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An audience members asks Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates a question during a Security and Defense Agenda event at the Biblioteque Solvay in Brussels, Belgium, June 10, 2011.

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An audience members asks Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates a question during a Security and Defense Agenda event at the Biblioteque Solvay in Brussels, Belgium, June 10, 2011.

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