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**FILE** Islamist cleric Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, founder of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (Associated Press)
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Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard holds a news conference in Phoenix to announce that he has been informed the Obama administration will send 1,200 National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Cadets stand as President Obama congratulates graduates of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., Saturday, May 22, 2010. (Associated Press)
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In this Dec. 11, 2008, file photo, Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism Commission Chair, former Florida Sen. Bob Graham, left, listens as Vice Chair, former Missouri Sen. Jim Talent testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. President Barack Obama announced Saturday, May 22, 2010, that Graham and former EPA Administrator William K. Reilly will lead a presidential commission investigating the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)
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**FILE** Somali government coast guards patrol the coast of Mogadishu, Somalia to keep a watch for pirates who hijack ships off the coast. (Associated Press)
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An anti-terrorist unit from the Central Security Forces of the Ministry of Interior trains in the Sarif area on the eastern outskirts of the Yemeni capital, San'a, on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010. Yemeni security forces arrested three suspected al Qaeda militants from a cell that the United States has said was linked to a plot against the American or other embassies, the Interior Ministry said Wednesday. (AP Photo)
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**FILE** U.S. Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Battalion walk through the sand inside Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan's Helmand province on June 8, 2009. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Pigeons fly as the Taj Mahal Palace hotel continued to burn in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. Teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India's financial capital, police said. (AP Photo)
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** FILE ** An Oklahoma City fireman walks near explosion-damaged cars on the north side of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City after the bombing on April 19, 1995. More than 600 people were injured in the attack and 168 people were killed. (AP Photo/Daily Oklahoman, Jim Argo, File)
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**FILE** A British Airways aircraft prepares to taxi at Heathrow Airport in London on Aug. 13, 2005. (Associated Press)
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Pittsburgh police in riot gear redeploy Thursday after confrontations with protesters near the Strip District in Pittsburgh. Hundreds of demonstrators marched in protest of the G-20 summit, which is expected to begin in Pittsburgh on Thursday. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** In this March 18, 2004, file photo Malian soldiers from the 512th Motorised Infantry company complete their training by U.S. Special Forces, top, in the desert near Timbuktu in Mali as part of the U.S. Pan-Sahel Initiative to secure the Sahel region from being used by terrorists. A North African faction, which calls itself Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), is still small and largely isolated, numbering a couple hundred militants based mostly in the vast desert of northern Mali. But there are signs of signs of stepped-up activity in the region. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
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** FILE ** U.S. Army service members salute in the official uniforms of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACS) in this May 22, 1942, photo. Wartime often has been heralded as strong periods of American style, yet the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq seem to be barely a blip on the radar of the fashion community. (AP Photo/File)
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**FILE** Cars are seen parked outside Murtala Mohammed airport in Lagos, Nigeria, on Dec. 26, 2009. Northwest Airlines passenger Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian claiming to be acting on orders from al Qaeda, set off an explosive device on a Christmas Day flight in a failed terrorist attack on the plane as it was landing in Detroit. The suspect boarded in Nigeria and went through Amsterdam en route to Detroit.
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Police guard a house, where Faisal Shahzad once lived, in Shelton, Conn., Tuesday, May 4, 2010. Mr. Shahzad, a U.S. citizen who had recently returned from a five-month trip to his native Pakistan, was arrested on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction charges for trying to blow up the crude gasoline-and-propane bomb amid tourists and theatergoers Saturday evening. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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A North Korean mock Scud-B missile, center, and other South Korean mock missiles are displayed at the Korea War Memorial Museum in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, July 4, 2009. On Saturday, North Korea fired seven missiles into the waters off the peninsula's eastern coast from morning until evening. AP photo.
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** FILE ** Thai Buddhist monks pray for peace as anti-government demonstrators gather to shout insults at police outside police headquarters on Friday, April 9, 2010, in Bangkok. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)
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**FILE** This 2003 photo obtained by the Associated Press shows a detainee bent over with his hands on the bars of a prison cell at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo)
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FILE - This Sept. 21, 2008, file photo shows Iranian basij paramilitary volunteers, affiliated to the elite Revolutionary Guard, attending a parade ceremony, marking the 28th anniversary of the onset of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran.
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** FILE ** An Iraqi soldier stands guard in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)