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An Iraqi army soldier stands guard at the site of a car bombing in Baghdad on Sunday, June 20, 2010. Twin car bombs exploded Sunday near a major square in the Iraqi capital, killing at least 28 people and wounding dozens in the latest attack targeting a high-profile area in the capital. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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** FILE ** Palestinian trucks loaded with fruits and other goods arrive in Rafah, Gaza Strip, from Israel through the Kerem Shalom border crossing on Thursday, June 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Eyad Baba)

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Former Taliban fighters stand in line as they surrender their weapons to Afghan authorities in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, June 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)

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Twin car bombs exploded on Sunday, June 20, 2010, near a major square in Baghdad, killing at least 18 people and wounding dozens in the latest attack targeting a high-profile area in the capital. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

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Black smoke is seen coming from the intelligence services building that came under attack in the southern port city of Aden, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) south of the capital, San'a, in Yemen Saturday, June 19, 2010. Four suspected al Qaeda gunmen blasted their way into the intelligence headquarters in Yemen's second largest city Saturday and freed several detainees in the group's most spectacular operation since a U.S.-backed government crackdown began late last year. (AP Photo)

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FILE - In this June 9, 2010 photo, former NBA basketball star Manute Bol poses for a photograph at the Sunrise Sudan headquarters in Lenexa, Kan. Bol has died at a Virginia hospital, where he was being treated for severe kidney trouble and a painful skin condition according to an associate of Bol's. Sudan Sunrise executive director Tom Prichard says in an e-mail that Bol died Saturday, June 19, 2010 at the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville. The 47-year-old Bol played 10 seasons in the NBA and later founded Sudan Sunrise, a humanitarian group based in Lenexa, Kan., that promotes reconciliation in Sudan. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)

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Kyrgyzstan's interim government leader Roza Otunbayeva, right, speaks to a wounded ethnic Kyrgyz citizen in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. She is vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Kyrgyz Presidential Press Service, Sagyn Alchiyev, pool)

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An injured man is rushed to a hospital after a car bombing in Tuz Khormato, in northern Iraq, Friday, June 18, 2010. Car bombs, meanwhile, tore through two neighborhoods in restive cities north of Baghdad in separate attacks targeting a police captain and a provincial council member. The deadliest attack was in the northern city of Tuz Khormato when an explosives-laden car blew up about 50 yards (meters) from the house of Niazi Mohammed, a Turkomen member of the Salahuddin provincial council, according to police. (AP Photo/Emad Matti)

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, second right, and Britain's Prince Charles, right, look at photographs of French President Charles De Gaulle during a visit to London headquarters of the Free French, the fighters led by de Gaulle, who rejected their country's surrender to Nazi Germany, on Friday June 18, 2010. Mr. Sarkozy marked the 70th anniversary of de Gaulle's defiant World War II broadcast from London on Friday, visiting the studio where the leader urged his compatriots to resist the German occupation. (AP Photo/Leon Neal, Pool)

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Kyrgyzstan's interim government leader Rosa Otunbayeva wearing a flak jacket, reacts as she listens to a question during her meeting with local officials after landing by military helicopter on the central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. She is vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Ethnic Uzbek women and children sit in a tent near Uzbek-Kyrgyz border in outskirts southern city of Osh, Friday, June 18, 2010. The United Nations said as many as 1 million people may need aid in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, including the potential number of refugees, internally displaced, host families and others that may suffer in one way or another from the unrest. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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Ethnic Uzbeks walk on Uzbekistan territory after they crossed the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border near the southern city of Osh, Friday, June 18, 2010, as Uzbek border guards look on. The United Nations said as many as 1 million people may need aid in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, including the potential number of refugees, internally displaced, host families and others that may suffer in one way or another from the unrest. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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Ethnic Uzbeks cross the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border as they leave Kyrgyzstan near the southern city of Osh, Friday, June 18, 2010, as Uzbek border guards look on. The United Nations said as many as 1 million people may need aid in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, including the potential number of refugees, internally displaced, host families and others that may suffer in one way or another from the unrest. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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Charity society volunteers pack food in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations announced Thursday, dramatically increasing the official estimate of a crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful refugees without enough food and water in grim camps along the Uzbek border. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

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Charity society volunteers distribute food on the streets of Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations announced Thursday, dramatically increasing the official estimate of a crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful refugees without enough food and water in grim camps along the Uzbek border. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

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Ethnic Uzbek men seen during a Friday prayer in mosque in Suzak, in the Uzbek neighborhood near the southern Kyrgyz city of Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations announced Thursday, dramatically increasing the official estimate of a crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful refugees without enough food and water in grim camps along the Uzbek border. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

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An ethnic Uzbek boy is seen during a Friday prayer in a mosque in Suzak, the Uzbek neighborhood near the southern Kyrgyz city of Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. Some 400,000 people have been displaced by ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan, the United Nations announced Thursday, dramatically increasing the official estimate of a crisis that has left throngs of desperate, fearful refugees without enough food and water in grim camps along the Uzbek border. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)

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A military helicopter with Kyrgyzstan's interim President Rosa Otunbayeva on board flies over the statue of of the Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin prepares to land on the central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. Ms. Otunbayeva is vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Kyrgyzstan's interim President Rosa Otunbayeva wearing a flak jacket, reacts as she listens to a question during her meeting with local officials after landing by military helicopter on the central square in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan, Friday, June 18, 2010. She is vowing to work for the return of refugees who fled deadly ethnic violence there by the hundreds of thousands. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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In this file photo, a young boy leads the hard-line Islamist al-Shabaab fighters as they conduct a military exercise in northern Mogadishu's Suqaholaha neighborhood in Somalia. (Associated Press) **FILE**