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Victims of a suicide bombing are treated at a hospital in Khar, the main town of Pakistan's Bajur tribal region along Afghan border, on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. A female suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vest, killing scores of people at an aid distribution center, officials said. (AP Photo/Anwarullah Khan)

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Victims injured in a suicide bombing are treated at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. A woman detonated an explosives-laden vest in a crowded aid distribution center in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 45 people and wounding dozens waiting for food stamps, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Protesters hold signs at a rally against U.S. drone attacks on Pakistani tribal areas in Islamabad, Pakistan on Dec. 10, 2010. Three American missile attacks killed 54 suspected militants Friday Dec. 17, 2010 close to the Afghan border, an unusually high number of victims that included commanders of a Taliban-allied group that were holding a meeting, Pakistani officials said. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash, File)

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Associated Press President Obama discusses the Afghanistan-Pakistan annual review Thursday as (from left) Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Marine Gen. James Cartwright look on.

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** FILE ** President Obama (center), accompanied by (from left) Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Marine Gen. James Cartwright, speaks about the Afghanistan-Pakistan annual review on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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A Shiite child beats himself with bladed chains while participating in a procession in Peshawar, Pakistan. The first month of the Islamic calendar is dedicated to mourning Imam Hussein.

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An injured victim is treated at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010, after an assailant threw an explosive device at Shi'ite Muslims in a Muharram procession in the city, wounding several people. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Shi'ite Muslims touch a horse, a symbol of Imam Hussein's horse that carried him through a battlefield, to pay tribute during a Muharram procession in Lahore, Pakistan, on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. Muharram is observed around the world for ten days as mourning in remembrance of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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Shi'ite Muslims take part in a Muharram procession in Lahore, Pakistan, on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. Muharram is observed around the world for ten days as mourning in remembrance of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

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A woman kisses her injured son at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010, after an assailant threw an explosive device at Shi'ite Muslims in a Muharram procession in the city, wounding several people. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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A woman weeps while visiting an injured family member at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010, after an assailant threw an explosive device at Shi'ite Muslims in a Muharram procession in in the city, wounding several people. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Family members of an injured person weep at a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010, after an assailant threw an explosive device at Shi'ite Muslims in a Muharram procession in the city, wounding several people, two of them critically, police said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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**FILE** A man watches Wikileaks memos at an electronic shop in Karachi, Pakistan on Dec. 2. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Oct. 18, 2010, file photo Richard Holbrooke, U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, answers journalists' questions at a press conference at Foreign Ministry in Rome, Italy. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)

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Security officials examine the vehicle targeted by a suicide attacker in Kohat, 37 miles south of Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010. The attack killed 15 people. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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Volunteers rush a person injured by suicide attack to an emergency ward of a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. A pair of suicide bombers disguised as policemen killed many people in an attack targeting a tribal meeting called to discuss the formation of an anti-Taliban militia, in Pakistani tribal area of Mohmand. (AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)

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Volunteers rush a person injured by suicide attack to an emergency ward of a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. A pair of suicide bombers disguised as policemen killed many people in an attack targeting a tribal meeting called to discuss the formation of an anti-Taliban militia, in Pakistani tribal area of Mohmand. (AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)

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Injured people are treated in a local hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, after a pair of suicide bombers disguised as policemen killed many people in an attack targeting a tribal meeting called to discuss the formation of an anti-Taliban militia, in the tribal area of Mohmand. (AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)

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People injured in a pair of suicide bombings are admitted to a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)

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** FILE ** Anne W. Patterson is a former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed, File)