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The Debt Commission report is brought out before their meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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The Debt Commission report is brought out before their meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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An unidentified African resident of Pamplona northern Spain, holds a red symbol of the fight against AIDS during events for World Aids Day Wednesday Dec.1, 2010 . (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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A boy carries a girl on his back through a flooded street in Higuerote, Venezuela, Tuesday Nov. 30, 2010. Flooding and landslides unleashed by torrential rains have killed at least 30 people in Venezuela and forced thousands from their homes. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
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** FILE ** The Senate investigations subcommittee's ranking Republican, Sen. Tom Coburn, questions a witness on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, April 27, 2010, during the subcommittee's hearing on Goldman Sachs and the financial crisis. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS This walkway is located at the Tysons Corner Center shopping mall in McLean, Va. Police say a Virginia grandmother threw her 2 1/2-year-old granddaughter several stories to her death from the walkway after a family outing. The woman was arrested and charged with murder.
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** FILE ** This handout photo provided by Fairfax County, Va., Police Department shows Carmela Dela Rosa. A toddler has died after police say she was thrown off a shopping mall walkway in Virginia by a woman believed to be her grandmother. Dela Rosa of Fairfax was arrested and charged with aggravated malicious wounding; the charge will be amended to murder now that the girl, Angelyn Ogdoc, has died. (AP Photo/Fairfax County, Va., Police Department, (File)
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This courtroom artist's sketch shows terror suspect Mohamed Osman Mohamud, right, and chief deputy public defender Stephen R. Sady, during an appearance in federal court Monday, Nov. 29, 2010, in Portland, Ore. Authorities say Mohamud and an FBI operative parked a van full of dummy explosives on Southwest Yamhill Street across from Pioneer Courthouse Square just after sundown Friday while thousands gathered in the square for the annual tree lighting. Mohamud is accused of attempting to detonate the explosives. (AP Photo/Abigail Marble)
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Steven T. Wax, right, federal public defender and Stephen R. Sady, the chief deputy public defender, speak to reporters following an appearance in federal court by terror suspect Mohamed Osman Mohamud on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010, in Portland, Ore. Authorities say Mohamud and an FBI operative parked a van full of dummy explosives on Southwest Yamhill Street across from Pioneer Courthouse Square just after sundown Friday while thousands gathered in the square for the annual tree lighting. Mohamud is accused of attempting to detonate the explosives. (AP Photo/Steve Dykes)
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** FILE ** This image released Nov. 27, 2010, by the Mauthnomah County Sheriff's Office shows Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19. (AP Photo/Mauthnomah County Sheriff's Office)
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Saba Ahmed, whose brother is a friend of the defendant, speaks to reporters following an appearance in federal court by terror suspect Mohamed Osman Mohamud on Monday, Nov. 29, 2010, in Portland, Ore. Authorities say Mohamud and an FBI operative parked a van full of dummy explosives on Southwest Yamhill Street across from Pioneer Courthouse Square just after sundown Friday while thousands gathered in the square for the annual tree lighting. Mohamud is accused of attempting to detonate the explosives. (AP Photo/Steve Dykes)
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A Christmas tree stands in Pioneer square on Saturday Nov. 27, 2010, the morning after a car bomb plot was foiled during the annual tree lighting ceremony. Federal agents in a sting operation arrested a Somali-born teenager just as he tried blowing up a van he believed was loaded with explosives at the crowded ceremony, authorities said. (AP Photo/Greg Wahl-Stephens)
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The crowd watches as the tree is lit on Pioneer Courthouse square Friday night, Nov. 26, 2010 to the music of Pink Martini and with Santa Claus. A Somali-born teenager, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would blow up a van laden with explosives but instead brought federal agents and Portland police swooping in to take him into custody. He was arrested and charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. He's scheduled for a court appearance Monday. (AP Photo/Torsten Kjellstrand - The Oregonian)
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The tree is lit on Pioneer Courthouse square Friday night Nov. 26, 2010 to the music of Pink Martini and with Santa Claus in front of a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd singing holiday music in the square. A Somali-born teenager, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, was arrested at 5:40 p.m. just after he dialed a cell phone that he thought would blow up a van laden with explosives but instead brought federal agents and Portland police swooping in to take him into custody, federal prosecutors said. He was charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. (AP Photo/Torsten Kjellstrand - The Oregonian)
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** FILE ** Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's longtime foreign minister, speaks to the Associated Press in Baghdad in September 2010. An Iraqi court on Monday convicted Aziz of terrorizing Shi'ite Kurds during the Iran-Iraq war and sentenced him to 10 years in prison. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)
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Associated Press At a news conference Tuesday in Rockville, Md., Gloria Allred, attorney for the family of homicide victim Brian Betts, displays a photo of the one-time principal of a D.C. middle School who was killed in his Silver Spring, Md., home.
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While patrolling in Cathedral City, Calif., police Officer Miguel Torres (left) and Mr. LaBella (second from left) stop teenagers who were riding bicycles without lights.
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A crowd watches a Christmas-tree-lighting ceremony on Pioneer Courthouse Square on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010, in Portland, Ore. Federal agents in a sting operation arrested a Somali-born teenager just as he tried to blow up a van full of what he believed were explosives at the crowded event, federal authorities said. The bomb was a fake supplied by the agents, and the public was never in danger, authorities said. (AP Photo/The Oregonian, Torsten Kjellstrand)
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** FILE ** In this March 10, 2009, file photo, disgraced financier Bernard Madoff exits Manhattan federal court in New York. Relatives of both Madoff and his wife are among those being targeted in 40 lawsuits announced Friday, Nov. 26, 2010, by the trustee endeavoring to recover money for victims fleeced by the disgraced financier. (AP Photo/David Karp, file)
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This image provided by the Multnomah County (Ore.) Sheriff's Office shows Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, arrested and charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction. Officials say he tried to detonate a vehicle bomb at Pioneer Courthouse Square during the tree-lighting ceremony on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. They said the bomb was a dummy that FBI agents supplied him. (AP Photo/Multnomah County (Ore.) Sheriff's Office)
