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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama will meet Tuesday with soldiers at Fort Bliss in Texas, hours before he delivers a prime-time speech from the Oval Office to mark the departure of U.S. combat troops from Iraq.
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Robert Einhorn, the State Department's special adviser for nonproliferation and arms control, right, talks with Daniel Glaser, the Treasury Department's deputy assistant secretary for terrorist financing and financial crimes, left, during a press conference at the Information Resource Center of the American Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. New sanctions against North Korea will target narcotics trafficking, money counterfeiting and other "illicit and deceptive" activities that provide the regime with hard currency used to build nuclear weapons, a senior U.S. envoy said Monday. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. (left) speaks with Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari (center) and Gen. Raymond T. Odierno (right), the top U.S. commander in Iraq, in Baghdad on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Mr. Biden returned to Iraq to mark this week's formal end to U.S. combat operations and to push the country's leaders to end a six-month postelection stalemate blocking the formation of a new government. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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An Iraqi police officer uses a bomb detector at a checkpoint in Baghdad on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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A U.S. Army helicopter takes off carrying soldiers wounded in a roadside bombing in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Monday, Aug. 30, 2010. Eyewitnesses said a U.S. military armored Humvee caught fire after having been struck by the bomb in a residential area of Kandahar, Afghanistan's second-largest city, while returning in a convoy from an unknown mission. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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Iraqi policemen search a car at a checkpoint in Baghdad Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010. While violence in Iraq has subsided significantly since the height of the sectarian bloodshed in 2006 and 2007, militants continue to target members of Iraq's nascent security forces, undermining their ability to defend the country as the U.S. ends combat operations. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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**FILE** In this photo from Dec. 5, 2002, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (center) sits surrounded by members of his staff during a rally of his Ultra-Orthodox Shas party in Jerusalem. Yosef, an influential Israeli rabbi known for his vitriolic pronouncements against Arabs, said Palestinians and their leader should "perish from this world", Israeli army Radio said Sunday. (Associated Press)
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Wreckage is scattered across a street in Armagh, Northern Ireland, after a car bombing outside a police station in April, as tensions between Catholics and Protestants increased. (Associated Press)
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ON TOP OF IT: An Iraqi police officer searches a fuel tanker Sunday in Baghdad. Iraqi troops are poised to take over security, but some U.S. special operations forces will remain. (Associated Press)
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Code Pink activist Medea Benjamin lead an Iraq war "teach-in" Sunday in Washington seeking accountability for the U.S. role in the war and any torture.
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Afghan and American soldiers participate in a memorial service for an Afghan army officer at Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad in the Zhari district of Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. The officer was killed in an insurgent ambush a day earlier. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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An Afghan woman walks past a poster of Fawzya Galani, a candidate for parliament, in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010.
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Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov's personal security officers inspect houses in Tsentoroi, Mr. Kadyrov's home village, shortly after a shootout between the security officers and suspected separatist insurgents in this image made from television on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010. The sign in the bottom of the screen reads: "Video from Chechen President's Press Service." (AP Photo/NTV Russian Channel)
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FILE - In this Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010, file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem office. Netanyahu wants to meet on a regular basis with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after direct peace talks resume next week, officials said Saturday. Peace talks will restart Sept. 2 in Washington. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)
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An Afghan National Army soldier stands near the body of a suicide attacker near a NATO base in Khost province of Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. Insurgents launched pre-dawn attacks Saturday on a major NATO base in eastern Afghanistan and a nearby camp where seven CIA employees were killed last year in a suicide bombing. NATO said there were no coalition casualties and the attacks were repelled. It said 13 insurgents were killed, four of whom were wearing suicide vests, and five captured. (AP Photo/Nishanuddin Khan)
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An Iraqi police officer secures the area from the top of an armored vehicle at a checkpoint in central Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. The Iraqi prime minister put his nation on its highest alert for terror attacks, as insurgents hammer Iraqi security forces preparing to take over for a U.S. combat mission that formally ends on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
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Pakistani flood survivors loot relief goods from a truck in Muzaffargarh near Multan, Pakistan, on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis were fleeing floodwaters Friday after the surging River Indus smashed through levees in two places, but many refused to leave the danger zone while others took shelter in an ancient graveyard for Muslim saints.(AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)
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A Chinese paramilitary police man gestures for a photographer to stop shooting pictures outside the Nan Hu hotel where North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is believed to be staying after he arrived at Changchun in northeastern China's Jilin province on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il was said to be traveling with his youngest son on a rare trip to China on Friday, re-igniting speculation the younger Mr. Kim will take over the reigns of the reclusive communist nation in coming years. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, left, Rwandan President Paul Kagame, second from left, Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, third from right, and Sudan President Omar Bashir, second from right, attend the signing into law of the new Kenyan constitution, at Uhuru Park in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)
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American soldiers of the 2-502 Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, participate in a memorial service for an Afghan Army officer from a partner unit who was killed in an insurgent ambush a day earlier, at Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Friday Aug. 27, 2010. American soldiers, and their Afghan partners in Zhari, operate in a district which as the birthplace of the Taliban movement holds many well-armed insurgents who blend in with an organized support network providing explosives and safe haven. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
