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Police commandos stand guard on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, outside a house in Islamabad, Pakistan, where family members of the late al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden are believed to be held. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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Mohammed Amir Khalil, an attorney for Osama bin Laden's family, announces the 45-day sentences given to the slain al Qaeda leader's three wives and two of his daughters Monday in Islamabad. (Associated Press)

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Pakistani police officers stop cameramen from filming a house where family members of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden are believed to be held on Saturday, March 17, 2012, in Islamabad. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

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** FILE ** French President Nicolas Sarkozy stands by soldiers carrying a coffin during a ceremony in Montauban, southwestern France, on March 21, 2012, to pay homage to the three soldiers killed by a suspect claiming al Qaeda links and also suspected in the killings of three Jewish children and a rabbi. (Associated Press)

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A woman and children are escorted by a police officer near a building where the chief suspect in an al Qaeda-linked killing spree was holed up in an apartment in Toulouse, France, Thursday March 22, 2012. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

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Members of Iraqi security forces killed Monday in an organized attack in Haditha are buried in Fallujah while men grieve above the graves (right). A gang of gunmen in military-style uniforms killed 25 police, including two commanders, and then hoisted the battle flag of al Qaeda in a carefully planned attack. (Associated Press)

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A Somali villager talks to Kenyan soldiers, who crossed the border after abductions and grenade attacks inside Kenya were linked to the al Qaeda-linked al-Shabab in Somalia. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** This frame-grabbed image from video provided by the SITE Intel Group, an U.S. private terrorist-threat-analysis company, purports to show al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri on a Web posting on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/SITE Intel Group)

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Col. Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos, a spokesman for the Philippine military, shows a picture of Malaysian Zulkipli bin Hir, also known as Marwan, a top leader of the regional, al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah terror network, during a press conference on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, in Quezon City, Philippines, north of Manila. (AP Photo/Pat Roque)

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Mohammed Chowdhury is one of four British men who pleaded guilty on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, to involvement in an al-Qaeda-inspired plot to spread terror and cause economic damage by bombing the London Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/West Midlands Police)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Sen. Carl Levin said he doesn't know if a veto can be overridden, should President Obama go that route regarding the handling of al Qaeda terrorists.

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Kevin Lunsman, a kidnapped American teenage boy, talks Dec. 10, 2011, to Filipino soldiers inside the Philippine military compound in Zamboanga City, Philippines, following his escape from suspected al Qaeda-linked militants. (Associated Press)

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Joseph Kony is the ruthless leader of the Lord's Resistance Army and the biggest target for Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, who has committed thousands of troops to fight militants from al-Shabab, a group with ties from al Qaeda. (Associated Press)