Staff at the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean, Virginia, listen as U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks October 6, 2009. Reuters Pictures 1 month ago

Staff at the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean, Virginia, listen as U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks October 6, 2009.

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  1. MANDATORY CREDIT PHOTO BY DAVE M. BENETT/GETTY IMAGES REQUIRED) Jade Jagger and Virginia Bates attend the Jade Jagger shop opening party on November 25, 2009 in London, England.
  2. This screen image made from Michaele Salahi's Facebook page shows a photo of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, left, with Michaele Salahi and Tareq Salahi, right, at the White House state dinner in Washington on Tuesday Nov. 24, 2009. The Secret Service is looking into its own security procedures after determining that a Virginia couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, managed to slip into Tuesday night's state dinner at the White House even though they were not on the guest list, agency spokesman Ed Donovan said.
  3. ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 25: A caisson team carrying the casket of Maj. Libardo Caraveo proceeds through Arlington National Cemetery during burial services November 25, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. Caraveo was killed during the recent shooting at Fort Hood.
  4. ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 23: Eva Waddle is comforted by Brenda Koch while holding the American flag that covered her daughter, Lt. Col. Juanita Warman's, casket during a burial service November 23, 2009 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Warman was killed during the shooting at Fort Hood on November 5, 2009.
  5. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 23: U.S. President Barack Obama (R) looks at an an invention made by students Steven Harris and Bryan Hortellano from Oakton High School, Vienna, Virginia at an event highlighting initiatives designed to boost science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on November 23, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama launched the 'Educate to Innovate' campaign to help boost US students in science and math achievement. The initiative includes a partnership with the television program Sesame Street which will air science driven episodes.
  6. CLEMSON, SC - NOVEMBER 21: Jameel Sewell #10 of the Virginia Cavaliers drops back to pass against the Clemson Tigers during their game at Memorial Stadium on November 21, 2009 in Clemson, South Carolina.
  7. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 20: Seventh grader Sammi Ash (C) of Dixon Smith Middle School in Stafford, Virginia, signs the guestbook as fellow students Tiffany Nicholson (L) and Kelsey Smith (R) look on as they stop by the Inside Tim Russert's Office: If It's Sunday, It's 'Meet the Press' exhibition at the Newseum November 20, 2009 in Washington, DC. The exhibition features a partially reassembled office with personal items of the former moderator of the NBC Sunday talk show as much as it looked on June 13, 2008, the day he passed away from a heart attack at the age of 58. The exhibition will be open through 2010.
  8. ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 19: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates holds a news conference at the Pentagon November 19, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. In the wake of the Ft. Hood attack, Gates announced that former Army Secretary Togo West and former chief of naval operations Adm. Vernon Clark will head the 45-day review of personnel programs, medical screenings and release and discharge policies, as well as the department's stateside security programs at bases and other facilities.
  9. ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 16: A U.S. Army honor guard carries the flag draped casket of US Army Sgt. Nickolas Mueller during a funeral ceremony at Arlington Cemetery on November 16, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. Sgt. Mueller died October 26, 2009 of injuries from a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.
  10. The Piaget Building is seen on November 13, 2009 in New York. Federal agents took steps to take control of the Piaget building, owned by a Muslim non-profit organisation, in one of the biggest counter-terrorism operations in US history. The Alavi Foundation has been illegally funneling funds to the Iranian government, according to the office of US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara. Bharara filed a civil complaint with a New York federal court to forfeit bank accounts owned by the group and a suspected front company, as well as the office tower, property in Virginia and Islamic centers in New York city and the states of Maryland, Texas and California.
  11. ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 11: U.S. President Barack Obama visits section 60 on Veterans Day at Arlington National Cemetery November 11, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. Section 60 contains the grave sites of servicemen and women who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama delivered remarks at the cemetery amphitheater after a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns.
  12. VIRGINIA WATER, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 11: Ernie Els of South Africa plays the first shots into the new water surrounded approach areas and 18th green on the West Course at the Wentworth Club, on November 11, 2009 in Virginia Water, England.
  13. JARRATT, VA - NOVEMBER 10: A correctional officer directs a driver outside the Greensville Correctional Center November 10, 2009 near Jarratt, Virginia. Condemned DC sniper John Allen Muhammad is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 9 p.m. at the center for the shooting death of Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station in the Manassas area of Virginia on October 9, 2002.
  14. ARLINGTON, VA - NOVEMBER 09: The Sled Dogs', a hockey team comprised of wounded and disabled veterens of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan warm up during Microsoft's 'A Salute to Our Troops' Operation USO Care Package Day at Kettler Iceplex on November 9, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia.
  15. FALLS CHURCH, VA - NOVEMBER 09: Imam Johari Abdul-Malik speaks at the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center November 9, 2009 in Falls Church, Virginia. Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal M. Hasan attended the Washington, DC area mosque in 2001 and federal investigators are reported to be examining any links between Hasan and a former imam at the mosque who U.S. authorities say has become a supporter and leading promoter of al-Qaeda since leaving the United States.
  16. MIAMI GARDENS, FL - NOVEMBER 7: Ras-I Dowling #19 of the Virginia Cavaliers warms up prior to the game against the Miami Hurricanes on November 7, 2009 at Land Shark Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida.

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  3. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) open boxes of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' as other books sit on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  4. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Matt Cross (R) puts copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  5. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  6. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  7. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Kathrina Norris (L) and Matt Cross (R) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  8. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  9. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  10. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Kathrina Norris (L) and Jason Holt (R) prepare a display for copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' sit in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  11. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Matt Cross lifts a display of copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' with a forklift in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  12. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes puts copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  13. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes puts copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  14. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Matt Cross opens boxes of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' as other books sit on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  15. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' sit on a pallet in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800 and 900 copies of the book which goes on sale tomorrow.
  16. SINGAPORE - NOVEMBER 14: U.S ambassador Ron Kirk accompainied by Chong Sick Ching, Chairman of the CEO Summit, arrives on the second day of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO Summit at the Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre on November 14, 2009 in Singapore, Ron Kirk will be delivering the keynote address on behalf of President Barak Obama. APEC 2009 brings over 800 of the world's top business leaders and 15 world leaders to Singapore, with the two-day Summit addressing the economic crisis and key global issues.

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