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President Barack Obama, followed by his daughter Malia, walks down the steps of Marine One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, as they go to board Air Force One en route to Martha's Vineyard. President Obama is opening a two-week summer vacation in Martha's Vineyard just as the U.S. is engaged in airstrikes against Islamic militant targets in Iraq. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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President Barack Obama second from left, walks from Marine One with Vice Commander of the 89th Airlift Wing at Andrew Air Force Base Col. Preston Williamson IV, third from left, followed by his daughter Malia Obama, left, first lady Michelle Obama, second from right and Christine Williamson, to board Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014.

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Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take cover during airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants near the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014.

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Kurdish Peshmerga fighters stand guard as smoke rises after airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants near the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. The Iraqi Air Force has been carrying out strikes against the militants, and for the first time on Friday, U.S. war planes also directly targeted the group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

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Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take position on the front line in Khazer, near the Kurdish checkpoint of Aski kalak on August 8, 2014 (AFP Photo/Safin Hamed)

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These photos provided by the U.S. Defense Department shows pallets of bottled water are loaded aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in preparation for a humanitarian airdrop over Iraq Aug. 8, 2014. Airmen with the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron airdropped 40 bundles of water for displaced citizens in the vicinity of Sinjar, Iraq. American planes conducted a second airdrop of food and water early Saturday for those trapped in the Sinjar mountains, said Pentagon chief spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Staff Sgt. Vernon Young Jr.)

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Kurdish Peshmerga fighters walk toward the front line with militants from the extremist Islamic State group, at the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014.

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Kurdish Peshmerga fighters detain a man suspected as a militant for the Islamic State group, as airstrikes target Islamic State militants near the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014.

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St. Louis County Police investigate a situation after an armed man entered an hospice building demanding drugs on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, in St. Louis County, Mo. Officer Brian Schellman says no one was hurt and said it "looks like a failed robbery attempt." Schellman says the man was armed with a handgun, walked into the de Greeff Hospice House and directed a nurse to take him to where the narcotics were. The nurse started walking with the man toward the back of the building, and then ran. Schellman says the armed man ran out of an unlocked door likely before police arrived. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Huy Mach

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Smoke rises in Gaza City after an Israeli airstrike Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)
 

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Police officers stand near a crowd that is gathering by the scene where 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by police in Ferguson, Mo., near St. Louis on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Carson)

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Protestors confront police during an impromptu rally, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014 to protest the shooting of Michael Brown, 18, by police in Ferguson, Mo. Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. Brown died following a confrontation with police, according to St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar, who spoke at a news conference Sunday. (AP Photo/Sid Hastings

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St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar, left, delivers remarks as Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson listens during a news conference Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014 in Ferguson, Mo., where the men addressed issues surrounding the shooting of Michael Brown, 18, by Ferguson police Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. Brown died following a confrontation with police, according to Belmar. (AP Photo/Sid Hastings)

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A police officer holds his weapon as he secures the area ahead of arrival of the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is the front-runner in Turkey's presidential election, in a poll station in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014. Turks were voting in their first direct presidential election Sunday - a watershed event in Turkey’s 91-year history, where the president was previously elected by Parliament. Prime Minister RecepTayyip Erdogan, who has dominated the country’s politics for the past decade, is the strong front-runner to replace the incumbent, Abdullah Gul, for a five-year term. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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A member of security holds his weapon as the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks to the crowd in downtown Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014.

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Smoke rises in Gaza City after an Israeli airstrike Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic

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Firefighters try to extinguish fire after a cleaning materials factory was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

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Iranian Revolutionary Guards inspect the site of a passenger plane crash near the capital Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014. An Iranian passenger plane crashed Sunday while taking off from an airport near the capital, Tehran, killing 39 people on board, state media reported. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

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Pro-Russian rebels on a tank drive on a road in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014. Fighting raged Sunday in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk despite a request from the pro-Russian rebels there for a cease-fire to prevent a "humanitarian catastrophe." One person was killed and 10 injured in shelling that started early Sunday morning and continued into the day, city council spokesman Maxim Rovinsky told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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Ukrainian fire fighters have a break as they put out the fire at the destroyed building after shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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A picture taken from Israel on August 10, 2014 shows an Israeli Merkava tank rolling along the border with Gaza (AFP Photo/David Buimovitch )
 

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A U.S. F/A-18 fighter jet takes off for Iraq from the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, in the Persian Gulf, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. U.S. military officials say American fighter aircraft struck and destroyed several vehicles Sunday that were part of an Islamic State group convoy moving to attack Kurdish forces defending the northeastern Iraqi city of Irbil. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, second from right, along with U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, right, addresses the start of the Australia-US Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) talks at Admiralty House in Sydney, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. Kerry and Hagel are meeting with their Australian counterparts at the annual AUSMIN, which will focus on regional security and enhanced military co-operation. (AP Photo/Dan Himbrechts, Pool)

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Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, second from left, and Defense Minister David Johnston, left, meet with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, second from right, and U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, right, at the Australia-United States Ministerial Consultation (AUSMIN) talks at Admiralty House in Sydney, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Dan Himbrechts, Pool)

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Protesters appeal to motorists for support while rallying on Monday, Aug. 11, 2014 in front of the QT gas station in Ferguson, Mo. that was looted and burned during rioting overnight that followed a candlelight vigil honoring 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was shot Aug. 9, 2014 by Ferguson police officers. Brown, who was killed in a confrontation with police in the St. Louis suburb, was shot Saturday and died following the confrontation with police. (AP Photo/Sid Hastings)

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Marcelle Stewart, left, confronts police officers during a march and rally in downtown Ferguson, Mo., Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. The group marched along the closed street, rallying in front of the town's police headquarters to protest the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson police officers. Brown, who was killed in a confrontation with police in the St. Louis suburb, was shot Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, and died following the confrontation with police. Stewart said she was attending the rally because her son-in-law Jason Moore died after being shot with a taser by police. (AP Photo/Sid Hastings)

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Armed St. Louis County Police Officers stand among citizens during a protest of the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer on August 11, 2014 (AFP Photo/Michael B. Thomas)

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New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas speaks at a news conference, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, about the drive-by shooting that killed two people and wounded five on Sunday in the city’s Lower 9th Ward. He said investigators believe the motive was drugs and the target was a 33-year-old man who was killed. (AP Photo/Janet McConnaughey)

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In this photo taken Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, a health worker wearing a protective clothing sprays disinfectant against the deadly Ebola virus at the Kenema Government Hospital in Kenema, 300 kilometers, (186 miles) from the capital city of Freetown, Sierra Leone. (AP Photo/ Michael Duff)

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An immigration officer uses an infra-red laser thermometer to examine a policeman on his arrival at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, August 11, 2014. Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos has 10 confirmed cases of Ebola, up from seven at the last count, and two patients have died, including the Liberian who brought the virus in, the health minister said on Monday.

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Rescue workers search through the rubble of a collapsed condominium building, which had been under construction, in Pathum Thani province, on the outskirts of Bangkok, August 11, 2014.

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Female personnel of India's Border Security Force (BSF) patrol along the fencing of the India-Bangladesh international border ahead of India's Independence Day celebrations, at Dhanpur village in India's northeastern state of Tripura August 11, 2014. India commemorates its Independence Day on August 15.

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A Palestinian relative of Zakariah al-Aqrah, 21, who was killed during an operation by Israeli troops, speaks to soliders in the West Bank village of Qabalan near Nablus, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. The Israeli military said it killed Al-Aqrah, a suspected Palestinian militant, early Monday morning after he opened fire on an Israeli force that had come to arrest him in connection with shootings targeting Israeli soldiers two weeks ago. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

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A close-up of bullets carried by a Ukrainian soldier as he stands guard at a checkpoint near the eastern city of Donetsk (AFP Photo/Anatolii Stepanov)

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Iraqi security forces stand guard amid tight security by Iraqi security forces that sealed off roads around a pro-government demonstration supporting Embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. Al-Maliki is taking his struggle to keep his job to the courts after announcing he will file a legal complaint on Monday against the country's newly elected president. President Barack Obama warned Americans on Saturday that the new campaign to bring security in Iraq requires military and political changes and "is going to be a long-term project." (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)

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An Iraqi soldier stands guard amid tight security measures by Iraqi security forces during a pro-government demonstration to show support for embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014.
 

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Police wearing riot gear try to disperse a crowd Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. The FBI opened an investigation Monday into the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who police said was shot multiple times Saturday after being confronted by an officer in Ferguson. Authorities in Ferguson used tear gas and rubber bullets to try to disperse a large crowd Monday night that had gathered at the site of a burned-out convenience store damaged a night earlier, when many businesses in the area were looted. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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Police wearing riot gear stage outside the remains of a burned convenience store Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo.

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A Pakistani Air force Jet, performs during a rehearsal for the upcoming Independence Day, over Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. Pakistan will celebrate its 68th Independence Day on the 14th of August, to mark its independence from the British rule in 1947. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

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Indian policemen detain a Kashmiri government employee during a protest in Srinagar, India, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. Police in Indian Kashmir detained dozens of government employees during a protest called by the workers’ union demanding regularization of contractual jobs and a hike in salary. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)

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Soldiers of the honor guard prepare for a military welcome ceremony as part of a meeting of German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen and her counterpart from Great Britain Michael Fallon, in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

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Philippines fugitive former Army Gen. Jovito Palparan gestures as he talks to the media at the National Bureau of Investigation following his capture by NBI agents, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014 in Manila, Philippines. The capture of Palparan, 63, who was wanted in the kidnapping of two students, fulfilled a promise by President Benigno Aquinio III to bring high-profile criminal suspects to justice, official said. He went into hiding in December 2011. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

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In this photo taken Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014, a military checkpoint on the outskirts of Kenema in the Eastern Province around 300kms, (186 miles), from the capital city of Freetown Sierra Leone, as the government try to prevent the movement of people in order to stop the spread on the Ebola virus in Kenema, Sierra Leone. Over the decades, Ebola cases have been confirmed in 10 African countries, including Congo where the disease was first reported in 1976. But until this year, Ebola had never come to West Africa. (AP Photo/ Michael Duff)

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Ukrainian government soldiers from battalion "Donbass" rest at their positions in village Mariinka near Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. The Red Cross will lead an international humanitarian aid operation into Ukraine’s conflict-stricken province of Luhansk with assistance from Russia, the European Union and the United States, Ukraine said Monday.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

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Picture released by the British Ministry of Defence (MOD) on August 10, 2014 shows soldiers checking aid loaded onto a transport plane at RAF Brize Norton, northwest of London, on August 8, 2014 to be airlifted to civilians in northern Iraq (AFP Photo/Cpl Neil Bryden)

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A Ukrainian soldier walks past a damaged car which was used by pro-Russian militants who tried to break through a Ukraine checkpoint, near the eastern city of Donetsk on August 11, 2014 (AFP Photo/Anatolii Stepanov)

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MOSCOW —In this video grab an enormous Russian convoy of about 280 trucks carrying humanitarian aid has left Moscow for southeastern Ukraine, Russian television and news agencies reported Tuesday.

The Russian aid has been an object of suspicion for Ukraine and its Western allies, who accuse the Kremlin of trying to use it as a stealth method to invade its smaller neighbor with armed forces to support the besieged separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk.

But President Vladimir V. Putin and other senior Russian officials all insisted on Monday that it was a peaceful convoy coordinated with the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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In this Saturday Aug. 9, 2014 photo, a girl part of the Mobile Mini Circus for Children demonstrates her skills in front of police officers during a performance at the European Union Compound in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Mini Mobile Circus for Children is a program run by a nonprofit group supported by foreign embassies and others in Afghanistan. Some 850 children across the country take part in the program, which includes children from refugee families and orphanages. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

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Greg Oden is escorted into the Marion County Community Corrections building, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, in Indianapolis. Police arrested former NBA No. 1 draft pick Greg Oden on battery charges early Thursday, alleging that he punched his ex-girlfriend in the face during a fight at his mother's suburban Indianapolis home.

Oden's statement “Things got out of control and I started to go after the victim,” Oden told police. He also revealed that his relative and his girlfriend's best firend tried to stop him beating her. But they can not hold him.

“I was wrong and I know what has to happen,” Oden told officers.

(AP Photo/The Indianapolis Star, Brent Drinkut)
 
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With Marines standing at attention, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel arrives at a Camp Pendleton hangar where addressed the Marines and answered questions Tuesday Aug. 12, 2014. Hagel announced the deployment of another 130 U.S. troops to Iraq in remarks to Marines at this Southern California base on the final stop of a weeklong, around-the-world trip that also took him to India, Germany and Australia. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Paul Rodriguez)

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Britain's Prince Harry, center lower, gestures to a guide dog to look towards the media as he poses with the team during the announcement of the British Armed Forces team for the Invictus Games in London, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. Over 400 competitors from 14 nations will take park in the Invictus Games, an international sporting event for wounded, injured and sick servicemen and women in September at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)

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Britain's Prince Harry applauds as he leaves the podium after his speech to the media during the announcement of the British Armed Forces team for the Invictus Games in London, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014.

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An aircraft comes in to land at Britain’s Royal Air Force Base in Akrotiri, Cyprus, on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. British Bases spokesperson Kristian Gray says a number of Tornado surveillance aircraft will be stationed at the base from where they will carry out missions to support thousands of people fleeing advancing Islamic militant forces in northern Iraq. Gray says three C-130 transport aircraft and a Voyager refueling plane will also be using the base to assist in the relief effort. (AP Photos/Pavlos Vrionides)

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People inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. A string of attacks in and around the capital killed more than a dozen and wounded dozens. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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Bangladesh’s anti-crime Rapid Action Battalion personnel escort Abu Bakar Siddique, in white, as they bring him to Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Aug.13, 2014. Siddique, the owner of a Bangladesh ferry that sank earlier this month with more than 100 people dead or missing was arrested Wednesday after weeks in hiding, officials said. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)

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An Indian policeman along with his horse rests after rehearsals for the Independence Day celebrations at the Golconda Fort in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. India commemorates its Independence in 1947 from British colonial rule, on August 15. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

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In this picture taken on Tuesday, Aug. 12, a woman with a child talks to Ukraine's National Guard soldiers who have returned from combat operations against pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's east, near the walls of the parliament in Kiev, Ukraine. Since a separatist insurgency broke out in eastern Ukraine in March, entire swaths of Ukrainian society _ either through a government summons or their own patriotism _ have suddenly been thrust into battle, many of them with little or no combat experience. With the government desperate for more fighters and medics, a draft has brought in a wave of needed additions to what had been a neglected army. And amid a surge of patriotic indignation tipping over into martial fervor, volunteer battalions have proven an indispensable boost as well. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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In this photo taken on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, Guinea soldiers stand around a rope across the road that separates Guinea and Sierra Leone, and works as a makeshift border control checkpoint at Gbalamuya-Pamelap, Guinea. As Guinea closed its border with Sierra Leone at the weekend in an attempt to halt the spread of the deadly Ebola virus, people and goods were not able to cross to either side. (AP Photo/ Youssouf Bah)

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Pro-Russian rebels stand at a security post on the outskirts of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, where at least 12 militiamen fighting alongside government troops against pro-Russian separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine have been killed in an ambush, a spokesman for their radical nationalist movement said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center left with the blue tie, Iraqi acting Defense Minister Sadun al-Dulaymi, center right, government officials and parliament members attend the funeral procession of Maj. Gen. Majid Abdul-Salam, a pilot who was killed in Tuesday's helicopter crash in northern Iraq, at the headquarters of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. The Iraqi helicopter providing aid crashed near the mountain outside the town of Sinjan, killing the pilot, army spokesman Qassim al-Moussawi said in a statement. Iraqi and U.S. planes have been dropping dozens of crates of food and water to Yazidis stranded in the Sinjar mountain. (AP Photo)

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A pro-Russian rebel stands at a block-post on the outskirts of Donetsk near a bullet riddled bus, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014

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A Pro-Russian rebel standing at a block-post in the outskirts of Donetsk seen through the bullet riddled windshield of the bus, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, where at least 12 militiamen fighting alongside government troops against pro-Russian separatist rebels have been killed in an ambush, a spokesman for their radical nationalist movement said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

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Ukrainian government soldiers from battalion "Donbass" search from house to house in village Mariinka near Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. The Red Cross will lead an international humanitarian aid operation into Ukraine’s conflict-stricken province of Luhansk with assistance from Russia, the European Union and the United States, Ukraine said Monday.(AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
 

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An Orthodox priest holds a cross as he demands sanctions against Russia in front of riot police near the parliament building in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

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A convoy of white trucks carrying humanitarian aid passes along the main road M4 (Don highway) Voronezh region, Russia, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014. Russia on Tuesday dispatched some hundreds of trucks, although only a small proportion were counted in this convoy, covered in white tarps and sprinkled with holy water on a mission to deliver aid to a rebel-held zone in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

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An Indonesian police officer escorts Tommy Schaefer as he is brought to the police station for questioning in relation to the death of his girlfriend's mother, in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014.

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Indonesian forensic police officers view evidence related to the death of an American woman at a police station in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. The body of Sheila von Wiese Mack, 62, was found Tuesday stuffed inside a suitcase inside the trunk of a taxi parked in front of an upscale hotel in Bali's Nusa Dua area. Police have arrested her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend in relation to the death. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)

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Rescuers rush an injured passenger to a hospital after an elevated commuter train known as Metro Rail Transit or MRT (background) overshot its tracks and derailed at the end station Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, injuring dozens in suburban Pasay city south of Manila, Philippines. Senior Superintendent Florencio Ortilla, who heads the Pasay city police, said the train toppled concrete posts, spraying debris and damaging cars in the crowded intersection. Hernando Cabrera, spokesman of the agency that operates the train system, said the train had a "technical problem" and was being pushed by another when it became detached and rolled into the concrete barrier at the final station on the line. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

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Iraqi security forces stand guard during a demonstration in support of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug 13, 2014. Tanks and Humvees were positioned on Baghdad bridges and at major intersections on Wednesday, with security personnel more visible than usual as pro-Maliki demonstrators took to Firdous Square in the capital, pledging their allegiance to him. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

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An Indian policeman checks his mobile phone as he rests after rehearsals for the Independence Day celebrations at the Golconda Fort in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Aug.13, 2014. India commemorates its Independence in 1947 from British colonial rule, on August 15.(Mahesh Kumar A.)

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An Indian policeman along with his horse rests after rehearsals for the Independence Day celebrations at the Golconda Fort in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Aug.13, 2014. (Mahesh Kumar A.)

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Indian policemen participate in the final rehearsal for the Independence Day celebrations at the Golconda Fort in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Aug.13, 2014. India commemorates its Independence in 1947 from British colonial rule, on August 15.(Mahesh Kumar A.)

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In this photo taken on Tuesday, Aug 12, 2014, a Sierra Leonean Policeman stands at a road block as movement on all roads leaving towns or cities are controlled by government workers, on the outskirts of Kenema in the Eastern Province around 300km, (186 miles), from the capital city of Freetown in Sierra Leone. Over the decades, Ebola cases have been confirmed in 10 African countries, including Congo where the disease was first reported in 1976. But until this year, Ebola had never come to West Africa. (AP Photo/ Michael Duff)
 

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Pope Francis is welcomed by a 21-gun salute upon his arrival in Seoul, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. The Pontiff arrived in South Korea on the first papal visit to the Asian nation in a quarter century, stepping off a plane onto a red carpet and greeting the president, local Catholics and grieving relatives. During his five-day visit, Francis plans to beatify 124 Korean martyrs and encourage a vibrant and growing local church seen as a model for the future of Catholicism. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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Pope Francis walks with South Korean President Park Geun-hye upon his arrival in Seoul, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014. T

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Tornados surveillance aircrafts come in to land at the British Royal Air Force Base at Akrotiri, near the southern port city of Limassol, Cyprus, on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. British Bases spokesperson Kristian Gray says a small number of Tornado aircraft will be stationed at the base from where they will carry out missions to support thousands of people fleeing advancing Islamic militant forces in northern Iraq. An Associated Press photographer counted a total of six Tornado aircraft at the base. Gray says three C-130 transport aircraft and a Voyager refueling plane will also be using the base to assist in the relief effort. (AP Photos/Pavlos Vrionides)

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Marilyn Jean Hartman appears in court Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 13, 2014, in the airport courthouse in Los Angeles. A woman who authorities say flew from San Jose to Southern California without a ticket was sentenced to 177 days in jail Wednesday after acknowledging that she violated her probation by returning to the Los Angeles airport. Hartman, 62, was found wandering through airport terminals after a judge ordered her to stay away from the facility, said Frank Mateljan, spokesman for the city attorney's office. (AP Photo/The Daily Breeze, Brittany Murray)

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A device deployed by police goes off in the street as police and protesters clash Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Authorities in the St. Louis suburb where an unarmed black teen was shot and killed by a police officer have used tear gas to try to disperse protesters after flaming projectiles were thrown from the crowd. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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Protester Janelle Pittman holds her 6-year-old daughter, Kat, as police in riot gear stand guard in Ferguson, Mo. on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014

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Police in riot gear watch protesters in Ferguson, Mo. on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. On Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, a white police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in the St. Louis suburb. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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Israeli soldiers stand in front of the controversial separation-barrier during clashes with Palestinian stone throwers at the Qalandiya checkpoint between the West Back city of Ramallah and Jerusalem (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)

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Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, right, takes a question from Gunnery Sgt. Wilburn Jeffrey during a question and answer period with Marines at Camp Pendleton on Tuesday Aug. 12, 2014. Hagel announced the deployment of another 130 U.S. troops to Iraq in remarks to Marines at this Southern California base on the final stop of a weeklong, around-the-world trip that also took him to India, Germany and Australia. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Paul Rodriguez)

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Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Todd Rogers throws a gun onto a pile set for destruction, at the Gerdau Steel Mill in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. Under “Gift For Guns,” residents received gift cards worth up to $200 for guns surrendered anonymously to deputies. (AP Photo/ Nick Ut )

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Iraqi policemen and civilians inspect the site of a car bomb attack near a restaurant in the southeastern district of New Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. A string of attacks in and around the capital killed more than a dozen and wounded dozens. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
 

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These guys look more like soldiers than a police officers!!! Helmets look to be MICHs, Camo, strap-flag and patches are pretty much Army style and the dude also has a dagger on his back!!

When policing a nation where the civilians are more heavily armed than the police of other countries, it'll be suicidal of them to not arm themselves as heavily as they have. Even then, there are so many cases where the suspects can be just as heavily armed and well equipped; rifles and body armour are comparatively easy to acquire by civilians in the US.
 
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