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Al-Shabaab insurgents gather with arms in Mogadishu. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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A ceremony is held Friday before a Chinese naval fleet set sail from Sanya city, in China's southernmost island province of Hainan. The warships, carrying special forces, helicopters and armed with guided missiles, were dispatched to Somalia for anti-piracy duty. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** A Palestinian child runs in front of a fuel truck as it drives near the Karni crossing, southeast of Gaza City on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, on Friday, Dec. 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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Blackwater Chief Executive Officer Erik Prince defends his company's performance in Iraq before the House oversight committee in 2007. (Associated Press)
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In this image from APTN video, a man, center, throws a shoe at U.S. President George W. Bush, background left, during a news conference with Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008, in Baghdad, Iraq. On an Iraq trip shrouded in secrecy and marred by dissent, Bush on Sunday hailed progress in the war that defines his presidency and got a size-10 reminder of his unpopularity when a man hurled two shoes at him during a news conference. (AP Photo) ** FILE **
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** FILE ** President Bush is greeted by the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. Raymond T. Odierno (left), and U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker (center) on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008, in Baghdad, on Mr. Bush's surprise visit to Iraq.
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** FILE ** Soldiers who distinguished themselves in action in Afghanistan and Iraq receive honors during ceremonies at Fort Bragg, N.C., in 2008. The most-honored unit was a Special Forces team that won 10 Silver Star medals for valor during a single battle.
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The operations center features numerous, movie-theater-size flat-screen monitors that stream live images from unmanned aircraft patrolling the two theaters of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force)
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Taj Mahal hotel employees comfort each other after being rescued. A group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the attacks. (Associated Press)
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GETTY IMAGES Police keep watch in Grand Central Terminal on Wednesday in New York. The FBI and Homeland Security Department downplayed the seriousness of a terrorist threat to transit systems.
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** FILE ** Fire engulfs a part of the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, India, early 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 Wednesday night, killing at least 78 people and taking Westerners hostage, police said. A previously unknown group, apparently Muslim militants, took responsibility for the attacks. (AP Photo/Gautam Singh)
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Pakistani officials get ready on Nov. 17, 2008 near Peshawar to escort trucks carrying supplies for NATO and U.S. forces to neighboring Afghanistan through Pakistan's Khyber Pass, an increasingly perilous 30-mile stretch. (Associated Press)
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Marines of the 1st Force Service Supply Group Forward respond to reports of an Iraqi force preparing to advance on them from the south during a sandstorm in southern Iraq on March 25, 2003. President Bush's legacy depends on a positive outcome in Iraq. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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A Russian Tu-95 bomber, surrounded by MiG-29s, participates in an air show marking 95th anniversary of the Russian air forces in August 2007. Coupled with newer long-range missiles, the slower but larger bombers are set to play a role in a modern military. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)
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A V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft taxies after a mission at Asad Air Base in western Iraq. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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A V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft taxies after a mission at Asad Air Base in western Iraq. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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About 20,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan will be transferred from NATO to direct American command in a bid to improve the training and coordination of the Afghan military and police, Pentagon officials announced Monday. Associated Press.
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"HISTORY OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT AND INDIAN WARS OF WESTERN VIRGINIA" BY WILLS DE HASS One of Lewis Wetzel's famous tactics when fighting Indians was to run from them after shooting but to reload while they pursued him, then turn and shoot again. Below is a drawing of Fort Henry, site of the final frontier battle of the Revolutionary War. It grew into Wheeling, W.Va.
