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Islamist insurgent fighters take positions during clashes with Somali government soldiers and African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu's Hodon neighborhood. The way Somali rebels fight and intimidate people purposely mimics some of the tactics used by the Taliban in Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
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Islamist al-Shabab fighters conduct a military exercise in northern Mogadishu, Somalia. With no functioning government since 1991, militants with guns have been filling the social-justice void in Somalia with violence. (Associated Press)
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An Iraqi girl wears bandages after being injured in a bombing in Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. A string of attacks targeting Iraqi security forces on Wednesday left several people dead and scores wounded, police and hospital officials said the day after the number of American soldiers in the country fell bellow 50,000.(AP Photo/Ahmed al-Husseini)
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An Iraqi policeman walks past a destroyed car at the site of a bombing in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. A string of attacks targeting Iraqi security forces on Wednesday left several people dead and scores wounded, police and hospital officials said the day after the number of American soldiers in the country fell bellow 50,000.(AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
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Lebanese soldiers patrol in front of a mosque of the Sunni Muslim Association of Islamic Charitable Project, known as the Al-Ahbash group, after clashes erupted between group members and supporters of the Shi'ite Hezbollah group in the Bourj Abu Haidar area near Beirut's downtown on Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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An Iraqi policeman stands in the ruins of a collapsed building after a bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. A string of attacks targeting Iraqi security forces on Wednesday left several people dead and scores wounded, police and hospital officials said the day after the number of American soldiers in the country fell bellow 50,000. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
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Ecuadorean soldiers patrol the town of Puerto Nuevo in Ecuador, made up primarily of Colombian refugees. Officials say the town is a haven for guerrillas fighting across the border in Colombia's civil war. (Kelly Hearn)
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Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NB) speaks before U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses the Washington Strategic Concept Seminar on the future of NATO in Washington on February 22, 2010. UPI/Alexis C. Glenn.
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A U.S. soldier from the 101st Airborne Division reads as a sandstorm blows around him at Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad in southern Afghanistan's Zhari district on Tuesday. U.S. and Afghan troops plan an assault there, the birthplace of the Taliban, next month. (Associated Press)
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Afghans pass on a road in front of the Howz-e-Madad base. "Taliban is the home team here," says a U.S. commander. The area has many well-armed fighters and a deep support network for the Taliban. (Associated Press)
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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)
