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A Pakistani army soldier takes a position during a military operation against militants in Pakistan's Khurram tribal region, Sunday, July 10, 2011. A military operation in Kurram tribal region has been launched to clear the area of terrorists involved in various terrorist activities, including kidnapping and killing of locals, suicide attacks and blocking the road connecting Lower with upper Kurram, Pakistani army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair) (AP)

Sebastian Abbot
Afghans carrying anti Pakistan slogans during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, July 2, 2011. Several hundred people demonstrated against rocket attacks that have killed an estimated 36 civilians along the eastern border with Pakistan in recent weeks. Pakistan's army has said no rounds were intentionally fired but that some may have accidentally fallen in Afghanistan in fighting with militants carrying out cross-border attacks. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

Rahim Faiez, Solomon Moore
FILE - This undated image taken from video released by Al-Jazeera television on Oct. 5, 2001, shows Osama bin Laden at an undisclosed location. A cellphone of bin Laden's trusted courier recovered in the U.S. raid last month that killed both men in Pakistan contained contacts to a militant group that is a longtime asset of Pakistan's intelligence agency, The New York Times reported late Thursday. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Al-Jazeera via APTN, File) (AP)

Munir Ahmed
FILE - This April 1998 file photo shows Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Federal authorities dropped terrorism charges against bin Laden in court papers filed Friday, June 17, 2011, formally ending a case against the slain al-Qaida leader that began with hopes of seeing him brought to justice in a civilian court. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan approved a request made by federal prosecutors to dismiss the charges — a procedural move that's routine when defendants under indictment die. (AP Photo, File) (AP)

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Pakistani truck drivers wait to cross the border to neighboring Afghanistan at the Pakistani border post in Chaman, Friday, June 17, 2011. About 300 Pakistani tribesmen briefly blocked NATO supplies and other traffic at a crossing along the border with Afghanistan on Friday to protest an alleged shooting incident, officials said. (AP Photo/Shah Khalid) (AP)

Kimberly Dozier
FILE - This image made from videotape posted on the Internet on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2005 shows al-Qaida's then deputy leader, Ayman al-Zawahri. Al-Qaida has selected its longtime No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, to succeed Osama bin Laden following last month's U.S. commando raid that killed the terror leader, according to a statement posted Thursday, June 16, 2011 on a website affiliated with the network. (AP Photo/AP Television News, File) (AP)

Natasha Lennard
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in his office at the Pentagon Monday, June 13, 2011, in Washington. Gates says he sees no roadblocks to repeal of the ban on gay military members serving openly and says if the military chiefs make their recommendation to move forward on the repeal before the end of the month, he will sign it, which would make it effective as early as September. (AP)

Lolita C. Baldor, Donna Cassata
FILE - In this May 5, 2011 file photo, local residents and media are seen outside the house where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden was caught and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The courier who led U.S. intelligence to bin Laden's hideout in Pakistan hailed from the Swat Valley, a one-time stronghold of militant Taliban fighters, Pakistani officials said on Wednesday, June 1, 2011. The officials identified the courier as Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed. He and his brother Abrar were shot dead in the daring U.S. Navy SEAL raid May 2 that also killed bin Laden and two other people. (AP Photo/Aqeel Ahmed, File) (AP)

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FILE - This May 3, 2011, file photo, shows a view of Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. U.S. officials briefed on the secret mission to get Osama bin Laden in Pakistan say the raid’s planners knew it was a one-shot deal. Those behind the raid predicted at the time that outrage over the breach of Pakistani sovereignty would make it impossible to try again if the raid came up dry. (AP Photo/Aqeel Ahmed) (AP)

Munir Ahmed, Kimberly Dozier
Osama bin Laden.

Adam Goldman
Troops of Pakistan army seen at Shaltalo in the Upper Dir region of Pakistan on Monday, June 6, 2011. Pakistani security forces had battles with militants in the Pakistani border town of Shaltalo along the Afghanistan border. Pakistani helicopters and artillery forced back militants who crossed over from Afghanistan and triggered battles that have killed many people, an official said. (AP Photo/Dilawar Jan) (AP)

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A Pakistan army helicopter take off as troops wait for clearance to use heavy artillery towards alleged militants hideouts in the mountain ranges in Mamad Gat, in Pakistan's Mohmand tribal region along the Afghan border, Wednesday, June 1, 2011. A top Pakistani army commander said that the military has no imminent plans to launch an offensive in the North Waziristan tribal region, home to numerous militants who focus on attacking U.S. and NATO forces in neighboring Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) (AP)

Ishtiaq Mehsud
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses a news conference at U. S. embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan Friday, May 27, 2011. Clinton said that relations between the United States and Pakistan had reached a turning point after the killing of Osama bin Laden and Islamabad must make "decisive steps" in the days ahead to fight terrorism. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash) (AP)

Anne Gearan, Nahal Toosi
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses a news conference at U. S. embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan Friday, May 27, 2011. Clinton said that relations between the United States and Pakistan had reached a turning point after the killing of Osama bin Laden and Islamabad must make "decisive steps" in the days ahead to fight terrorism. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash) (AP)

Anne Gearan, Nahal Toosi
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, left, is welcomed by Chinese President Hu Jintao for a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Friday, May 20, 2011.

Dilip Hiro
An Afghan policeman stands guard at the scene of an explosion in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, May 22, 2011. In Kandahar, two police officers suffered injuries Sunday when a motorcycle laden with explosives detonated as they tried to disarm it, the ministry said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan) (AP)

Heidi Vogt, Rahim Faiez
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U.S. Senator John Kerry speaks during a press conference at the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 15, 2011. U.S. Sen. John Kerry says the U.S. relationship with Pakistan is at a "critical moment" because of the killing of Osama bin Laden. But he also said that bin Laden's death may present a new opportunity for reconciliation with the Taliban in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

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Supporters of Pakistani religious group Jamaat-ud-Dawa, rally to condemn the United States for the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, Sunday, May 15, 2011 in Lahore, Pakistan. Party's chief Hafiz Saeed called bin Laden a martyr and demanded the Pakistani government break ties with the United States. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary) (AP)

Heidi Vogt, Ishtiaq Mahsud
Supporters Pakistani religious party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam hold al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden's picture during a rally, in Kuchlak, 25 kilometers (16 miles) north of Quetta, Pakistan on Friday, May 6, 2011. One of three wives living with Osama bin Laden has told Pakistani interrogators she had been staying in the al-Qaida chief's hideout for six years without leaving its upper floors, a Pakistani intelligence official said Friday.(AP Photo/Arshad Butt) (AP)

Natasha Lennard
People rush a man injured in a suicide bomb attack to a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan Friday, May 13, 2011. Twin explosions struck a paramilitary training center in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, in the bloodiest attack in the country since a U.S. raid killed al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair) (AP)

Riaz Khan
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In this undated image from video seized from the walled compound of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and released Saturday, May 7, 2011, by the U.S. Department of Defense a man, who the American government identified as Osama bin Laden, watches himself on television. U.S. intelligence would not confirm Saturday that the video of bin Laden in the makeshift office was filmed at the Pakistani compound, but they have said they believe he has been holed up in the compound for as long as six years. This and other videos released Saturday show him watching television and rehearsing for terrorist videos. (AP Photo/Department of Defense) (AP)

Kimberly Dozier
Pakistani security officers stand guard near the perimeter of the compound of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Many of the residents of Abbottabad seem to be confused and suspicious about the killing of Osama bin Laden, which took place in their midst before dawn on Monday, even as the U.S. White House has struggled to communicate its account of the audacious raid that killed Osama bin Laden for both a jubilant American public and a skeptical Muslim world. (AP Photo/Aqeel Ahmed) (AP)

Robert Burns

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Navy SEALs in Afghanistan with an MH-47 Chinook in the background.

Justin Elliott
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