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BUSH FORMS COMMISSION TO LOOK INTO INTELLIGENCE FAILURES
President George Bush announces the formation of an intelligence commission during a news conference at the White House on February 6, 2004 to investigate possible U.S. intelligence failures. Retired federal judge Laurence Silberman, a Republican, right, is one of the people to head the panel. (UPI Photo/Michael Kleinfeld)

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Palestinian  Security Forces Patrol the Border With Egypt.
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A members of the Hamas security forces patrol the border area between Gaza and Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip May 20, 2013. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again for four days, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, As Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone. Palestinian security forces patrol around the border, witnesses said. UPI/Ismael Mohamad