paso police officers lookout into the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez after a heavy gun battle erupted in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Raymundo Ruiz)
