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Gary Samore, President Obama's chief adviser on weapons of mass destruction and arms control, told the New York Times he thinks it would take Tehran "roughly a year" to turn low-enriched uranium into weapons-grade material. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File)
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In this Aug. 20, 2009, file photo, hundreds of Libyans welcome Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, top left, as he is accompanied by Seif al-Islam el- Gadhafi, son of Libyan leader Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi upon his arrival at airport in Tripoli, Libya, after Scotland freed the terminally ill Lockerbie bomber on compassionate grounds. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS U.S. Army Sgt. Jason Thompson (left) and Lt. Col. Nate Flegler wave to one of the last Stryker armored vehicles to leave Iraq.
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Soldiers keep watch as members of the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division depart from Iraq. Some 50,000 will stay in Iraq another year in a noncombat role.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS At top, Afghan policemen watch a NATO vehicle burn in late July after a convoy was hit by a suicide attack in Jalalabad. Arab and other foreign fighters with ties to al Qaeda are infiltrating the mountains of eastern Afghanistan.Afghan firemen try to extinguish a burning oil tanker in early June after an explosive device planted under it exploded near a NATO air base in Jalalabad, east of Kabul.
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U.S. Army Sgt. Jason Thompson, left, and Lt. Col. Nate Flegler, right, wave to one of the last Stryker armored vehicles to leave Iraq as it crosses the border into Kuwait at the Khabari border crossing, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. The U.S. Army's 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division is the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of U.S. forces. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)
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U.S. Army Spc. Luisito Brooks gives a thumbs-up to the last Stryker armored vehicle of the 4th Brigade to leave Iraq, as it crosses the border into Kuwait at the Khabari border crossing, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. The U.S. Army's 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division is the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of U.S. forces. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)
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** FILE ** In this Aug. 16, 2010, photo, U.S. Army soldiers from the 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment pose with an American flag for a photograph after crossing the border from Iraq into Kuwait. The soldiers are the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of U.S. forces. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
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In this Aug. 16, 2010 photo, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Jackie Vanover, from Spanaway, Wash. holds a hand-made message for his family, including his two-month-old daughter, Austin, after crossing the border from Iraq into Kuwait. Staff Sgt. Vanover, of 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, is in the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of U.S. forces. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)
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**FILE** U.S. Army soldiers from 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment count ammunition Aug. 16, 2010, before turning it in after crossing the border from Iraq into Kuwait. (Associated Press/Maya Alleruzzo)
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In this Aug. 16, 2010 photo, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Luke Dill, from 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division are seen in the motor pool at Camp Virginia in Kuwait as they strip their armored Stryker vehicles before shipping them to the U.S.. Staff Sgt. Dill, who first came to Iraq during the 2003 invasion, is part of the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of U.S. forces. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)
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In this photo taken Aug. 17, 2010, at Camp Taji, Iraq, members of 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division led by Lt. Col. Richard D. Heyward gather for a briefing before starting a two-day tactical road march to the Iraq-Kuwait border. They are among the last combat soldiers who will leave Iraq before the Aug. 31 deadline for ending U.S. combat operations. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Carolyn Cole)
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U.S. Army Col. John Norris, commander of the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, waits for the last Stryker armored vehicle carrying his soldiers to arrive after crossing into Kuwait from Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. The U.S. Army's 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division is the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of U.S. forces. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)
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In this Aug. 15, 2010 photo, U.S. Army soldiers from C Co., 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division gather for inspection of their night-vision and equipment before driving from Iraq to Kuwait. The soldiers are the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of U.S. forces. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)
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The last in a convoy of U.S. Army Stryker armored vehicles leave Iraq at the Khabari border crossing into Kuwait, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. The U.S. Army's 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division is the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of U.S. forces. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)
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A U.S. Army Stryker armored vehicle crosses the border from Iraq into Kuwait Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. The U.S. Army's 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division is the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of U.S. forces. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)
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This Aug. 17, 2010 photo taken at sunrise shows members of the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division led by Col. John Noris cross the Iraq desert a few miles from the Kuwait border. The 1,800 soldiers in 360 vehicles traveled 369 miles to leave Iraq. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Carolyn Cole)
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U.S. Army soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division race toward the border from Iraq into Kuwait Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. The soldiers are part of the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of U.S. forces. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)
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A U.S. Army soldier from 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division waves from his Stryker armored vehicle after crossing the border from Iraq into Kuwait Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010. The soldiers are part of the last combat brigade to leave Iraq as part of the drawdown of U.S. forces. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)
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U.S. Army Pfc. Blake Folmar (left), with the 2nd Platoon, Delta Company of the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, helps a fellow soldier who mans a Mark-19 automatic grenade launcher and uses binoculars to zero in on a nearby Taliban firing position from Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad in the Zhari district of Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
