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By ROBERT BURNS and ADAM SCHRECK, Associated Press: Politics
Mon, 09/15/2014 - 11:44am

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Just miles from where former Guantanamo Bay terror suspects have resettled, American warplanes take off from Qatar's al-Udeid air base in the global war on extremism....

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