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NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, second from left, speaks with U.S. Ambassador to NATO Victoria Nuland, left, and Mary Beth Long, acting assistant secretary of defense for International Security Affairs, during a breakfast meeting with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates at the Pentagon, Oct. 10, 2007.

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NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, second from left, speaks with U.S. Ambassador to NATO Victoria Nuland, left, and Mary Beth Long, acting assistant secretary of defense for International Security Affairs, during a breakfast meeting with Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates at the Pentagon, Oct. 10, 2007.

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