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FILE - In this June 15, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Pensacola, Fla. Nearing a critical benchmark in the Afghanistan war, President Barack Obama is considering both how many U.S. troops to bring home next month and a broader withdrawal plan to give Afghans control of their security in 2014. But there are deep divisions over how to achieve that, with military leaders favoring a gradual troop reduction and other advisers pushing for a significant decrease in coming months. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) (AP)

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

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, speaks during an interview with The Associate Press in his office at the Pentagon Monday, June 13, 2011 in Washington.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (AP)

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with troops at Bagram Air Base, December 3, 2010.

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FILE - In this Oct. 10, 2010 file photo Kim Jong Un, right, along with his father and North Korea leader Kim Jong Il, left, attends during a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea. South Korea's Yonhap News Agency is reporting that the son and heir apparent of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is visiting China. The report says Kim Jong Un arrived in the city of Tumen in northeast China on Friday, May 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, NO LICENSING IN CHINA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA AND FRANCE (AP)

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a meeting at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq

Peter Van Buren

A discarded sandal is seen amid debris and destroyed vehicles the morning after four blasts killed several people in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, June 3, 2011. The blasts in what was the heartland of the al-Qaida-led insurgency are a reminder of the danger still facing Iraq, as it prepares for the departure of the remaining U.S. troops by the end of this year.(AP Photo) (AP)

Rebecca Santana

Still from "Glorious Mission"

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Army Chief of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey speaks to family members of fallen service members at a Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors seminar, Friday, May 27, 2011, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Will Disney still make a Navy SEAL Team show?

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President Barack Obama speaks to CIA employees at the CIA Headquarters, Friday, May 20, 2011 in Langley, Va. Obama congratulated the country's intelligence workers for the years of effort that led to the discovery and killing of terrorist Osama bin Laden. He also thanked them for their daily work in protecting America, saying he'd never felt prouder or more confident about them. He said they're proof that when Americans put their mind to something, "there is nothing we cannot do." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Associated Press

A screenshot from the video game "Kuma War"

Peter Van Buren

In this undated image taken from video provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, Osama bin Laden is shown in a new video released on Saturday, May 7, 2011. Newly released videos show Osama bin Laden watching himself on television and rehearsing for terrorist videos, revealing that even from the walled confines of his Pakistani hideout, he remained a media maestro who was eager to craft his own image for the cameras. (AP Photo/Department of Defense) (AP)

Kimberly Dozier

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Backsight Forethought

A U.S. Predator drone flies over the moon above Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan.

American WW1 cemetery near Verdun, France.

Adam Hochschild

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Bin Laden's death: New details emerge

Natasha Lennard

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FILE - In this 1998 file photo, Ayman al-Zawahri, left, holds a press conference with Osama bin Laden in Khost, Afghanistan and made available Friday March 19, 2004. A person familiar with developments said Sunday, May 1, 2011 that bin Laden is dead and the U.S. has the body. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan) (AP)

In a March 23, 2011 photo U.S. General David Petraeus, Commander of NATO International Security Assistance Force and US Forces Afghanistan, addresses Royal United Service Institute members on 'The Mission in Afghnistan' in London. President Barack Obama is likely to name seasoned diplomat Ryan Crocker as the next U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, reuniting Petraeus and Crocker who are credited with rescuing the American mission in Iraq. (AP Photo/Sang Tan) (Sang Tan)

A more militarized CIA for a more militarized U.S.

Glenn Greenwald

Egyptians shout anti-Mubarak slogans as they demonstrate in front of the hospital where former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, 82, is being hospitalized in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Wednesday, April 13, 2011. Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak was put under detention in his hospital room Wednesday for investigation on accusations of corruption, abuse of power and killings of protesters in a dramatic step Wednesday that brought celebrations from the movement that drove him from office. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) (AP)

Glenn Greenwald

President Barack Obama meets with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (Associated Press)

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