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Margaret Nelson, center, from Evanston, Ill., joins about 100 anti-war activists as they march down Michigan Avenue after rallying outside President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters in downtown Chicago, protesting for an end to NATO operations in Afghanistan, Thursday, May 17, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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** FILE ** NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen addresses the media at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday, April 18, 2012. The United States and its NATO allies are readying plans to pull away from the front lines in Afghanistan next year as President Barack Obama and fellow leaders try to show that the unpopular war is ending. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

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Pakistanis sit atop idle oil tankers that had been used to transport NATO fuel supplies to Afghanistan, while watching a cricket match (upper right) in Karachi, Pakistan, on Wednesday. A deal is said to be near that would reopen supply lines into Afghanistan that have been closed since November. That may explain an invitation to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (left) to a NATO summit. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** A NATO coalition soldier carries a sniffer dog after a gunbattle in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, April 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

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Russia's Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov warns that talks between Moscow and Washington on the U.S.-led NATO missile defense plan in Europe are "close to a dead end" on May 3, 2012, as officials scrambled to save the deal at a top-level conference. (Associated Press)

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NATO's deputy Secretary General Alexander Vershbow speaks May 3, 2012, at Russian Ministry of Defense’s Conference on Missile Defense in Moscow. Vershbow told the conference that the U.S.-led missile shield is "not and will not be directed against Russia" and that its intercontinental ballistic missiles are "too fast and too sophisticated" for the planned system to intercept. (Associated Press)

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Russian Chief of General Staff Nikolai Makarov threatens "destructive force" on NATO missile-defense sites in Eastern Europe. (Associated Press)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a joint news conference with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday, April 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

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"There is no change whatsoever in the timeline" for troops to leave Afghanistan, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen (right) said Wednesday in Brussels, where he met with Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (Associated Press)

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta listens April 18, 2012, during a joint news conference with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, to a question about photographs published in the Los Angeles Times of soldiers posing with dead insurgents. (Associated Press)

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta listens April 18, 2012, during a joint news conference with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, to a question about photographs published in the Los Angeles Times of soldiers posing with dead insurgents. (Associated Press)