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Palestinians hold up a banner with a swastika during clashes with Israeli soldiers, not pictured, near the Kalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem, Friday, March 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill) ** FILE **
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This photo, also from the Imperial War Museum in London, shows a "defiant garden" that was planted in a crater in front of Westminster Cathedral in London during World War II. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Grenades allegedly belonging to soldiers who were killed by rebels sit on the ground in Corinto in southern Colombia in November. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** Colombian army soldiers unload supplies from a helicopter during a February operation to relieve troops in Alto Guaduas, Caqueta state, in southern Colombia, a region with a strong presence of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Al Qaeda makes its presence known in a Muslim area of Kano, Nigeria. The increasingly active and growing Islamic Maghreb is threatening to further destabilize fragile governments in heavily Islamic North Africa. (Associated Press)
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Marines carry a wounded comrade to a waiting helicopter after an improvised explosive device detonated near their armored vehicle in the Taliban stronghold of Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** A Somali Islamist militant patrols the streets of Mogadishu. Al-Shabab Islamic insurgents, with links to al Qaeda, last year looted two United Nations compounds in southern Somalia. The Somali capital sees almost daily attacks aimed at disrupting the weak government. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** A U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter with the Charlie Company, Task Force Talon, takes off at a forward operating base south of Marjah, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Friday Feb. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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** FILE ** Secretary of State James Baker speaks at a State Department press conference concerning U.S. troop movements in Panama, Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 1989. (AP Photo/Doug Mills)
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** FILE ** The Obama administration has called Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's failed plan to blow up a Dec. 25 flight "an attempted act of terrorism." (AP Photo)
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NATIONAL AVIATION HALL OF FAME Edward Vernon Rickenbacker, known as Eddie, was an ace pilot in World Wars I and II.
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** FILE ** Passengers at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport prepare to go through security in December 2009.
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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 **
