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Specialist Jacob Allen of the 82nd Airborne’s 1/508 PIR, Alpha Company, Third Platoon takes a smoke break near Sangin, Helmand province, Afghanistan on Wednesday, April 11. 2007.
Photography by; Max Whittaker
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A teddy-bear-backpack-toting child soldier points his gun at a photographer in Monrovia, Liberia on June 27, 2003.
Photography by; GEORGES GOBET
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January 1980, Asmar, Kunar Province, Afghanistan —- An Afghan Pashtun mujahid. The mujahideen fought against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan during the 1980s that began on December 25, 1979.
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President Obama, after objecting to provisions of a military spending bill that would have forced him to try terrorism suspects in military courts and impose strict sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, signed the bill on Saturday.
He said that although he did not support all of it, changes made by Congress after negotiations with the White House had satisfied most of his concerns and had given him enough latitude to manage counterterrorism and foreign policy in keeping with administration principles.
“The fact that I support this bill as a whole does not mean I agree with everything in it,” Mr. Obama said in a statement issued in Hawaii, where he is on vacation. “I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists.”so if he doesn’t like it, he shouldn’t have signed it…………