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** FILE ** Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, South Sudan's ambassador in Washington (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PUSHING PEACE: Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, Ohio Democrat, joined peace activists in an antiwar rally near the White House.
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Members of the al-Shabab terrorist militia undergo training at a camp outside Mogadishu, Somalia, on Nov. 4, 2009. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah says via video link Monday that "armed struggle" was the only way to regain Arab lands from Israel. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Thousands of tents housing Muslim pilgrims (above) are crowded together in Mina near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Friday, when the last stage of the annual hajj pilgrimage, the symbolic stoning of the devil, began.
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** FILE ** Iranian clerics, who are members of the Basij militia affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard, gather during a 2009 ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Basij foundation. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, who now is retired, was an Army vice chief of staff. (Associated Press)
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Five-year-old footage of Mullah Mohammed Omar (center) rallying his Taliban troops in Kandahar, Afghanistan, was found in the BBC's vaults and aired in 2009. (Associated Press/BBC TV) ** FILE **
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Hip-hop singer Emmanuel Jal survived war and hunger in Sudan after being saved by the late British aid worker Emma McCune. Today, he is fasting to raise funds for a school in Sudan dedicated to his rescuer's memory. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS CNN headquarters in Atlanta
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** FILE ** Junior Girl Scouts from Troop 1739 in Crofton, Md., help gather bags of treats to give out to the troops returning home from war at BWI Airport. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik. (Associated Press)
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Former child soldiers, who were forced by militant Tamil Tigers to fight government forces, attend a lesson at a rehabilitation center in Sri Lanka. The government wants to ensure that the youths don't pick up arms again, offering classes in plumbing, metalwork, sewing and cooking.
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Spc. Chris Klein, 30, left, Spc. Dustin Richey, 28, Spc. Codey Roberts, 22, Spc. Tony Siegenthaler, 25, Sgt. Sherwin Palencia, 32, Spc. Tony Siegenthaler, 25, Spc. Bruce Young, 30, and Spc. Codey Roberts, 22, of Blackwatch Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry, 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team smoke cigarettes and talk before thier unit moved by convoy from Forward Operating Base Ramrod, several miles down the "Death Highway", (Highway 1) to Combat Outpost Rath, in the Maywan District, of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan,Tuesday, October 27, 2009. The unit already had three soldiers killed in action, along with two civil affairs members attached to the unit, since they arrived at their outpost, September 13, 2009. They also had lost three of their four Stryker vehicles to Improvised Explosive Devices ( IEDs ). Other members of the unit have been wounded severely, with injuries ranging from paralysis to loss of limbs. ( Mary F. Calvert/ The Washington Times )
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**FILE** Chinese army trucks carrying new long-range and cruise missiles are shown off during China's 60th anniversary celebration in October 2009. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Najibullah Zazi, who hatched a plot to use backpack bombs in the New York subway, was contacted by a confidant of Osama bin Laden's, according to intelligence officials. (AP Photo, File)
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PHOTOGRAPHS BY RICHARD TOMKINS/THE WASHINGTON TIMES A soldier looks over the wreckage of a supply convoy Taliban insurgents attacked in Afghanistan's Kunar province. The province is a main infiltration route for Taliban insurgents heading to and from Afghanistan's central regions.
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Associated press photographs Syrian military intelligence appears to be providing assistance to the U.N. special tribunal investigating the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri to shield Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (above) from blame.
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An Afghan woman injured in a Taliban bombing cries for help near the site where a suicide bomber attacked an Italian military convoy on a road in Kabul in this September 2009 photo. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday called Israel's plan to construct new housing units in West Bank settlements despite U.S. calls for a building freeze “completely unacceptable.” (Associated Press)
