War_Conflict

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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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** 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 ** 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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**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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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)

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GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP -In this file photo, masked Hamas militants march during a demonstration supporting Hamas' Spiritual Leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin on January 16, 2004, in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. Thousands of Palestinians demonstrated in Gaza Strip towns and refugee camps after the Israeli deputy defense minister stated that "Yassin is marked for death" following a suicide bombing that killed three Israeli soldiers and a security officer in Gaza. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images)

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**FILE** An Air Force F-22 Raptor executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the Gulf of Alaska. Production will be stopped at 187 Raptors. (Associated Press/U.S. Navy)

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Former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Monday he fears that artificial intelligence will empower America’s enemies to engage in biological warfare. (AP, file)

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** FILE ** Gary McKinnon, shown in this file photo from 2009, is charged with breaking into computers belonging to NASA, the Department of Defense and several branches of the U.S. military. (Associated Press)

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President Obama outlined his nuclear policy in a landmark speech in 2009 in Prague, proclaiming he would seek a "world without nuclear weapons." The forthcoming Nuclear Posture Review says his administration's calculation of setting the conditions for further cuts in global nuclear arms was a failure. (Agence France-Presse/File)

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Since 2004, Muslim separatists in the three provinces bordering Malaysia have been waging a fierce insurgency that has claimed more than 7,000 lives. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)