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Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan was invoked by Gen. Colin Powell in his endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama on Sunday+=s "Meet the Press." Khan, 20, is one of four Muslim soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Powell said a photo of Khan+=s tombstone, with a crescent and star, was a reminder that Muslims shouldn't be considered any less American than others, as has often happened in this campaign. (Photo by Chuck Kennedy/MCT/MCT via Getty Images)
Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan was invoked by Gen. Colin Powell in his endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama on Sunday+=s "Meet the Press." Khan, 20, is one of four Muslim soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan and buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Powell said a photo of Khan+=s tombstone, with a crescent and star, was a reminder that Muslims shouldn't be considered any less American than others, as has often happened in this campaign. (Photo by Chuck Kennedy/MCT/MCT via Getty Images)

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