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Photo: Running the gauntlet
U.S. Army soldiers carry shotguns as they walk along a corridor separating what they deem to be the most extreme and dangerous detainees held inside the Camp Bucca detention center located near the Kuwait-Iraq border on May 19, 2008.
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Friday Photo: Kim Jong-il's deadly paint attack thwarted

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - MAY 14: South Korean Capital Defence Command soldiers take part in an anti-terrorism exercise at their Seoul military camp on May 14, 2008 in Seoul, South Korea.
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Castro: ¡Hasta la vista, Cuba!

I'm not thinking to cut my beard, because I'm accustomed to my beard and my beard means many things to my country. When we have fulfilled our promise of good government I will cut my beard."
— Castro in 1959, interviewed by CBS's Edward Murrow
Friday Photo: The candy man can

An Afghan laborer makes sweets at a traditional candy factory in the old city of Kabul, on Jan. 30, 2008. It is estimated that as much as 80 percent of Afghanistan's economic activity is undertaken by similarly informal workers.
Friday Photo: Take me to your leader

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Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) personnel wearing protective body gear guard a landing strip as a helicopter carries VIPs at JMSDF Yokosuka Base on January 24, 2008 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan.
- East Asia | Friday Photo | Japan | Military | Photo | Photographs
Guantanamo Beard of the Year?
MICHAEL KAPPELER/AFP/Getty ImagesBERLIN, GERMANY- German-born Turk Murat Kurnaz, a former detainee at the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay prison, as he waits for the beginning of his hearing at the German Parliament in Berlin to give evidence at a parliamentary inquiry.
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Friday Photo: At least he's trying
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A US officer with the 101st Airborne Division learns Arabic at a combat outpost in the northern Iraqi town of Baiji, near the oil city of Kirkuk.
An Iraqi solution?
I guess this is the type of thing U.S. officials are talking about when they say the goal is now "Iraqi solutions."

An Iraqi army soldier eats a freshly killed rabbit as troops show their warfare skills during a ceremony marking the first anniversary of authority transfer to Iraqi forces in the Shiite Shrine city of Najaf, 10 January 2008.
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