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Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev (left) and Prime Minister Boyko Boriossov were at Tuesday's briefing when investigators said Hezbollah planned the attack. (Associated Press)

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Serbia's Ana Ivanovic reacts during her match against Bulgaria's Tsvetana Pironkova in the fourth round of play at the 2012 US Open tennis tournament, Monday, Sept. 3, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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** FILE ** A bombing targeted a bus full of Israeli vacationers at the Burgas, Bulgaria, airport parking lot on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Bulgarian Interior Ministry)

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This undated photo shows the fake driving license of the suicide bomber of a deadly bus bombing in Bulgaria. A bus carrying young Israeli tourists exploded July 18, 2012, in the Bulgarian resort of Burgas, killing five vacationing Israelis, a Bulgarian bus driver and the bomber himself. At least 20 others were wounded. (Associated Press)

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Foreign tourists wait to pass as police block the entrance of Burgas airport, Bulgaria, Thursday, July 19, 2012 a day after a deadly suicide attack on a bus full of Israeli vacationers. A daytime bombing that killed eight people and injured dozens on a bus full of Israeli tourists was most likely a suicide attack, Bulgaria's interior minister said Thursday. He said the suspected attacker was carrying a Michigan driver's license that was being sent to the FBI for authentication. (Associated Press)

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Smoke rises after an explosion at the airport outside the Black Sea resort city of Burgas, Bulgaria, some 250 miles east of the capital, Sofia, on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. The blast killed 4 people and wounded at least 24 more. (AP Photo/Burgasinfo)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks Sunday in Sofia, Bulgaria, where she says the international community must stop the bloodshed in Syria. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talks with Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev before their meeting at the Bulgarian Presidency building in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Oleg Popov)

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Bulgarian presidential candidate Rosen Plevneliev prepares to cast his ballot in Sofia, Bulgaria, on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Valentina Petrova)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (above right) meets with Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov on Saturday in the West Bank. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) plans visits soon to Poland, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria regarding the Palestinian statehood issue.

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Blood "traders" - often from Bulgaria's Gypsy minority who offer a paid blood donor service, wait near the National Center for Hematology and Transfusion in Sofia. (Associated Press)

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Blood units are prepared for storage at the National Center for Hematology and Transfusion in Sofia, Bulgaria. It's a grim reality for patients and families the struggling EU nation where donors are troublingly scarce, hospitals are strapped for funds and blood traders are thriving. (Associated Press)