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U.S. military photos of the complex where bin Laden was shot.

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Salazar and Vice President Joe Biden talk during an event at the World War II Memorial in Washington on Tuesday. Biden and Salazar joined others to dedicate a plaque for former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, a World War II veteran, who was involved in building the memorial. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

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Reuters: Gaddafi forces sow landmines in east Libya

(Mar 31) Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s forces have sown land mines in areas around the city of Ajdabiyah, adding a dangerous new element to the war on the eastern front, human rights and mine experts said on Thursday. The mines include Brazilian-made anti-personnel mines and Egyptian-made anti-tank mines. […]

The first field was sown around electricity pylons a few yards off the Ajdabiyah-Benghazi road in an area of sand near the town’s Eastern Gate, Peter Bouckaert, a Human Rights Watch monitor in Benghazi, told Reuters.

Mine clearers marked out 24 anti-tank mines and 30 to 40 anti-personnel mines, he said, adding that many vehicles and people on foot pass by the area. […]

Bouckaert said his team had also found stocks of mines abandoned by Gaddafi’s forces. “We found 12 warehouses of anti-vehicle mines in Benghazi, tens of thousands of them,” he said. […]

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Obama announced his plan to reduce oil imports to the United States by one-third, Neela Banerjee reports. In this photo, Libyan rebel fighters collect the last remaining drops of gasoline from the tanks of a filling station in Ras Lanuf, Libya.

Photo credit: Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times

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President Barack Obama talks on the phone with Prime Minister Naoto Kan of Japan from the Treaty Room office in the White House residence, Wednesday night, March 16, 2011.

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GOV’T: “The California state Legislature and the congressional delegation are about to look a lot more like California.”

— Dan Schnur, director of USC’s Unruh Institute of Politics. According to new census figures released Tuesday, California’s minority population has grown substantially, most dramatically in the interior of the state. The figures project a sharp rearrangement of the state’s political power during this year’s redistricting of legislative and congressional seats.

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(Source: Los Angeles Times)