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** FILE ** Two Syrian refugees children who fled violence in their country flash a V for victory sign while their faces faces are decorated with the Syrian revolution flag and Arabic words read:"Syria, The freedom," during a demonstration in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross office, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, on Friday Nov. 25, 2011. (AP Photo)

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More than 5,000 Syrian refugees have fled to Lebanon and Turkey since March, but Syria reportedly is planting land mines along border areas, a sign of its isolation. (Associated Press)

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Syrians carry their belongings as they return to Syria from Arida in northern Lebanon on Monday. (Associated Press)

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Syrian army positions are pictured on Monday, Oct. 31, 2011, near the border town of Serhaniyeh, Lebanon, whose residents say troops have laid mines nearby over the past several days. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (left) endorses former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (right) for the GOP presidential nomination on Oct. 11, 2011, during a news conference in Lebanon, N.H. (Associated Press)

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Cameron Halket of Dallas (left) and Vietnam veteran Dan Anderson of Lebanon, Ore., give interviews Monday as part of "Occupy D.C." The movement was granted a four-month extension of their permit. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Protesters shout slogans against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime after prayers in Tripoli, Lebanon, on Friday, Oct, 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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Anti-Syrian regime protesters of Islamic group supporters shout slogans and hold Arabic placards, the foreground one read:"We swear, we will not let you down," as they protest after the Friday prayer to show their support to the Syrian and Yemeni protesters who demonstrate against their regimes, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, on Friday, Oct. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

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Billboards honoring Lebanese former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri are situated on a highway in the southern port city of Sidon. The special court investigating his slaying unsealed an indictment Wednesday against four members of Hezbollah, but it contained no direct evidence against them. The Arabic reads: "May God protect Lebanon."

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Vehicles burn after an explosion amid a motorcade of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, killing him and 22 others in Beirut on Feb. 14, 2005. The special court investigating his slaying unsealed the 47-page indictment Wednesday against four members of Hezbollah for their alleged involvement.

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Emergency personnel work the scene where a Greyhound bus bound for St. Louis from New York City flipped on its side on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, briefly trapping a woman and injuring about two dozen people, according to authorities, about one mile east of the Lancaster-Lebanon interchange, early Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, near Manheim, Pa. (AP Photo/Lancaster Newspapers, Dan Marschka)

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Lebanese intellectuals and journalists protest during a vigil sit-in to show their support to the Syrian protesters who demonstrate against the Syrian President Bashar Assad, at the Martyrs square, in downtown of Beirut, Lebanon, on Monday, Aug. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

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Youths use hoses to cool off and have a water fight outside the cattle barn at the Warren County Fair, Thursday, July 21, 2011 in Lebanon, Ohio. Temperatures in the area were expected to reach 97 degrees. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

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Lebanese protesters burn an Iranian flag during a rally in solidarity with Syrian anti-government protesters, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Friday, July 15, 2011. Syrian security forces fired on protesters in the capital and other major cities Friday, killing at least 14 people as hundreds of thousands gathered for some of the largest anti-government rallies since the uprising began in March, witnesses and activists said. (AP Photo)

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A Lebanese Salafist protester shout anti-Syrian regime slogans during a sit-in on July 8, 2011, in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, after the Friday prayer to support Syrian protesters. (Associated Press)

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Payton Herald, 6, of Lebanon, Ind., waves her U.S. flag as she and her family wait for the fireworks in Washington on Monday, July 4, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Syrian army soldiers are seen reinforcing the village of Arida near Talkalakh opposite the Lebanon-Syria border, in Wadi Khaled, north Lebanon, on May 20, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Syrians who fled violence in their country's western villages along the Lebanese-Syrian border protest Syrian President Bashar Assad and his regime during a demonstration in the Wadi Khaled area of Lebanon on Monday, May 16, 2011. (AP Photo)

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Syrians who fled from violence in their country's western villages along the Lebanese-Syrian border protest against Syrian President Bashar Assad and his regime, in the Wadi Khaled area of Lebanon, about one-half mile from the border, on Monday, May 16, 2011. (AP Photo)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Palestinians in southern Lebanon mourn a man who was killed Sunday when Israeli soldiers opened fire on protesters who approached the Israeli border. Israeli troops clashed with Arab protesters along three hostile borders on Sunday, leaving 15 people dead and dozens wounded.