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Pakistani tribesmen pray during the funeral of a paramilitary soldier who was kidnapped and executed by Taliban militants in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan, on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zubair)
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A Pakistan army soldier takes position during a gun-battle with Taliban militants in Pawaka village on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. Pakistani security forces cornered the last members of a group of Taliban militants who staged a deadly raid on an airport in the country’s troubled northwest, and all five died in the ensuing Sunday firefight, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Residents examine a crater caused by Saturday night's car bombing by Taliban militants close to the international airport in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Maullah Daoud, co-owner of a tiny shop in Marjah, in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, says that living under the Taliban, who were routed in a major, bloody U.S.-led invasion in 2001, was better than dealing with the insecurity that exists after 11 years of war. (Associated Press)
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Pakistani shooting victim Malala Yousufzai, 15, recovers in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, after being attacked and shot in the head Oct. 9, 2012, by Taliban gunmen in Pakistan for advocating education for girls. (Associated Press/University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust)
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Pakistani students hold pictures of 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot by the Taliban, during a protest on Saturday. (Associated Press)
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Pakistani schoolgirls pray for the recovery of 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai, who was shot Tuesday by the Taliban for speaking out in support of education for girls, at their schoolyard in Gujranwala, Pakistan, on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Aftab Rizvi)
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Ivan Velazquez Caballero, the alleged leader of a faction of the hyperviolent Zetas drug cartel who is known as "El Taliban," is shown during a media presentation at the Mexican navy's Center for Advanced Naval Studies in Mexico City on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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John Walker Lindh, serving a 20-year sentence in a Terre Haute prison for aiding the Taliban in Afghanistan, adheres to a school of Islam that requires group prayer five times a day. (Associated Press)
