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This still image made from video released by Islamic State group militants and posted on the website of the SITE Intelligence Group in this Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015, file photo, shows Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh standing in a cage just before being burned to death by his captors. (AP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group, File)

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National Edition News cover for February 6, 2015 - Obama rejected drones for Jordan’s terror war: Jordan responded to the Islamic State's burning execution of pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh by hanging at least two convicted terrorists at dawn Wednesday. (Associated Press)

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A Ukrainian rocket launcher system is moved near Artemivsk, Ukraine. Fighting between Russia-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces surged, raising the death toll to over 5,300 people killed since April. In a new push for peace, the leaders of France and Germany headed Thursday to Kiev and Moscow with a proposal to end the fighting (Associated Press)

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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., gathers a bipartisan group of senators to call on President Barack Obama to provide defensive weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian-backed rebel groups and to stave off incursions from Russia and Ukrainian separatists, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Controversial Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary suggested Thursday that the filmed burning of Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh by Islamic State militants was justified under the Koran. (NewsmaxTV)

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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., flanked by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., left, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, where he gathered a bipartisan group of senators to call on American support for Ukraine, which needs weaponry to stave off incursion from Russia and Ukrainian separatists. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

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Jordanians chant slogans to show their support for the government against terror as they were waiting for Jordan's King Abdullah II, returning from the U.S., at Queen Alia Airport in Amman, Wednesday. King Abdullah II rushed home Wednesday, cutting short a U.S. trip, to rally public support for even tougher strikes against the Islamic State group after the militants released a video showing the captured Jordanian pilot being burned to death in a cage. (Associated Press)

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4. MARYLAND $2.135/GALLON - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell and Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley joined the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) and the Fort McHenry Guard to commemorate the precise moment that the historic Star-Spangled Banner was raised, inspiring Francis Scott Key to write our national anthem 200 years ago. The ceremony featured a 15-star, 15-stripe, full-size replica flag created at the Maryland Historical Society. (PRNewsFoto/Star-Spangled 200, Inc.) THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED BY PRNewsfoto and is for EDITORIAL USE ONLY**

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Male and female Ranger Training Assessment Course students listen to instruction at the Ranger Training Course Assessment at Fort Benning, Georgia, Jan. 24, 2015. (Image: U.S. Army)

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Michael Morell, former deputy director of the CIA, says 100,000 ground troops are needed to defeat the Islamic State group. (Image: CBS screenshot)

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FILE - In this Friday, May 9, 2014 file photo Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a parade marking the Victory Day in Sevastopol, Crimea. With hundreds of new aircraft, tanks and missiles rolling off assembly lines and Russian jets buzzing European skies under NATO’s wary eye, it doesn’t look like Russia’s economic woes have had any impact on the Kremlin’s ambitious military modernization program. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)

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FILE - In this Tuesday May 7, 2013 file photo, Russian Iskander missiles make their way through Red Square during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia. With hundreds of new aircraft, tanks and missiles rolling off assembly lines and Russian jets buzzing European skies under NATO’s wary eye, it doesn’t look like Russia’s economic woes have had any impact on the Kremlin’s ambitious military modernization program. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

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In this Jan. 29, 2015 photo, robots are remotely controlled to to handle inert simulated chemical munitions used for training at the Pueblo Chemical Depot, east of Pueblo, in southern Colorado. The United States is about to begin destroying its largest remaining stockpile of chemical-laden artillery shells, a milestone in the global campaign to eradicate a debilitating weapon that still creeps into modern wars. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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National Edition News cover for February 4, 2015 - U.S. blind to threat in Libya, official says: Libya's new rebel-allied ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, Aref Ali Nayed talks to journalists as Libya Stabilization Team chairman Ahmed Jehani looks on during a press conference at the Libyan consulate in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday Aug. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

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Jordan responded to the Islamic State's burning execution of pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh by hanging at least two convicted terrorists at dawn Wednesday. (Associated Press)

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President Obama's Secretary of Defense nominee Ashton Carter is signaling to lawmakers that instability in such countries as Libya and Yemen may require additional counterterrorism operations similar to the ones being conducted by the U.S. military on the Pakistan and Afghanistan border. (Associated Press)

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A TSA agent checks a bag at a security checkpoint area at Midway International Airport in Chicago. (Associated Press)

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This still image made from video released by Islamic State group militants and posted on the website of the SITE Intelligence Group on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015, purportedly shows Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh standing in a cage just before being burned to death by his captors. The death of the 26-year-old pilot, who fell into the hands of the militants in December when his Jordanian F-16 crashed near Raqqa, Syria, followed a weeklong drama over a possible prisoner exchange. (AP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group)

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Two Jordanian women light candles next to a picture of Jordanian pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, who was being held by Islamic State group militants, following Sunday prayers in the Adir Roman Catholic Church, on the outskirts of Karak, Jordan, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

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Civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks holds the hand of a well-wisher at a ceremony honoring the 46th anniversary of her arrest for civil disobedience, at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich., in this Saturday, Dec. 1, 2001, file photo. Beginning Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015, at the Library of Congress, researchers and the public will have full access to Parks’ archive of letters, writings, personal notes and photographs for the first time. (AP Photo/Paul Warner, File)