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A member of the Australian Federation Guard holds the effects of Australian WWI soldier, Private Alan James Mather, during a re-burial ceremony at Prowse Point Cemetery in Ploegsteert, Belgium on Thursday, July 22, 2010. Mr. Mather, originally from Invernell, NSW, Australia, was one of 216,000 men from Australia, New Zealand and the UK who fought in the Battle of Messines from June 7-14, 1917. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

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John Mather, center, receives the traditional Australian Slouch Hat during a re-burial ceremony for his uncle, Australian WWI soldier, Private Alan James Mather, at Prowse Point Cemetery in Ploegsteert, Belgium on Thursday, July 22, 2010. Mr. Mather, originally from Invernell, NSW, Australia was one of 216,000 men from Australia, New Zealand and the UK who fought in the Battle of Messines from June 7-14, 1917. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

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A man holds the funeral program of Australian World War One soldier, Private Alan James Mather during a re-burial ceremony at Prowse Point Cemetery in Ploegsteert, Belgium on Thursday, July 22, 2010. Mr. Mather, originally from Invernell, NSW, Australia was one of 216,000 men from Australia, New Zealand and the UK who fought in the Battle of Messines from June 7-14, 1917. The body of Mr. Mather was discovered by a British archeological team in 2008 and further DNA tests by a Belgian laboratory revealed his full identity. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

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Members of the Australian Federation Guard stand at attention during the re-burial ceremony of Australian WWI soldier, Private Alan James Mather, at Prowse Point Cemetery in Ploegsteert, Belgium, on Thursday, July 22, 2010. Mr. Mather, originally from Invernell, NSW, Australia was one of 216,000 men from Australia, New Zealand and the UK who fought in the Battle of Messines from June 7-14, 1917. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

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A man dressed in a World War One uniform stands guard outside the Prowse Point Cemetery during a re-burial ceremony for Australian World War One soldier, Private Alan James Mather in Ploegsteert, in Belgium on Thursday, July 22, 2010. Mr. Mather, originally from Invernell, NSW, Australia was one of 216,000 men from Australia, New Zealand and the UK who fought in the Battle of Messines from June 7-14, 1917. The body of Mr. Mather was discovered by a British archeological team in 2008, and further DNA tests by a Belgian laboratory revealed his full identity. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

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Iraq's Minister of Justice Dara Noureddin, left, and U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Jerry Cannon, right, sign documents handing the U.S. Theater Internment Facility at Camp Cropper to Iraqi control at a ceremony, Thursday, July 15, 2010 in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

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** FILE ** Protesters gather around burning debris in the streets of Lhasa, Tibet, on Friday, March 14, 2008. Protests led by Buddhist monks against Chinese rule in Tibet turned violent Friday, with shops and vehicles torched and gunshots echoing through the streets of the ancient capital. (AP Photo)

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Judge Hisashi Owada (center), president of the International Court of Justice, announces on Thursday in The Hague the court's opinion that Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence was not illegal. Judge Peter Tomka (left), vice president of the court, and Judge Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh join Judge Owada in the Great Hall of Justice at the World Court. (AP Photo/Evert-Jan Daniels)

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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, right, shakes hands with Defense Secretary Robert Gates before their meeting at the Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, July 22, 2010. The United States announced Thursday it will resume cooperation with Indonesia's feared special forces after ties were severed more than a decade ago over human rights abuses committed by the commando unit. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

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Pakistani police officers guard the area where suicide bombers attacked a sacred Muslim shrine in Lahore on July 1, killing 45 people. The attacks on shrines has exposed a rift between Pakistan's two largest Islamic sects. (Associated Press)

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A Pakistani police officer watches over a Sufi shrine that was attacked by suicide bombers July 1. The attack may have strengthened the anti-Taliban and anti-al Qaeda sentiment in Pakistan, but is also prompting new fears of sectarian clashes. (Associated Press)

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A U.N. Command soldier keeps a watchful eye on a North Korean soldier peering in through a window as U.S. Army Col. Kurt Taylor briefs Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Wednesday. (Associated Press)

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An Afghan policeman stands guard at the site of a suicide bombIng in Kandahar city, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. The explosives were hidden in a cart topped with bottles of juice for sale, Afghan officials. Two civilians were injured in the blast. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

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A North Korean soldier looks through a window at Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton while she visits the U.N. truce building in Panmunjom village in the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas on Wednesday, July 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Mark Wilson, pool)

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U.S. Army Col. Kurt Taylor, right, briefs Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, 2nd right, as a curious North Korean soldier looks through a window at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, Pool)

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U.S. Army Col. Kurt Taylor, right, briefs Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, 2nd right, as a curious North Korean soldier looks through the window at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul J. Richards, Pool)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates look at North Korea using binoculars at a guard post in Camp Oulette neat the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 21, 2010. (AP Photo/ Korea Pool) *

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A U.S. Army soldier from the 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division points his rifle during a patrol towards COB Nolan, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, laughs as Afghan President Hamid Karzai and rest of the foreign ministers prepare to pose for a group photo after the Kabul International Conference at the Foreign Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)