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Afghan security force soldiers rush to the scene of a militant attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Two suicide attackers struck a building rented by a private security company in Afghanistan's capital Tuesday, detonating their explosive vests to kill two company drivers, police said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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Afghan police officers block traffic near the scene of a militant attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Two suicide attackers struck a building rented by a private security company in Afghanistan's capital Tuesday, detonating their explosive vests to kill two company drivers, police said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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An Afghan security man covers a body at the scene of a militant attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Two suicide attackers struck a building rented by a private security company in Afghanistan's capital Tuesday, detonating their explosive vests to kill two company drivers, police said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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An Afghan security man carries evidences, passing by logo of a police vehicle at the scene of militants attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Two suicide attackers struck a building rented by a private security company in Afghanistan's capital Tuesday, detonating their explosive vests to kill two company drivers, police said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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Chinese soldiers attempt to pry open the concrete wall of a building that collapsed after Sunday's mud slide swept into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Rescuers in three countries across Asia struggled to reach survivors from flooding that has afflicted millions of people. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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Chinese soldiers use a life detecting device to search for survivors in a building that partially collapsed after Sunday's mud slide swept into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Rescuers in three countries across Asia struggled to reach survivors from flooding that has afflicted millions of people. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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Police guard the entrance to the Taiba mosque in Hamburg, Germany, after it ws closed Monday. Once a meeting place for Sept. 11 plotters, it appeared to have become a jihad center again. (Associated Press)

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Carole White the former agent of model Naomi Campbell is seen in this image taken from TV as she gives evidence at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. White and actress Mia Farrow testifed about a gift of uncut diamonds the former Liberian president allegedly gave model Naomi Campbell after a 1997 party. (AP Photo/Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone, Via APTN)

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Flood-affected women stand in a queue for food relief in a camp set up in Nowshera in northwest Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Pakistan will need billions of dollars to recover from the worst floods in its history, further straining a country already dependent on foreign aid to prop up its economy and back its war against Islamist militants, the United Nations said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Chinese paramilitary policemen on a rescue mission march past the body of a victim of Sunday's disaster placed on the roadside in Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture in northwestern China's Gansu province on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Rescuers dug through mud and wreckage Monday searching for 1,300 people missing after flash floods and landslides struck northwestern China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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A paramilitary policeman rests among the debris of buildings destroyed by a mudslide that swept through the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Rescuers dug through mud and wreckage Monday searching for 1,300 people missing after flash floods and landslides struck northwestern China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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German police have sealed the door of the former al-Quds mosque, now named the Taiba mosque, in Hamburg, Germany. The mosque, which once was frequented by some of the Sept. 11 attackers, was closed Monday by authorities, who said they believed it was again a meeting place for Islamic radicals. (AP Photo/dapd/Axel Heimken)

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Radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir (center) is escorted by anti-terror police as he arrives at Indonesian police headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Mr. Bashir, once imprisoned for his links to the terror group behind the Bali bombings, was arrested Monday for alleged involvement with a new militant network. (AP Photo/Irwin Ferdiansyah)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) prepares to testify before a state-appointed inquiry commission into the Israeli naval raid on a Gaza aid flotilla in Jerusalem on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Ronen Zvulun, Pool)

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Actress Mia Farrow is seen in an image taken from TV as she testifies at the Charles Taylor war crimes trial in Leidschendam, Netherlands, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone via APTN)

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A South Korean marine surveys the situation behind a vulcan automatic cannon during an exercise on Baengnyeong Island, northwest of Seoul near the border with North Korea, on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. South Korean troops fired artillery and dropped sonar buoys into the Yellow Sea as naval drills kicked off near the spot where a warship sank four months ago. (AP Photo/Yonhap, Seo Myung-gon)

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Carole White the former agent of model Naomi Campbell is seen in this image taken from TV smiles as she gives evidence at the U.N.-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, Netherlands, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. White and actress Mia Farrow testifed about a gift of uncut diamonds the former Liberian president allegedly gave model Naomi Campbell after a 1997 party. (AP Photo/Special Tribunal for Sierra Leone, Via APTN)

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REMNANTS OF WAR: A South Ossetian honor guard pays his respects at a war memorial in the village of Khetagurovo on Sunday amid the wreckage of cars burned during the brief Russia-Georgia war in August 2008. Russian troops have stayed in South Ossetia to this day. (Associated Press)

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev speaks to Russian troops stationed at the key Black Sea port of Gudauta in Abkhazia. Mr. Medvedev pledged Sunday to provide further support to breakaway Georgian regions on the anniversary of the Russian-Georgian war. He arrived in Abkhazia to hold talks with the Kremlin-friendly separatist government. (Associated Press)

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Adnan Shukrijumah, 35, is a suspected al Qaeda operative who lived for more than 15 years in the U.S. The FBI says he has become chief of the terror network's global operations. (FBI via Associated Press)